Owners of beloved neighborhood cat named Blue get even with entitled HOA board members: 'Who knew a cat could turn a neighborhood meeting into a full-blown drama?'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 17, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

The life of stray cat is a mystery. I'm a huge fan of that genre of video where someone straps a GoPro onto their outdoor cat's collar so we can get a POV of the day in the life of an outdoor kitty. It's a lot of what you'd expect: catch and eat bugs, fall asleep in a patch of sunlight, scrap with other cats over territory disputes. 

There's often a debate about outdoor cats, too. They are terrible for the local bird population, and they can often get into mortal danger just by roaming around. But many owners think that being allowed outdoor enriches their cat's life. 

This person found a stray cat who wasn't feral — he's actually quite lovable, and has cozied up to this one family in particular. He started by befriending this family's housecat, but was too shy to greet the owners at first. But the cat, named Blue, soon started coming around every day.

Leave it up to the local HOA to take a sweet story about a cat finding a forever home and turn it into a headache! Check out Blue's story below, as well as photos, thanks to his owner paying the cat tax. 

Next, read about the retail workers whose customers are just so weird, like one person whose customer "released a box of spiders into the store... He's not allowed in any Starbucks in this town anymore." 

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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 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 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 inside the house. My wife caught him and took him to the Humane Society assuming they would put him up for adoption. Instead they 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 chopping his balls off that he'd never want to have anything to 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 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 p ed, claimed the cat was mine, and told me that I couldn't let him out unsupervised. We started 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 then the board proposed a change to the neighborhood rules that would require all pets to be leashed, not just dogs. A lot 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 short leash that he now just drags along behind him. I also contacted the Humane Society and told them how ridiculous my 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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    Check out these cuties

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