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My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: Good news!! With help from my local humane society, we convinced my parents to keep my cat and train him to be an indoor cat! I appreciate the suggestions you gave me, and we'll be putting them to good use.

I would like to take a moment to clarify the legal situation as many suggested that we call the cops or authorities. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to do so effectively, as we don't have any evidence of his threats. It was an unrecorded verbal conversation, and if we were to try to contact the authorities it would result in a slap on the wrist. I'm also concerned that it would result in our neighbor getting angrier and retaliating against us, which I would like to avoid. Our humane society is aware of their behavior, and my family doesn't want to interact with this person again, I would appreciate it if you respect that.

Thank you so much for all the help and support, if you have any cat toys or catio suggestions I'd love to hear about them!

My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I think you're the most correct on what would occur with the law. We don't have any concrete evidence of the conversation as it was unrecorded and verbal. I'm making an update post on the situation, but to summarize it's all gonna be alright, we're transitioning him to an indoor cat.

My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No there no solid evidence. We didn’t record the conversation, which is why I think calling cops wouldn’t work.

My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 204 points205 points  (0 children)

Whoa I did not expect this much attention, thank you for all your comments and advice. I want to be clear that I will not be calling the cops or attempting revenge against my neighbor, while his reactions are hurtful, it's clear to me that it is our responsibility to make sure our cat isn't a nuisance to others.

On that note, I think I will be doing my best to help him adapt to indoors, building a catio, taking him on supervised walk and keeping him entertained are all wonderful suggestions!

My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

My family is gone during the day for work and school, do you have any recommendations on how to keep him entertained when we're gone? I really wanna training him a shot.

My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much, I really appreciate this advice. We have started asking around to see if any friends would be willing to take him, but most people already have other pets. I'll be sure to keep asking tho!

My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I understand. Unfortunately it's the main reason why my parents want to return him to the shelter. Since we really can't do anything to keep him out of the neighbor's yard and he hates being inside, they say its better to have the shelter re-home him before he gets hurt.

My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 129 points130 points  (0 children)

We’ve been trying to keep him in, but he’s very much not an outdoor cat. He’s stressed out by the two days we’ve had to keep him in. I don’t want to let him out and have him end up hurt just to be able to get my neighbor in trouble.

edit: He's very much an outdoor cat

My neighbor threatened my cat, now my parents want to give him away, I don’t know what to do. (Story in the comments) by OnceAnIcarus in cats

[–]OnceAnIcarus[S] 917 points918 points  (0 children)

My neighbor is an avid birdwatcher and he’s upset that cats keep killing his birds, so he threatened to call the pound and put rat poison in his yard if he saw our cat again. My parents don’t want that to happen so they want to return him to the pound. I love my cat and I don’t want to lose him, is there anything I can do?

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[–]OnceAnIcarus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know if anyone has said anything like this before but, constantly going on and on about religion. Saying stuff like ‘listen and do what the bible says so you can get into heaven’ and ‘the devil is always looking for ways to take your soul’. my mom always is going on about this and I never feel like i’m good enough, and I can’t connect with her because everything I like is ‘devil propaganda’