Next door cat keeps shitting on my drive

They hate citrus. Try making your own citrus spray with fresh peels or essential oil. Spray liberally.

Four lots from one cat? What is it fucking eating 🤣
Our cats have a litter tray which is always available, doesn't stop one of them shitting outside though.

If you're definitely sure it's their cat then yes worth speaking to them but I'd also buy a super soaker and use it.

My old neighbours were sure it was my cats pooing in their garden. But it was a big ginger Tom and I had two black and white girls......

We have cats and I feel very guilty that they go in other people's gardens, having had that happen to us with little kids in a previous property. I have offered to poo pick for my neighbours and I would do it. I would definitely mention it.

Cats will shit anywhere hard standing soil grass and gravel. They will 50:50 bury or leave.

Mg own bloody cats locked in I may add have shit in my concrete slabs, veg bed and next to their litter trays. They do not care they will go where they feel. One had a thing about baths till we made sure the door was always shut.

If it is on hard standing this is a fox and not a cat.

Next doors cat uses my lavender bush as a sofa during the day.

If I knew my cat was doing this I'd do as a PP suggested and go check daily armed with a poo bag to get rid of it for them. My cat, my responsibility. (Tbf to my cat, she has a litter tray and mostly uses that but sometimes she wants to go outside for an al fresco poo in our garden, probably to make a point to a particular cat.) Sometimes cats will do a half-assed attempt to bury poo but left out in the open is a cat trying to assert its dominance over other neighbourhood cats. Saying that, I do lift poo daily from gardens which is definitely foxes as well, plus the occasional hedgehog poo. They also seem to leave theirs in places which suggest advertising their presence to other foxes/hedgehogs...

In your place if you've seen the cat responsible then ask the owner to please clean up after their pet. If they won't then any cat deterrent should help.

I got one of the sonic repellers when I had this problem. Worked a treat!

Just gravelled our front border and the neighbours cat has decided it's a monster litter tray.

Little fucker. I'll be sorting him out.

My neighbour's cat definitely isn't put off by lavender, because his absolute favourite place to sit is on a low wall on the corner of our street, beneath an overhanging lavender hedge!

(I'm actually very fond of that particular cat because he's very friendly and quite the character, but apparently he regularly drives another neighbour mad by shitting in their herb planter - seems there's no smell he's not prepared to overcome.)

I've never known cats to bury their shit, even when I've found it in my earthy vegetable patch it's not been buried. They'll shit anywhere.
Don't expect the owners to care or want to take any responsibility though IME.

Talk to your neighbour. I had this exact issue, years ago. She suggested all kinds of repellent stuff and I suggested she go to the trouble and expense of acquiring the Stuff. Which she did. But of course as soon as it rained 🤷‍♀️.it washed away. That’s the issue with deterrents, it becomes YOUR responsibility! Why should it be?

The cat had several toileting stations on the street, and whenever it used the path outside my gate I used to return the shit to her doormat. She knew it was me. I knew she knew it was me. She knew I knew, etc. we eventually moved, and I guess she still doesn’t give a toss. Perhaps your neighbour will be more… neighbourly.

I know cat owners often insist that cats always bury their turds, but I've lived in three different properties now where I've actually witnessed neighbours' cats crapping on my patio and/or lawn, so plenty of cats are happy to shit wherever they fancy it.

It literally dries in minutes on a dry day. And yes, I’ve seen cats shit directly beside lavender plants.

Please don’t pour Jeyes on your drive, that shit is toxic to anything that might wander across it before it dries!

Cats don’t like citrus, peppermint or lavender. Nice lavender bush in your garden should solve it!

Tell the neighbours. Tell them you are 100% sure it is their cat as you have seen it on multiple occasions and tell them you expect them to pick it up. It’s their cat, their responsibility, just like a dog. And no there isn’t any difference.

A current problem for us as well. DS stepped in it with his new shoes on. It's gone right into all the creases in the sole 🤢
I cut a load of lemon up today to scatter and I'm scouring the internet for deterrents to buy. I was going to spray vinegar solution everywhere but DH said I would look mental and good luck with that. I sympathise. I know which cat it is, seems to think our garden is his. Not a clue who owner is. I can see why my dad hated cats so much.

I would just try to deter the cat and say nothing to the owners. The owners can't very well lock it up all day.

I once read an advice thread here about how to keep cats away and someone swore by male human urine. As a desperate last resort I sent my husband out with a bottle of pee to pour on the cats usual spots and it bloody works!

The only other marginally effective thing was tea tree oil on teabags but they get used to those eventually. Now every night he goes out with his bottle and marks his territory, puts them right off.

we bought an Amazon Basics solar-powered cat-scarer thing for £20, that now means our back lawn and vegetable beds are clear of toxic cat mess. We can now even let our grandchildren play in our garden.

I've come to the view that people who fail to train their cats to mess in a litter tray indoors are as anti-social as dog owners who refuse to pick up after their dogs. Your creature, your responsibility.

Jeyes fluid around the perimeter of my garden worked. A neighbours cat kept shitting on the lawn (and yes it was definitely the cat, yes I’ve seen it and no it doesn’t bury it).

Hope you don’t drive anywhere. Cars kill cats a damn sight more often than Jeyes fluid.

I had this problem and I got my neighbours to come round and clean up after their pet every time.

They also purchased one of those sonic cat repellent things and some pellets to put down.

That combination worked. Essentially it just meant their cat poo-ed on someone else's lawn but it was no longer my problem to resolve.

They were decent neighbours though, plus I now have a dog which I never allow to shit in their front garden, (& if in some freak circumstance they did, I'd pick it up) so I think that's fair 🤷‍♀️

One of the ultrasonic cat deterrents worked for me, although I know they don't always. I think you just have to get the cat out of the habit and then it will find somewhere else.