Cats are also quite good at loosing them!
Have ordered it…
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I’m glad. You will surely enjoy.
If you fancy more afterwards, I can recommend all these
One is a bit sad but the classic I Am a Cat by the great Soseki Natsume is sheer genius.
Happy reading!
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Cats do that sort of thing,let him lead the life he wants.It may seem harsh but you will never force the animal to live within your boundaries.One thing is sure and that is that you will fall out with your neighbours which can make life very unpleasant;
A friend in the UK has been on the receiving end of a cat’s affection. Never been encouraged, never fed, but it turns up first thing in the morning and happily comes in and out and sometimes stays for hours. When we are talking on the phone I quite often hear a “chirrup” of greeting in the background.
We had a tabby that made friends with a black kitten that used to visit us. I think about four different households believed they were the “owners”.
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I think you should be entitled to take something belonging to the neighbour in exchange… Perhaps a plant from their garden, their pet dog, their youngest child, etc…
Obviously just make sure to return whatever you take if the cat ever comes back to live with you.
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And if it’s a child, I believe you get the inheritance as well.
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What did they do, if anything?
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It’s good that they have reacted quickly. The situation must be intolerable for you given your allergies. It would be interesting to know the outcome.
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How inconsiderate of your neighbour. Hope it gets resolved quickly.
Welcome to the site.
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And in that case, what will they do? I’d be very slightly disgruntled if it led to eg my cat being put down. Speaking entirely personally, I’d be most slightly disgruntled with the person enticing the cat but I’d still be slightly disgruntled with you, however unfair that might seem.
Edited to remove an offensive term (“angry”).
I’m sure Bee can speak for herself (i.e. I am not trying to speak in her place) but she did refer to the cats as ‘neighbourhood cats’ which to me means strays. So when you say ‘my cat’ these cats are without true owners. With her allergies, Bee should not be expected to tolerate the situation. The authorities deal with strays all the time. I don’t see why Bee should attract anyone’s anger in this situation. She has tried to resolve the problem by addressing the neighbour (without success) and has alerted the authorities as a last resort . . .
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Ah then we aren’t reading from the same hymn sheet - I understood her to mean cats belonging to people in the neighbourhood, which she confirms
I’d be slightly disgruntledwere anything nasty to happen to my cat, or to be obliged to reduce its quality of life by not allowing it outside, because of two neighbours.
Luckily for my cat I live in the the country and my nearest neighbour is several hundred metres away. And nobody is irresponsibly feeding cats.
Edited to remove an offensive term (“angry”).
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I would also be a bit concerned about what a stranger is feeding your cat. Not all food is good. 
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I have resisted in posting thus far but there are two sides of the coin here. I have had cats since we came to France so getting on for 30+ years now and at one time had five in the house. Two were found abandoned, one needed a home after we lost our first siamese and the vet wanted to rehome one, one was the result of first cat getting jiggy with next door’s cat so felt obliged to take a kitten and then my other neighbour found a kitten on the roadside and took it in but she kept coming to me and wanting love as the boxer dogs were making her nervous next door. I had a word with the neighbour about her coming round and she asked if I would like her so I took her in, got her tattooed and neutered and she stayed 14 years with so much love on both sides and with the other cats plus the dog. The welfare of the cat was far more important to all than who belonged to whom. Now on the other side of the coin, if I had a pedigree cat and it went elsewhere that would be a different matter and I would not personally like it so would tend to keep it indoors full time seeing if it settled. You can’t own a cat, they own you! I’d love a Norwegian forest cat but unfortunately having moved with a main road nearby and seeing lovely ginge from next door dead on the road two weekends ago, I won’t put any animals through that danger.
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Most of us on here consider ourselves immigrants, not expats. Good luck getting your cat situation sorted though.
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The main village next to our hamlet has a major cat problem, mainly due to a couple of misguided cat feeders. Lots of feral cats and rather plump domestic cats.
It got to the point where the mayor issued an arrêté that dogs AND cats should be on a lead!!
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Hi Bee, and welcome to the site.
Possibly worth pointing out that Vero is French, and not British, so may have a more ‘local’ take on things.
It sounds to me like you’re trying to manage things through the proper channels in the best way you can. My non-French view is that if people want to claim ownership of something like a cat then they must assume all responsibility for what it does and where it goes.
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If I understand correctly from my vet, these days all cats are supposed to be chipped and if someone is feeding a cat that is not chipped then they become responsible for that cat and must pay to get it chipped. Perhaps someone else can confirm whether or not I’ve got that right.
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That is absolutely true and has been for a couple of years. However, our vet said that less than a third of pet cats had been. As to liabilty for an unchipped cat that has wandered in is concerned, however, I’ve absolutely no idea.
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I lived in a seaside tourist spot for Parisiennes in Bretagne so much so, we used to see them all with their pet cats on fancy leads or harnesses during the summer holidays when they would come to their maison secondaires. My dog couldn’t understand why they weren’t loose for him to chase!
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