Cat / Neighbour Dilemma… 🐈‍⬛

Hello

Just venting /moaning I suppose.

One (well, it could be both) of my neighbour’s cats keeps coming into the house at night.

Let’s call him Muppet, it’s not his real name, but that’s what I call him.

Anyway, Muppet eats Rosie’s biscuits (she only eats at night, so I leave a dish out for her) and sleeps in the living room.
He runs out when I go downstairs.

The cat flap that we have is a magnetic one, so if only works for Gracie (ddog) and Rosie (dcat).

But that’s when it’s not broken, however it has been broken for a while now, probably because of Gracie’s robustness in going in and out.

Muppet’s activities really get on Gracie’s nerves, but she’s a wuss and he pays no heed to her (following an unfortunate incident behind the shed).

I feel really sorry for Muppet as our neighbour really isn’t a good cat mum.
He’s often locked out of the house in the cold.
You can regularly hear him crying to go into his house.
When we had a load of snow a couple of years back, he was crying in the snow
She often shouts at him and kicks him out of the house when she goes to work.

We’ve got a little shelter in the garden which MrC has encouraged him to use.

But the thing is: I’ve noticed that Gracie hasn’t been herself for a few days, and yesterday I realised what the reason could be.
We’ve got a few foxes in the field at the bottom of the garden, and I think that she is worried that they will be able to come into the house too.

She is extremely, massively territorial and hyper vigilant and very protective of me.

I’ve realised that I’m going to have fit a new cat flap so that Muppet can’t come in, but I feel so sorry for him.

Am I being a horrible cruel woman, or am I being a total wuss?

(Sorry that this is a bit rambling, I’ve just had my painkillers!)