Imagine coming home to find you'd been replaced by a new pet. Now imagine that new pet is not one but 550 adopted cats your wife decided she just had to have.

This is the bizarre situation an Israeli man found himself in.

The man has now filed for divorce from his wife citing the "stress" that arose from her adoption of the kitty army.

The man told a rabbinical court in Beersheba he was unable to sleep in his own bed as it had been claimed by the cats as their own, reported The Times of Israel.

The man also alleged the cat army had become so overwhelming he could no longer reach his own bathroom and was no longer able to prepare or consume food in the house as to do so would spark a feeding frenzy.

Despite attempting reconciliation at the behest of the court - the woman chose her new 'babies' over her husband and the pair have agreed to go their separate ways.