Good fences make good neighbors, or so the saying goes. But no amount of fencing can fix a neighbor who has decided that your pet belongs to them and is willing to argue, deny, and hold a cat hostage to prove it.
This woman has a five-year-old indoor cat she rescued, and she’s more like her baby than anything else. She does have three kids of her own, who are 10, 7, and 5, and they all can’t seem to lock her screened-in patio door, which means their cat has escaped her on multiple occasions.
She works throughout the day, so it’s not possible for her to double-check that the patio door is shut to keep their cat in. Anyway, whenever her cat runs away from home, her neighbor ends up taking her.
She’s actually had to go into her neighbor’s yard to steal her own cat back because the neighbor subscribes to the idea of finders, keepers.
“I took her to get chipped after the last time because my neighbor always denies it’s my cat. I have seen her luring her in with tuna fish,” she explained.
“Well, it had happened again, and this time she made sure she did not get outside. We got into a big argument her and I, because she denied it was my cat.”
“I told her I have her chipped, and many photos with her. She still refused. After holding her hostage for nearly 3 days, arguing every single day, I told her I’d be calling the police to get my cat back. We got into an either bigger argument.”
She called the cops on her neighbor as promised, and the officers backed her up, as she did have plenty of evidence that she’s the rightful owner of the cat.
The police helped her get her cat back; however, her neighbor threw a temper tantrum over her involving the authorities. Her neighbor complained that having cop cars in front of her house made her look trashy.
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Her neighbor then reached out to her husband and said they owe her $20 for the cat food their cat ate while at her house, being held captive.
“…He was like what?? You stole our cat. Every time we’re outside, she always tries to argue with us, and it’s just [caused] a lot of tension now,” she continued.
She’s left wondering if she was wrong to call the cops on her neighbor to finally put a stop to her stealing the cat. Her neighbor is absolutely insane, and I can’t understand why she hasn’t gone out and adopted her own cat if she wants one that badly.
I don’t think calling the cops on her neighbor makes her a jerk, but I highly doubt that will deter her neighbor. She needs to make sure the patio door stays closed, and she should consider grounding her kids for not listening, since they’re old enough to be able to keep the door shut.
What do you think?
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