While most neighbour complaints arise over parking disputes or loud noises, one woman has admitted she's "so cross" as her selfish neighbour is trying to kidnap her cat.
The concerned pet owner claims that the resident next door keeps her cat overnight and even persisted to put her own collar on the animal.
Taking to popular forum site Mumsnet, the mum fumed and sought advice for the uncomfortable situation.
She wrote: "I'm so cross. Long story short, my cat keeps going into a neighbour's house. She keeps letting him in her front door... No cat flap. She's feeding him. She's keeping him overnight."
The woman went on: "She even had the gall to put a collar on him in the early days. I've spoken to her about this twice, last time 10 minutes ago as I again followed the £120 GPS signal I bought for him after he went missing for five days.
"The response was she 'can do what the bloody hell she likes'. Then kept telling me to bugger off.
"I took him to the vet yesterday, who said he was overweight. I asked her again to stop feeding him because of it, and her response was that he wasn't overweight.
"Clearly the woman is a trained vet as well. He eats nothing at my house at all, and has significantly gained weight in the last 12 months since we moved here.
"He's very much an outdoor cat, so I don't want to have to go to the last resort of making him an indoor cat. But I'm stuck for what else I can do. Any tips welcome."
Since sharing her concerns online, the woman's post was inundated with responses on how she would approach her neighbour.
One person suggested: "Put leaflets through her door of rescue cats needing a new home, my neighbour eventually got a cat of her own, problem solved."
On the other hand, someone else said: "Amazon and eBay do cat collars DO NOT FEED, say vet gave you it as he has allergies."
A third added: "You're going to have to either cat-proof your garden so he can't wander, keep him indoors, or let her be responsible for the cat including vet bills, which may make her back off when she realises she has to pay vet bills for a cat she doesn't own."
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