{"id":221561,"date":"2026-01-07T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:33:13","slug":"stab-threat-in-dunedin-neighbours-at-war-cat-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221561\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stab threat&#8217; in Dunedin neighbours at war cat dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family:'Sohne',Arial,Sans-serif;display: flex;align-items: center;font-size: 14px;\" class=\"story-paragraph odt-paragraph\">First published on <a style=\"background: none !important;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"116px\" height=\"15px\" style=\"display: flex;background: none;\" alt=\"Otago Daily Times\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/odt-a3f52f016b5d21fae8aca72fbb69e58b8439bf0fdf30aba3f98039884063f926.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4LDWYGN_MicrosoftTeams_image_55_png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Police in Wellington. Generic image\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Angus Dreaver\n<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said police were called to an Allenby Ave, Pine Hill address to address the &#8221;neighbours at war situation&#8221; at about 2pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A 51-year-old woman had been threatened by her neighbour, a 47-year-old woman, that she was going to stab her in the face if she did not return her cat.<\/p>\n<p>The younger woman had shown up to the next-door house with a 50-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman yelling and screaming demanding the cat back.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbour tried to give the cat back but due to the behaviour of its owners it got scared and returned back inside her house.<\/p>\n<p>This made this situation worse and the 47-year-old allegedly threatened to stab her in the face.<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested and charged with threatening to kill.<\/p>\n<p>* This story was originally published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/stab-threat-dunedin-neighbours-war-cat-dispute\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Otago Daily Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First published on Photo: RNZ \/ Angus Dreaver Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said police were called to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-221561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}