To have chased the person who took my cat?

[PerkyPenny20]

They took my poor cat from our front wall, and started walking off! I was in the kitchen which faces out onto the front garden, and ran outside, I called after them and they said "oh I'm taking it to the vet, its a lost cat!" I said, "no, its our cat, put him down!!" they were very funny with me walked off muttering "only trying to help" thankfully releasing my cat before doing so.

I understand people have concerns for lost animals, but to take one pretty much off my property, has good samaritanism gone too far?

Do you have a Ring doorbell? I'd be tempted to send any footage to the police. Utter weirdo.

I've "kidnapped" two cats. One was camped out for weeks at my neighbour's house, posted all over SM, did the paper collar and no one came forward to claim her. My neighbour didn't have a cat carrier to I offered to take her to the vet. No microchip, so neighbour adopted her and she's now chipped, spayed, vaccinated, flea treated, wormed and living very happily as queen of their house. The second cat was a scrap of a thing in a filthy collar, coughing all over my driveway. It turned out that someone had been catching feral cats and selling them to randoms. This one promptly escaped and had been wandering the streets for weeks. The poor scrap was starving and so ill that it had to be PTS.

Omg he wants your cat do not let him out this man is not to be trusted. What a freak.

Someone tried to pick up one of my old cats (now sadly no longer with me) and was horrified when she went ballistic and scratched their arms to pieces. I really do think the woman expected me to be sympathetic.

No they don't.

If they do take them, it's normally they think the cat is lost and take to the vets to get scanned. My neighbour bought my cat back from the vets. She had taken him because he was going in her house and eating her cats food. While her cat just watched him....

I have a cat microchip scanner so registered my details with a service where you volunteer to scan lost cats. Good grief the number of calls I’ve had from people along the lines of “there’s a cat in my garden, they’ve been here for a few hours, can you come and scan it”. Madness. I’ve helped rescue a couple of genuine strays , reunited a cat that has been separated from its owner for years, and sadly helped with cats who have been run over. But I have to ignore a lot of calls as I just don’t have time to deal with all the worriers!

Yup. Many years ago, my aunt was too late to stop two women stealing her Siamese cat.

Sort out your fencing and keep your cat contained in the back garden for its own safety. Cars and dogs and humans are a risk to your cat, so keep it safe inside your own garden.

Makes me glad that our cat pretty much hates everyone who comes near the house and isn't that keen on us most of the time either. Only loves Dh who feeds him treats.

Is your cat a pedigree?

Is it a pedigree cat? That can be sold for lots?

Something like this could explain the absolute stunner of a young tortoiseshell that turned up on our property last year - we live rurally and posted the cat all over local social media/vets/rescues but never found an owner. She wasn't chipped and was clearly terrified when we found her in our garage.

My sister adopted her when no-one claimed her. I'd have kept her but our resident cats are old and set in their ways and were bullying her.

People are crazy.

Always amused me when people post about a cat that "looks lost" is if it's flicking through an A-Z or something.

Glad my cats are indoors

How come anything else taken from outside my house would be classed as a crime? My car is loose outside as I don't have a garage, is it fine for someone to take it for if its for a nice reason?

At least he didn’t put him in the wheelie bin I guess.

…what was that all about?

@PerkyPenny20 don't open to the door to this guy.

Hell no, not unreasonable at all! If I watched someone pick my cat up and make moves to take her away I’d be out like a shot!!
As for your update about him coming back and knocking on…what the hell! He sounds insane, or just like he desperately wants your cat for himself. I’m sure you will anyway, but to be on the safe side I’d keep your little baby inside for a couple of days now, just in case he’s back!

He's a CF @PerkyPenny20 and he's harassing you.

Your cat would probably hate it, but I'd be keeping mine in for a bit until would be catnapper buggers off and leaves you alone.

Oh gosh I had a lady who took my cat and posted on a Facebook group she had him and was feeding him, unfortunately I didn't see this post for 4 hours after work and by the time I saw it and contacted her and asked what are you doing with my cat she responded oh the real owner has picked him up already. I was like what the hell are you on about. She claimed a guy had called her and said it was his cat so she gave him away. She refused to tell me the details of the guy who picked him up. So a quick bit of detective work and I found her house 2 streets away and went over. Showed her pictures of my cat and the ones she posted how they were the exact same cat and said why didn't you get proof of owner. She eventually gave me details of guy who picked my cat up. So I then went to next address in next town, nobody was in but as luck would have it my cat was sitting at the back door trying to get out and as soon as he saw me started going nuts wanting out and I spotted an open downstairs toilet window and after a bit of treat box shaking persuaded him thru the window and took him home. I never heard anything again but I've never been so angry in my life over an old lady that saw my cat sunbathing and decided he was a stray. Luckily my next step of proof if needed had been his microchip etc. Anyhow 4 weeks later I moved away as it upset me so much. 6 years on I still have my fluffy friend who had a very odd day that time that I won't forget

I'd be taking some photos & reporting him on the non emergency website. Loon.

It wasn't rare at all where I used to live. "Stealing" used loosely as in "I've found a cat blah blah blah and I have it at home/taken it to the vet/phoned the rescue place and they're coming to pick it up" when said cat was just out for a walk, often very near its home as well as outright stealing.

There are too many idiots subscribing to this notion of the Karmic cats' redistribution system - ie, you see a cat that you think has been abandoned and decide to make it your own.

Do this and I will help Karma on its way by redistributing your internal organs.

That’s insane !

I had a cat who was old, and ill. Not quite ready for the rainbow bridge yet but old and slow. He saw the vet regularly, and I made sure he had his meds and a happy little life, he didn't like his litter tray as much as the flowerbed and missed his garden so twice a day at 7am and 5pm, I let him out (weather dependant) and hed sit for 30-90mins next to his fav bush, sunbath and watch the birds. One day a woman literally crawled across my grass trying to grab him from the bush hed retreated under and put him in her car!!

When I asked what she was doing, she said she thought he was poorly, I said he was and old but under vet care and enjoying his garden. She said she thought he was homeless because hes there at 5.15 every day, I said yes because it's his garden. Hes in it every dry day from 5pm. She said I should be grateful she was so concerned!

Honestly, some people need to do more due diligence before "helping"

Pleased you caught them in time

I have a large garden with no cats of my own. The local cats often take a stroll through. I just say hello to them and tell them not to bother the birds.