Is my cat being unreasonable?

[Octavia64]

I have three kittens. One of them while I was out shopping this afternoon jumped the 6ft fence into next doors garden.

I know he went there because I stood on a garden chair and saw him trying to climb back up the fence.

So I knocked on nice neighbour's door and asked if he or I could retrieve my cat. Next door neighbour has two German Shepherds.

So he goes into his back garden, the dogs start barking, and my cat decides to disappear. I ask if I can come in (standing on my garden chair and talking over the 6ft fence) and he says yes.

So I go round and the dogs set up a racket (strange person in garden) and my cat doubly vanishes. Can't find him at all.

Ok. Fine.

I leave, and then 10 mins later from my garden I hear him miaowing plaintively. I stand on the garden chair to encourage him out but he is NOT coming out.

I have dropped some dried food over the fence so he does not starve to death.

So, is my cat being unreasonable, and how (if at all) could I get him out?

i suggest using tuna or chicken. Something of high value to him.

Can you lift the fence panel up? Assuming it's the type that's slotted into concrete posts?

Have you got a kitten blanket that you could throw over the fence for him to scramble up?
Then tempt him with treats

I used to rescue my cat from next door's garden by lowering an IKEA bag over on a rope then she'd go inside and I'd haul it up and over the fence into my garden.

A net? A shopping bag on a sting which you pull up?

Definitely can't lift the fence panel it's concreted in.

Like the idea of a blanket for him to climb up - going to try and do that.

I got mine off a roof with a laundry bag on a rope with Dreamies inside it to tempt him.

(Of course he's not unreasonable. He's a cat. They are Alway Right, by some kind of feline law. The kitten is right, it's the universe that's wrong.)

This made me laugh! I could not imagine my cat being so cooperative!

Well, I have tried the ikea bag thing.

He gets close to it, and then fucks off again.

I have tried putting his favourite blanket in it, dreamies, and as I don't currently have any meat or fish in the house, the empty packet of a packet of smoked salmon.

I know he's there I can hear the plaintive meows.

Ask the neighbours if they can take the dogs out for a short walk. Siting the garden and totally ignore him. He'll probably come over to you.

Grab him, return him home, thank your neighbour profusely.

Then either cat proof your garden or keep him in.

I had to dig a little hole under the fence to let my kitten back into my garden. She’d followed my boy cat out and got stuck. Wasn’t a large hole, she wiggled under the fence. Try that?

Post some crab sticks and thinly sliced Waitrose ham through the gaps in the fence.

Oh, sorry, wrong thread.

lol I did think of that thread when posting this!

Yes, I agree ask if your neighbour can shut dogs in the house or take them out for a short walk. Go into your neighbours garden and lure your kitten back with cat treats.

😂