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

@OutAndAbouting if you had read the post correctly you would see that she would be screaming for her cars to come in for a good half hour - 45 minutes every night disturbing me and other neighbours.

Oh no 🙄

Thank you. I read it but am frankly uninterested in the thread and can't summon the energy to responding to it all. It was merely the kitchen window situation that I wondered about.

I made a hilarious joke about someone pretending to be the cat and answering back and no one laughed and now I'm going to go and sit in a hole

err because you are. How many times does she hear you shouting at or for your kids every day. ?

So if the cats come in earlier , she still shouts.

Statically more accidents happen at night.

My cats are normally in at night but in this heat it's safer for them to stay out.

Maybe she's forgotten that cats are stupid things that don't do recall. Probably thinks they are like dogs and understand.

They'll wander back eventually if they need something, have a word with her and suggest she gets a catflap so they can go to and fro without her wailing each night

She sounds batshit. Calling out for them that long.

As a long term cat owner, I have never called my cats in at night. Cats like to come and go as they please and they prowl around at night, as well as being active at dawn and dusk. Why does she want them in?

I would probably call out to her while she's shouting for the cats. Be overly involved and say 'Is something wrong? Have you lost a cat? Would you like some help?'. Then just keep checking in with her if she continues. You'd hope it would bring her to her senses that she's being disruptive. Have you tried this method? Is it a possibility? I've done this before to interrupt neighbours when I've heard them abusing a child, partner or pet. Works a treat and they know I'm watching and will speak up if needed. But they're usually the one's that pretend they're nice...so might not work if your one is charmless.

The world doesn’t revolve around you OP. 9pm is quite early for many people, she’s not being a CF but I’m not sure I’d fancy living next to you trying to control my actions.

My cats come to call. Admittedly, they are Siamese, but we can’t be certain that others don’t do the same!

I do call my cats most evenings but only a few times. It’s pretty obvious if they’re not interested in coming in. They always come back eventually.

I also feel self-conscious about the neighbours so don’t shout too loudly.

My cat refused to come in at all last night. He loves being outside but not in the heat so I think he was enjoying the coolth. I woke up at about 4.30 and he was nowhere to be seen so I ended up sitting out in my garden under the jasmine with a cup of tea watching the sun come up. It was lovely. And as a bonus I saw a hummingbird hawk moth for only the second time ever! I then went back to bed and when I got up properly at about 8 he was home.

i don’t call him btw, I tap the window and he seems to hear that ( though his hearing is selective) and usually comes home unless he is having too much fun.

9pm isn’t late.

I couldn't get stressed over this. 🙄

Why call your cats?! Don’t they just come home when they’re ready?! I think your neighbour is a few dreamies short of a treat bag and is demonstrating it nightly. You probably can’t reason with someone that odd.

It must be annoying to listen to, regardless of the hours.

Next time try rushing out, with a smile, faux concern and urgently ask neighbour
”is everything alright, do you need some help….?”
when she says no and looks confused just point to your bedrooms and say - oh the kiddies just woke up, they said they could hear shouting and are scared/alarmed/frightened/disturbed - whatever fits.

My old neighbour was like this! She also had my number so every 4 days or so I would get a "have you seen tibbles" message at 10.30pm or so!

I had to be blunt in the end and say - get a cat flap or stop letting tibbles out if you're that bothered.

She’s inconsiderate - doesn’t care where all of these cat poop or whether she’s waking people up but if she’s not waking your kids up I guess it’s not too bad. If she’s was actually waking them I’d politely mention it but hardly seems worth it.

😂

Local Social media posts are often full of 'Tibbles is missing, anyone seen him'. I think some cat owners are a bit stupid, as are some dog owners. They usually wander back when they can be bothered. However, this type of doppy owner shouts every night or others posts aimlessly on social media for 'missing' cat

They never learn 🙄

Mumsnet really is a parallel universe...

I don't see anything wrong or unusual with a neighbour calling her cats home.

I usually shake a box of treats when mine is not in my garden but I also occasionally call her. Perfectly normal behaviour.

I would suggest that unless you buy a detached house with a lot of lands you will always have the occasional sound coming from neighbours.

Yeah, but you are a cat lover 🙄

I'm a cat lover but I don't see the need to be shouting for 30 -45 minutes sometimes at 10:30pm disturbing everyone else.

She has 5 cats.
One of them is called her daughters name lol she is bonkers lol.