I recently got my first home a year ago and had I known that one of the neighbours on my row had 9 cats I wouldn't have bought the house.

There's been a lot of cat-related issues in the past year (on top of my own health issues - I was recovering from surgery when I moved in) and it's been hell trying to keep her cats and stray cats out of my garden

In a nutshell, I do not want to be picking up their business, seeing them in my garden or walking across the top of my garden fence like on a tightrope anymore and I do not want to be subjected to the sounds they make when mating/SA'ing each other (which I and the other neighbours were subjected to for months over the summer and I am a very light sleeper - it would start at 3/4am and go on for hours and I had to resort to wearing earplugs in my own home to accommodate for animals that aren't mine. I have also been unable to enjoy my garden or buy any furniture, plants ornaments for it as other neighbours told me they spent loads in the past on their gardens, only for catwoman's cats to crap and pee all over ornaments etc and generally be destructive.

I dont understand how anyone could have the brass neck to be so selfish having 9 outdoor cats that they know are encroaching on other people's private property and peace.

I have had a few words with catwoman and she has offered to help me figure out if it's her cats or the stray ones in my garden if I get a camera set up but just wondering if anyone else has had a similar situation and what things have worked as permanent deterrents to keep the cats out altogether?

I am thinking of getting some plastic spikes for my fence and walls and an ultrasonic scarer to plug into the outdoor mains. For now, I keep spraying them in the face with water until they leave my garden. The final straw for me the other day was when I found a dead mouse in my garden - they're not even my animals and I don't have any pets! Crazy!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🤍

Seriously, the cult like attitude I find online is ridiculous. I'm really glad there's a sub like this with like minded people that are sick of cats and cat freaks clogging up bandwidth.

(This post is written facetiously from "Reddit's" point of view.)

"Oh, I know what you would love... How about a sub about THIS breed of boxshitter! No? What about THAT breed of boxshitter?

"Still no? Well, then, how about a subreddit devoted entirely to boxshitters laying their filthy selves in this type of kitchenware? Oh, absolutely not? Then, what about boxshitters in this OTHER type of cooking vessel?

"No, wait, I've got it! What you really want is this sub that orbits photos of close-ups of this one type of boxshitter body part when it's a specific color! Okay, well what about this different body part of a different specific color? What about all these photos of them opening their nasty maws? Or their tongues? Don't you wanna see those 'teefies' sink into everything ever? Why are you gagging at the word 'teefies' now?

"Nope? Not even this entire community dedicated to these two specific tufts of fur that occur on this hyperspecific part of boxshitters? How are you even a person?

"What do you mean you don't want to see every single boxshitter in the world that some rando has decided to name Bingledybob? Okay fine. But at LEAST check out every boxshitter in the world that some rando decided to name Bangledybob..."

Like STOP SENDING THESE TO ME I DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT CATS lol
Every video is about cat being a total moron or acting insane i’m tired of it. I do not think cats are cute and basically everyone that I know is obsessed with them.

This is post argument with my gf. I’ve posted about this before but I just don’t get it!
Recently her cat has “claimed me as his favourite” and this has made her very jealous. I DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS!Even though I don’t care for this creature living in my home I’m not a cruel person so yes I spend time with him and play with him.. the problem is now somehow I’m the one always cleaning up after him, trying to train him to not jump on the counters with his shit paws, vacuuming constantly cause he sheds like crazy and feeding him because nothing seems to bother my gf.
HES NOT MY CAT SO HOW HAS THIS BECOME MY RESPONSIBILITY. She hardly spends time with him so no shit he likes me more. We moved in together only a few months ago (she had him 5 years prior) and after that short time I’m his favourite?
She claims she “can’t live without him” but YOU DO LIVE WITHOUT HIM! I swear people just get cats because they are “cute” and “low maintenance” but don’t actually want the responsibility.
Anyone here with more sense than me thinking about moving in with their partner and cat. DON’T!

Normally I think baby animals are absolutely adorable. I melt in happy when looking at baby animals. However, I think adult cats are better to look at than kittens. Just wondering if I'm the only one who thinks kittens are kind of ugly. Maybe it's their weird eyes? People will post kittens all over for free and people talk about how cute they are and I just feel like I'm looking at rats.

Why don't cat owners recognize the absolute stench these creatures create? You can invest in the absolute top of the line litter box, fill it with great litter, clean it consistently, and these things will still reek. And that's WHEN they use the litter box in the first place! It's so common for them to piss in corners, on sheets, on clothes. I've come home several times to the apartment just smelling like absolute shit because my fiance's cat decided to poop outside his clean litter box. I can't wait to get rid of that animal. These vile creatures make for awful pets and people who love them are sick.

