To not want neighbours cats in my garden?

If you want someone to stop letting their cat into your garden, the quickest most effective way to get them to keep it away is to give it a new colar with your address on it and feed it a few times.

Outdoor cat people feel simultaneously entitled to expect their pet to be welcome in your property WHILST ALSO will go to war and great lengths to stop you "stealing" their cats!

Try it

I bet it works

This comes up regularly and cat owners will throw their hands up and say “well what can you do?” They will also say that cats bury their shit, but they don’t. The answer is to keep your cats inside, or build a cat run. Personally, I made sure each cat shit found it’s way onto the neighbours patio. Every. Single. Time.

YANBU OP but it may not go well for you here.

Some people have posted on here that they have had success with automatic water sprayers. They sound like quite a lot of effort to set up and leave permanently attached to a hose.
I have had success with a super soaker that was half filled with vegetable oil and half filled with water. The cat didn’t come back. Some cat owners on here expressed outrage at the idea but more reasonable ones thought that it wouldn’t harm their cats. The cat was still wandering around the next day, just not in my garden.
I have planted lillies but that won’t work when the flowers are not in bloom. The best think I have done is to make sure that there are no gaps in the fence.

Was your house empty for a while? Sounds like it’s become their terf so to speak.

Whenever you are not actively in the garden have some motion sensor sprinklers. Spray with a hose/water pistol when out not next to you need to wet them.

I would hope it was clear what I meant by the word wildlife.

Cats are not domesticated or trainable in the way dogs are.

Cats kill birds and under uk law are free to roam without restriction. Yes, it's understandable that you don't want cats coming into your home, but the solution to this is to keep windows etc shut or only open so far so that the cats can't come in.

The idea that cats keep rats and mice away is laughable, our neighbour has 4 cats and we make sure to always have poison in our loft or the mice quickly become a problem when the come in. Another neighbour had rats under their decking.

The cats round here just kill baby birds, decapitate slow worms and kill frogs and voles. It's just horrible. They also dig up my vegetable patch to shit in it which is vile. I've never known cats to effectively bury their poo.

Unfortunately people with cats generally have a huge sense of entitlement as you can see from this thread OP.

We have a similar problem. A cat got in our wheelie bin when the people cleaning it had left it open to dry. It was dark when I got home and I shut it without noticing. The cat was in there overnight and our neighbours went completely ballistic at me. It broke down our relationship completely.

@Rainbow3210 I just want to say I fully sympathise and am really annoyed by this issue in my own home.
Just bought my first home, and I can't use my garden at the moment as it absolutely stinks.
The local cats have taken to pooing on my flat roof extension, so the smell as it bakes in the sun is revolting.

Nothing- essential oils, sonic noise boxes, specific plants or working to deter them.
My little boy ends up standing on buried poo and digging it up.

So they are defecating on your patio, not soil and burying it? What I was going to suggest might not work, then. A product called Silent Roar from garden centres which is actually dried lions' poo, and signals that this place belongs to a very big cat. Does work, also enriches the soil when it breaks down. What didn't was an electric sensor that made an inaudible to us noise when it sensed an interloper. Cat went right up to it.
Is the fence theirs or yours? If yours, put stuff they don't like on it. There's plastic spiky stuff for instance.

We have lots of young birds in our garden. There is one cat who if dh sees it he throws a handful of gravel at it. Very rarely hits it but the noise scares it away. It doesn't often come now. I don't 't care if it's cruel, seeing a baby bird played with and mauled to death is cruel too whether it's natural or not.
I don't want it shitting on my plants either.

Not entirely. Dogs are kept on the property and generally don’t stray

I don't have cats, but it's hardly a case of not caring, cats roam so unless they lock them in the house, what do you expect them to do?

It's no different than any other than other animals that roam the garden, we live in the country and have foxes, badgers etc.

The cat owner should get cat proof fencing or a Catio, but as you can see from these posts convincing people to be responsible for their cats is difficult.

This thread won't go well for you sadly.

The cat culture in this cointry is absolutely crazy and completely unfair to people that give a shit about wildlife, give a shut about people other than themselves, and simply want to be left alone.

But sadly, the idea that cat owners should take responsibility for their pets is not a popular one and you won't win. They will absolutely point blank refuse to accept perfectly valid points and will eventually just start throwing insults af you about how cruel you are, with no logical argument to give back (literally none whatsoever, I've had this debate for years and I've never seen one)

You will feel like you are hanging your head against a brick wall until you eventually give in and accept that most people are just selfish and want a cute fluffy pet without having to take any responsibility for it whatsoever.

There are some nice normal people that sympathise with you though so please know you're not alone at least

YANBU to not want someone else’s cats in your house/ garden and your neighbour is NBU to do nothing about it . Cats do not all bury their poo , most are lazy and just shit on the top and then scrape a bit and walk away effort made . If you want to keep cats out catproof your own garden , it will keep most cats out , in the same way as it keeps most cats in .

I’d get a water pistol: you need to train them out of coming in.

My cat goes out, we did try to keep him in but he was going mental and kept running out/trying to climb out of windows. He doesn’t go far, and still uses his litter tray (unfortunately). The only thing he managed to catch was a rat!

we’ve had birds of prey pick off birds in our garden, they took the neighbours koi carp (they tried to blame cats eventually). There are always predators.

Spray the cats with water, they hate that and its harmless.

Insects are not the neighbours chosen pet, unlike the cat who the neighbour is responsible for.

This is just urban life. If you don't like it get a better aim with the water pistol. We have about 10 cats that visit our garden and the occasional one gets in the house. If I see them bothering wildlife I chase them off. When I was pregnant DH scooped the poop or if he was away I was careful and washed my hands very well afterwards.

There is plenty that can be done to prevent cats leaving your own garden, your neighbour is a rude selfish fucker. Cat proofing is a thing that should be made mandatory for all cat owners.

cats are not wildlife.

tell your partner to stop being kind and give the cat a good soaking.

If it's not these particular cats it will be different cats, or other wildlife. It's what animals do.

You might as well ask your neighbours to keep the insects under control.

My neighbour offered water pistols to us to stop their cat coming into our garden. We had the same problems. I suggest your husband starts actually spraying them, not next to them. We only had to do it a couple of times.