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Next door called. They want their cat back.

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Mark R

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We've been getting a lot of attention from a local cat. It's a very cute cat, but seems to like our house. It'll run in through the door when you open it, sit waiting at the door begging to be let in, and jump up onto your lap for a stroke when you're sitting and watching TV.

We don't feed it, and we certainly don't let it do its business in the house. However, it comes and goes as it pleases - it's just that it pleases to spend most of the time asleep in our garden, or watching TV with us. Although it isn't normally allowed to spend the night, so it gets booted out at bed time.

A couple of days ago, I come home from work, and there a patter of feet, and the cat's there rubbing against my ankles. Only this time, there's a note attached to the cat saying 'Please don't steal me. My family are worried'.

So what do I do? The cat clearly likes our house more than its owners. I mean, we don't even feed the thing.
 
Obviously you have to attached a note in reply, we just need to have a contest to determine what you should write on the note.
 
Nebor said:
Obviously you have to attached a note in reply, we just need to have a contest to determine what you should write on the note.
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😀

I'll start...

Dear Sir/Madam
Kindly refrain from putting notes on my cat, Mr Jeebs.
 
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Nebor said:
Obviously you have to attached a note in reply, we just need to have a contest to determine what you should write on the note.
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Send back the note, sans cat, with a five dollar bill attached.

Scratch the five dollar bill. Send 'em a roll of nickels.
 
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send a note back

"Dear former pets, I am tired of you. I have moved on.

So long, suckers


signed: your formal owner, meow"
 
Tell them to come over one night and pick up the cat while you're home. When they come over, make sure that you're cooking something in the kitchen and that the cat is not around. When they ask where the cat is, get all awkward and be like, "Oh... umm... about the cat....".
 
"Oh, this is your cat? When we let it into our house, we assumed that the scar on her belly was from being fixed. Apparently the vet did a poor job because there is a box of kittens in the house now. They're your kittens now."
 
Nebor said:
Obviously you have to attached a note in reply, we just need to have a contest to determine what you should write on the note.
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Note options:
"He says to wash your feet, demands Kibbles n Bits."
or
Attach a small gnome.
or
"Just married"

Funny situation.
 
Send it back in a body bag... "Don't send me out and let me roam on other people's property to make fraudulent, criminal accusations of theft. You have resulted in my death; please don't let this happen to any other of my race since you seem to care for us poorly."
 
There is usually a reason why the cat is coming to your house, a lot of times it is caused by others feeding it but it could also be because other pets (i.e. dogs) recently were introduced to the house that they live in. My wife's cat started staying out longer and longer after she got her dog until it was eventually gone for good.

We had a cat that kept coming to our apt. The neighbors would just leave it out all day and night, and in the winter it was stuck out in the snow. They also had 3 dogs in the same small apt with it. His teeth were all mangled, so we took it to the vet to have it fixed up, and the owner complained to us that "someone" had done that. We didn't tell them it was us, and when we moved, we actually took the cat with us. According to another neighbor I kept in touch with after we left, the owner was trying to find the cat. We felt bad, but the cat never went home, and was always in our apt the last few months.

A year later the cat developed kidney problems, and we had to give him sub-cutaneous fluids every week, and he lived for another 3 years, he was 18 when we had him put down. I don't think that the previous owner would have taken care of him like that. I'd like to believe that even though it was a dickhead move to take him we made the right decision.
 
It's not ALL that uncommon for a cat, at about 6 months old, to decide for themselves that they want a new home, for reasons best known to the cat.

I would either put a comprehensive description of the "problem" in a note in the cat's collar together with either your phone # or address and an invitation to talk, or print up flyers with the cat's pic and same and delver them to the door of 10-20 of your nearest neighbors.

Be fully prepared for the eventuality that the original owners will NOT want to give the cat up or keep it inside, though.

Just know that there is nothing they can legally do about any of this given how you have responded so far. Take several videos of the cat at your door wanting to come in, coming in, enjoying itself, AND make strenuous note that you have never fed it.

IF the owners respond in a way you consider unreasonable, once you find out who they are, CALL THEM UP every single time the cat is on your property and document it.

This situation has the potential for much suckage. I truly hope not, though.
 
Perknose said:
Just know that there is nothing they can legally do about any of this given how you have responded so far. Take several videos of the cat at your door wanting to come in, coming in, enjoying itself, AND make strenuous note that you have never fed it.

IF the owners respond in a way you consider unreasonable, once you find out who they are, CALL THEM UP every single time the cat is on your property and document it.

This situation has the potential for much suckage. I truly hope not, though.
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I don't think they are going to put the cat on the stand and allow it to testify. Cats are property. When you take property that is theft.
 
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