I saw a TikTok video of a girl from the Southeast Asia who have around 8 cats and 4 other pets. She is far from rich, not even middle class, her house doesn’t have a proper roof and her ceiling leaks every time it rains.

I dont understand what pushed her to adopt that many animals when her circumstances are already not that good? Her house doesn’t have proper flooring, it’s small, and believe me, it’s far from the houses you typically see in suburban neighborhoods in first world countries.

What is the thought process here? Your cats will not help your situation. In fact, they can make it worse. One of her cats got sick and she had to go on live until 2am while selling candy on the streets just so she could afford her cat’s medical bills. Do you know how dangerous that is for a young girl to do in Southeast Asia? I believe she’s still a student so she only takes part time jobs too.

Like why? Isn’t it a bit irresponsible to adopt those cats when you can barely scrape by? Those cats don’t care about you. They will leave you the second they find an owner that gives them more food and a better home!

The effort she exerts for her ungrateful cats, she could easily just do it for herself to help make her life at least a little bit more comfortable. Imagine living in a small, shitty house and living with 8 cats and 4 more pets that you have to feed and pick up after. Youre already poor, why not prioritize yourself and rehome them??

Note: I dont want to mention the exact country as there is a chance that she may get recognized. I dont want to dox her, so I will not mention her account name either.

There are multiple videos online explaining how selfish and even dangerous some people who hate cats are because the “real reason” we hate cats is because we want discipline from creatures and we can’t take boundaries, we always expect stuff in return etc etc

no

They’re effing smelly and disgusting. My husbands cat shits 3 times a day and even when it pisses, the whole apartment smells really bad. Even the clean cat litter is terrible smelling imo. Also there’s bits of litter at random places around the house that makes me gag. We have that stupid cat carpet in front of the litter like it makes a difference.

I also hate how people are letting their cats outside like they’re not invasive and annoying. There was a gang of cats where I used to live as a teenager that always started whining, meowing, annoying the shi out of me at 3am and the garden was always full of dead birds. They don’t even eat them, cuz obviously they get fed, they just kill wildlife for fun.

I don’t understand how cats are good pets. They’re up all night, being noisy, they smell very strong, and believe it or I’d be happier if they had even more boundaries. But also what about my boundaries? Stop coming up to me, ruining my jeans and touching me. Fucking jumping on the furniture brother ewww

#myautismishaveigntheworsttime

And I'm tired of pretending like they do.

When a person gets a pet, usually they're aware of how long the pet is going to live. As a hamster owner, you're mentally prepared that it's most likely not going to see more than the next 2 years, so you'll try to give it the best life possible for that time.

But, a cat can live 16-18 years, if not more. Wouldn't someone who simply loves them so much want them to reach that age so they can be together for as long as possible? So why is it that these cat owners, who love them so dearly, most of the time just let them roam outside, where every day is a gamble, where every single person, animal, vehicle, weather issue etc is a threat to their livelihood, where they could literally die a brutal death every single day? How do you claim to love a pet so much but you're risking their life and not protecting them to your fullest - every single day?

And then when Fluffy is inevitably hit by a car or gets mauled by another beast, as these cats usually never make it past 10 on a good day, let alone reach old age, they cry and sob and talk about how they lost their soul animal. Your stupid animal would still be alive had you simply not opened the door for them to go get killed. There has to be a brain disconnect there somewhere.

I can't comprehend why a human would want or allow a cat or cats to shit and piss in a box in their home. What the fuck?

I’ve been obsessed with cats lately and wanted one but realized that they would quickly piss me off to no end since they are untrainable animals with no sense of loyalty, except when you feed them.

That turns into them expecting a meal everyday, while also treating your stuff like it’s expendable.

the cat had surgery and ripped it’s stitches open over 6 times somehow even with a cone on and it’s costing so much money. giving it medication to chill the fuck out is near impossible. i know this is horrible but the cat is elderly i cant wait to never have to deal with a cat ever again

I wish the sub would allow images because I don’t know if my words can do this justice

Anyways my friend messaged me “ (name) I just scratched someone’s car and now they’re pissed at me 💔💔💔” followed up with a close up photo of a cat with a oops speech bubble and like a cartoon sweat drop that I guess was intended to be silly?

You could probably brush it off as irony but coming from someone that knows the guy I just KNOW he was not being ironic.

And it’s either that, or when you say you don’t like cats and simply express your own preferences:

Cat people:
“People who choose __ over cats have clearly never had a cat.”
“Anyone who doesn’t like or prefer cats just hasn’t experienced owning one yet.”
“People who say __ is better have definitely never owned a cat.”

Bro are we fr 🫩. Holy cope and control issues.

Maybe some people just aren’t fucking cat people and genuinely don’t like cats. And actually, some of us have owned cats and still don’t like them. But genuinely, who tf cares. You don’t need to have a million reasons to dislike cats or not be a cat person.

