To tell her to get lost?

I don't know how far cats roam, but she's going to have to make a lot of house calls! By her reasoning nobody would have lavender and other nasties in their gardens as cats are not known for respecting fences and hedges...

She's going to have a terrible time if she's so precious about it. Cats don't generally eat plants, they live happily with toxic plants all over the place. I have an azaelia and a rhododendron and my cats ignore them. It's sheer bad luck if something goes wrong - but not your problem anyway.

@K0OLA1D that was my first thought.
I want to know more about the go fund me etc though @Sharontheodopolodous !! She sounds bat shit

Were the cats OK???

We had something similar with our batshit neighbour

We'd lived here for a while,then our (lovely) neighbour died

Nutjob moved in and started up about us parking our car,outside our house in 'her' Street

When that failed to get a rise out of us,(she rang the police 3 times but they couldn't do anything as we where parked perfectly legally) she got 3 cats

Anyway,I adore lilies,roses,lavender,wild flowers etc and we'd planted loads and two trees in our garden-its our garden,we own the house and will plant what the hell we like

She came round and tried to demand we take all the plants/trees up and to get rid of our bird feeder while we where at it

We laughed and shut the door on her-our garden,our flowers,our trees and our bird feeder-her cats-not my problem (plus the other neighbourhood cats don't seem to have had any issues)

Well!that triggered batshit into space!

She tried to get us to pay vet bills that had naff all to do with our garden,slagged us off to anyone who would listen and tried to force us out of our own home ('I'm going to phone your landlord and get you out!'best of luck love,we are the bloody landlords)

Long story short,she accidentally set fire to her house last week and has moved out (the lack of insurance and the gofundme and begging for help on sm is another thread)

Good riddance to bad rubbish-the entitlement was off the scale

Stay polite. Say you have an allergy to cats and she must ensure they stay out of your garden at all costs.
What a piss taker and so rude to address you in that way.

@EatCrow Cats no longer come in to or use my garden as a toilet. They sometimes walk along the back wall but the defecation has ceased. I’d call that a result! The funny thing is that my dog actually adores cats. When she finally encounters one confident enough to interact with, she’s clearly in love and rolls over to present her belly 😂

Post her one back. "No".

OMG!! What have you said to her???

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Surely no one in their right mind would send you such a message?!

As my name suggests I have far too many cats and a garden full of rhododendrons, lavender, and delphiniums. Somehow my cats have survived.
Tell your batty neighbour to jog on.

You could meet her half way, I suppose.

Plant crocuses spelling "FUCK YOU!" on your lawn.

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She's nuts.

I have a cat and I couldn't even tell you what plants are in my OWN garden, never mind a neighbours.

Cat is fine by the way 😂

She sounds bonkers. Cats are perfectly fine doing the rounds through gardens with plants that are toxic to them, including my own. Ignore her.

(I wouldn't have lilies in my own garden, though, with my cats. Quite toxic and drop a lot of pollen-y bits. Don't particularly care for the smell of them, either, tbh.)

Your neighbour sounds mental. Is she planning on doing the rounds of everyone within a certain radius of everyone living nearby to make sure there are no plants or shrubs that are toxic to cats in their gardens too?

I've got a cat.... and rhododendrons, azaleas, lillies and likely a billion other plants that are 'toxic to cats' and we get several other of the neighbours' cats visiting our garden too. None of them have been harmed by anything in my garden or my neighbours' gardens either.

Yes, tell her to get lost!

Well done, OP!! I can’t believe the actually asked.. what a CF!

Outdoor cats will encounter various dangers. Cats, hostile animals (or people 😢), cars, poisonous plants… The poisonous plants should be the least of their worries, tbh!

The lilies are admittedly a bit of an exceptions. Pollen can easily fall / transfer on a cat and be licked off during grooming.
And just a few grains of pollen are enough to be fatal!

I am therefore glad you’re reconsidering those seeing as you have a few fury friends yourself.

Are you going to have a street WhatsApp group that doesn’t include her?

She’s bonkers!

My DM had a prized azalea in her tiny garden - absolutely covered with flowers every year. It did absolutely nothing to deter the cats that endlessly lurked under that or other shrubs, waiting to slaughter any of the birds she fed.

As an owner of many cats, she is fucking bonkers. She can feel free to keep them indoors if she's that concerned about them.

Every one of those plants was in my parents' garden. Our outdoors cats were fine.

People have become weirdly risk averse about pets. Someone online was freaking out about using essential oils in the house because some of them might, supposedly, be harmful to cats. I've never heard of this, and how far are we all supposed to go down the road complete risk aversion? Cars are surely a much bigger risk to an outdoor cat, if we want to worry about safety.

She is being ridiculous. What about all the other neighbors, is she going to do an inspection of all the gardens?

wow, she needs a reality check. I have several cats that visit my garden, some from a couple of streets away as they can come through the gardens at the back. She needs to realise that it won't just be your garden that they go in.

Is she going to ask every house in the next couple of streets to dig up their gardens too?

Sadly it could create problems between you but she just isn't thinking this through properly. (I have always had cats myself and never given a thought as to what is in the neighbours gardens).

Every garden around here, plus the church grounds, seems to have rhododendrons and azaleas ( something to do with the type of soil) Never seen a dead cat, plenty of healthy ones roaming around.
Your neighbour is well OTT.

Entitled much? Anyway, cats are usually pretty smart about not eating things that hurt them unlike dogs.

Glad I am not the only one with a hilarious neighbour. Mine has told me it is outrageous that her window overlooks my house and that I need to plant shrubs in my side return asap to prevent the horror of her seeing me or me seeing her.