January 10, 2026 at 6:35 am

A Homeowner Asked Her Neighbor To Keep His Cats From Sitting In The Windows Because It Drives Her Dog Crazy

by Matthew Gilligan

two cats looking out a window

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I’m gonna go ahead and say it…

Some people just aren’t great pet owners!

And the woman who wrote this song doesn’t sound like a TERRIBLE pet owner, but she’s being pretty unrealistic.

Read what she had to say in the story below and see what you think.

AITA for asking my neighbor to stop letting his cats look through the windows?

“I (35F) have a Jack Russell Terrier, who is usually very well-behaved but goes crazy at the sight of cats and will bark incessantly, which, as you can imagine, gets really annoying.

Things are wild around there!

My neighbor has three cats, which he doesn’t seem to allow to go outside, which I think is part of the problem. They are always looking out the window, which makes my dog, who also likes to look out the window, bark and distract me.

Yesterday, I went outside and asked my neighbor if he could stop letting his cats look out the window because of my dog.

Ummm, no.

He said that it really wasn’t an option, apologized and went to go back inside. But I got angry because he wasn’t listening and asked if he could consider getting gates or something for his windows.

He, out of the blue, told me that I was acting entitled and that I obviously had no idea what it was like to own cats, which isn’t true because I had cats when I was younger.

My neighbor went back inside before I could say anything else.

I was pretty firm with myself for a while but now I’m worried that I may have been unreasonable with my request.

AITA?”

This is how readers reacted.

This person said she’s wrong.

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Another individual agreed.

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This Reddit user spoke up.

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And another reader weighed in.

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Well, this was a strange request…

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