Neighbor's Cat Adopted Me...
BrSpiritus
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The upstairs neighbor is a lady, about my age. Never talks to me unless she want's something because I am beneath her time. She has a daughter in her early 20's who stays from time to time but is not on the lease. About a month ago the daughter drops off her cat and leaves, presumably for the mother to care for but he just gets left outside all the time. First week he spent hours crying at her apartment door to be let in but was ignored. This led to him coming to my door because I have a cat so he smelled the food. He ate ravonously and drank water like a camel. This went on a few days and gradually began to spend more time checking out my apartment. Now he spends most of time with me as he can come and go as he pleases through my back door. He's such a sweetheart, so trusting and just wants attention. Now I don't know what to do, yes I'm attached to him and I despise seeing an animal neglected but the other day the mother and daughter saw the cat leave my apartment and took a case of the butt about it, all but accusing me of kidnapping the cat. I didn't want an argument so I just closed my door and ignored them. What do y'all think I should do here?
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If they don't feed the cat then they don't get the cat.5
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Aaaww. This is sad. Keep that cat and ignore them. Doesn't sound like they will really care.2
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mustacheU2Lift wrote: »Aaaww. This is sad. Keep that cat and ignore them. Doesn't sound like they will really care.
There's no telling when it comes to a narcissistic millenial and a midlife crisis 40 something.2 -
Sounds like you got a new family member. Get it licensed and microchipped, and tell your dumb neighbor to never own another animal again.1
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do one of those scenes from the movie. put the cat in the middle of the hallway. You get to stand on one side and call they cat, they stand on the other side and call the cat. cat gets to choose who it prefers.
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4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »do one of those scenes from the movie. put the cat in the middle of the hallway. You get to stand on one side and call they cat, they stand on the other side and call the cat. cat gets to choose who it prefers.
cant argue with a cat
My movie scene suggestion was better.
nope
yours was horrible
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rickswifey83 wrote: »^^^If that is the cat...keep it!
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someone dropped off a cat here about 2 weeks ago and it adopted us. she is now ours as we are feeding her, putting flea meds on her and so on. we asked the neighbors all around if it was theirs they all said NO we asked around if someone was missing one. no one claimed her. so. we wanted a cat once our dogs passed on but I guess it was in the cards for now
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BrSpiritus wrote: »The upstairs neighbor is a lady, about my age. Never talks to me unless she want's something because I am beneath her time. She has a daughter in her early 20's who stays from time to time but is not on the lease. About a month ago the daughter drops off her cat and leaves, presumably for the mother to care for but he just gets left outside all the time. First week he spent hours crying at her apartment door to be let in but was ignored. This led to him coming to my door because I have a cat so he smelled the food. He ate ravonously and drank water like a camel. This went on a few days and gradually began to spend more time checking out my apartment. Now he spends most of time with me as he can come and go as he pleases through my back door. He's such a sweetheart, so trusting and just wants attention. Now I don't know what to do, yes I'm attached to him and I despise seeing an animal neglected but the other day the mother and daughter saw the cat leave my apartment and took a case of the butt about it, all but accusing me of kidnapping the cat. I didn't want an argument so I just closed my door and ignored them. What do y'all think I should do here?
dont know where you live but here its property if you are taking care of it. so if you are feeding it ,providing shelter and if you take it to the vet its yours. they cant do anything. ignore them and see what they do. if they dont take care of the cat then you take it to a vet so you have a record of taking care of it,save receipts of anything you buy and so on.I mean are they really going to call the law saying you stole it? do they have proof they own it? if not pee on them
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Call the local humane society and explain the situation. Neglecting animals, especially if you've been documenting him coming over to your house, is illegal, so they might be able to do something about the mom. With situations like this the neighbor can turn it on you as a case of animal abduction. Daughter might be having issues finding a place that takes a cat and it's probably the mom's fault the animal is being mistreated if the daughter isn't around. Either way you definitely need to get the humane society involved so daughter can get told what the mom isn't doing, in the event she actually does care about the cat and find a better place for him to get taken care of.
