To tell her to get lost?

oh there are more than 2! I had real stress a few years ago when a crazy woman and her husband reported me to the council over my dogs.

I remember it, too!

Absolutely crackers!

How did the kid get to school, having to pass random dogs isn the street? Go on holiday? What happened if they encountered a service dog when they went iiut for a meal etc?

I remember that thread! A lot of people agreed with the neighbour if I recall as well! Bonkers!

This reminds me of a thread a year or so ago, when a mumsnetter lived next door to a family who had a daughter with an allergy to dogs.

The mumsnetter was told not to let her dog into her own back garden, or let it get into the car on their drive. If the dog was to get into the car it had to be parked around the corner. Also, the daughter must never see or hear the dog, or see any of it's toys, bed, food bowl etc.

Eventually the mumsnetter got fed up and let the dog into her garden. Cue the next door neighbour screaming at her from an open window that she was 'trying to kill' the daughter.

Some people really do live on their own special little planets.

Are people becoming more entitled or does the internet mean we are more aware of these stories?

OP, Im imagining your garden! It sounds gorgeous!

"Pay for my time, hourly rate is £40 also petrol up front and I might come back, other than that stop being so batshit."

I'm a bit over invested with the bat shittery on MN. Just when you think it couldn't get worse it does.😁
She'll be complaining to the council next.
Rooting for OP and #team greyhound.

I bought a small house with a massive garden specifically thinking of my dogs. The garden is overgrown (the previous owner was a very old lady) and the next door neighbour's cats love to hunt and spend time there. We haven't moved yet - the house needs a lot of work - but the next door neighbour already told us she is expecting us to honour the previous owner's permission to have the cats there and we should keep our dogs indoors at all times 🙄 we told her we're not responsible for her cats safety and she should keeps them indoors or proof her garden - she was absolutely shocked with the suggestions! And every time we go to the house during the day and she cannot find one of the cats in that evening/night, she calls demanding us to go back to the house (we live 40 minutes away) and be sure the cat is not locked indoors. It never happened, by the way.

That really is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard 😂! I've got 3 cats and a dog, and a garden full of toxic plants! (And toxic house plants.) They've never touched them! Absolutely batshit!

She has contacted at least 4 other neighbours and made similar requests. She's even asked our neighbour with a rescue greyhound to only let it in the garden on a lead. He told her to f off in no uncertain terms.*

It’s lovely she adopted rescues, but she sounds mental. She needs to leave neighbours alone and secure her garden to keep the cats in, which is safer for them anyway.

If her cats are going to roam, they will not just roam into your garden, and as PP rightly says, there are roads out there as well........
If they are rescue cats, my instinct is that they are probably canny beasts anyway, but you could offer to take measure such as water pistols to put them off entering your premises. With any luck, she may become too offended to speak to you at all (only joking!)
I speak as the housekeeper for a rescue cat; an animal who apparently managed to live rough for a year before being rounded up. He obviously worked out for himself what not to eat.

You need a No Trespassers sign. If her dcat enters your property tell her your solicitor will be in touch regarding it's prosecution...

Tell her you'll sue her for any damage done to your plants by her cats and will be returning their poo via her letter box!

I have 12 cats, as my username suggests, and a garden full of rhododendrons and azaleas. Never been a problem.

LOL same, except he will ONLY eat Sheba Fresh and Fine, then he goes off it for a while and will ONLY eat Felix Cat Soup.

The idea that he'd be interested in a shrub is laughable.

Will eat a mouse though! And drink rain water from the top of the bin.

Cats are great!

I've just seen the update. Well, at least you'll have something to talk about with your neighbours other than the weather!

Bloody hell she's going to be a NIGHTMARE with those cats.

Make sure you throw any poo back over the fence.

She needs to control her new cats then.

But as I often point out, if I removed anything from my garden that might be poisonous to DS (who is now 6, but didn't really show inclination at the time to pick things) or the dogs, I might as well bloody concrete the lot. Won't be doing that as it's one of the things I actually enjoy, if I ever have the inclination after doing 45 hours pw of it in my job

The strategy was place out of reach and try to train child to only pick things with a grown up. We have cats that come through, from up to half a mile away, their choice, their risk.

The update re the neighbours greyhound takes it to a completely new level of batshit 😂.

Lol. Bless her.
Just respond with something polite but very clear e.g. Hi xxxx, thanks for your message. I have chosen the plants I have for a reason and am not open to making any changes on account of your new pets. I hope their arrival goes smoothly. All the best.

She sounds somewhat unhinged. Your neighbourhood WhatsApp is going to have a field day.

Dear Neighbour

It's lovely that you are rehoming these cats. I hope they will get the same enjoyment from my garden as other passing cats who have come to no harm over the years and have had no interest in my plants.

However, you seem very anxious about the risk to them but I'm afraid this is not something I can help with by uprooting large elements of my garden. There is a modern solution to this so I thought I'd forward on a link. I'm sure there are alternative companies too, but this website seems quite comprehensive.

https://protectapet.com

Yours etc.

Tell her it's up to her to keep the cat out your garden - and that she'll be getting invoices for any plants it digs up/damages/shits all over.

You say that. My cat seems to be most attracted to what will do her most harm. But I don't think she was blessed with much intelligence to be fair.

OP: YANBU. It's not your responsibility. It's your garden and if your neighbour wants to keep her cat safe, she can keep it out of your garden. Cats wander. She can't check EVERYONE'S gardens!