To chuck cat poo on my neighbours path

[Ahhhtetley]

OK, I'm hoping this won't turn into a bun fight but I'm fuming at my neighbour.

We get on well, chat, help each other out and i've nothing against her cat.

But she's taken to keeping the litter tray outside so it's mostly full of water. Which means her cat has now taken to crapping in our garden. I've done the 'nice' thing and collected it and thrown it in her bin (in a bag I might add). I've spoken to her about sorting the litter tray our so it doesn't shit in my garden and her response was, 'it's not my fault that she prefers your garden' and then nothing happens. A couple of weeks later and several shovels full of shit I've asked her to come and remove the cat poo from my garden a couple of times a week following my 4 yr old DD and then my DH standing in said cat shit, and nothing has happened. I've asked her to do this on two separate occasions now and she's not bothered.

I've now just started to throw it on her path outside her front door! Am I being petty (yes probably) but i'm fed up with my garden stinking and shit being all over my flower beds, lawn and now my strawberry plants (which now stink of cat piss)

What else can I do?

[Ithinkitsjustme]

If it doesn't work try posting it through the letter box - told you all that cats are worse than dogs!

[shinybaubles]

Have the same problem we have started chucking it over the fence into their garden, highly irritating and fed up of have to scrape it off shoes and the dc. We bought a sonic cat thing that makes some kind of noise only cats hear we have had it 3 months now and no more cat poop. They walk along the fence but don't come on the grass.

[squoosh]

A CAT POO THREAD!!!!!

At last!

[HecateTrivia]

Bag it up and knock on her door and hand it to her?

[Ahhhtetley]

We've also tried the cat away stuff and putting bottles etc on the lawn but it just gets used to it and carries on. It doesn't even flinch whilst pooing when we bang on the window now, and legs it when it sees up with a bucket of water!

I don't want to fall out with my neighbour but I'm on the bring of having a 'wobble' at her. Her response about it 'preferring my garden' nearly had me losing it!

[OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos]

YANBU at all. You are doing exactly the right thing. But you should also keep a big squirty bottle of water near the door and squirt the cat any time you see it near your house.

I did that with next doors cats, and they rarely come in to my garden anymore.

[TheUnMember]

You're deliberately throwing faeces outside your neighbours door.

What else can you do? How about grow up.

[Tiago]

I was originally going to say YABU, but considering that you have asked her nicely...

I have two cats and if there was a problem for my neighbours I would happily go round and do a poo sweep when required.

[WorraLiberty]

The one thing you can probably guarantee is that creatures of all types will shit in your garden.

Birds
Foxes
Cats
Hedgehogs
Snails
Etc....

We're not the only creatures on the planet.

We have to share with others.

Other creatures shit and don't have the luxury of a flushing loo.

Clean it.

Live with it and stop stressing out.

[simperingsally]

I'd probably do the same if I knew who the bloody cat that poos in my garden every day belongs to.
Its vile. I was mowing the lawn yesterday and there we 12 lots of poo. I have to invest in one of those cat repellents.
Any suggestions anybody?

oh and suggest that maybe you do too.

[NicNocJnr]

You may well not be able to get through to her as she sounds a dick frankly - I'd be horrified and mortified if my cats we doing some thing like this (not that they can as they can't exit our garden) and not doing anything about it is is arrogant laziness.

I would buy get off my garden crystals and/or use citrus peel to discourage the cat. I would then post the bill for the crystals to her.

Unfortunately you are unlikely to get anywhere with the council etc as one isn't expected to have the same control over a cat as a dog.

My priority would be getting the cat out of the garden. Water sprays are a harmless way to encourage the kitty to scram - tap water in a spray bottle and a quick squirt when seen is actually much more efficient than blustery shouting etc that some do.
Crystal use etc so there is deterrent when you are not paying attention to the garden. Def posting all bills to her with a cover note. You are also well within your right to query the worm/flea staus of the cat.

I don't know how you would make her take any kind of responsibility though.

[shinybaubles]

I have a sonic cat repellant and it has worked perfectly for a few months now - worth aa try maybe .

[OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos]

Why should OP have to clean it. It's not her cat. And it's not a wild animal with no owner either.

She has given the owner the opportunity to be a half decent human being, but the owner can't be arsed. The owner deserves cat shit on their property. OP doesn't.

[headfairy]

I can understand her not wanting to have a litter tray in the house (bleurgh, horrible things) but could you ask her to get a covered litter tray so her cat starts using it again?

[NicNocJnr]

Haha there were no other replies when I started. Got distracted by a chocolate digestive! Apologies for repeat info - ignore me and as you were!

[Ithinkitsjustme]

Potato gun!

[PostBellumBugsy]

My next door neighbours cat started doing this, but tempting though it might be to throw the poo back at them, I haven't stooped that low yet. If the cat is allowed out, there is nothing much your neighbour can do to prevent it from crapping exactly where it chooses.

Buy some of the anti-cat granules. They really work. I used them alot for a while & the cat stopped pooing in our garden. Better to make your garden a less favourable option, than start chucking faeces around.

[ItsAPublicForumWhine]

She should get a litter tray with a lid - no more rain - cat poops in tray.

I don't think YABU given what you've tried so far!

[headfairy]

NicNoc just how fascinating can a chocolate digestive get? :o

[WorraLiberty]

Because Outraged it's part of life

Eventually you learn to get with it...oh and you also learn to stop standing in it.

Seriously, it makes me laugh how stressed some people get.

Cats have shit in gardens for hundreds of years and will continue to do so.

Might as well clean it and find something else to stress over.

[Idocrazythings]

Don't cats bury their poo?

[Dee03]

I have 4 cats and will definately not be offering to pick up their crap from surrounding gardens!!
It's what cats do, they tend to not crap in their own garden.
My neighbours moved next-door and after a few months put down a load of shingle in their front garden.......all I can say is ' my cats were here 1st'.
But it was embarrassing one day when I was chatting at neighbours front door and one of my cats started digging and crapping in their shingle

[pictish]

God cat shit is the worst! Yuck.

Anyway...any minute now, the cat ladies will turn up and tell you that not only are you being unreasonable, but that you should be delighted that such a noble creature sees fit to shit in your garden and spray it's stinking piss on your berry plants.

By law, cats are classed as wild animals, so owners cannot be held to account 'officially' for their revolting faecal matter ending up on your child's feet. Unlike dogs.

I wouldn't bother chucking the shit on her path - I would just get a super soaker and fire it at the cat every time it ventures into your garden.

[ItsAPublicForumWhine]

Ido not always unfortunately!

[whomovedmychocolate]

I was going to suggest stringing it, bunting like, for the jubilee but feared you might not have a sense of humour about this

Seriously, catmint. Cats do not shit where they eat. They love to eat and roll about in catmint, it's a nice plant. Makes them shit next door - have a peep, maybe your neighbours are growing it