I know I'd be heartbroken if I left my cat with my mother and I came back to find a neighbor had adopted them, but I'd probably also be told it wasn't her fault, y'know? People our age have it really rough looking for jobs and housing, especially with a pet.1 -
aresvallis wrote: »Call the local humane society and explain the situation. Neglecting animals, especially if you've been documenting him coming over to your house, is illegal, so they might be able to do something about the mom. With situations like this the neighbor can turn it on you as a case of animal abduction. Daughter might be having issues finding a place that takes a cat and it's probably the mom's fault the animal is being mistreated if the daughter isn't around. Either way you definitely need to get the humane society involved so daughter can get told what the mom isn't doing, in the event she actually does care about the cat and find a better place for him to get taken care of.
I know I'd be heartbroken if I left my cat with my mother and I came back to find a neighbor had adopted them, but I'd probably also be told it wasn't her fault, y'know? People our age have it really rough looking for jobs and housing, especially with a pet.
Yeah I don't want to get involved with the law but I also don't run my air conditioning which means I keep the back door open and there's no screen door just one of those as seen on tv hanging curtain screens so it's not like I can keep him out of my apartment, not especially now that he's attached to me as a caretaker. I can understand how hard it is to find pet friendly apartments, 90% of the ones here are no pets allowed and the ones who do allow them want a $200-$400 NON REFUNDABLE pet fee. That being said I don't think that's the case here. The impression I get is the daughter is a hot mess. She comes over about once a week and doesn't even take the time to pet the cat even though he's begging her for attention. Instead she's usually sobbing crocodile tears into her cell phone over the latest boyfriend who cheated on her. My next step is to see if they come knocking at my door now that they know the cat hangs out with me. I just think she doesn't have the time or inclination to care for a pet the way it's supposed to be cared for. From both of them I've gotten the "You're a fat a.. why are you even bothering to talk to our beauty?" vibe if I even say so much as hello. The Humane Society is not far from my place, maybe I'll take a drive over and talk with them.0 -
Throw her off her balcony.1
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I started putting out food for the neighborhood street cats about five years ago. Including this charmer:
My husband was okay with my putting out food but stressed that we weren't letting any of them indoors. Welp, "Soot" had other ideas. About two years ago, he'd follow me back from the yard to the side doorstep. Then he wanted to come in. And then, he'd start watching for Hubby to leave for work. As soon as Hubby was gone, Soot would scratch on the door. Shortly before Hubby was expected home, Soot would wait by the side door to be let out.
Then he mastered the art of sitting on my windowsill in the pouring rain, looking pathetic. Hubby relented and let him in to wait out the weather.
Last November, I had surgery. Not too serious; I was sent home same day. My mother came in to help out. I arranged for the neighbor kids to put food in the back for the cats. The day after the surgery, Mom went to the bakery for me. When she came back, Soot was on the front step. When she opened the door, Soot raced in, saw me and started meowing.
A couple of weeks later, (after some really lousy weather that had Soot seeking indoor shelter—this even though I did get some cat shelters from a rescue, where he'd spent the last few winters), Hubby said, "I think we have a cat. Now we need to get him to the vet."
He's been living indoors now for about seven months and he's gotten friendlier and more cuddly almost every day. He used to run and hide from strangers. Now he jumps over them if they're blocking the window. He's got a forever home with us and he couldn't be happier. (Even if he did need to have five teeth pulled recently...)
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@estherdragonbat When we lived in the Philippines my wife and I adopted quite a few street cats.
Trevor was our first and the one we owned the longest. The first night in the the first place my wife and I rented together we were eating dinner and heard this feeble meow outside the front windows. It was this cat so I gave him some chicken. The next morning he was waiting at the front door and walked inside like he owned the place and proceeded to plop down on the couch and clean himself. He was our cat from that day on and used to like chasing his tail on the stairs.
This one was Solitaire, the female cats were never as friendly as the males she put up with us and would rub our legs but didn't let us pet her. She had her kittens under the bed in the maid's quarters so we named the kittens Ming and Puckity (because he was the spitting image of cat we had when I was a kid). I was able to tame the kittens and ming ended up with my in laws and puckity stayed with us until he was stolen.
Mayday was the next female to come into our lives and had her kittens in the attic of our house.
One of the kittens got trapped in the gutter during a downpouring tropical rain and I had to save him from drowning so he was named Bonne Chance
These were all the kittens before Mayday finally brought them down to the shelter I provided for her. From Left: Jeanne Chloe, Bonne Chance, Junior, Marie Laveau and Warg3 -
They are gorgeous!!!!
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Tuna isn't the greatest for cats. Neither is the outdoors.
(Source: https://www.catster.com/cats-101/calculate-cat-age-in-cat-years)0
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