To not want neighbours cats in my garden?

Nobody is likening cats to snakes: snakes can be very dangerous; but that has no connection to how much of a nuisance cats can be when the owners don't care where they are.

Yeah - I get it. I'm off out to watch my cat for the morning.... [not]

This response is why people hate cats. Wildlife is acceptable because it's supposed to be there. Cats are imported and are domesticated pets. No one's hobby or pet should result in faeces in someone else's garden.

I'm sure there are windows that open upstairs - well, if we assume that nobody at all lives in flats or bungalows, I suppose.

It's just that people tend to like to open windows in the area of the house where they actually are during very hot weather; rather than roasting but knowing that, at least, their bedrooms would be nice and cool, were anybody actually upstairs to enjoy that coolness.

Nobody is likening cats to snakes: snakes can be very dangerous; but that has no connection to how much of a nuisance cats can be when the owners don't care where they are.

I am happy with both of those options.

What is ridiculous about a pregnant woman with two small kids not wanting the neighbours cat walking around her house, on top of her worktops and scratching family members? ?????

What is truly ridiculous is the constantly parroted phrase " cats have a right to roam"

They do NOT have a right to enter people's homes. I'm a cat lover, but your little Tiddles got NO rights once it starts bothering me in my own house. I'm not using my money to cat proof my home against your cat. But I will use any means necessary to scare the little fucker so badly it won't come back.

Do you really go around the house opening and closing windows every time you move from one room to another on a really hot day?

Most people would open all/plenty of their windows on a hot day and leave them all open until the evening or if the house is going to be unoccupied. Just the same as, in winter, people don't generally switch off the radiators or put out the fire in the living room every time they go to the toilet, fetch a drink from the kitchen or go upstairs for something from a bedroom.

Burglars much prefer an empty house - or at least one where all the occupants are fast asleep - so they're highly unlikely to try to gain entry through a window of a busy house in the daytime.

Unfortunately you’ll just need to keep scaring it away, get a water pistol or failing that throw a bucket of water over it. It will soon get the message.

Failing that buy the car a collar with your name and address on it since it seems like you have unofficially adopted it. I’m sure once it goes home and your neighbour sees it, they will find a way of keeping it away from your garden.

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so that makes it OK for your cat to shit on everyone’s property?

Yes. Just like other animals do.

YANBU - it’s a nightmare when they destroy your garden! We had one who used our garden as a toilet and we had to have it re-turfed!

Tried everything but the best things were trellis about the fence to make if more difficult for the cat to walk along the fence and jump down, spiky plants, sprinkler on as they hate water and the kids running out shouting and chasing it away.

We finally have our garden back but it was miserable as we couldn’t use the garden.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/cats/environment/gardens

Cat proofing your garden often traps other wildlife in so is pretty dangerous. I have known of foxes falling in and not having the ability to get out. Netting over the top of your garden is firstly, unsightly for all your neighbours, but dangerous for birds and other animals. I actually think it’s very selfish to put things in your garden that affect other wildlife. Catios aren’t practical for most small gardens nor is keeping cats in the house, particularly in the summer months. There is no realistic solution other than to not have cats which is never going to happen.

@Blessthismess2 so that makes it OK for your cat to shit on everyone’s property?
It really isn’t. It’s so awful.
Nothing worse than the stench of cat shit, especially when you don’t actually own a cat!

Sounds like threatening us with a good time

Why is it ok? Because no one can reasonably be expected to follow their roaming cat around all day and wait for them to poo then pick it up .

If you have a problem with this there are only two solutions:

• No cats
• Removing the right to roam for cats.

It is annoying, but I’m amazed to hear how forward the cars are at entering windows and doors of places they don’t know or haven’t been invited. We had various cats passing through our garden and a swift bang in the window or opening the door and going out seemed to see them off.
Anyway….the solution for us came indirectly by buying a cat!

But there are good reasons why cats have the right to roam - if there weren't then the legislation would be different.

It's not remotely the same as gratuitously parking across someone's access or any of the other offered comparators.

I absolutely love this idea. It's perfection.

But sadly, the reality is, they will not find solutions because they absolutely cannot be bothered and they do not beleive they should have to take a shred of responsibility.

What they will actually do in reality is go on a local Facebook group and moan like HELL that someone is feeding their cat and can they PLEASE STOP 😭😭😭
All the other cat owners will agree with them in their hundreds, making them feel completely validated, until one person suggests that they could, maybe, possibly do something about it and keep their animal contained?
This lone voice will be immediately pounced on with laughter reactions, angry reactions and a chorus of CATS ROAM HOW DO YOU KEEP A CAT CONTAINED THATS CRUUUUEEEELLLL ad infinitum, while the owner continues to feel completely justified in their irresponsibly lazy pet ownership and will moan and play the victim until tiddles inevitably runs into the road while chasing it's latest murder victim, gets flattened by a mean old car driver, and is from that moment forth no longer a wild free roaming animal no one can control but something someone should have taken responsibility for by swerving or giving it it's last rites or something, and will be forever immortalised with a Facebook post where it picture it's edited onto a clouded background.

Such is the reality of the cat owner's mentality. And such it will remain while the majority agree with the completely batshit attitude we have to cats in the UK, which is complelty at odds with that of the rest of the world.

My neighbours three cats used to come into my garden but my little black girl cat has turned out to be a demon and sees them off. They are all scared of her.

You don't know cats do you? Thats a challenge!

I need to try this! Thank you.

Exactly that. And it is the thing that seems to be vanishing very fast. Responsibility, owning your impact.

OK I think you've made your point, I already explained myself.

Even if he does- do you complain about foxes? Hedgehogs? Birds? I live in London and there is often fox poo dotted around the place. I remember the school playground would often have some in the mornings when we came in that the caretaker had to clear up.

it is unusual for cats to not cover their poo up. I can only assume that the cat is going around marking its territory if it is the local playing field. However, It may not be able to do it due to the hard ground. You might find the cat tries to bury it with the dirt that it can find but since there isn’t much it will be a cursory effort.

But it doesn't help the argument.

It's a bit like me saying "this snake is venomous"

And then you saying "but there are also venomous spiders!!!!"

Like.... OK? I know?

Dog owners being irresponsible with their dogs is a seperate issue to cat owners being irresponsible with their cats.

These issues exist simultaneously and do not cancel each other out.