To not want neighbours cats in my garden?

Please don't get one of those noise torturers. It is not true that people can't hear them. I am nearly 60. I can hear them, and for anyone in their cone of sound it is torture. My neighbour has one pointed out from his front wall which goes right in my son's bedroom window so he has to stay with friends when it's too hot to sleep with the window closed. It is motion triggered pointing to the pavement and road.
They have another pointed out across the back garden but only spring to autumn that is constant rather than motion triggered making even hanging the washing really unpleasant.
They should be banned imo. If you want to try one then point it at your own house.

Try shouting at them to go away

There is.

Close the door.

Rename it, get it a new collar with it's new name. Feed it.

Suddenly it's owner will have a much stronger case of the "mines" than they had before

That’s life 🤷🏼‍♀️

Spray them with water whenever you see them. Not near them, on them. It won't hurt them, but they won't enjoy it. Haven't had a cat in the garden for years since installing sprinklers. Also, those rubber spikes that go on top of walls and fences. They don't enjoy the sensation on their feet, so tend to avoid them. My neighbours are totally okay with this, as they describe their cats as total assholes!

Hosepipe

I didn't read all the replies. But if you could spell properly it would really help

You mention in one of your posts having a dog - what breed is it, and does it 'patrol' in your garden? Seems odd that cats are treating your house and garden as a free-for-all when there's a dog about. My dog tolerates my two cats but goes nuts if another comes into the garden. She's a Jack Russell cross though, terriers are known for it.

They were a pack of 2 from Amazn, about £50. Just had a look but they don’t have a brand on them. They work well for us but It is a very small garden though.

Yeah not really sure what the gotcha was here. “My house is not suitable for a cat”. Well, don’t get one then?

Well yeah it's almost as if you should consider things like that when choosing pets eh

Or you can keep retrieving YOUR cat if it roams into my house. I might decide I don't like the doors open after all..

I suppose those people just shouldn't have cats!

yup

Hate cats, so bad for wildlife killing birds all the time and shitting everywhere. Also annoys me the constant whatsapp and fb messages for lost cats...ffs (hopefully eaten by a massive bird!!).

I get the hose out to them in our garden.

can i ask which ones you bought please?

Mumsnet - "It's cruel to have indoor cats"
Also Mumsnet - "I don't want cats in my garden or killing birds".

Not everyone has the right sort of house/garden for a catio or cat proof fencing.
I suppose those people just shouldn't have cats!

OP, I sympathise but there's not a lot you can do except scare them away.

I've had cats for 40 years. There are numerous cats around here, all allowed outdoors, how on earth is anyone supposed to know which cat has shat where? 😂
Fortunately I live somewhere with normal neighbours who wouldn't dream of expecting someone else to come into their garden and pick up random cat turds.

I won't want to keep it, as soon as you come to claim it back: ITS YOURS. but you'll have to keep coming. Until you can think of oh, some other way to not have to keep coming! I'm not leaving my doors open all day now that they're so many fruit flies about!

also for cats

Cats have a right to roam wherever they wish. This idea is based on the fact that dog and livestock owners are obliged by law to keep their animals under control - but these duties do not apply to cat owners. The law recognises that cats are less likely to cause injury to people or damage property than some other animals.

However, cat owners do have a duty at law to take reasonable care to ensure that their cats do not injure people or damage property. Cases involving damage to property or injury to people by cats are rare.

I’m sure most aren’t fussy. I haven’t got all day to sit at my patio doors with a water pistol. But leaving a big bowl of cat food in the garden is within my control, and my right. It’s my garden.
If the cats are coming in anyway, then I may as well…if only to piss off their owners.

Fortunately my spike mats are working well at the moment.

We found that two sonar devices at opposite ends of our small garden sorted the problem out. Our non-cat neighbours on one side have them too. We did years of chucking water at the cats but it didn’t work as there are so many cats in the road and we’re not always in the garden. We switch the devices off when one of my adult kids is here and in the garden, as she can hear them.

Try orange peel and stop with the hose. Just pick it up fgs.

Just had to chase my neighbours cat off my counter where my cat was watching him eat his food.

I don't want to keep it. Come and take it back!

It just comes in before I closed the door.

Cheeky fecker

I don’t know any cat that will touch cheap cat food.

So they're NOT wildlife now... See... Good we're getting somewhere

I didn't steal it. it came here by itself. I am allowed to close my door. I will immediately hand it back to the nice copper and tell them exactly how much I DONT want it coming in and making itself at home....

How many times are you going to bother them before you bother to enclosed YOUR garden?