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Cat stealer

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Catmumstan · 13/06/2024 10:09

So I want some advise on what to do my nabour has been trying to steal my cat firstly my cat goes missing for a weekend so I put a post on facebook on the village site to see if anyone had seen my cat. A couple of days later I get him a collar. Then 2 days later his hasn’t got his collar on and I assume he got caught up on something and it was a break away collar so it would just come off. The next thing I know he has gone away for almost a week so I make papers to put through peoples doors then a day later I have an old couple come through the door telling me that they had my cat. So I said well he has a home so you can let him out of your house now to come back home she continues to tell me that she is found of my cat and how she thought he was a stray and how she wants to keep him I say no that is not happening he is my cat he is a simese cat and he is mine she continues to tell me I am under feeding him and he is under weight which he is not he is a simese they are just built like that he has a food bowl that is constantly field as he picks when he wants to eat. Then she says how I am not here as it came up In conversation that I have been at uni and my boyfriend who I live with looks after my cat when I am away. She then complains and said she wants to be able to see him and it isn’t fair on my boyfriend to be looking after my cat which I said it wasn’t a problem. Then she continues to say how she really loves him and while I am at uni she wants him so I gave her an offer of when I was at uni she is to look after him then when I come back on the weekend I come and collect him and she isn’t to encourage him in her house she said she did not want that she was to ‘want all or nothing’ so I said well I will come and collect him now and your not to encourage him on to your property. And I explained how I have bought him a new collar with a tracker and how I would know where he was at all times. Where she continued to say she had to cut off the last collar because it had a stick through it so she knew he wasn’t a stray.

so I go to collect him and he was crying to get out as he is an outdoor cat she has bought him a litter tray and won’t let him out so I said you can now let him out of your house he quite clearly wants to leave. So she lets him out of the house and I go home and find him at home too so I put a new collar on him and he then disappeared out of the house and the tracker wasnt working so I went to her house to see if she had him again he was there and she said to my boyfriend’s brother are you ok with this arrangements for me to look after him I said that that was not to happen and he was to come home. So I then take him to get microchipped and a new tracker that worked and check his weight because I started to worry about it even though I new he was fine the vet said his weight is perfect if not too fat. So I took him home and wrote them a letter explaining how she was to discourage him on her property and to not feed him and and my boyfriends brother goes around in person to deliver this and also explains in person how she was to leave him alone knowing that he had a loving home. Then he stays home for a few weeks then o get a phone call from her to tell me that he was in her garden drinking the water from her pond and how he had started to cough I said I’m sure he is fine unless he is weasing and struggling to breath I’m sure he just drank to fast and she then tells me how he had stoped 2 seconds later I said I was at uni I will message home and tell them. Then 1 week passes and the tracker had been turned off manually in her garden so I sent her a message saying would she be able to turn it back on as it was not to be turned off at any given point. Then it happens again and again this point I am now home for the holiday and she comes around the house and tells me how she wants to buy him I said no absolutely not he was my cat if you would like a cat there are plenty of other cats available to buy she then continued to say how I don’t look after him and it is not nice for him at this point I am extremely angry from the amount I have said to her about she is to leave him alone and I don’t want her feeding him I said she has the right to phone rspsa to be able to report me For this even tho I haven’t done anything wrong he has good water toys he watches tv with my bf and his dad. The next thing is he is going around there more often than not and now I don’t know what to do I can’t put fencing up because it isn’t my house and we have a cat flap for our other cat that is also an indoor out door cat I need some advise

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BobbyBiscuits · 13/06/2024 10:16

It is matter of theft and can be dealt with by the police. You should report her. I'm sure if they go round and have a word she'll stop her antics.
Be prepared for her to make a malicious claim to the RSPCA about you though. Obviously even if you were neglecting the cat, it wouldn't give her the right to keep it herself. It would be taken to a shelter. So tell her your calling the police, the threat alone might be enough. But follow through with it if she doesn't immediately give the cat back. It is your property, plain and simple.

Beautifulbythebay · 13/06/2024 10:18

If your dcat is microchipped he is your property.. Report her to the police.

therejustbarely · 13/06/2024 10:30

You need to keep your cat indoors for a while. Threaten to report the neighbour to the police for theft.

Look into building a catio - lots of people in the UK do this, it's a structure that doesn't permanently attach to a fence or wall, but can give the cat outdoor time without roaming further afield.

I'm all for giving cats the right to roam, they really do need it, but this situation is completely out of hand and requires a different solution.

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