Please help how to I do disencourage my neighbours cat from our tiny sunny countyard garden

This is NOT true; Jeye Fluid is poisonous for cats. Do NOT do this ever, as annoying as a cat pooing in your garden is, it's not on to make them sick.

You probably killed it! How cruel!

If anyone has worked out how to train a cat to poo in a specific place I'd like to know the secret please.

I have three and they poo in the most inconvenient places.

Put cucumbers all over your yard 🤣 apparently they don't like them lol. Ot sit in the window like a sniper and get the bugger with the water gun

This made me LOL!

Message back "Your cat has shat in our garden. Kindly come and pick it up. We don't like it".

I literally just bought the most disgusting humane organic oil concoction off Amazon, it’s a fox repellant but also for other animals. I got it because my house rabbit likes to wee on the sofa in the place that I sit (it is how they show love!) and I just sprayed it on my sofa and she didn’t go onto it and do any poops or wees! Sadly when I put the cushions on, I don’t think she could still smell it so I sprayed it again and I’ll check soon. But that might work? It’s citronella chilli and garlic and it’s awful! I’m coping because I have had lots of lovely aromatherapy candles on, sprayed with some neals yard soray and kept back door and windows open. Worth a go? We have a cat that keeps coming in and eating my cats food! When I catch it, I spray it with water and that helps it scarper when it sees me. You can get cat noise deterrents too. Cat activated sprinklers: I’m not sure if cat shite is good for your plants tbh

I think cats are quite intelligent and will avoid areas soaked with Jeyes fluid so it won’t kill them. People are advised to use Jeyes fluid as a disinfectant for bird feeders, animal housing, etc. We have a super soaker ready loaded in the back garden. Every time I put in new plants or dig the soil I put in bamboo kebab skewers in the soil, point side up, every 4 cms. This does seem to stop cats from using my borders as a toilet.

Pump action water pistol. The pump action puts the water under pressure, increasing its range. You say your garden's tiny, so it should be able to shoot the cat wherever it is in the garden. Keep it filled and pumped so that all you have to do is open the window/door, point and press.

Water does not harm the cat, but it does keep it busy doing a full nose-to-tail clean for the next hour or so . Eventually the cat will associate your garden with getting wet, and stop coming.

Not great for anything living, including plants.

If the neighbour gets in a tiz over a leaf falling from your tree (I know a neighbour who does this too so I beleive you!) then the poor cat is probably escaping to be able to poo in peace!

It's gross though, so you have my sympathies. I would try the coffee granules idea above and see how that goes. I wouldn't move because of the cat alone - you might move somewhere else with a cat, or have even worse neighbours. It doesn't seem worth the risk.

Water pistols for immediate deterrent and cocktail sticks in the ground for when don't see. Otherwise try showering it with love, my cats hate that 😂

If there’s a particular place it likes to go then try make it uninviting. My parents put sticks in the ground sticking up right so their neighbours cat wouldn’t go in a particular flower bed that it took a liking to. It worked.

Jeyes fluid is NOT harmless to animals. It is not safe for pets while wet and can be deadly to cats.

Just to say as a cat owner, it's extremely unlikely your neighbour trained your cat to use your garden as a litter tray - it's just what they do, never in their own backyard. This is the norm for cats. You can get cat repellent sprays. Maybe try one of those.

Coffee granules sprinkled all over the borders and spray it with water every time you can. We had similar from next door's cat shitting in our garden and killing birds until I got it with a good shot from the hosepipe. We haven't had an issue since.

But would mess with the PH of your soil and kill off plants. Would kill off other things too.

I came on to say the same. I had a courtyard garden with beds at the edge and every day there would one or two new cat poos. I tried everything. The only thing that worked was wire mesh over the top of the soil and then cutting holes in it to plant through. Stopped as soon as I did that and never happened again. It’s a pain to do but once done it’s done.

nor does it wait for your presence-

You've met cats right?

This would definitely make OP the crazy neighbour 🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂

@Londonrach1 vinegar

You can get motion sensor water sprayers to hook up to your hose. Move it every now and again to take them by suprise

Op, is there a chance that you and not your neighbor is vvv weird? Because the cat hasn't been trained to poo in your garden and nor does it wait for your presence- it's pretty weird that you think this. In addition To consider selling your house because of this cat is also rather weird.

As for advice I think the best advice has been given- water pistol whenever you see it. But also some perspective, the cat isn't targeting you and nor should you feel so traumatised by it that you need to move house- not least because shitting cats are rather common place (as per frequent complaints on here) and you can't guarantee your next garden will be free of them.

We had a constant issue of cat poo down the gravel strip along our drive. There was at least 2 or 3 piles of it everyday frigging day and l the stink when getting in and out of the cars was horrible.

I tried citrus peels, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, black pepper but the bastard thing kept doing it.

Then one day I dropped a big jar of instant coffee (very pissed off) getting it out of the boot of the car and swept all the granules onto the gravel (picked up the glass), no more cat poo! You can still see the black sludge bits when it’s wet so the smell must still be there. That was months ago as well.

So pick up a couple of cheap supermarket own brand coffee granules (not powder) and give that a try, sprinkle liberally around boundary and soil areas.