Mischievous tortie cat Gypsy tries to befriend a crabby neighbor who just wants her to get off his lawn, so she gathers all her tortitude and TP's his entire house

Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor

Nov 12, 2026 4:45 PM EST

It's not every day we get such a hissterical cat story from one of our followers, but this one definitely takes the cake and knocks it off the counter.

Cats are known to be mischievous little creatures, and the stereotype persists depending on the cat's fur color. Black cat mischievousness is a mysterious zoomie through the night, like a very fast ghost. Orange cat mischievousness is caused directly by the fact that they lack all the brain cells they need to function. But tortie cats are different - they come with absolute tortitude, which creates some of the most hilarious cat moments cat people experience. Just like Candice, a dear I Can Has Cheezburger fan, who told us about her tortie cat, Gypsy.

This cat roams the neighborhood like the queen touring her kingdom. So when one pesky peasant in her kingdom, who just happens to be her next-door neighbor, doesn't want to be her friend - she goes to TP-ing his property. That's what you get for hating on cats.

Thanks again, Candice, for sharing the hilarity that is your very own cat! We love Gypsy and how she made us laugh.

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Candice's story starts in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lived with her adorable and mischievous tortie cat, Gypsy. Her apartment's windows had heavy metal bars instead of normal screens - very good for security regarding humans, but when it comes to cats… well, let's just say the window situation had Gypsy free to slip in and out as she pleased. She roamed the neighborhood freely, which was purrfect for some cat mischief.

But the thing is that the gentleman living next door had zero patience for cats' mischief. He was not a cat lover, to say the least, as evidenced by the name-calling he yelled at Gypsy when she “visited” him.
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A man standing across a shared fence, unwilling to listen to his neighbor on the other side.
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One day in October, on a particularly sunny afternoon, Candice returned from work to find her neighbor waiting for her, angry. He, somewhat crabby, said, "You really have to keep your cat under control." Candice asked, “Why, what had she done? Did you receive a mouse gift at your door?” But the neighbor just replied, “Come and see.”

When she stepped over to his yard, she burst out laughing, describing how she couldn't catch her breath and almost fell over because of how funny the sight in front of her was.
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Woman standing in a yard, bursting out laughing.
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The sight that met Candice's eyes would have been a naughty trick-or-treater's ultimate Halloween dream. Gypsy TP'd his entire house. Toilet paper galore. The white strings of toilet paper went up and down his porch, through the flowers in his yard, and then threaded between his car's tires. And it was not all - Gypsy made sure to TP the neighbor's mailbox in circles, and all over the grassy front lawn.

The neighbor was very clear he wanted everything cleared out, with which Candice happily obliged. After having such a good laugh created by her cat, we can definitely understand she wouldn't mind cleaning up after her.
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A yard pathway and trees covered in toilet paper after a mischievous TP trick.
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Despite the hilarity of the situation, Candice wanted to make sure it was her cat who was actually responsible for this ridiculous circumstance. She followed the tissue trail back to her yard, up the redwood deck, where she spotted the toilet paper string exiting through one of her barred windows. She followed it back to her bathroom, where, to no one's surprise at that point, it ended at an empty tissue holder.

Trying to make sense of it all, Candice thinks Gypsy must've gotten her claw caught in the end of a tissue roll, and frantically dashing off since she couldn't shake it off. You know, as cats just do when they can't get something off of them. The zoomies automatically commence.
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Cat playing with scattered toilet paper on a bathroom floor.
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But be honest - don't you think it sounds like Gypsy deliberately TP-ing Mr. Crabby's lawn? Because that's some example of tortitude right there.