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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?

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Soph73 · 21/06/2007 12:47

ROFL - have now got wonderful mental image of sixofone leaning out of window to inspect "dump" site and trying to convince worms to eat cat poo before 5pm

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Sixofone · 21/06/2007 12:47

I do LRWG. But that doesn't solve the problem of what to DO with the poo or stop it happening, and that is what I was trying to do!

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LilRedWG · 21/06/2007 12:43

I think, Sixofone, that maybe you just need to check the garden before you let DD out!

MamaMaiasaura · 21/06/2007 12:40

loved st georges post. Perhaps the cat was being kind and adding to your collection

lol at description of your daughter waving turd like is newest toy

MamaMaiasaura · 21/06/2007 12:39

PMSL at this thread. lolololol

probably totally inappropriate to find this hilarious.. but i do

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Sixofone · 21/06/2007 12:37

And just for the record, please could I say that I don't dislike cats, just their doings, and i wouldn't even mind about those if they didn't happen somewhere where my 1 year old can pick a shrivelled one up and wave it like she has a new toy?

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Sixofone · 21/06/2007 12:34

Hi all, well lunchtime now and still nothing. I have discovered that if I lean out of the back window as far as my fanny, I can JUST about see the poo (and now weeds) dump site. I've checked 4 times this morning to see if it has started to biodegrade yet. I don't think it has. I have even checked with binoculars. Not a nice image, especially the big one in the middle of the lawn.

I am also less convinced than I was last night (and yes I was a little bit pissed ) that we have actually got the right garden. I've seen Crappola (I don't think the cat is really called that, but it's what we call it) out in the street so maybe it lives like somewhere completely different?

I don't think they have been out in their garden yet as they've been out at work but, and I was thinking this earlier, surely it is so unbelievable that someone would chuck a bucket of mouldy cat turds over the fence that they won't actually think it is us?

And not only that, but they know we don't have a cat so they would be wondering where we had managed to get a whole bucketful of mouldy turd from and therefore it couldn't possibly be us?

Do you think if I dug up some worms from our garden and pushed them through a hole in the fence that they woud eat the poo and it would disappear more quickly, say, by the time they get home from work?

I reckon we can brazen this one out

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LilRedWG · 21/06/2007 12:30

Oh and to answer to OP. You are being extremely unreasonable, especially as you don't even know for sure who owns the cat! Our cat spends a lot of time on our next door neighbours garage roof - I just hope someone doesn't deliver a load of poo to her!

LilRedWG · 21/06/2007 12:29

My brother's cat was poisoned by a nasty neighbour Our cat is fairly considerate in that he always digs a hole and buries the evidence (not that I follow him round and check) but even if he didn't, I wouldn't keen him locked in the house.

Squeakybub · 21/06/2007 12:19

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CatIsSleepy · 21/06/2007 12:19

and we have the same problem except the main suspect is 2 doors down...need to rig up some sort of giant catapult

ViciousSquirrelSpotter · 21/06/2007 12:11

This thread is hilarious

I hate finding cat poo and fox poo on the grass, but I hate pigeons even more so am glad if cats massacre them.

I do think there's an extraordinary amount of intolerance around now. To stop a cat from hunting jsut seems very extreme to me. I don't like the little blighters particularly, but hunting is one of the things they are designed for. And yes it is horrible finding cat poo on the grass, but really, to argue that cats should be kept in all the time just sounds wierd to me.

iwouldgoouttonight · 21/06/2007 12:02

PMSL at Sixofone - this thread is hilarious - hope your neighbour doesn't have CCTV! Have you heard anything from them yet?

FWIW I don't think you're being unreasonable - I hate it when our own cat craps in our garden and doesn't bury it - so I can't even throw it over the fence (the poo not the cat).

Very shocked about people's cats being shot though - do people actually own guns for this purpose??!

purpleduck · 21/06/2007 11:42

ah!! A woman after my own heart!!

