Cat problems

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Question for you lot:

Got a cat here who we've had for about 4-5 years, was a cat that adopted us as it's owners from the farm down the road and is a natural hunter rather than a home cat.

Spends most nights on the prowl, catching his food in the wild, comes in on a morning and sleeps all day, has some fuss early evening, a play, cuddle and goes out again.

Past few weeks he's been out longer than usual, has been coming back STINKING of perfume and tonight I've seen him been let out of a house down the road, so he's obviously been nipping in there.

Now I have no problem with someone giving him shelter on a night, I've no problem with a total stranger giving him a little stroke as they go by, but tonight is the last straw.

This woman has taken it upon herself to put a collar on my cat with a bell. Not only is poor puss thoroughly widdled off with this, I personally don't agree with collar's on cats and have removed it.

He's just come in now and has throw-up a combination of ham and chicken, so whatever the hell the woman has given him is too rich.

But the major problem I have is that the back of his neck is sticky as if she's given him some flea-treatment, which, is this woman has taken it upon herself to 'own' my cat, how does she know when I de-flea him, and could literally end up killing him by not knowing.

Now I am going to nip this in the bud, but want to know how I can tackle this in a diplomatic way.

Do I put a letter through, or speak to her face to face? I can't imagine there's some law (it is a bit trivial), but like I said, I don't want to be footing veteneary fee's because this daft cow is giving my cat food which he simply isn't used to.

Any tips on how to approach her?
 
just knock on the door and tell her its your cat and please stop feeding it and de-fleaing it. she obviously thinks its a stray.


some people assume that if the cats don't have a collar on then its a stray, however I have always been told that cats shouldn't have collars on.
 
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she obviously thinks its a stray.

Yeah, just talk to her, she probably has a few cats that do this, cats always return to places where they are fed (even if it's not their home). Out cats never wore collars for years until we had problems with strays coming in through the catflap and eating our cats food (and in one case there was a fight in our kitchen between two strays we'd never seen before). We had to fit a catflap with a magnetic lock and our cats had to wear collars, they all got used to it and don't know any different now. They are the quick release collars so if they get caught they snap open.
 
Yeah, I need to really talk to her, but didn't know if it would come over as been, well, I don't know, kinda 'nasty'.

Like I said, if puss wants to sleep in her house while it's chucking it down 'cos he can't get in here then that's fine, good on her, but feeding him stuff which is too rich (where he chucks up on my carpet!!!) and giving him medication without knowing anything about him I just think is a bit too far.

Y'right, best talk to her in a civil way.

Cheers.
 
Yeah just speak to her, tell her the cat is yours and being properly looked after, ask her not to feed it or treat it medically because it could get fat or harmed by excessive medical treatments (which you are providing so she doesn't need to) and if she really likes cats she should respect that.

If you don't mind the cat visiting then say so, if the cat continues to visit but she doesn't interfere by feeding or treating it then this should be ok. It will be useful if you ever want to go away on holiday as you can ask her to feed it for you temporarily.

If she turns out to be a crazey cat lady you may have a problem.
 
Just talk to her and i'm sure she'll be understanding. If she's willing to look after a 'random' cat she'll be able to have a friendly conversation with a person :)

Now you just have to get your cat out of the habit of going there...
 
Cat poo through letter box ? Should be cryptic enough for her to get the message.

Or just talk to her and explain the situation.

I just prefer the poo option :D
 
Has your cat put on any weight during this period?

A bit yeah, but then again that could be due to the fact that the wildlife round here is less active with it been winter which means he's getting his meals a bit easier.
 
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she just thinks its a stray, no need to be nasty with her! She doesnt even know its your cat by the sounds of it.

Don't go round with an atitude, as this could just be a matter of you getting the wrong end of the stick
 
Get a vets bill for some emergency treatment, then go round to her house saying you saw her cat being ill so you got it treated so here is the bill, when she tells you it's not her cat, tell her "yeah thats right, it's my cat so stop feading and de-fleaing it, bee atch" :D

Then punch her in the ovaries :D
 
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