‘Community cat’ Blue chooses dog parent's house as a home base, HOA does everything in their power to stop their budding furriendship but ultimately fails: ‘He kept coming by’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Jun 18, 2025 10:00 PM EDT

The cat distribution system knows exactly how to work itself out, even in a homeowners' association. More like hoMEOWners, am I right?

In true feline fashion, this story touches on the rather curious and persistent nature of the feline friends who live amongst us. They will do anything for some cuddles, pets, and Churus, so it only makes sense that the star of this story, Blue the cat, makes himself as known as possible to one homeowning family.

An HOA board explains that the "community cat" should be released back into the HOA's neighborhood. Fine. Once the cat claims a family to be their home base and takes walks with the dog pawrents and their canines, it's apparently a problem. Well, if they want to enforce a strict leash rule, they never said the dog parent had to be holding the leash. Scroll below to read about the howlarious meowlicious compliance that ensues…

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  • If a cat wants cuddles, they'll find a way.

    The dog parent in this story makes sure that the community cat gets neutered and vaccinated, and then releases the cat back out into the world. That didn't get rid of Blue, who clearly wants his furever home to be with the dog pawrent's two cute pups… One cannot stop a determined feline no matter how hard they try.

  • "He would come inside, snuggle our dogs and cat and sleep with them all day, then go out at night and do whatever he wanted."
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  • "My HOA's battle with the community cat"

    Last year a cat started talking to mine through a window. I thought this was cute that they decided to be friends, but when I opened
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  • the door, the stray cat ran off. I assumed I would never see him again since no cats survive very long outside where I live. We
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  • have coyotes, hawks, and owls which have all lead to me never seeing the same cat more than once in the eleven years I've lived here.
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  • This cat, who we've since named Blue, is just different. He kept coming by to visit every day for a month. Eventually, he walked
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  • inside the house. My wife caught him and took him to the Humane Society assuming they would put him up for adoption. Instead they
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  • told us about their community cat program. They spayed and vaccinated him, clipped his ear, and told us to return him where we found him.
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  • We released him and assumed after kidnapping him and [neutering him] that he'd never want to have anything to
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  • do with us again. Instead, he kept coming by. He would come inside, snuggle our dogs and cat and sleep with them all day, then
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  • go out at night and do whatever he wanted. Then we'd be walking the dogs around the neighborhood, and he would start following us which everyone who saw thought was hilarious.
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  • Everyone except my HOA that is They got ped, claimed the cat was mine, and told me that I couldn't let him out unsupervised. We started
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  • keeping him inside and just taking him on walks with the dogs to get his wiggles out because when he didn't get outside time, he would start destroying everything in the house.
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  • This was working pretty well, but he kept eating any low lying bird families, and this ped off a couple of the neighbors who again complained to the HOA. So
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  • then the board proposed a change to the neighborhood rules that would require all pets to be leashed, not just dogs. A lot
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  • of people wrote in saying this was idiotic, joking about leashing their turtles and guinea pigs, etc. Nevertheless, the board passed the new rule.
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  • When I read it, I realized it didn't say anything about the length of the leash or that it needed to be held. So we got him a ridiculously
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  • short leash that he now just drags along behind him. I also contacted the Humane Society and told them how ridiculous my
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  • HOA has been, and they are going to send their social media team over to make some videos of the cat for their channels.
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  • Edit: so I think cat tax means photos. Couldn't figure out how to include photos on this post, but here's some for you
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