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To think she got her comeuppance and he’s a CF?

42 replies

MmedeGouge · 28/04/2024 11:17

My well loved cat left me a few years ago and moved in with my neighbour across the road.
He sits in her bay window and taunts me with a very smug look on his faithless, feline face.
The cat stealing neighbour has just been around to me saying he’s not been “home” (the cheek of it!”) for a week or so and she’s devastated.
I know where he is.
A new woman moved in next door to the cat stealing neighbour and I’ve seen him sunning himself on her bedroom window ledge.
AIBU to think she did get her comeuppance?

OP posts:
cranberrypi · 28/04/2024 11:18

sad. do you get visits?

PinkiOcelot · 28/04/2024 11:18

Hahaha. What did she want you to do?

BeardedLodger · 28/04/2024 11:18

😂😂

LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 28/04/2024 11:20

Bloody brilliant

HaggisBurger · 28/04/2024 11:20

As women are told on here about shacking up with an affair partner … they leave you as they you found them.

Ha!

ItsFuckingBoringFeedingEveryoneUntilYouDie · 28/04/2024 11:22

Cats gonna cat!

My neighbour lost her much loved ancient cat yesterday. Mine has been stealth moving in for months. I suspect his time with me will soon be done. Which is ok-ish as long as he visits occasionally!

KimberleyClark · 28/04/2024 11:24

He’s a feline cocklodger!

Catopia · 28/04/2024 11:32

I think I'd remind her that your house is actually his home, and she hadn't brought him back for X number of years so you're not sure what she expects you to do about the situation.

Cats do this though. My childhood cat went to a neighbour's house and couldn't work out how to get back. Stayed there 3 weeks and they renamed him. Parents went door to door and they were like "oh that's Jake". Mum went round the back and found him sunbathing on their new patio table. She came home devastated, then thought "f this" and marched round there, picked him up and carried him home!

I would personally go and reclaim your cat from the third party before he gets too comfortable there - and make sure you spoil him a bit when get him home so he knows what's he's been missing!

TemporaryCatSlave · 28/04/2024 11:34

"faithless, feline face" 😂
Yes cat stealer is about to have some karma bite her.

Many years ago I was having morning tea with my next door neighbour. Out the corner of my eye I saw a cat come in the open door and march over to jump on the sofa. It took a minute for the penny to drop it was MY faithless tabby feline and not their own large white persian.

I said his name in a very outraged 'what hell do you think you are doing' tone and I got a a very rude ear flick & a "yeah, so what?" look back. Apparently the kids were encouraging him in with treats as said persian wasn't at all friendly and mine was quite happy to wheeled around in a toy buggy wearing a bonnet. He used to come home after children's bedtime!

Rosestulips · 28/04/2024 11:36

cats are naughty for doing this. Does she pay for his vet bills and cat food now? Ow he microchipped to you?

ArchaeoSpy · 28/04/2024 11:36

KimberleyClark · 28/04/2024 11:24

He’s a feline cocklodger!

best phrase ive heard in ages that is so true to cats

katebushh · 28/04/2024 11:39

Cat slags gonna cat slag.

NDornotND · 28/04/2024 11:42

My cat did this, many years ago. Elderly neighbour was buying her Sheba pouches. She got Go-cat from a box at our house, when it wasn't nicked by the three dogs...can't blame the cat, I'd have done the same in her position. It was a no-brainer. I wonder what the new neighbour is offering your fickle feline?

Godesstobe · 28/04/2024 11:51

My elderly neighbour tried to steal my cat. The cat was on a special vet-prescribed diet. He would disappear for a couple of days at a time and come home with a very upset stomach. Then I bumped into my catless neighbour buying Whiskas in the village shop and I put two and two together.
Next time the cat disappeared I knocked on the door and asked if the neighbour had seen him. He said he hadn't but would keep an eye out. All the time I could hear my cat calling from behind the closed door to the kitchen.
I felt embarrassed - goodness knows why - but eventually I said I thought I could hear my cat. Elderly neighbour then acted all surprised and said he had no idea he was there and must have got in when he wasn't looking. He then said I didn't look after the cat properly because I let him out when it was raining! Needless to say, the cat chose to go out when he wanted (during the day) and was perfectly capable of using the car flap if he wanted to come back in.
After this I used to go round whenever the cat disappeared and it was always the same with the cat shut in a room and calling out. I felt sorry for the elderly neighbour but the cat was a much loved family member and always came home as long as the neighbour hadn't actually locked him in.
Sadly both the cat and the neighbour are now dead

Alwaysalwayscold · 28/04/2024 11:54

CFs like this are always the ones who steal your cat and come knocking on the door asking you to pay vet bills 5 years later.

