Owners were horrified when their cat returned home with a three-page note attached to his collar which included a threatening warning to ‘stay away’.

Gandalf, a four-year-old white Bengal and Russian blue crossbreed, returned home after a day of exploring the neighbourhood in Bridgend, South Wales, with an angry hand-written note stuffed into a plastic bag on his collar.

It read: ‘Please keep your cat at home. Your cat almost every day comes to my house, takes food from the table, scratches my sofa, spreads fleas in my house.

‘I can’t leave the windows in the house open. I’m honestly fed up. If I see your cat again at my house I promise I’ll take him far somewhere.

‘Your cat as well stays overnight in my house and sleeps in the kitchen. You better feed your cat.’

Gandalf’s owners Chris and his girlfriend, who has not been named, said they were ‘baffled’ by the letter and are now worried about letting the cat out.

They were shocked to read the ‘extreme’ message that they say was sellotaped onto his fur, arguing it was threatening the safety of their pet. The author said Gandalf would be taken ‘far away’ if he was seen again.

Chris, 27, said he had never had a complaint about Gandalf before and even has the words ‘do not feed’ written on the cat’s collar after they noticed he was getting fat.

He said: ‘He is a bit of a nosey cat, he goes out and he does his rounds, as cats do. People know who he is in the area, he is very sociable and loves people.

‘Even if he does visit people, we have never had any complaints about him before. He spends nights and evenings in our house. He has a lovely character and me and my girlfriend have never had issues with him scratching our furniture.’

He added that Gandalf is well looked after, ‘very well-fed’ and ‘certainly does not have fleas’.

Gandalf is being kept indoors for now, over concerns for his safety, which Chris said is a shame because his cat ‘loves roaming around’.

He said: ‘I understand that it is cheeky of him to enter someone else’s home but we also have had no knowledge or control over this up until now, he will now have to be kept inside for the rest of our time living here.’

He added that he would have liked to speak to the note’s writer to try to resolve the issue but the message did not include any contact details.

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