Not everyone has to prefer cats, and cats only. That also doesn’t mean they’re missing out on anything, settling for less, or that they’ve made objectively wrong choices. The world will survive someone not wanting a cat or being a cat person, I promise. 😭

Also, I can assure you that having a cat doesn’t guarantee you’ll suddenly become some die-hard cat person or, as cat people seem to believe, “convert” after completing the sacred journey of enlightenment where you finally discover that cats are apparently the most “amazing” and “superior” creatures on earth.

Sorry, but sometimes the enlightenment backfires and you just end up liking cats even less. Take me, for example, I owned a cat once, somehow came out of the experience even less convinced, and will absolutely never own one again.

1. Their natural, instinctive behaviors and the entirety of caring for them are gross and unsanitary. Completely incompatible with me.
2. They don’t gaf about anyone’s boundaries except their own.
3. Their natural temperaments are all pretty much the same, and they’re insufferable. They switch between their multiple personalities every five minutes, scratching and nipping if you breathe the wrong way. They’re unpredictable, unstable, intolerant, and narcissistic all at once.

Having owned a cat before is literally one of the reasons why I ended up disliking cats.

So I moved in with my fiance around a year ago. I knew they had a cat when I moved in and had met the cat, but at the time I didn't actually hate the little vermin. In fact if you would have asked at the time, I would have said I at least liked cats. Since I moved in and actually got to know the little monster, I've had a shift of heart. I've been scratched, bit, screamed at, had my clothes pissed on, and generally just had my entire quality of life upended. Having grown up with golden retrievers that are well trained, this just was completely unacceptable. So, I started to train the overgrown rat.

I started by banning him from the bedroom. He now sleeps outside on his own and our door stays closed at all times of the day. No more bed for the shit paw freak. If he screams at all we make a loud sound, say no and promptly toss him away. We don't have any issues with him even trying to get in at this point and my fiance has mentioned how nice it is to have a pet free room. That made me realize, yeah it is really nice not to have him in the room. So I moved on to phase 2. When I go into a room he's in, I toss him out of it. If he tries to come back in, I make a loud noise and scare him out. At this point, if he sees me walk in to whatever room he's in, he just slinks out. I haven't been screamed at once making dinner in the past five months because he just avoids me and my fiance has commented how "calm" he's became.

Is he bearable now? No not even slightly. I'm slowly building my case for how nice it is not to have this disgusting and vile creature in our apartment. So far my fiance is on board and I can't wait for the day he goes to the shelter and I don't have to see, smell, or hear him ever again. In fact just last week my fiance asked if maybe he was too much work for us to deal with! Victory feels so close...

It all starts with kindness and empathy. He loves nature and can't stand watching any animals suffer. He has always fed strays, but when he bought this new house with my mom, thankfully there were no strays here. Eventually he took up the hobby of feeding the birds and the squirrels. It was cute at first, for about a year. His idea of feeding the birds isnt simply putting out bird feeders, he leaves PILES of bird seed all over the yard that inevitably become moldy. Do you see where this is going yet?

Birds eat bird seed, and cats eat birds. Skipping over the omen of the bear in the yard, fast forward 5 years and of course cats have been baited here. This led to a year long struggle of my mom trying to keep the cats fed and warm all winter, until this spring a Coyote showed up. The cat had a litter and the Coyote ate the mom and some of the kittens. I was the one who actually chased off the Coyote.

So here I am writing this, unfortunately im stuck here, now we have 6 captive ferals in the house. Its been months. We now have a flea infestation and my allegies are driving me insane.. They are disgusting and my mom is too old for this shit. Cats take advantage of our kindness and empathy and leave us stressed, dirty, and worse off.

Don't let your parents feed the birds!

video starts as a regular random tiktok video, then immediately cuts to a close up of an ugly cat laying down, and theres a Gofundme link on the posters page, asking for donations. I am actually disgusted by seeing the close up of that things face, really disgusted. what was it that these toxo zombies keep telling us? "Ignore cats if you dont like them"? How do i ignore when I keep seeing the ugliest and filthiest abominations hidden in normal videos. and they get donations? wow. these people get thousands of dollars in donations just for these shit rats.

Three separate, highly upvoted posts in my city sub for the same missing indoor/outdoor cat within a week. Third post was an announcement that it was hit by a car and died.

All the support this person got was disturbing. So many people sharing how their 'best friend' was also killed by a car because the owner let them out in the first place. Sometimes multiple cats of the same owner met the same fate. How can you claim to care about an animal so much and then continue to feed them to a highway? It all just seems so performative for them to even have a pet in the first place in light of that.

And all the people rooting on this type of ownership and deluding themselves that the cat's final moments were somehow peaceful.

