Since those ancient times at the really dawn of humankind, when individuals moved from caverns to primitive huts, the very first next-door neighbors likewise appeared. And that suggests the very first difficulty with next-door neighbors too. And if those primitive neighbors could just steal a carefully set aside fried mammoth leg at most, then modern neighbors are literally inexhaustible in their various dirty tricks.
They may resent you sleeping in a hammock in your backyard, they may abuse your permission to park cars on your own driveway, or, you may not believe it, but they may accuse you of harboring their beloved cat, simply because she has a habit of walking into your yard.
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The author of the post has neighbors whose cat is very curious and made a habit of walking into his yard
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This particular story was first told to us by the user TheSDPadresFan back when the Twitter logo was a bird, that is, just a few days ago. From the name of the Original Poster (OP) we can deduce that the events unfolded in San Diego. And then we leave the shaky path of assumptions and move on to a solid highway of facts. So here’s how it all went…
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So, according to the author of the tweet, his neighbors’ cat (her name is Mercury), like almost all cats, is very curious and independent, so she got into the habit of going to his yard. For some reason, the owners of the animal were not happy with this. Well, or they simply did not know all the specifics of feline behavior. Subsequent events seem to confirm this hypothesis.
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The pet’s owners were extremely angry with the cat’s roaming so they blamed the author for ‘manipulating’ the animal
So, once again finding their pet in the neighboring yard, the couple could not find a more reasonable argument than accusing him of trying to “manipulate” the cat by ‘befriending’ her. Also, the owner of the cat demanded that the OP tell her to go home. Well, anyone who has dealt with our little furry friends knows that it is almost useless; the cat will still follow its own desires, understandable only to itself. But the OP’s neighbor probably didn’t know that.
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When the author of the post tried to explain to the angry man that the cat, firstly, did not know English, and secondly, would still not obey any direct order, he began to demonstrate hand gestures that, in his opinion, could help. Of course, this didn’t work, and then the guy accused the original poster of ‘harboring animals’, and then several times yelled ‘Cat pervert!’
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The angry guy called the neighbor ‘a cat pervert’ and even attempted to call the cops… with no results
We will not try to find out what this expression could mean. Let’s just say that the hapless cat owners, having returned the animal home, immediately tried to call the police, but the cops had probably already dealt with them, so they simply refused to come. And, well, the next morning, as the original poster recalls, the curious cat was walking around his yard again…
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Experts claim that cats are just very curious and also follow their hunting instincts to roam around
If the cat owners, instead of attacking their neighbor with silly accusations, had bothered to simply google the reasons for cat roaming, they would probably have found a lot of interesting information. In particular, from experts. “Roaming is a completely normal behavior because, quite simply, cats are curious! They love to keep themselves up to date with their environment and are always on the lookout for anything new. That way, they can make predictions about their safety and territory, and know where to hide if threatened by another cat,” Nicky Trevorrow, behavior manager at Cats Protection, writes in her article on PetPlan. “Some cats have a strong hunting instinct, which means they’ll be keen to find and catch prey, even if they have a bowl of food at home.”
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Most of the people in the comments just cracked up at the hapless cat owners in various ways
As for the commenters to the original post, the opinions here were divided into approximately two equal parts. So half of the people in the comments gave logical and reasonable explanations for why cats roam (roughly similar to what we gave in the paragraph above). But the other half of folks simply cracked up at this situation, excelling in wit about the OP’s neighbors.
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So, according to some commenters, Netflix will soon film this story in a series called Catnappers, while others were just trying to understand what being ‘a cat pervert’ suggests and what it means ‘to harbor a cat’ as well. And some peeps in the comments admitted that they perfectly understand why, having such weird owners, the cat does not want to stay at home at all. By the way, have you, our dear readers, ever had any confrontations with next-door neighbors over your or their pets? If yes, please let us understand your own stories in the remarks listed below.
