General Chat

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 :-)

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!!

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!!!!!

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

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!!

~~ 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 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

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!