Not to mention it's illegal to even let pets free roam around here.

At least the top comment was saying keep them inside...

Im not saying my ex girlfriends cat was the entire reason our relationship ended, but it played a huge part. She will be moving out of the apartment in a couple of weeks and while I can say I will miss her, I am quite excited to not live with a cat anymore. Its been long enough I cant even imagine what it will be like to be able to sleep without getting woken up constantly, and not have the entire place smell like shit.

The concept of a litter box is just absolutely disgusting to me. I thought I could handle it when we moved in together, but it is absolutely abhorrent. Living with a cat has made my life at home miserable.

I absolutely cant stand that cat owners act as if their place does not smell. That was always a common argument between us. I dont care how many times you scoop the litter, or how many candles you light, if you have a cat in the home it will smell like absolute shit 24/7. Not to mention the constant begging for food and endless hair everywhere.

Sorry just needed to rant lol.

I was stopped at a traffic light today, and FOUR cars around me had cat stickers—one of them even had a cat taking up almost half the rear window. These nuts would rather put themselves in danger on the road than give up their symbol of worship for those toxoplasma freaks. And honestly, more than half of all car stickers (excluding "Baby on Board" though that is a whole other topic not meant for this subreddit) are just damn cats. They always say, "If cat content on the internet annoys you, just stay off the internet." Okay, so I took that advice: I logged off and drove to a national park to soothe my "frayed from not having a cat at home" nerves. And what do I see? This whole situation is really starting to get to me; it’s like a religious cult. it’s actually scary.

There, I said it. Cats are everywhere, and it’s annoying 🫩. I hate how they’re treated like some niche, underground interest when they’re one of the most overrepresented animals in pop culture. Like, we get it. Cats exist. Apparently we need to put one on absolutely everything just to make sure nobody forgets.

And I’m not talking about cats simply being one of the most popular and basic pets. I mean the constant use of cats as an aesthetic, imagery, and personality trait everywhere you look.

This whole concept of cats being some unique aesthetic has been run into the ground. They’re used in art, music, movies, shows, anime, memes, fashion, album covers, merch, video games, comics/graphic novels, MVs, group concepts, and literally fucking everywhere, ESPECIALLY IN POP CULTURE AND MEDIA.

At this point, slapping a cat onto something isn’t making it quirky, alternative, or appealing anymore. It’s just another cat. Another cat design. Another cat-themed product. Another cat character. Another person making cats their entire personality. Like wow, another cat. How groundbreaking! 😭

Why does everything have to be catified or cat themed? It’s like people think turning something into a cat or adding cat imagery automatically makes it cooler, cuter, quirkier, or more appealing. Except, it doesn’t. We’ve fucking seen it already.

It’s gotten to the point where, if you make cats your entire personality and aesthetic, I’m just going to assume you’re basic asf and an NPC, if you will. Just another sheep following the same tired trend everyone else is doing. Copy and paste.

Whenever I hear or see the words “kitty!” or “kitties!” I internally cringe. Sorry not sorry.

The constant recycling of the same cat imagery, paired with the whole “omg cats are so niche and quirky” act, has gotten so overdone that it barely feels interesting anymore. At this point, it’s not making you stand out. It’s making you blend in with everyone else doing the exact same thing.

It’s like “alt” isn’t even alt anymore.

And sorry, but all domestic cats look the fucking same to me. 😭

It’s all honestly just giving “boring, yawning, sloppy, lazy!” And cheap. In other words, it’s just so overused and tired. Cats are basically the “Live, Laugh, Love” of pop culture and the stock images and clip art of the internet. The repetitive use of cats is worse than the bean mouth syndrome. The constant catification of everything has become a cultural infestation at this point.

Backstory: I live with my sister and mom we never had a cat because my dad before he passed never allowed them. About a year ago my sister brought home a small baby cat she found on the street she did not ask me or mom if she can keep it it was just obvious to her. My mom was not excited about it but she has no backbone so she didnt say anything. Since then my life has been hell. She is almost never home. When she is she doesn't play with her which makes the cat yell and meow like she is being tortured ALL day i feel like even the cat hates being here and wants to go back out. Running around knocking shit up. Going on counters and the dining table. Its nasty. The whole apartment smells like shit from her litter. She ruined our curtains so we had to take them off. Our sofa looks horrid. Same with the carpet she scratches. When i'm home and mom is at work i cant focus on anything with her yelling when u try to pet her she just runs away or bites your hand. I try playing with her to shut her up and she is not interested in any toy. I'm exhausted and looking for apartments to move but it problably wont happen for another year. Sometimes i get so angry and tired and just wanna take the devil back outside. If i express this to my sister she just says im cruel and a psychopath that hates animals. I really dont know what to do anymore i try to spend my time out as much as i can so i dont go crazy.