Apparently Neighbor Cat sleeps in my house now

[sascha]

Oh wow, are you “Not My Vet” who was told, “This cat has never been touched by anyone but me. She is feral. Today is the first day she has ever been picked up and I WAS WEARING HEAVY BARN GLOVES” and then proceeded to reappear 20 minutes later to complain about having been bitten and how it was a good thing her rabies titre was good, but she’d have to go on antibiotics because she was susceptible to cat scratch fever?

Same when asked, “How did she bite you through gauntlets?” said, “I wasn’t wearing gauntlets.” My eyes are still a little sore from the strain caused by that eye roll.

[OverandOnward]

@Aussie_2020

Good thing I’ve had a rabies shot, lots of biting here

By you, too. We all need to be up to date on rabies shots.

[MidlifeCrisis]

DD#1 has had the prophyclatic rabies vaccine since she works in Africa. She said it was the most painful of all the ones she’s had. And she’s had everything.

[TWH_Girl]

Well this derailed quickly.

Cute little stray and I’d keep her. And maybe we can live and let live and not expect everyone to do exactly as we would. No one needs to justify their love of animals on this forum.

Bring on more kitty stories and cuteness.

[FrittSkritt]

Australians are notorious for blaming all wildlife decimation on cats. (I live here - they hate them.) Never mind that humans destroy more wildlife than domestic cats, there are heaps of invasive introduced species that have driven out the native ones, but hey… let’s blame it all on cats!

[OverandOnward]

@dressagetraks

I read that a man once saw the for-sale sign down the street and looked up online to see what they were asking, not that he was interested in buying, just wondered how the neighborhood was described and what price range it was. He found the ad for the place down the street, and in looking through the pictures of the interior of the house, he saw his own cat.

So … did the cat belong to him? Or did he belong to the cat?

Some people have multi-pet households.

Some cats have people in multiple households.

If we think about this logically, which - person or cat - is coming out the best in terms of resources expended in exchange for benefits?

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

@dressagetraks

I read that a man once saw the for-sale sign down the street and looked up online to see what they were asking, not that he was interested in buying, just wondered how the neighborhood was described and what price range it was. He found the ad for the place down the street, and in looking through the pictures of the interior of the house, he saw his own cat.

I think this is the story you might have been thinking of?

Man finds his cat sleeping next door after looking up the property on Zoopla

[OverandOnward]

You know when you try to put your cat on a diet, and it just doesn’t lose weight?

[cattywampus]

WTF, Neighbor Cat?

[sophie]

@Obsidian_Fire “your” cat is a beauty! I have a weakness for long haired felines.

Of course ours is your basic striped short haired cat. She goes outside whenever she wants. She is much too timid to enter someone else’s house. Although, I did witness her jumping into a worker’s van on our street, once. By the time I ran outside she was getting out of the van with her “Not a good idea” look on her face, and ran toward me when she saw me.
Her nemesis in the neighborhood, though, nice sleek little black panther named Watson, would love to claim our house as second home. Our poor cat is beside herself when she sees him in our yard. He sent her up a tree several times. Fortunately, he had an encounter with the fearless mini poodle and decided to avoid the backyard for now

My daughter had one of those opportunist cats who decided her place was better than her owner’s. And yes, even though I immediately told her FLEAS! it was too late and they had to treat their whole bungalow. Poor cat got killed by one of the coyotes prowling the streets, they (or her owner) never saw her again.

[Obsidian_Fire]

I love the long haired ones too. But DH is allergic, so we stick to short hair. Haven’t seen that cat around recently, don’t know why.

[Peggy]

One of our barn cats hijacked a ride to a horse show in the utility trailer. They arrived at the show, left the trailer open for hours while they set up, and then parked the trailer. Our groom stayed in it at night because it was (sort-of) outfitted for living. He make his bed, went to take a shower, and returned to find Garfield asleep on his pillow.

Meanwhile, back at the barn, everyone had been frantically searching for him since we tried to put him away at night.

I still consider it a miracle that he didn’t walk out of the trailer and out of our lives all those hours that it was open. He may have stuck his nose out and thought “oops” at some point.