Cat pooing in neighbours garden

I’m glad you are offering to try and do something about it. I have a dog so the many local cats stay out of the back garden however they have taken to digging out my pot plants and shitting in them (at the front of the house).

And offering to go round and pick it up is not an acceptable response. What happens if they fancy having a cup of tea in the garden at 7am, and there is a steaming pile of shit on the lawn? The only acceptable response is to stop it happening in the first place. If I was your neighbour quite frankly I would be royally fucked off that you were placing the wellbeing of your rescue cats (as if that makes any difference) above my right to a cat shit free garden.

Go round and pick it up. Why should they it's your cat?

Your cats, your responsibility. The fact that cats like to roam is irrelevant. You should cat proof your garden or keep your cats in the house.

I love cats, I'd like to have a cat, but I don't like dealing with cat shit, so I don't have a cat. I'd be fucking furious if I was having to clear cat shit out of my garden to facilitate my neighbour owning a cat.

If you lived next door to a dog owner and they threw their dog's shit over the fence on to your lawn, how would you feel about that?

I used to have this problem, then I made a point of running at them like a screaming banshee whilst throwing the rake at them. I have found that consistency counts, in time they learnt to avoid. The neighbor commented that I really hate cats. Not true, I like cats just not in my garden.

Cats are the lazy pet owners' choice. I'd be absolutely furious if your cats were shitting in my garden and I wouldn't just shrug and get on with it. Allowing your cats to shit all over the neighbours' gardens is disgraceful. Why do you think this is ok?

Is it definitely your cats? My ex neighbour who's an absolute idiot came shouting at my DH one day because my dogs were barking and kept his kids up all night. They definitely weren't my dogs because mine all sleep inside. Sometimes people find the nearest owner and immediately blame them. I think your offer to buy a cat deterrent is plenty.

WHAT are you all using to deter cats please? My neighbours' cats are shitting all over mine.

I can live with the neighbours cat pooing. What I can't stand is it catching birds and mice and leaving them as "gifts" for me! Yes I stroked it when it approached me, it's a beautiful cat but I think it's trying to move in (they have a newish baby in its house!). I don't understand why it's acceptable for cats to leave their owner's premises- whether that means keeping inside or cat proofing the garden

YABVU. Your decision to keep animals should not impact on your neighbours.

You need to cat proof your garden, and if you cannot do that you need to keep them inside. It really is that simple.

You are at least attempting to do something which is good, I think you should pay for the deterrents and maybe check for poo once a week. Most cat owners just shrug their shoulders. My dh will check our garden for cat poo and remove it. I am pregnant so will avoid. We do have cat deterrents and it is bloody annoying, if I wanted to clean up cat poo I would get my own cat but I don't.

I think offering to buy them a deterrent is reasonable (even better would be for you to cat proof your garden). There are 5 cats in our cul de sac and 2 live either side of us. They constantly poo in our front garden, which I hate due to having a toddler who I need to direct away from it. I'm also pregnant and shouldn't be picking up cat poo according to nhs advice, but have no choice as they keep pooping there. We have a dog and it always strikes me as bizarre how dog owners are (rightly!) expected to clean up after our pets yet cats have a free pass to just poop where they like with no responsibility on the owner to deal with it.

My next door neighbours have a lot of cats between them. And they shit in my garden a lot too. There are two huge piles on the lawn that I need to clear up. New from yesterday. Other cats like to use the newly cleared flowerbeds and bury theirs (even worse). I have had to resign myself to putting up with it, as the only thing that is adversely affected is my blood pressure. I've told the neighbours, they are not unsympathetic, but I get a what can I do shrug response.
Not sure where this post is going, but I feel your pain.

We might have a bloody good moan about finding cat shit in the garden but we wouldn’t go and tell the neighbours. If I see any cat in our garden we open the window and make a huge PSSSST type noise, also they don’t like water! We do this to deter them as we feed the birds and one neighbours cat in particular is unfortunately a very good predator! I now only have to rattle the window at her and she’s off!

If she’s absolutely sure it’s yours then offer to buy a cat deterrent and tell her she’s more than welcome to use a water pistol if she sees it actually shitting in action! You can’t keep them in (although I would love all cat owners to keep them in as much as possible during bird nesting season but that’s just my opinion and wouldn’t be a popular one with the cat community).

my poo is vile...I agree...which is why I don't leave it in other people's gardens!!

I think you need to work with your neighbour on this. If the 1st deterrent doesn't work then you need to pay for something else until you find something that stops YOUR pets from pooing in someone else's garden. I have shelled out around £100 in the past to try to stop this, it's unhygienic, smelly and tiresome to deal with. I have a dog and wouldn't dream of not picking up his poo.

Bloody awful animals..and their poo is vile

Cats are roaming animals and there’s nothing anyone can do other that some sort of cat deterrent really. A good few of my neighbours have cats including myself and one neighbour complained to the council that all the cats were in his garden pooping and he was told it’s like trying to get a bird to stop shitting on your car nothing can be done really. Council worded it better lol. He threatened to leave poison out and told by a neighbour that if one of the streets cats died he wouldn’t be remaining in the street long after that. Guess who was loving the cats when work was being done in the next street over and mice invaded the street

You can install cat nets that stop cats from leaving your property, so they can still roam around your garden. Best of both worlds then and at least this would actually solve the issue full stop.

We have the same problem - and its the most irritating thing to have to check our back garden every bloody morning for cat poop. We have a large dog and even that doesn't deter the neighbours cats - if anything, its gotten worse.

They poo on my vegetables / by the fruit trees...my herb garden. Anywhere they want! Fricking irritating and disgusting! This year, I will be keeping my hose to hand...

I hate cats for this very reason. Our garden is full of every cat deterrent you can think of and they still poo in it. I scoop them over the wall into neighbours gardens with a spade (its the cats from their house I'm not just insane).

Yep, it absolutely IS your problem, because you chose to keep a cat.
It drives me mad that people have these animals that shit all over my garden and that I have to play hunt the poo every time My kids play outside.
I got an ultrasonic repeller thing was was effective for when it was just one cat in one area. Now there are many cats and I would need many repeller things.