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It strikes me there would just be no issue if people didn't feed other people's cats! The prevailing attitude seems to be "tough luck, that's what cats are like" but if they weren't getting fed by strangers there would be no issue. Not one person has said, "yeah, good point, I will stop feeding somebody else's moggy". A pal of mine out a collar on her cat with a tag that did "do not feed me" but it carried on. She went and knocked on the door of the feeders, who became indignant and told him to bugger off. They basically thought that because they fed the cat, they had some kind of ownership. It ended in a punch up. Yet that "ownership" conveniently doesn't extend to vet bills, surgery, cattery bills, microchipping, spaying, etc, etc, does it? I love cats and have at least six that come through my garden every day, yet I don't feed any of them. It strikes me as a basic courtesy to respect other pet owners. Basically, feeding other people's cats naffs off their owners, so if you are doing it, you are doing it for entirely selfish reasons. The cat won't go hungry, as it will just go home and eat.

Cat is defo not skinny... Black and white.

I wanted to take a temperature test on this thorny topic, as I have several neighbours who feed my cat and it is driving me bonkers! He was catnapped last summer, missing for six weeks, and only surfaced when a neighbour (on my road) took him to the RSPCA in Camberwell to have him checked up. Then the microchip scan meant her game was up, and we got him back. She had made him her house cat, which struck me as mean and selfish. Despite a poster campaign, door knocking, distraught toddler, etc. Cats, being the "slappers" of the pet kingdom, will go where they are pampered. You can't blame them. I probably would, too. I have to confess to installing a GPS collar on him, and I tracked his movements like a suspicious lover. Call me sad, but if he went missing again, I wanted to know where he was shacked up. Of course, the collar stayed on for three days before it was lost, but it did give me enough time to draw up a list of flop houses he frequents. Things came to a head last week when a fella in the garden behind started shouting our cat's name and rattling a box of biscuits. I felt like fronting him out, but, being British and ostensibly a coward, I went and made a cuppa and moaned to the wife about it, instead. On the one hand, maybe I should relax: the moggy seems happy, and I am saving money on cat food. On the other hand, nobody would feed somebody else's dog, would they? And I think feeders need to understand that when the cat stays out overnight, or even for several days, as has happened since, it causes great distress to others, especially young children, who don't understand. Any other experiences of this out there? Advice?

Yes, Fox, a sort of P.N.A test..?

Drawing up a rota of people to sit and wait for somebody to drop off bottles of urine (or not) might be quite the whackiest comment ever placed on this forum. Which is saying something. I can see the wife's face now...

Agreed. The "chaos" in question makes me yearn for a quiet life on the Syrian border...

Fox, we bow to your superior wisdom. I think...

And on the day the Turner Prize features a nominee making sculptures out of turds... Coincidence? Or next year's Turner, with all our comments on a giant screen behind a central display of piss bottles?

Maybe a POW photo lab is in a basement somewhere on Melbourne Grove? It's as credible a theory as any offered thus far...

I heard a particularly vicious focaccia was brandished in anger in the ED Deli, as two mums tugged over the last rosemary and garlic infused item. Does that count?

Is it too early to lunge for the gin bottle?

Healey: as it's about the umpteenth time Fox has posted on the topic (though he/she claims we shouldn't be giving them any attention) it seems he/she has been giving it an awful lot of microanalysis. Those long winter evenings must fly by chez Fox...

As for keeping warm in the winter/while smoking, I suspect a gaggle of disgruntled former regulars may well go and torch the place when they hear of the ?4 scotch eggs...

Why don't you guys put all this indignation to good use and attend your next local Neighbourhood Watch meeting? You could vent your frustrations in a supportive arena, actively contribute something positive to our communities, we'd have more cohesive streets and, hopefully, less crime. Thomas who organizes ours is a good egg, and the local cops who attend are really nice fellas. The next one is 23rd May @ 19.30 at Goose Green community centre. As a resident of Oakhurst Grove, I'll be there. BTW, I am "guilty" of occasionally holding a parking spot outside my house as my wife has fused vertebrae after childbirth and finds lugging a toddler and shopping painful. It can also be dangerous, as he legs it off and into the road, and she can't always chase him, which is really scary as cars tear down this back street at 50mph some times. So, please think before calling people "twonks" and all the rest of it, it's a bit hurtful, and my actions really were not designed to offend. But I shall stop it now, as I just had no idea how angry it made folk. You live and learn. I used to live in Tower Hamlets, guess I brought a few bad habits along, sorry!!! Consider myself well and truly told off. :-$ Let's all try and get on!

"There's not one bloke creating that much piss, it's at least 5 of them who probably run a business." So there's a market for bottling and selling the stuff? I'd love to see the Dragon's Den pitch, esp as they passed around a 'sample'...::o

I can imagine the scene in magistrates': "Yes, m'lud, I set up my webcam overlooking the main road not to film local girls, but to attempt to ensnare a local miscreant who we believe, but have no proof, to be a cab driver. "He routinely drops bottles of urine off outside strangers' houses, sometimes by the carrier bag full, and has been doing piss-istently for several months now". You'd get laughed out of court!

With this many people making this many posts, it seems inconceivable that the culprit hasn't been spotted in the act... I'd like a troll-style public shaming when they're finally nicked!

A folk night is way too populist. Why not run a cask ale night for one-legged, albino transsexuals instead? You might even get more customers...

Folk pub? Let's rename it The Herod, aka drowned at birth.

Judging by the exterior, I heartily predict it will be another generic ED pub that does pretty much the same as the rest. Wowzers. If only somebody around here could push the envelope, offer an alternative to the safe/vanilla stodge we're constantly served up. I see younger/trendier folk coming here by the week, which I welcome, that's progress, so where is the intelligent pub to reflect that? Great Exzzzzzzzzibition it ain't.

How can you "misrepresent somebody's character" when he/she isn't represented or identified anywhere on here or elsewhere? Likewise, where is the "vicious bullying"? How can you bully, "persistently target" or "gleefully vilify" somebody who isn't named/identified or even involved in this thread in any way? I'm getting off this tedious thread, it's gone way too Rumpole of the Bailey. No, make that Hyacinth Bucket... Why don't you just all go to the CPT - remember what this thread was once about? - have a drink together, kiss and make up.>:D<

people here are treating them like Banksy Last time I will post on the subject. Fox No, unless I'm mistaken, most people here are treating him/her like a prat who pisses in bottles in a mildly disgusting/perplexing manner, and it happens to be amusing to post about. Banksy? Sounds like you're the one elevating urine to art. Maybe get a job on the Turner Prize judging panel?

Foxy, the bottles were there long before this thread made it to EDF...

benmorg Wrote: > Because it's a quiet spot on a route he does every > day, maybe on the way home or back to the minicab > firm. He doesn't want to take the indoors so > leaves them on the street. I just don't buy that as a theory. You've been watching too much Piss Marple...

Or worse, a catheter? :'(