O/T: has anyone ever had a cat scratch at their window?
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O/T: has anyone ever had a cat scratch at their window?
Submitted by Clovis Boo Flyn... on April 21, 2010 - 12:31amOver a year ago, I started feeding a momma cat and her five kittens who live in a wooded area next to a public school. The school is sort of tucked into our subdivision. It has a very large recreational field, bigger than a football field. There are about 10 houses that back up on each of three sides of the school's recreation field (the other side is where the school is, and it faces a public street that borders one side of our subdivision).
This morning, one neighbor who lives in one of the houses that backs up to the field stopped as I was driving home. In an ugly tone of voice, she asked me if I was the one who feeds the cats. She claims they make a lot of noise while mating in her back yard (that's b.s., all of the cats have been spayed and neutered and there haven't been any kittens around the school for over a year and a half). Her biggest complaint by far, tho, was her claim that the cats scare her in the middle of the night because they come to her bedroom window and scratch on it (her husband left her a couple of years ago, so he's not around to make her less scared). I am doubtful about the latter. I have had cats around for about 25 years and have never once seen a cat scratching at a window. For one thing, they would tear the screens if they did (everyone here has screens on their windows since this is mosquito country).
Then the woman started getting on my case about feeding the cats, telling me I have to stop doing so. I politely responded that I wasn't going to let them starve. She then kept saying over and over that "this is a problem" and something will need to be done. I suggested she get a dog, but she coldly replied that she doesn't like cats or dogs. I tried explaining to her that the cats do a good thing for her because if they are hanging around in her back yard at night, they are keeping mice, rats, and squirrels away. But it fell on deaf ears.
Anyhow, at a minimum, I suspect she is going to call the police, but more likely she is going to try to have the cats killed. If a police officer comes knocking, I want to be ready to respond to his or her questions about the complaint that the cats are scratching at the woman's bedroom window in the middle of the night. I checked with other neighbors whose houses back up to the school's recreation field and they all said they have never heard any such thing. I somehow doubt the cats would just do that at one particular house, assuming they even do such a thing. Also, the cats are very well fed, so they are not running around at night begging for food.
So, have any of you ever heard or seen a cat scratching at a screened window? This woman has seriously damaged my peace of mind since I will now worry every night if she is doing something to kill them, such as putting antifreeze on her back porch. 
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When I asked her what color were the cats in her yard, she could
and you are right, there are several people whose homes back up to the school who have cats that are allowed outside. I regularly see those cats in the recreational field.
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Wow, what a nasty human being
no wonder she is alone in life.
Hoping that the cats won't fall for her lures,
Lynn King CPDT
you better tell her neighbors to watch out for their cats
because it sounds like only people friendly cats scratch on windows and if there really IS a cat scratching on hers it's probably someones pet and not the feral oens at all.
Cathy
when she first came home
No, she would definitely have them killed if they did that
plus these are feral cats, I doubt they could be trained to do anything.
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I agree, even if other cats would, I doubt these do because they
people. Only one of them will come even close to me, despite the fact that I have fed them for well over a year. If they see another human being coming into the field at a distance of 100 yards away or more, they all take off running into the woods, even if I am near them and trying to soothe them. They are extremely people adverse. I just don't believe they would go into that small, fenced-in backyard and get that close to people. Especially when the house next door has been empty and unsold for over a year. Plus it has a back porch where they could get out of the rain (tho the school also has a lot of places where they can go to get out of the rain). I think the woman simply hates animals, or at least cats, and wants to do something to them.
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No, she is way too young, and is obsessed with getting her husba
many of the women on our street do not like her, possibly because she is very, very attractive, but I suspect more so because of her personality. Her husband was a real nice guy. When I would walk Boo or Clovis in front of their house back when they were still married, he would often come over and pet them and ask me about them. More than once I heard him say he wished he could have a dog. I never asked why he couldn't but now think it was because of his wife. Their split stirred up a lot of talk around the neighborhood because the husband did not leave her for a younger, more beautiful woman. The woman is actually older than his now ex-wife and not as pretty. But I suspect she has a much nicer personality.
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She made it very clear that she does not like animals, the cats
at 11 pm last night, her garage door was still open. That door is almost never open, not even in the day time. One of her complaints was that the cats were coming into her garage. So I suspect she left the door open on purpose and probably left something poisonous in it.
