false acusation

[sylviaparry]

My neighbours grandaughters cat had been coming into my house through a downstairs window .on 2 occasions it has found its way into my house in the middle of the night.and scared me to death with its screamin mewing sound .
I politly had a word with her ,and she said that there was nothing that she could do. I explained that i didnt want it coming into my house.and now that the weather was getting warmer i didnt see any reason for me to keep my windows shut ..
about 6 months ago the same cat lost its tail .Today her grandmother told me that the whole family were of the same poinion ,that I was responsible of being cruel to the cat and delibretly closing the cats tail in a door which has resulted to a very expensive vets bill.
No way would i even consider such a thing ,I am very upset about such an allegation .How should i resolve this ,?
I am thinking about the legal option of being wrongly accused.

[mike11111]

So six months after pussy lost its tail they are all suddenly of the opinion that you were responsible. I wouldn't lower my dignity to even respond to such silly allegations.

[Postdog]

Ditto. Besides, it sounds like your word against hers.

[craft1948]

But does it still come into your house?

[dotty.]

If it climbs in through a house window it probably climbs into lots of places, like car windows, I doubt a cats tail could be too damaged in a house door but a car door it could.

[sylviaparry]

Its not been in my house for a while now but ,am also being blamed that because of me the cats now arnt allowed out ,I know there cats and no there not finding there way into her house as its all fenced in .

[gina32]

like others have said just ignore them and dont let it upset you, but, why do you have a downstairs window open during the night, if a cat can get in so could anyone/thing

[joko]

what did you expect her to do about it? how can she control a cat?

id say the onus is on you to prevent the cat getting in, not on her...

[muchlovex]

I am with everyone's elses opinions with this one. Just leave things be.

CAn you open an upstairs window instead?

[Nini74]

what legal option of being wrongly accused? do yu mean defamation or something? then you'd have to prove that your good name was wrongly defamed to others, not just to you. no legal option here that i can see from what you've said.

I know you said you politely had a word with her about the cat coming in but, in all fairness, not a lot she could have done about it. If it happened to me, I would just make sure the window was closed so that the cat couldn't come in.

i would just leave it and perhaps, in the future, when you see your neighbour you could mention how upset you were that they thought you would hurt their cat.