To tell her to get lost?

Tell her you love your plants like children, that they are your leaf babies, and that they are able to communicate telepathically with cats and will make sure the cats dont eat them.

YANBU. I'm a cat lover and owner and can understand her concerns,but I still think she's being a totally unreasonable CF!

I have 2 cats currently and I think your neighbour is nuts. If she's that bothered then she needs to keep them inside.
If she tries to do anything, you tell her your plants are living beings too, they live with you and you love them as you would a pet and they also have sentimental meaning.
And tell her the cats will avoid them. Because they will.

Ya joking it’s your bloody garden she’s got a bloody cheek. Tell her to keep them in. Is she going to monitor every bloody garden they might go in if they’re let out . Bloody cheeky

Is she aware of all the poisonous plants within a two mile radius; as that’s how far her cats will be roaming !

Is this story fake for the purposes of the Daily Mail? I find this hard to believe.

You have to promise to start a thread when you do move it, you cant tease us with this and just leave us hanging!!!
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Sorry but this made me laugh! What on earth?!! How do you reason with someone like that?!

I really love these threads. My neighbours have their own eccentricities ( as I'm sure do I) but the level of entitlement from this one's made my day!

I once had a very irate ndn at my door. well actually she sent her small ds... Apparently my dcat was savaging her Boxer ddog in the communal garden!!
Ddog def gave dcat a very wide berth after that and all was harmonious...
That dcat (a feisty Persian) never failed to rule the roost wherever we lived.

What a nutjob. Telling someone to put their dog on a lead in their own garden 🤣
This is very entertaining to read but I guess in real life is a pain in the arse to deal with.
With my track record of not getting on with neighbours I can't possibly advise. I'd be having fun with it and say "oh that's such a coincidence because I ordered ten more plants insert all plants poisonous to cats only the other day, they were on special offer and I couldn't resist."

She's clearly bonkers and so self absorbed that she thinks she's right.
Nothing surprises me with people these day though. We had our former neighbours knock on our door and ask me to stop my two very elderly house cats from snoozing (indoors!) on my lounge windowsill as she was scared of cats. Im not quite sure how she though they would manage get through a closed window to her.
I told her I would have a word with them.

Same here. Have never seen any cats try to eat them.
Tell her that if you see the cats in your garden you'll be sure to get the water pistol cannon out before they get a chance to poison themselves on the azaleas.

This has proper tickled me.

She's utterly batshit, OP!

Glad all of your neighbours are onside with you.

Your neighbour is off their rocker.

I grew up with 2 cats and a large, mature rhododendron plant. Both cats thrived, lived to grand old ages, and funnily enough, DIDN'T eat random garden plants.

Tell her she has several options if she is so concerned that nearby gardens are unsafe for cats.

1. Do not get cats!
2. Cat proof her garden to make sure they can’t get out.
3. Keep indoors permanently.
4. Install a catio.
5. get cats and let them roam at will, accepting the possibility of mishaps.

For all options, except No 1, she needs good pet insurance and her cats need to be vaccinated, neutered and chipped.

What does she plan to do to prevent her moggies from getting into fights with other cats, running across the road or pooping, scooping, spraying, vomiting and leaving remnants of prey in her neighbours’ gardens?

I agree it's good that she's behaved like this with lots of people; everyone will know exactly what she's like and won't be taken in if she tries any divide-and-conquer shite.
I cat-sit for friends with glorious rhododendrons and a cat who, bless her cottons, is not the brightest, but she manages not to eat them and poison herself.

Her animals are not your problem.

What a looney! Does she have kids? If not, what if she gets pregnant? Are you going to have to censor your groceries? Stop using toothpaste with fluoride? Stop eating nuts, gluten & dustmites? She’ll have to get rid of the cats!!!

I hope every neighbour she has contacted has told her to get real?

Giving her the benefit of the doubt, she may not have realised that cats avoid plants that are toxic to them. Not sure if there is anything easily available online that says that, but if you do find anything it might be worth giving her a copy.

OMG this is all batshittery of the highest order (my apologies to bats, they are lovely!).

The one that wants to continue her cats going in next door's garden, is she going to come over to collect their shit????

As someone said upthread - how are we not seeing dead cats lying all over our gardens and parks?

This is interesting. We moved to a newbuild four years ago and got a cat. The last time we had a cat was over twenty years ago and we had all sorts in the garden including azaleas, tulips and hydrangeas and never thought twice about it.

I have been obsessed with checking anything I plant is safe for cats and it seems most isn’t. I realise I’m probably being obsessive because a lot of the plants mentioned as unsafe for cats are common and you don’t hear of them affecting (m)any cats. I think we honestly have far too much information available to us and it creates unnecessary caution.

In a way, it’s good that she is being mental with lots of people, not just you.

My understanding is that nearly all plants are poisonous (to some extent) to cats but they have the wit to not eat them.