Hello JTFers! I'm having trouble with a Hispanic woman who lives in my co-op in NYC. This "woman" has been harassing me for years because I don't approve of her feeding the stray cats who roam in my co-op. Because I don't, she follows me around the complex and curses and threatens me on almost a daily basis. The management and the Public safety force can only do so much. This "woman" is trying to get me into a fist-fight which is not going to happen from my end...
Good for you that you are not going to get into a fist fight.
Can I ask Do the cats actually go inside your own apartment?
Or is it just the corridors of an apartment block?
Do the other neighbours like the cats in the corridor?
My Mum feeds 14 stray cats outside our apartment here in Israel. The neighbours hate it.
There are constant quarrels with the neighbours. It already came to mild violence on one occasion.
The problem is my Mum does not sleep at night if she does not feed the cats for one day.
Often the people who feed stray cats like your Hispanic neighbour and my Mum don't sleep at night if they miss feeding the cats.
My Mum goes out to feed cats on days when she has the flu. Others like her go out when it is freezing cold, even though they are dying to stay in bed.
They get
extremely upset and angry when neighbours comment on it, nevermind complain. I see it in many stray cat feeders, not just my Mum. They sincerely can not stop.
If your neighbour is being anti-semitic, or the argument has expanded and she has become verbally abusive for things that have nothing to do with cats, or if the cats are actually entering your apartment then you are in your rights to do something to defend yourself.
Do the cats actually go into your private apartment?