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My neighbour thinks they are being kind, by thowing plastic bags with "scraps" of meat,(still on the bone) over the hedge for my cats.
I have asked them nicely not to,
I have told them not to,
I have thrown the bags back to them,
All to no avail,
Now it has cost me £90.86, to have a shard of bone taken out of one of my cats gums!
So please think twice about giving cats "scraps", you could be killing them with misplaced kindness!

I also had a neighbour who thought it kind to throw cooked chicken bones, bacon etc. over the fence when we had a border collie. I asked kindly a couple of times before I had to say that I would present them with the vet bill if it continued and my dog became ill because of it.

Sue

~~ waves to Sue

Your poor cat Taff, you too.

My neighbours are lovely yet when they have BBQ's I find the remnants of their chicken pieces in my garden brought home by my cat.

I once had to rush one of my cats to the vets with a bone stuck in its throat, not nice ... not nice at all.

My policy is never feed another person's cat, it may leave home.

xxx

I really cant understand peoples stupidy!
Suemaid, I am sorely tempted to take the bill and the bits of bones around to them!
I have even suggested to them in the past, that they are NOT feeding my cats, they are just encouraging rats!!
I realise these are an elderly couple, but having looked at the "scraps", they eat better than we do!!

I think that if they're elderly then they probably don't realise that scraps aren't always good for pets. My Dad told me that as a child they always had a dog and it was always fed on scraps. I remember my Mum giving our dogs lamb and beef bones. Bones in the pets mouth and throat are bad enough but a splintered bone in the stomach is a killer.

Sue

Sue, I have asked, told and thrown the stuff back to them, but of coarse they know best, cos they're older than me!!!!
I suppose I should be gratefull that neither of my cats has choked on the plastic bags yet!!!!!

Good grief Taff - it's almost like they're using your garden as a 'midden' - surely they know cats don't eat plastic bags!!
Do they have a compost heap? If so you could be 'kind' and throw large (uncompostable) branches into their garden 'for their compost heap' and when asked why your'e throwing your rubbish into their garden explain it's the same as their throwing useless 'bits' into your garden!!

I had to tell my mother off one day as she was about to feed my dog chocolate of all thing, now she asks if it is okay before giving him anything.

This evening my brother and I watched as a cat (pretty sure they come from the industrial yard at the back of my place) pulled bits of the dog's dinner out of his bowl and took it off to the other end of the deck, my brother couldn't work out why it did this but there was another cat waiting at the end of the deck. Once the dog realised his dinner was being stolen he actually ate it. I am sure he is part cat, as he always leaves food and he is part Lab :-)

Maggie , the year before last, they gave my sons a tent ............with no poles! They have given me a pair of hedge loppers, and the blades didnt even meet, I couldnt open them for the rust!!!
My next step will be to threaten them with fly tipping! As being polite is costing me dearly!

LOL Michelle, A Lab,. leaving food? Thats unheard of...............

Taff - Tell me about it, he also doesn't like water much either. Has been going for wades in the river lately to cool down but normally wouldn't spend much time in there.

Can't believe your neighbours throw plastic bags with the scraps.

- Miclle :-)

Oh yes, Michelle, they wrap the scraps up very nicely in plastic!
The worst part of it was, the vet couldnt give my cat any pain relief as he has cancer of the liver, and hasnt long left anyway, but we count every day as a blessing.

Give puss a pet from me. I off to see if I can actually get any sleep in this heat. Night. - Michelle

I had a deaf cat some years ago.
He used to fall asleep on the pavement in the sunshine,a kind lady! many many times rushed him to the vet thinking he was unconscious,it cost me a fortune.Eventually to save all the silliness, i asked her if she would like to have the cat,which she did.She kept him as a house cat,and fed him liver and steak etc which she lovingly cooked herself.
I believe they were very happy together.

Cathie (now catless)

Catless Cathie, So she took yours to the vets and you had to pay!
Your giving me ideas now.............

Taff,
Your cat situation reminded me of what happened with my cat (although this is a light-hearted story).
I had an extremely friendly cat who unbeknownst to me, was also being fed by the neighbours on both sides of us.
We fed him a well-known brand of cat food that would have had eight out of ten cats saying 'ta very much, that's lovely'. But my cat started turning his nose up at it. Although he wasn't losing weight, I did get concerned and took him off to the vet for a once-over. Vet was perplexed and said he looked very well fed for a cat off his grub!! I had to pay for that consultation.
Well, I happened to go down to my elderly neighbour's and there on the floor was a cat dish, piled high with fresh cooked chicken. I was a bit puzzled as my neighbour didn't have a cat - but then in strolled my cat Sam, who polished off the bowl of chicken and then looked up at my neighbour, who sheepishly filled the bowl with milk!! Sam tucked in and then strolled over to sit down in front of the fire and sort out his milky whiskers.
Turned out the neighbour on the other side was buying tins of salmon for Sam.................
Not saying anything against tinned cat food but Sam lived til he was 20 :)))

Dormouse, I feed both mine on the same brand of tinned stuff, This old codger is like lazarus, when theres a chicken fillet breast on offer too!

Hi Taff,

I don't agree with it but it still puzzles me why don't they just feed your cats in their own garden....in a bowl. After all you don't want plastic bags in your garden and they would get the pleasure of seeing your cats eat.

I would nicely mention the visit to the vet....I'm not suggesting you ask them for money (that's up to you) but it will make them aware that their actions are hurting your cats.

Hope your cat feels better soon

Tell them your cat doesn't eat them but the rat population in the gardens do. (show the cat run under the hedge and tell them its a rat run LOL)

Taff, good way to stop them is to empty there Litter trays into their garden,saying you,re feeding them so you can have the end result, they may then stop. **M**.