Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To throw cat poo over my neighbour's fence?

387 replies

Sixofone · 20/06/2007 22:17

I suspect I probably am but have had a few glasses of wine so here goes!

My neighbour's cat turds all over my garden and it's really pissing me off, especially as dd crawls around out there and will eat anything. So, DH stalks the cat, surmises that, because it spends an inordinate amount of time statistically on one particular neighbour's flat roof, it must belong to them.

So, I tipped a whole bucket of saved up cat poo (I mean, what else can you do with it - it surely isn't nice to put it in the black bin with your food waste?) over the fence, so it is now sat there in a rather suspicious looking mound. Some of the turds have gone mouldy. I expect my neighbours will see it in the morning. I have now had to throw the bucket away. Do you think they'll think it's me, or just a rather large cat? AIBU for being a cat poo thrower?

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
PomsMum · 25/06/2007 13:01

Sixophone borrow a friend's dog for a few hours a week, send it out into the garden to hang out for a while (making sure that it has had a walk earlier and hence won't add to the problem) - the smell of the dog should be enough should put them off, and if you are lucky enough to borrow it at the right time, a short sharp 'dog shock' as they leap over the fence into your garden should help....

weebleswobble · 24/06/2007 21:37

That's why I'm suggesting looking down

KerryMum · 24/06/2007 20:20

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

SomethingIncrediblyWitty · 24/06/2007 19:55

Perhaps we should start a Campaign For Cat Vegetarianism, so allthe organic gardeners can compost any turds found in their plot.

weebleswobble · 24/06/2007 19:13

Kerrymum, I would have thought in the circumstances it would be better to look down

The nappy thing is going a bit far isn't it? Surely they should be cleared up after by the driver.

I quite like the smell of horse shit - am I alone in this?

Sixofone · 24/06/2007 19:07

Squishy...have you ever actually asked your neighbours if they mind having your cats shit in their garden? No keen gardeners that I know enjoy having their flower beds dug up and their organic veg shat on by someone's meat eating cat... that is so naive. You can't put meat in your compost bin and the same thing applies to mouldy cat turds!

Reinforces my view that I was right to return the cats doings (albeit to possibly the wrong person )

OP posts:
KerryMum · 24/06/2007 17:25

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

weebleswobble · 24/06/2007 17:15

A civilised road with gardens and lawns perhaps, but what about the residents ?

kookaburra · 24/06/2007 16:23

What about cat nappies? And dog nappies? Please, somebody - invent them!

UCM · 24/06/2007 16:11

Squishy can I point out that we are not 'in the wild', we are in a civilised road with gardens and lawns

squishy · 24/06/2007 15:25

OMG......

OK, have had mouth WIDE open at some of the comments on here - "cats should live indoors and have litter trays" - what, like they do in the wild?!!!

Our cats live indoors as much as they want and have a litter tray. One would rather sit and cross his legs for days than use it. When they go outside, there is nothing I could do to stop them 'turding' in someone else's garden or hunting - seems to just make it more fun for them.

Have rarely caught our cats pooing in our garden but unfortunately they do in neighbours' gardens - they bury it and as our neighbours are all keen gardeners, they don't seem to mind the digging and composting.

As for shooting - well, I would take my own air rifle to the owner's car or something equally valuable to anyone who considered doing this to ANY animal. Cats hunt, instinctively, we're humans and don't need to use powered weapons to take out our anger on small animals - it's only poo FFS.

Sixofone · 24/06/2007 10:23

See? That's exactly why I feel turd tossing is a legitimate sport, neigbours like yours MrsHarryP!

OP posts:
mrsharrypotter · 23/06/2007 21:23

YANBU. My neighbours cat not only uses the whole of my garden as a toilet, but also eats baby rabbits in there, leaving me with eye's and intestines to clean up, and brings most of the rabbit back so I have cat sick to clean up too. Then I have to hear my stupid neighbour go on about how she refuses to use a litter tray, and they don't go in her garden, so why should she bother

Rant over, and relax....

UCM · 23/06/2007 20:19

Nah I might just eat it, boiled.

pointydog · 23/06/2007 20:12

har!

shoot it, ucm. I know you wanna

UCM · 23/06/2007 19:58

I would like to post my entry for the Cupcake competition here as I don't know whether to shoot it or eat it

theres a cat on my fence

weebleswobble · 23/06/2007 11:32

No response to my email yet. I can't think why because asking how you train your cat to pee in what is essentially a washing-up bowl is a legitimate question. Perhaps kittypoopoo is so overrun with enquires for this seemingly wonderful washing-up bowl, sorry, cat toilet, that it will take some time to reply.

Now, Sixofone, I really don't think you're going to have much luck with the Council bringing in a new by-law to prosecute cat owners for allowing their cats to poop in other people's gardens...you know as well as I do that it's time they got of their bums and enforced the current laws to prosecute those manky old dog owners before starting on those lovely cat owners

Sixofone · 22/06/2007 23:24

What's the latest Weebles? Did Kittypoopoo reply?

(All still quiet here on the turd tossing front - think I have gotten away with it )

I am thinking of starting a petition to get cat owners fined for letting their cats poop irresponsibly, like dog owners are.

OP posts:
pointydog · 22/06/2007 20:05

weebles, you get me every time

kerala · 22/06/2007 19:27

Snap Kaishay - neighbours dog leaps our high fence (that we put up at our expense to keep it out) and craps in our garden. Have spoken to them about it but get back "its my right to have dogs innit". Actually no as we have spoken to their landlord and their lease prohibits them from having dogs as does our lease.

Dd crawls in our garden. Have no compunction about lobbing the crap back over the fence. Urrgh

Emprexia · 22/06/2007 18:23

I may be in the minority here.

But No, YANBU.

My neighbour lets his dog wander into our garden through the gate (we have shared access) and it frequently uses our lawn as a toilet.

Whenever we find any, it goes straight over the fence, i dont want it in my bin, we dont have a dog and i dont see why i shoud tolerate theirs sh*tting all over my back lawn or having it in my bins.

ftr, yes we have asked him not to let the dog in, but he ignored us.

kittywits · 22/06/2007 18:04

read: Worm ridden

kittywits · 22/06/2007 18:03

I lived next door to someon whose cats had the most awful case of worms. Their cats shat all over my garden. When I was very heavily preg with ds1 I remember gardening and coming across a cat turd that was so infested with worms that it was practically crawling along the grass!!!
Shortly after my neighbour said the cat had been run over and killed. I very very pleased I can tell you.
I used to throw the work ridden turds back into her garden.
I would happily have fed it rat poison. I think so many pet owners are terribly selfish, dogs shitting and barking, etc. etc.
Shoot the lot.

weebleswobble · 22/06/2007 17:49

yay! pointy

LowFatMilkshake · 22/06/2007 17:19

Umm we do get hedgehog poo as well - we've seen one do it! You can also tell because it's smaller and often on the path. Hedgehogs dont mind where they poo where as cats like the comfort of soft dirt or grass.