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Right i'll cut a long story short, live in a council house and 4 years ago got a new neighbour about 25 with a 2 year old daughter, she moved in and put up maroon blinds, and to this day 4 years later, those blinds have never been lifted there now grey.

No word of a lie and never has a window been open, but each to there own.

Over the years I've never seen her, had a few do's over mid week parties, but she knocked them on the head, when I threatended her with going to the council, don't see whilst she should be up partying at 6.00am on a tue when we have to go to work.

then 12 months ago (i'm guessing) she got 2 dogs, because day in day out, night in night out those dogs sat at the back of the front door and barked, when in our living room I could hear them, but at night we slept in the back I couldn't, but the woman over the road did and she wasn't happy.

I've reported this house about 4 times over the past 16 weeks, regarding the state of the outside, there's weeds over 5ft, and the last 2 times I rang the council I told them that nobody is in the house.

Cut last night, and a neighbour at the back asked me what's going on with the house, told him don't know but I do know she's not there, her wheelie bin not been out for weeks (he noticed this 2) and he said that there has been no light on for over 8 weeks.

then he asked about her cat...................cat what cat she had 2 dogs but I've not heard them for ages.............no the cat that keeps jumping up under the closed blind at the window.....................eh...............so after a bit of asking neighbours we all decided the dogs had gone..........then one neighbour said lets investigate, so we knocked on the front door zilch, into the well overgrown back garden, and no door open, then we knocked on it and we heard it............a purr............couldnt' see anything, so we went to the front door and knocked, nothing, looked through the letterbox and there we saw a small kitten sat on the stairs looking at us.................................we went back and aske neighbour was it a kitten, he said no a bigger cat.

but we never saw one................forward to this morning rang housing association, and they said they can't do anything, they have logged down, my complaints about the overgrown garden and weeds, but as far as they are concerened, there is a tenant.

Speaking to other neighbours, they have all said that it's wrong for a cat to be left in a locked up house day in day out, we think and I stress think, she is nipping back to the house during the day, going in the back way ( she always has) and maybe leaving a few tins out for the cat, but where is this cat pooing, we always wondered this about the dogs because she never took them out.

What would be your next port of call..............i'm not a pet lover, used to have a dog, but don't have the time now, but to lock a pet up in a house day in day out is wrong.


should I ring the rspca?
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  • southcoastrgi
    southcoastrgi Posts: 6,298 Forumite
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    the back door was already open & the window was smashed when i saw it & i rang you straight away officer & i only went in to make sure the lady wasn't laying there injured, I saw the cat(s) & rang the rspca straight after i phoned you, apart from that i didn't hear or see anything, is that where i sign the statement Mr PC
    I'm only here while I wait for Corrie to start.

    You get no BS from me & if I think you are wrong I WILL tell you.
  • catkins
    catkins Posts: 5,703 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I'd phone the RSPCA. They are usually pretty useless but if you say there is definitely at least 1 cat in there and that no one is there they should take notice. I wouldn't say you think she is coming back to feed any animals or there is a good chance they will do nothing.

    If they are not interested I would then ring the police. Ok a bit over the top to ring them about a cat but you can't just a cat or cats be left alone if you are not sure they are being looked after
    The world is over 4 billion years old and yet you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie
  • Fosterdog
    Fosterdog Posts: 4,948 Forumite
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    I would phone the police, tell them you are worried that something has happened to your neighbour and her young daughter. Say that nobody has seen either of them for weeks and when you've knocked the door you realised the cat/cats are still there and the HA say she hasn't moved out.

    They should come along and break in to check that all is OK, this should give you the chance to at least offer to look after the cats until she comes back.

