This is my bed, this is not my cat

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WTAF? He lives next door, on very good terms with neighbours but he seems confused about where home is! I don't feed him but diner him as he was cold. Now fast asleep. I'm a dog person is this a cat thing?

Cats choose their human, not the other way around. He looks very comfortable.

Where's his face ?!

A friend was looking to sell her house and gave the estate agent keys so they could let the photographer in. One of the photos included a cat asleep on the bed. Like you, she didn't own a cat.

Same here. It’s a great combo!

A favourite old post I saw on twitter

We had a cat friend who was a frequent visitor - she calls on a lot of neighbours, a lovely sociable little cat.

She struck us off her list in disgust when we got our own cat 😆

Yeah, why doesn't a nice schoolmaster hack break into your house and start eating your hay? That would be useful... 🐴

Oh, well, that was just rude of you, Esgaroth. No prior consultation with Visitor Cat I take it?

More information needed. What happened to the kitten? Did you ever find the original mother? My heart breaks a bit for the mummy cat who had no idea where her baby went 😭

This guy moved in with us after getting fed up with his own home, and his owners who were collectors of babies ...baby children, baby cats, baby dogs, etc, but would lose interest when the babies got older so they'd get another baby. I kept bringing him home but one day he struggled and ripped a big hole in my son's sweater and I thought fk this, they know where he is if they want him. And then we moved shortly after that and we took him with us!

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Worked it out at last. How handsome is this guy?!

You will never get that chair back.

Brave of you to assume it’s your bed, OP.

Well we had to go out and get a syringe to feed the kitten. She survived. We called her Circus-Sally as all she did was to climb curtains, open doors and make huge jumps to unexpectably land on your head. She was marvellous. But we found her another forever home. I will never know where she came from, and my cat who is now 17 will not tell me. She was so unlike my own cat in looks it was like a different species.

I had an NMC for over five years. Ended up deporting him to Scotland 🤣.
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We had a lovely fluffy black cat who the neighbours abandoned (deliberately) when they moved. She was never that fond of our place- we had other cats and very cat-friendly dogs. Eventually an older woman with the early stages of dementia moved into a flat over the road and the cat moved herself in. It took months of me going over and fetching her home before we finally gave in and I took over her little suitcase filled with her toys and her blanket and she stayed there happily for a good 5 years or so before the lady went into a home and she came back to us again.

A few years ago on MN someone had a thread about looking at her neighbour's house on Rightmove and spotting her own cat sprawled on their bed in the estate agent's photos. Really funny.

Awwww, he looks so cosy. One of mine does this when she gets fed up with one of my others. Goes and sits in my neighbours conservatory, lol. They don’t mind luckily. He’s just having a Time Out as there’s new cats in the vicinity.

Go through his phone!

Very !😻

Very common cattish behaviour.

My dds old cat used to pop onto various houses on our street. My neighbours grandson eas quite incensed when she got on his lap whilst he was on the loo!

My direct neighbour often finds one of my cats in her house, luckily she is lovely and has no objection. But then in summer when back doors are open and the kids leave the gate open my dog usually pops round for a hello and hers did the same before it passed away. She is also blind so all animals have large obnoxious bells to alert her to their wanderings.

Aw hopefully it was a stray kitten then. She sounds like a character 😹

Assuming the neighbours are not mistreating the cat, continue to not feed it but it looks like it enjoys hanging out. We had a cat who definitely visited other people - but he was always home at dinner time and at breakfast and spent plenty of time here so it was more about getting extra cuddles and food than anything else. When he went missing once we had a lovely afternoon hearing from people how friendly he was and in fact we actually think someone he had previously been visiting (and getting food from) tried to keep him - he turned up 2 days later in the middle of the night in the POURING rain and we noticed that he avoided going in a certain direction after that.

Haven't you heard? Cats own their humans not the humans their cats. They're in charge.

If your horse is stabled anywhere near your house, you might like to start checking for cat pawprints on your horse's rug. Somewhere near the quarters is well favoured by cats, and the horses don't appear to mind having a passenger at all...