HELP! re neighbours cats

chatnoir

Sorry for long post....but I'll start at the beginning!
Moved into a flat (converted house) nearly two years ago. Next neighbour had two cats(Ginger and Black)...both were kept outdoors with a catflap in the shed. We then got a cat, and when he was younger used to get to fights with the two next door, cost us a fortune in vet bills! they occasionally used to coem in the catflap, and it was always the black one that did it. About a year ago the owner of next door moved and rented his house to a family and the cats stayed.
Now recently the renters have bought 4 chickens, 4 ducks and two rabbits...they also have two small children (no olderthen 5) one we think may have behavourial problems. The kids chase the animals around the garden and the chickens and ducks are free to rome the garden. So recently the Ginger cat has been sitting at our back door..if we see it we shoo it away, but we know it has been coming in and eating our cats food. It came in 3 times on Sunday night, even managing to break in through the locked cat flap. woke up this morning and he was asleep on our sofa....our cat was outside! Our cat has a swollen face from being bitten and was only at the vet two weeks ago at the cost of £40 to us!
We think the cat is too scared to be in its own garden because of the children and other animals and because they are in the garden alot they also use the shed alot so the cats have no where to "hide" away.
So bascially we dont know what to do, our cat is constantly scared and on guard, its costing us in cat food and vet bills! The ginger cat is very old and not in good shape either
we can either:
1) call Rspca annoymosly
2) go round and speak to neighbours and if they aren't bothered then call the RSPCA
3) catnap them and take them to a shelter (dont really want to do this)

Any other suggestions would be appreciated
Thansk

h007

I would go for option 2. talk to the neighbours and if they dont seem bothered maybe suggest you could help the cats find new homes? They may be glad to see the back of them as it sounds as though maybe they arent even feeding them!
it really was irresponsible of the original owners to leave their cats behind.

rachiee

How irresponsible can they be.. I know you dont want to do option 3 but i would, tice them in with food and take them to a shelter, talking to them will only make them worse i think. They are much better off in a shelter as ironic as it sounds.

chatnoir

if we do take them to a shelter the ginger one would prob be put to sleep, its not the healthest if we didn;t already have our cat i would adopt it but our cat doesn't like other cats

rachiee

chatnoir wrote: »

if we do take them to a shelter the ginger one would prob be put to sleep, its not the healthest if we didn;t already have our cat i would adopt it but our cat doesn't like other cats

Oh i see. I think its just terrotorty though with your cat, its his house you see. Have you tried? Its a awful situation :eek:

mrcol1000

So your judge and jury and decided that these people can't have a cat so your going to take it? I would speak to them about it and if your that worried about the cat offer to find it a new home. They may not realise that the cats needs are not being met. You really would be an awful person if you just stole their cat because you didn't think they were looking after it properly. I really hope you could live with yourself when the "lost" posters start appearing.

chatnoir

mrcol1000 wrote: »

So your judge and jury and decided that these people can't have a cat so your going to take it? I would speak to them about it and if your that worried about the cat offer to find it a new home. They may not realise that the cats needs are not being met. You really would be an awful person if you just stole their cat because you didn't think they were looking after it properly. I really hope you could live with yourself when the "lost" posters start appearing.

Think I already said I don't want to do this! I'm a big believer in Karma and would be heartbroken if this happened to our cat. The cat is ill and hungry what can we do???

neneromanova

mrcol1000 wrote: »

So your judge and jury and decided that these people can't have a cat so your going to take it? I would speak to them about it and if your that worried about the cat offer to find it a new home. They may not realise that the cats needs are not being met. You really would be an awful person if you just stole their cat because you didn't think they were looking after it properly. I really hope you could live with yourself when the "lost" posters start appearing.

If you read the OP post she states that the cats are not even the current people who live there. they belong to the original owner of the cats. I say option 3. It's the only way that this could be sorted out as people know how rubbish the RSPCA are

mluton

We have kind of adopted one of our neighbours cats now. As when we moved in he decided he liked us.

We then got our kittens and it was WAR for a few months, but now they have all settled down and we treat him like our own. They treat him like a brother. He doesnt sleep in our house at night as we dont think that would be fair on the owners, even though he has hidden and done so on a few occations or unless he has been locked out and we find him sleeping on our doorstep.

We feed him, but we have done this from moving in and not noticed the cost. We also treat him with flee stuff quartelry along with our cats to know they are all protected.

We did report another cat that came aound to the RSPCA, as it was a scraggy cat, that didnt get looked after. He became better after the RSPCA made a visit and I think they spoke to the owners, but we havent seen him in a while.

not_tonight_josephine_2

mluton wrote: »

We have kind of adopted one of our neighbours cats now. As when we moved in he decided he liked us.

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Doe your neighbour know you have done this and are they OK with this? It can be heartbreaking to lose a pet, I think it's very wrong to "adopt" someone else's cat unless they are neglecting it!

mrcol1000

neneromanova wrote: »

If you read the OP post she states that the cats are not even the current people who live there. they belong to the original owner of the cats. I say option 3. It's the only way that this could be sorted out as people know how rubbish the RSPCA are

Actually I did read the OP post and they stated the cat owners moved and the cats stayed. Unless she knows this family very well she does not know if they offered to take the cats. They new and old residents could be related or friends. They could be getting a reduced rent in return for looking after the cats. None of this is know! So to just grab the cats I think is an awful thing to do. She needs to talk to them about her concerns over the cats and if they refuse to act then inform the RSPCA and let them talk it over. If the RSPCA don't take any action then maybe none needs taking.