    Tell them you weren't too worried until you saw this http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2355234/Mother-history-depression-baby-daughter-dead-home-seen-weeks-family-members-collapse-despair-scene.html

    Make sure they think it is the woman and child you are worried about and not the cats or they wont do anything.
  • Shepherd1
    Shepherd1 Posts: 307 Forumite
    Please phone the police. This happened in my street almost exactly the same as you young woman moved in had loud parties, never cut the grass and never took her bins out. She was reported to the council by various neighbours for this, but nothing ever happened and you very rarely saw her. One day her next door neighbour noticed lots of blue bottles at her bedroom window (bungalow) and called the police. The police forced entry and found a puppy dead in her bedroom. Turns out she had bought the puppy and after a few weeks moved in with her boyfriend and just left the puppy. Total scum.
  • moggymutt
    moggymutt Posts: 666 Forumite
    It's got to be reported immediately to the police. The welfare/whereabouts of the child must be checked.There's too many horrific cases that could and should have been prevented.

    It may be that the police are aware of her and so are social services, in which case they may know where the mum and child are now. Unfortunately that means that they may not go into the house, in which case you sadly will have to rely on the RSPCA.

    Get in touch with your local paper if no response or satisfactory answer.
    Have you tried environmental health? Unless her bin was totally empty before she left, it will be stinking, and with cat !!!! not being disposed of, it must still be in the house.
    Please do something quickly.
    DONT BREED OR BUY WHILE HOMELESS ANIMALS DIE. GET YOUR ANIMALS NEUTERED TO SAVE LIVES.
  • Saint_Chris
    Saint_Chris Posts: 3,876 Forumite
    thanks for those replies,

    well nobody has been in the house today, old lady over the road is keeping look out for us at the front, she's always sat in the window, god love her she's got a pad and pen, should she see anything. (she said there was 2 men knocking on the front door today) could be the housing association.
    On tue night I shut her back gate and I wedged the black re-cycling box right against the shut gate, meaning if someone went in the back way the box would move with the door, and I don't think she's clever enough to put it back, but that box has not moved since tue night.

    Rang the housing association today to let them know that nobody had been in the house again last night.
    Spoke to a neighbour who also reported the cat in the house, and she's had a return phone call from the housing association, asking how long has she not been in the house etc, but still saying that they can't break in for the cat.

    Regarding her and her daughter, I know she's not here, as through the wonders of f/b I found her, seems she is about 16 weeks pregnant, she's changed that long picture at the top of her page, to a scan, then I looked at her friends list and there was a lads name who had the same pic, both profiles are private, but his other small pic is him, her and her daughter.
    I scrolled down her page and about 4 hours she gave life in candy crush....

    The I looked at the boyfriends friends and I saw that the guy who is fixing my car is a friend of his, went round and asked him what is going on, but he doesn't know the lad that well, he just went to school with him, but he said the lad has his own flat the other end of our town.

    So i'm guessing that this is where she is living with her daughter.

    In the years she's lived here, we've never seen the child, she's never played out in the cul de sac with any of the other kids, she cant' play in the back garden, too many 5ft weeds.

    If the back gates not moved tomorrow, i'll go and see our community bobbies, there always around the area.
  • paulineb_2
    paulineb_2 Posts: 6,489 Forumite
    Yes, phone the RSPCA, as soon as you can. Or cats protection.

    Im not a fan of the RSPCA but its cruel to leave any pet locked in a flat like that, something needs to be done about it, as soon as possible

    No pet deserves to be left like that, I rescued a cat that had been abandoned, its horribly cruel.
  • Froglet
    Froglet Posts: 2,798 Forumite
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    While you dither about whether to do anything that cat is slowly starving to death and in this hot weather will probably die of dehydration first. .If nothing else PLEASE put some wet cat food through the letterbox.
    Report all your concerns and the proof that noone has entered the house for days to the RSPCA.Or it will end up the same way as that poor puppy that shepherd1 posted about.
  • southcoastrgi
    southcoastrgi Posts: 6,298 Forumite
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    Why The Hell have you not already phoned the rspca & reported at least one cat in the place with no food or water
    I'm only here while I wait for Corrie to start.

    You get no BS from me & if I think you are wrong I WILL tell you.
  • Saint_Chris
    Saint_Chris Posts: 3,876 Forumite
    There is a bowl of water in the hall way we saw it when we looked through the letter box.

    One of the neighbours has just knocked and told me that the police were informed yesterday, she contacted them, and they said leave it with them.

    So the housing association know
    the police know
    the local community bobby knows

    and I've just e-mailed the rspca.
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