Update on neighbour's cat
Hi everyone, this is an update regarding my neighbour's cat. For those who didn't see my previous post, my mum and I feed my neighbour's (allegedly) really hungry cat for the past 3 months or so, and cat is out in all weathers (heatwave we had a few weeks ago, and hail to name a few). We can't let him in due to having a cat of our own who doesn't really like him, but he comes into our house when we don't feed him.
So, we have yet to call RSPCA. The cat isn't out in our garden as frequently as he was now, but still in there a lot. The neighbours have a catflap, which is a shock to me. I don't know why the cat isn't going through it, especially when it rains, but my cat takes a bit to come in even when it rains so what do I know, the difference is we call her in every 5 minutes when it rains but this doesn't seem to be the case for the neighbours and their cat. I've never heard them calling him in for years.
There was an altercation between the neighbour and I whilst we were both in the garden, I told the cat to not go in our house and she very rudely snapped at me to stop fucking feeding him then. I was shocked, to say the least. I can see where she's coming from, but I was not expecting it to be put so rudely. I discussed with my mum, and we are exploring the possibility of maybe us getting it wrong, and the neighbour's cat might just be really greedy and not abandoned. I know what cats are like after all. But since this happened, we have decided to stop feeding him and he is meowing so pitifully at our door and even getting slightly aggressive when we don't feed him (and still coming in our house), this happened whilst we were feeding him before if we were taking so long. If we go outside in our garden and he is there, he weaves around our feet and meows loudly and sadly.
We're really unsure, as the neighbour's words make it seem like the cat was greedy and my mother and I misunderstood, but the cat's actions tell a different story.
Any thoughts?
ETA: I am also aware that meowing sadly can also be because the cat is greedy, after all we feed our cat and two minutes later she's meowing for more food (checked our cat with vet, no health issues causing this, just greedy)