I am going to piss off just about every cat owner out there with this article…but I DON’T CARE! I hate your outside cat! Last night, I am sitting with my wife trying to enjoy a nice dinner. Our two Boxers are blissfully playing in our fenced in backyard…did I mention it was fenced in? Ok…just making sure. All of the sudden, my 75 pound male, Hans, is losing his f’in mind. He is barking and running all over the backyard. As I walk outside to see what all of the ruckus is about and to stop him from barking (I am one of those neighbors who KEEPS his dogs from annoying everyone else in the ‘hood), I notice that he is now jumping on the fence that he doesn’t think he can clear! You know…because the reason we have a fenced in backyard is to keep our pets from annoying/bothering/etc. the rest of the neighborhood.
What could be causing all of this mess? An outside cat! Of course! There is a cat on the top of my fence post that is a pet of someone else in the neighborhood, and it is driving my dogs…who are in their own backyard…absolutely crazy. Why on earth do people get a pet and then expect the rest of the world to just put up with it? What makes them think that I wanted a cat as a pet too? I don’t want a cat as a pet. If I wanted a cat, I would have gone out and got one! Instead…YOUR CAT is in MY FENCED IN BACKYARD causing problems! To make matters worse…I am allergic to cats! So you can understand my frustration when your cat wants to call my house home!
When you decide to have a pet, you take that on the responsibility to make sure that your pet does not annoy the rest of the neighborhood. We don’t live in a farm out in the middle of no where that pets can just roam free without causing major problems. We live in a busy neighborhood in the ‘burbs of Atlanta (have to use a little ‘hotlanta lingo every now and then!). You are lucky that I have enough of a conscience that I don’t let my two Boxers eat your cat! Instead…I now have to interrupt my nice dinner by taking the dogs inside and shoo off your “pet” from my backyard.
Now…I know there are a select few dog people out there that make their dogs the top of the world and a very few amount of those let their dogs roam around like they own the place. However, what is it about cat owners that make them think it is ok to let their cats just roam all over the place? Every neighborhood I have ever lived in has had several outside cats that call the entire place home. The madness has to stop! There is no such thing as an outside or inside cat! You got a pet…now act like it!
Not to mention outside cats kill millions of birds every year. I’ve had neighborhood cats hunting at my bird feeders.
My cats stay inside.
@ FarmerG
Great point!
In my last neighborhood, we had some homeowners move and just leave their cats. They became wild and had fights on people’s front porches, kittens in garages and sprayed everything in sight.
I have no problem with people like cats…I just have a HUGE problem with people that expect the rest of the neighborhood to put up with their pets as well.
I hate cats… inside or out. Bunch of leeching good-for-nothing lazy, self-centered animals if you ask me. The outside cats are the worst though… always using sandboxes and playgrounds as their personal litter boxes.
@ Jason
LOL…I completely agree!
Dogs rule!
As a cat owner, I agree with you. I have one neighbor with an ANNOYING outside cat, and I actually let my boxer out anytime I see that pussy in my yard. LUNCH TIME, BUDDY!!!!
It’s not that I mind that he riles up my dog or the neighbors dog that gets to me – I can somewhat tolerate that. No, this bastard has to spray on MY house. You know, there’s nearly nothing that will remove cat piss from lawn chair fabric or wood.
First of all, cats do NOT kill millions of birds. Check Alley Cat Allies, and even the Humane Society site. That number that keeps getting bandied around is a myth. People are responsible for many more bird deaths than cats are.
Second of all, I agree about cats outdoors. I live in a small town in a fairly rural area, and I grew up on a farm with outdoor cats. No problem there. But I rescued three cats from outside (a stray male and two kittens by that male) and feed a semi-feral cat that stays in my own yard in town. (I’m trying to relocate her to a barn.) I’ve had all these cats spayed/neutered and yet the neighbor lets his cat out all hours of the day and night and it ends up sitting on my deck and riling up the poor stray who can’t go outside any more, which made him spray all over the house during the night. The neighbor’s cat even once bit me when I didn’t realize it was in my plants as I was gardening. My little semi-feral behaves herself better than that cat does. I’m up right now at 2:30 a.m. because the neighbor’s cat stuck his head up to look into an open window and got my indoor cat all ticked off. Nearly took the screen off the window.
We have fox, skunk, possum, raccoons frequenting the area. Not good for a cat to be outside at night. People, act responsibly, act like a grownup, and keep your cats indoors…or at least in your own yard!
Oh, and by the way…NO ONE on my street keeps their dog on a leash. Weekly I’ve had to clean dog crap off my DECK, more often from my lawn, and five times in two years I’ve had to replace window screens because a neighbor’s terrier or another neighbor’s black lab tries to get at my indoor cats. I have a worse time with the dogs than I do with the cat. Or even worse with their owners. Their attitude is, live with it. Jerks. Let’s stop pitting dogs vs cats, dog lovers vs cat owners, and try to get people to act responsibly no matter what kind of pet they have.
Now that I have moved from the country in NH to the “City,” I am now plagued with the same outdoor cat virus. Fortunately I have a large yellow lab that thoroughly enjoys chasing cats. I usually wait until two of the neighbors cats are fighting in my fenced in back yard, then I let the Sundance Kid, who’s been frothing and bouncing up and down by the back door, generating enough adrenaline and excitement to fuel a city block, loose on the cats. If he ever caught one, he’d probably lick it to death, but it provides some excitement for him, some umor for me, and usually spurs the neighbors to tell me how mean I am, which opens the door to then explain the finer points of responsible pet ownership.
