Neighbor threatened to kill my cat.
Last week, my cat went missing.
My parents, little sister and I went searching for her, but we couldn’t find her.
My sister was very upset and thought the worst happened.
Luckily, the cat showed up again two days ago and she was very hungry and jittery.
That same evening, a neighbor from down the street came pounding on our front door.
My dad answered the door and right away, the neighbor started screaming.
Apparently the neighbors 'accidentally’ locked our cat in their shed.
Since she’d been there a couple days, she had ‘pissed all over’ their brand new lounge set cushions that they bought in preparation for the summer. The guy started saying that if we didn’t put down our cat, that he would and that he would poison our cat.
My dad apologised and offered to reimburse them for the costs of the cushions and the neighbor immediately stated some ridiculous price. My dad said he would pay it, but only if they had a receipt or some other proof of the price.
The neighbor angrily stomped away, and it turned out that those ‘brand new lounge set cushions’ were bought from marketplace.
My dad still offered to pay the costs, but the neighbor didn’t respond to that.
Yesterday, their daughter (who’s like 11 years old I think) showed up at the door and said that we need to kill our cat because she (the cat) was a disgusting animal.
These aren’t the first problems we’ve had with these neighbors and probably won’t be the last.
Later edit:
Hello everyone, I did not expect to get this many comments! I've not yet read all of them, but I wanted to clarify some things.
- We've never had any issues with our cat, it only started once these neighbors recently moved in.
- These neighbors are causing issues all around (in my opinion).
- My cat is an outdoor cat, we deliberately wanted an outdoor cat.
- I live in Europe, the Netherlands. There are cats everywhere on the streets, I'm pretty sure there are no laws that say cats should be kept indoors.
- For the commenters that make it look like I don't think that the neighbors are allowed to get mad, they are, but they lied about the cushions and tried to get my dad to pay some ridiculous price and after that he threatened my cat... that sounds insane to me. This is my biggest issue.
- For the commenters that said that because I wasn't responding to comments, that I wasn't taking their advice. I'm a student who's drowning in assignments and deadlines and a job. Unlike what older people say about my generation, I'm not glued to my phone. I don't have time for that.
- My parents and I are talking to our vet to see if and how we can make our cat an indoor cat.
- She wears a collar (with a little bell, to make hunting difficult for her) and she has a chip.
No update on the neighbor yet, let me know if you want further updates. My parents haven't decided what to do on that front yet.
Please let me know if you want to know anything else, I'll try to respond to comments sooner.
Later edit 2:
Honest question, do pet cats not roam freely where you are from? I'm honestly confused because where I live pet cats just wander around outside. I literally can't walk through a single street without seeing a (collared) cat outside.