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gary- teach the cats to ring her bell then
one of our cats did this, he would jump up on the window sill at the front door window and ring untill we let him in, would love to see her face if the cat did this. lol
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Good answer Lynn:-) Yes, tell her is is some
maniac guy trying to get into her home. That'll shut her up or make her move, one or the other. No, that isn't nice. But I agree she has too much time on her hands.
Could it be she is trying to actually open a door of communication with you Gary? I don't mean that in a bad way, just wonder if she maybe just needs a friend. A REAL FRIEND. Not a wink wink friend.
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MY house cat has..but. not sure a wild cat would do that.....
MOST wild cats are pretty private and wild.
MOST you can not get close enough to them..let alone scatching on your window
the screens would for sure be damaged big time..
I adopted a wild cat..for my mice here..and it took time to get her to come around...and only in the last while has she knocked on doors to go out and such and back in..that is a year later..
doubt a wild cat would do that Gary.
She sounds like a very unhappy lady, I hope she does not do anyt
harm the kitties.
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oh yes, i have seen them scratch at the door like a dog
and howl at a window to be let in. My neighbors cat bugged us by his awful howl for 20yrs. Now he is gone, and we had kittens born in our family the day he died. 1 kitten looked just like him, so he was given to my neighbors, the new kitten does the same exact things.
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Yes, they do & Julia your answer made me remember...
When I was a kid maybe 8 yrs old, I found a kitty in our neighborhood & brought it home The main thing Boots wanted to do was hang on our screens & screech in our windows. My Dad didn't care for that at all & wasn't happy that I'd dragged a stray cat home. Boots then began to hang on the neighbors' screens & yowl in their windows too. Lots of complaints! It seems the whole neighborhood was in an uproar over my screen destroying cat. One day I was told that Boots had run away. I hunted for him for weeks. It wasn't until years later that my parents told me they'd taken Boots to the Humane Society. Hopefully he was adopted out to someone kind.
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Lol, would love to convince her it's ghosts
maybe she would then put her house up for sale right away. Her screens are not torn, which is another reason I doubt her.
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Yes!
we had a stray cat show up on our front porch, it was so skinny and scrawny we fed it for a bit. It started scratching every single window on the lower floor of our house, and it would HANG from all fours on the screens. Drove the dogs insane and tore the screens to shreds. That cat just disapeared and never came back one day, but oh yes did it scratch the screens! If those cats ARE scratching at that old lady's windows, there will be damage to the screens.
Cathy
when she first came home
The only cats I have known to scratch at windows
are the ones that live in the house they are scratching at or the ones that know a person lives there that wants to take care of them. They would never scratch at a window of a bitty that doesn't like animals, they know better.
I'm with Lynn, tell her its the ghost lol that will get her off the cats backs
I would guess that if the cat was really scratching
at her windows, there would be damage to the screens. Sounds like she spends a little too much time alone.
Tell her its not the cats but the ghost that you have seen walking the neighborhood, that will give her something to really worry about.
Hope she leaves the cats alone and thanks for taking care of them.
Lynn King CPDT
Absolutely. Yes.
My childhood cat. LOL...
LOL...
But the short answer to your question was YES. And I'm sure my dad was as mad as your neighbor, but thankfully not CRAZY. 
He was a stray that showed up at our house one day. He would scratch at every single window/screen, the front door screen, the sliding door screen... if we didn't let him in, he'd leap up onto them and hang from the screens with all four feet. He ruined every single screen on my parents' house.
My father was furious... we kept relocating him to someone who would take him. We'd get him in the car and drive across town. Hours later, he'd have found his way back. Back, dangling from the screens.
The only way we stopped him was by adopting him ourselves. He lived with us for a while and kept my mom company while she recovered from a hip surgery, and then he ran away again. He came back a few months later with feline leukemia.
Always amazed me.
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nope, never heard of that..
and I have had cats my whole life...have fed outside cats too, but never heard of this! I hope she doesn't kill them.Thank you for caring.
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Gary, tell her to open the F'n window and let the cat in
she sounds like she needs a friend, PROBLEM SOLVED.
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