Not to hijack this with another major annoyance, but what’s with neighbors letting their trees grow over onto your yard, and planting kudzu so that it engulfs your fence and weights down those same trees that block the sunlight in your back yard. I have no trees on my property, and no sunlight, and a branch that is about to fall on my back porch. These tree owners also are the owners of the warring felines.
My sandbox is not a place for your cat to poop. Tomorrow I will poop in your flower garden.
I HATE CATS!!!
I’m an animal lover, but HATE those dam cats. In the neighborhood I live there’s an outside cat that walks around all day and night long. I have NO clue where this cat is from, but he now lives in our neighborhood. He walks around from house to house to get fed and gets on top of the cars and scratches them all up. That dam cat is lucky that he has not been on the hood of my car because if so I would shoot his ass dead!
When I have the front door open to get some fresh air in that dam cat walks inside my house like he owns the joint or lives there. I’m really getting tired of this cat and have started to tourment the cat by chasing he ass away from my house and by leaving a small piece of food loaded with pepper..haha…Take that you dam cat and get the F* away from my house.
I’m ALWAYS finding the dead moles on my driveway this dam cat kills with flies all over them. I sware if I get my hands on this cat it will be the last time anyone from the neighborhood will see him. What makes things worse is that my wife loves cats. But his little ass is mine!
My neighbor also has a cat that he lets walk around the neighborhood like it’s cool. Sometimes I see his cat sleeping on the chairs I have on my porch. It really annoys me. If you are going to own an animal don’t let him walk around the neighborhood annoying everyone else. I have my eyes on him too. Before you know it there will be two cats missing from my neighborhood for good. No more annoying cats walking in my house like they own it or sleeping on the stairs to my door or chairs on my porch.
I don’t care if people bash me for what I just said, but if you don’t like it then keep your dam cats INSIDE! Why should we have to deal with them? If I had a dog I would let him at those dam cats. I’d let those cats walk into my house and close the door behind them so they can’t get out and have my Pincher turn them to meat stew.
I’m going to get those two cats. I promise you all this!
What a dipstick! Seriously! Can you believe this guy?!? He puts pepper in food to feed to a poor, starving stray cat, and he calls himself an “animal lover”…? Sheesh! What else…burning ants with a magnifying glass? Tying cans to dogs tails? Feeding birds alka-selzer? For goodness sake, “CatH8tr,” you’re old enough to have a wife, so you’re certainly old enough to start acting like an adult.
The cat is obviously a stray, looking for a home. Why do you think he’s leaving dead things on your driveway, instead of eating them himself, as hungry as he must be? He’s leaving you presents…he’s trying to make friends with you, the poor guy! Though why he’s seeking YOU out, I have no idea…maybe he’s as dumb as you are, in which case you’d make a perfect team. Instead of trying to off the cat, why not show some compassion to its situation? Maybe he (or she) was dumped in your neighborhood. How long have you lived in your house? Maybe the previous residents of your “joint” moved out, leaving the cat behind, which is why he’s nosing around your house (his old house?), hoping you’ll be his new person.
In any case, your anger is completely misdirected. Instead of targeting your obvious rage at a weak, small, defenseless cat whose only mission in life is to find a good meal, some warm shelter and some human love, you should be raging at idiots like yourself who treat animals like dirt. You should be raging at your neighbors who leave their cats and dogs outside on cold nights; you should be raging at people who take in “pets,” only to leave them behind during a move. You should be raging at people, like yourself, who take their rage out on innocent animals rather than the humans responsible for their condition.
That cat didn’t ask to be born; if a responsible pet owner had spayed the mother, it wouldn’t even exist. That cat didn’t ask to be alone on its own, a stray, dumped or otherwise abandoned. It is trying to BEFRIEND you, you stupid Darwinian mutant, and you’re furious because it’s invading your territory. Who is the REAL “animal” here?
If it’s out of the realm of possibility for you to take the cat in and make him your buddy, then perhaps it’s not too much to ask for you to set a humane have-a-heart trap and take him to the nearest animal shelter so that someone with a warmer heart than yours can adopt him? He’d have to be in a cage for awhile, but at least he’d be warm and safe and fed healthy food, minus the pepper, and be around people who will pet him and love him until the poor baby can find his new home.
Shame on you, cat hater…shame, shame, shame.
I cannot believe all the hate hate hate WHY DONT ALL OF YOU EVIL SPIRITED PEOPLE ASK YOUR GOD THAT YOU GO TO PRAY TO EVERY SUNDAY WHY THE HECK HE DARED TO MAKE CATS WITHOUT YOUR STUPID FREAKING PERMISSION? THE HATERS LACK OF COMPASSION, YOU KNOW COMPASSION? THAT FEELING OF BEING KIND? TO ALL CREATURES YOUR GOD MADE? Stupid stupid haters!
Yesterday I left the top off the sand box and as I was walking by the french door I saw a cat leaving a nice surprise inside. I had to clean to whole sand box with bleach and buy new sand. Guess that is life.
I absolutely HATE outside cats! Whenever one passes by our house, our inside dog starts barking for about 20 minutes since those cats scratch on the doors, swim in our pools, and eat our plants!
What world is this?
I collect and restore cars…i have no pets…but i have hit many cats, dogs and birds with all 6 of my cars and never look back. so i sudgest to ALL of you dog and cat-people to keep your smelly pets inside. otherwise car and truck-people will turn them into PIZZA.
I LOVE YOUR POST, i fucking hate outside cats too there is about 4- 5 around my block and my boxer Bruno goes nuts whenever they dash through the yard or he finds one somewere in the yard…… and Itsl ike wtf if my dog has to stay in a fenced in yard keep your fuckin cat inside or on a leash….
Nice post btw !!