LadyShimura · 28/04/2024 12:08

This why I'm reluctant to let DD get a cat. I just know it's gonna try and get in with the neighbours like the neighbour cats try with us.

Felines aint loyal.

twoshedsjackson · 28/04/2024 12:15

There is a lovely book for children called "Six-Dinner Sid"
Says it all......

Ginkypig · 28/04/2024 13:22

My elderly friend had a cat who sneaked in and she didn’t know as it had gone into an upstairs bedroom of her big mostly unused family home so she never went in there.
The owners had knocked (before she knew cat was in the house) so she obviously said no idea but that’s terrible I’ll keep an eye out, please let me know if you find it.
two days later the owners knocked again angrily saying it’s in your bedroom window, you’ve stolen our cat etc My friend was absolutely mortified! She is now very carful to check if the back door has been open! Owners did calm down and believed her, they still say hello in the passing now but I think they were just happy to get their cat back.

she still doesn’t understand why it went in one room and just stayed there, didn’t meow or try to get out.

when I was a teen (although I’d left home by this point) our (ill under treatment) cat was stolen by a neighbour. We looked for couple of months and one day when I was babysitting my much younger siblings were out playing and he jumped up to. Bedroom window scratching and meowing as he’d heard them outside. They ran in to me crying and as both parents were at work it was up to me 😳
I started knocking knowing there were people in only to be ignored, but I wouldn’t leave! Eventually an older child of the neighbour Happened to be coming home from work to find me knocking. I said you’ve got my cat I’m not going anywhere until I get it back, her look was I’ve been caught so she just handed him back to me. She didn’t even say much as she handed him back.
we got him to the vet the next day as he looked not right
as it turned out he hadn’t been treated very well at all in the time they had him, in fact he’d been treated really badly but I won’t go into the details, as I don’t want to upset people reading.
We did inform the police but they weren’t interested saying it was a civil matter (not sure if that’s the case but I pit was a long time ago now so it’s irrelevant really.

mum made it clear if we ever found him missing again it would be “war” plus the fact that he needed very expensive meds etc.

anyway we had him back and coincidentally mum moved house to the countryside not long after and we (although I didn’t live there) had 6 or 7 lovely years with him loving life on the farm before he passed away.

sorry really long with the two stories!

Silvers11 · 28/04/2024 13:45

@MmedeGouge Is the cat a 'house' cat being kept in first by the neighbour across the street and now the new neighbour?

If the cat has always been allowed to roam free then
it is exactly what they do from time to time.

What did you do to get the cat back from the lady across the street in the first place?

Did it come back to visit you from time to time?

PineappleTime · 28/04/2024 13:47

Did she expect you to return him to her if he had been at yours? Cheeky bint

BobbyBiscuits · 28/04/2024 13:51

I'd have bought 2 new cats and hoped they wouldn't be so flighty! My cat sometimes goes round a neighbour's house, not overnight, but I'm not that chuffed about it! She asked if her cat came round ours, I was like no! My other one would chase him off. Lol.

theonlygirl · 28/04/2024 13:51

This has blown my mind. I know nothing of cats, but do you not march across the street and demand your pet back when this happens??? CFers....the cats and the neighbours.

CharlotteStreetW1 · 28/04/2024 14:04

When I flung back the duvet this morning, I disturbed the cat who jumped off the bed in high dudgeon. It was next door's cat.

WallaceinAnderland · 28/04/2024 14:10

theonlygirl · 28/04/2024 13:51

This has blown my mind. I know nothing of cats, but do you not march across the street and demand your pet back when this happens??? CFers....the cats and the neighbours.

It's up to the cat. They set their own rules.

My own faithless feline packed his bags and left me for a neighbour too. Probably one that fed him on demand, i.e. all day long.

MotherOfVizslas · 28/04/2024 14:16

Once a cheater, always a cheater.

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