SaintGeorge · 21/06/2007 11:34

This thread is making me PMSL. Not good, I have to go to work

Just one thing Sixofone. Has it not dawned on you yet that collecting the turds in a bucket and keeping them next to the spot the cat finds so appealing is asking for trouble?

Cat craps and goes away.
Cat comes back to attractive, crap smelling place.
Finds turds neatly tidied away.
Cat craps again in this high quality public convenience.
Probably going around right this minute telling all the other cats in the neighbourhood

bozza · 21/06/2007 11:34

Agree with catissleepy. Aloso am a bit perplexed about why the poor bucket had to go. Buckets are fine for having dirty things in. Just soak it with some bleach.

SomethingIncrediblyWitty · 21/06/2007 11:31

jules99 - i would chuck a bucket of assorted doo-doo over each of the guity neighbours fences and see how they like it! Does it matter whose is whose, it's all poo.

And i don't agree with keeping cats indoors, but i do think they should be trained to use a litter tray. If you aren't prepared to clean up after it you shouldn't own a cat. For that reason, i don't. Even though i love cats in general.

CatIsSleepy · 21/06/2007 11:23

"So hubby got on the ladder with the washing line pole(we couldn't find the rake, so that's something else I'm going to have to throw out now it has been sullied ) and did his best to spread out the poo a bit. "

ROFL....sixofone you and your dh are clearly insane but i take my hat off to you!
i look forward to the latest instalment

mytwopenceworth · 21/06/2007 11:14

Ok. IF this is true - and I am not totally convinced it is not another cat/football thing - then I suggest you get one of these and turn it on every time you see the cat.

GreebosWhiskers · 21/06/2007 11:11

Katiekin (and a few others) - I was going to tell you what bollox you were spouting about cats being responsible for the decline in the songbird population but I see that others have already done so.

I can't believe people will cover their gardens in stone chips, paving & decking then spout all this crap about cats being the reason they don't get birds in the garden any more FFS!

FWIW I have a cat & am also a bird lover being active in the RSPB & other organisations. The cat is neutered & belled & I provide a space at the bottom of the garden for him to crap which is also freely used by other neighbourhood cats. Doesn't bother me as dd doesn't go down there anyway.

I've seen magpies, crows, woodpeckers & squirrels raid nests. I've also seen sparrowhawks take birds from the garden. That's nature for you - it's called survival of the fittest & the ones who will survive are the ones you can keep a good look out for all predators.

As for the migrating birds - one of the biggest dangers to them is good old homo sapiens I'm afraid - whether it's arseholes with guns shooting wild geese as they fly overhead (imagine managing to fly all the way from the arctic only to be shot down just before you reach your destination) or arseholes abroad putting birdlime on branches to trap all those cute little songbirds that you think the cats are getting.

And don't even get me started on the trapping of exotic birds for the pet trade . . .

hana · 21/06/2007 10:33

they are not part of our ecosystem

bozza · 21/06/2007 10:29

Not if all the seedlings are dug up before they even become carrots....

pigleto · 21/06/2007 10:20

If you have a cat you should keep it in. If you think that is cruel you should not have a cat.

I hate cats killing things and ripping bin bags and shitting in my garden, they are not part of our ecosystem and shouldn't be there.

I hate the mentality of some cat owners where their cat is run over/poisoned/shot while roaming around where they live and then they buy a kitten and let that roam in exactly the same place. And then they say that they love cats!

anniebear · 21/06/2007 10:10

bozza...but you could have the biggest best looking carrots ever lol

anniebear · 21/06/2007 10:08

Fox poo???!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Suppose that depends were you live! Wouldnt get a fox round here! lol

Bird poo??!! Cant compare that to cat poo surely........ bird poo could land on your childs head whilst your pushing the buggy

and I can't say I have ever partuculary noticed bird poo on my grass!!!

anyway, if there are cats about, you wouldnt have many birds in your garden (like mine )

I think Cat poo sitting in the middle of your lawn with your little one crawling round is a bit different.