Neighbour shouts for cat every night

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So my neighbour has multiple kittens/cats and every night she calls for them to come in.
Usually she does this for around 10 minutes at 9pm.

Tonight she has been yelling for a good half hour, my kids are asleep and she yells in the back garden close to the back bedroom windows.

I just don't think this is very considerate.

I have had to resist the urge to tell her to STFU.

AIBU

I'd be tempted to shout "Wilmaaaaaa" at the end.
Like at the end of the Flintstones.
Or you could go for "Night, John Boy!"

She is still out here yelling.
I can hear her voice all the way from her back garden to my living room at the front.

Not sure why people have voted IABU

9pm is hardly late. The world doesn’t revolve around your children being asleep!

YANBU and would be within your rights to ask her very politely to do it earlier in the evening if possible.

What weirdo thinks it’s ok to be yelling at 9pm though? I certainly wouldn’t do it, especially every bloody night. How inconsiderate are you.

Its a pain but when we live surrounded by other people they are going to annoy us at times.

Maybe the cats haven't come home like usual and she's beside herself with worry? Maybe one of them is trapped in someone's shed. Or run over. If pop out and see what's going on. You can equally be concerned and see if she's ready to quiet it down. Or post about it on the internet.

Obviously one or more of the cats are missing. She's not doing it for her own entertainment.

What....every night? Id have gone out and told her to STFU by now.
There is always some apologist for the outrageous behaviour on here.

Hardly inconsiderate to not think it’s a big deal. It wouldn’t be something I’d choose to get stressed about. Noise happens it’s part of living in a community. I don’t doubt the noise of OPs kids sometimes is inconvenient for her neighbours. It’s life. Get over it

She cares about her cats.

Have a heart.

Hopefully your DC wont be woken up.

Your post made me smile as when I was a little girl our neighbour used to call her cat in at about 7pm, just as I was going to bed in the same song song way every night and I had forgotten until you just reminded me.

Perfectly understandable that she’s wants her kitties to return, it’s dangerous for them at night

@MyArtfulGreySloth - my thoughts exactly.

Personally I think she's bonkers, she leaves the kitchen window open all day and night so they can come and go.
Not sure why she feels the need to shout every night.

Does she not realise that the cats are ignoring her anyway, just because they can.

(Misses the point of the thread).

Its absurd. I have two cats. Ive never needed to go out and shout for them.
They are in by the time it gets dark and then they are locked in for the night.
My neighbours would lynch me if I went out shouting every night.
My neighbours have three cats and there is no shouting from them either.
Bloody hell.

So actually this is really ‘I don’t like my neighbour because she’s ‘bonkers’.’

I call my cat in about 9. But she only goes in our garden and 99% of the time she comes in with less than 2 calls.

If the above didnt happen one night, I'd be really worried and would call for lomger and around the garden.

well, yes they are very contrary critters !

She needs some dreamies

i call my cats in around 6pm each night or during the day if I need to go out. They always come a running for Dreamies

I feel your pain. Every morning between 7 and 7.30am, including weekends, and throughout the day we have our neighbour loudly opening her squeaky door which is close to my son’s bedroom, and saying, repeatedly “good boy, Benji! good boy!” Every time he does the tiniest pee on the grass instead of her carpet. Benji is a puppy. Ds often hears shouts of “mum there’s poo in the carpet again!” in the evening but the being woken up is infuriating. Ds is autistic and really struggling lately so having him woken up early at weekends isn’t helpful. They don’t stop banging about until around midnight either so they disturb him at night too. We hate them.

I only call my cats in for meal times (I don’t lock them in). Takes a couple calls but this is around 9am and 5/6pm. When I was growing up our neighbour used to call their cat in ‘CAT, CAT, CAAAT…’ in the most godawful accent. We used to laugh …
Calling them in a couple times is fine
, repeated calling is OTT, but presumably she’s worried.

Forget dreamies. Try these.
They are harder than dreamies and all the cats I've given to love to bat them about before pouncing and munching them.
If you offered these or dreamies, my cat would always chose these. She even prefers them over Lik-e-liks (which suits me fine!)

Cats will come home when they are ready. Unless they have actually been run over, in which case shouting is not going to help.