Neighborhood grumpy grandpa cat causes a chaotic midnight chase through a house's basement after breaking in and confusing the resident cats: 'As far as I know, he's still in my basement.'

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Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor
May 15, 2026 2:15 PM EDT

When the local grandpa with the "get off my lawn!" attitude is a of the feline kind, things can get funny fast.

Imagine your local grumpy gramps, the one sitting on his porch at the end of the street, living in the house where all the kids are afraid to ride their bikes by. And if someone just dares to breathe in the general direction of his crumbly garden, you get the threatening cane waving and "get off my lawn!" yells directed right at you. And these are scary. These grandpa types are the ones who truly control the neighborhoods they live in. Now, imagine this old man is a cat.

When the old man controlling your neighborhood is a cat, you've got a claw waving instead of a cane waving, and a lot of hissing instead of the lawn yelling situation. Kids might still be afraid to ride their bikes next to him, that thing doesn't change. But when this is the reality of the stray population in your neighborhood, you already know how to deal with a grumpy cat like that. Even if he breaks into your basement and causes mayhem in the household… which is exactly what happened in this one neighborhood, to this one person.

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    This is my basement. This is not my cat
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  • Just off the bat, all stories involving a Not My Cat - which is a very special type of cat that might actually belong to you after the story ends - are always hilarious. Whether they are on the funny side or wholesome side, it's still a hissterical situation that occurs worldwide, with many Noy My Cats. A cat just appears, seemingly out of nowhere, and will sort of… stay? Sometimes to find their forever home, and sometimes just to assert dominance over a certain area. Just because.

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    Adding a little context: I currently care for five cats: four striped, one black. I know this grumpy old man from my neighborhood,
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    I'm involved in my local stray population and helping control it, and I know he's well cared for by my community.
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    So... One of my cats has a bad habit of getting out of the house, So when he does I usually leave open a side door
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    (that leads to the basement so that he can scratch at the door and I can let him back into the house without letting any of his siblings out).
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    While I was letting my cat that likes to get out back into the house, another one of my cats (solid black) ran downstairs.
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    So I shut the door and waited for him to scratch at it but I didn't realize that I didn't shut the side door to the outside all the way.
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    The neighborhood Grandpa cat decided he didn't want to be in the rain anymore tonight. Imagine my confusion when I saw a
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    striped cat in my window and my further confusion when I saw all four of my striped cats run past me down the stairs to go stare at the *OTHER* striped cat...
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    What followed suit was a chaotic 10 minutes of me trying to wrangle the five cats that I do own back into the part of my house that I can fully control so that I
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    could leave the door open and allow the grumpy old man to leave. As far as I know he's still in my basement.
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  • This is absolutely chaotic. Imagine what you have to do to move not one, not two, but five cats back to the house, while they're entranced by a “I must have a look! This old man won't leave my sight for one second!” intrusive thought. And if you're a cat pawrent, you know it's almost impossible to get a cat out of it. We just imagine the Benny Hill music playing in the background as this person tries to move their cats from place to place, only for the cats to run around and do whatever they want. All while this old cat watches from above, not bothered.

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    Cataholic445 Well Grumpy Old Grandpa cat says the contrary! He IS your cat now.
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    GingerAphrodite OP That is not only not possible, but I'm pretty sure he would shot me in the kneecaps if he had opposable thumbs and I tried to keep him. When I see him outdoors I jump between calling him Gramps or "The Don" lol
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    nan-a-table-for-one Well I hope you leave him some snackies at least!
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    GingerAphrodite OP I didn't, but only because I gave him an entire can of wet food earlier today and I know the neighbor has dry food on her front porch for the local strays and I don't want to encourage him to stay
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    nan-a-table-for-one Well I sorta meant in general. Glad he's getting a little num nums. We have to watch out for our senior citizens. Lol.
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    GingerAphrodite OP Oh absolutely. The day that I first fed him I was genuinely concerned that he might be mostly deaf and mostly blind, but after interacting with him more I think he just can't be bothered and doesn't care
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    fuzzus628 Scrungly man! Also, his basement now.
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    GingerAphrodite OP He can't, I already have five and I'm waiting for a chance to give to their new home because it's five states away lol. I've already done my part to help the stray population in this neighborhood
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    Pitiful Night3852 So you thought. The CDS is saying that the 'grumpy old cat likes your basement better than getting wet and has been informed...either by your cat(s) or just the CDS that inside can be a large improvement over wandering the neighborhood
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    JiveChicken00 Yeah, I'm not sure it's your basement either.
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    GingerAphrodite OP I mean technically it's my parents', but it's definitely not his LOL they barely tolerate the current cats
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    Sea_Bison_6929 He looks grumpy a fr. Is really grumpy or is it just his face?
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    GingerAphrodite OP Kind of grumpy but that's mostly just his face. He doesn't hiss or growl but he's kind of skittish and doesn't like being touched. I think he was recently hit by a car but he's been healing up really well, but he acts like he's used 10 of his nine lives
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    FormidableMistress That's his basement now. The CDS gave me 4 piebald cats. I saw another piebald cat walking down my street the other day and told my friend "I haven't seen this cat before and I hope he's not a stray, but I can tell by his coat he wants to come inside my house."
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    GingerAphrodite OP The CDS already gave me five babies that are probably his... I already TNRd mama.... he will not be staying and he's well cared for by my neighborhood ②
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