‘I was about to transform my backyard into the hottest feline nightclub in town.’: Homeowner’s attempt at garden lighting turns into an accidental, full-blown cat rave, attracting at least seven uninvited guests ending in an awkward two-hour stare-down

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Nov 13, 2025 5:00 PM EST

You know, it is funny, us hoomans think that when we buy a piece of land it is all ours. And while that might be true with regard to other hoomans, it is certainly not applicable to the cat population that has already been existing there for a significant amount of time. For as far as the local felines are concerned, we are just another potential feeding point that has moved into the neighborhood.

The point being that when we do things to our house and expect nothing to come of it we can be rather shocked to see how the community cats respond. As one homeowner found out when she decided to install some motion detecting lights in her garden. Sure, she initially figured that they would serve as a deterrent to thieves, but what she did not bet on, was that the local cattos would run with the concept and turn it into an after hours hangout. Silly hooman…

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    So this happened last night, and I'm still mortified (and slightly amused). I recently bought these
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    motion- activated LED lights for my backyard because I thought it would be nice to have some
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    subtle lighting. Little did I know, I was about to transform my backyard into the hottest feline
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    nightclub in town. The lights arrived yesterday, and I was waiting to set
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  • While cats are not all too well known for their raving tendencies, usually opting for quieter options. We have to say that this act was incredibly considerate, because surely there is a rave cat minority that exists out there and why should they not get a place to call home.

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    them up. They're these colorful, rotating disco-ball- style LEDs that I thought would make
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    my backyard look whimsical. I didn't realize just how intense they were until I switched
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    four cats sitting against a rave background
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    Disclaimer: This image is for illustration only, and the subjects are models; the image does not depict the actual subjects of the story.

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    them on after sunset. My backyard suddenly looked like a scene out of a rave-flashing neon blues,
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    greens, and purples bouncing off every surface. Then, out of nowhere, my neighbor's
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    cat, Whiskers, jumped the fence and started rolling around in the flashing lights. I thought, "Sweet," and
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    didn't think much of it. Five minutes later, another cat showed up. Then another. Within half an
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  • Wow, sounds like business got off to a really good start. Though that is the problem with cats, they do not really respect the convention of business and would likely not pay to enter. Leaving the owner broke and liable for all their party leftovers…

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    hour, I counted at least seven cats in my yard. They were all going nuts―
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    chasing the lights, pouncing on shadows, and just vibing. I don't even know where half of them
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    came from; I only know three cats in the neighborhood by name, and there were clearly some
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    randos crashing this party. At this point, I realized I might be in trouble
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    because the cats were making quite a bit of noise, and my neighbors have toddlers who were
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    probably trying to sleep. So I tried to shoo them away by clapping and waving a broom. Huge
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    mistake. The cats interpreted this as an invitation to play. One of them literally jumped onto
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    the broom like it was some kind of toy, and another climbed onto my patio furniture to
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    get a better view of the chaos. In a panic, I turned off the lights, hoping they'd lose
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    interest and leave. Instead, they just... sat there. Staring at me. Judging me. One particularly
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    fluffy gray one even started meowing loudly, like it was demanding an encore.
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    It took two hours for all the cats to finally leave, and I had to lure the last one out with a slice of turkey.
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    | S₁ ar I saw Whiskers looking at me through my bedroom window later,
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    probably plotting his next visit.
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