To really dislike neighbour & not want to help her?

Get your husband/any male to pee around the garden ,
send her cat proofing resources she can buy

throw the cat turds back over her fence, she won’t want her kids trampling in her house & the Gardner will have a word aswell (I have done that) the neighbour received her cat poo back over the fence & only then (after many polite verbal requests) decided she didn’t want to clean it up off her lovely neat cat poo free garden either & sorted them out

If you use the water pistol, put some kind of cat-safe fragrance in it too. They hate to smell “other”….

I would put a high fence in between mine and my neighbours house so the children cant wander in. As to her gardner thats her problem.I have a high fence with a lockable gate surrounding my drive. It only gets opened when Im expecting someone. This week I had a delivery on monday and havnt answered my door since. I dont take in parcels or hold keys. People need to handle their own mail and visitors.

I’m one for a dedicated poop shovel. And a water pistol.not to be fired at the cats but nearby….. it works wonders.
To the “nothing can be done” crowd. Yes of course there is a solution. Keep your cat indoors or restricted to your garden, problem solved.

Btw I am sure you can get a spinny one if you don’t want something quite so ballistic.

Motion-activated sprinklers work well to deter cats and people. Set up cameras and have a laugh.
This is what I’m talking about

Put the hose or a supersoaker at her cats, every single time you see them in your garden, that, combined with chucking the poo back over should sort the fuckers out.

What do you want her to do? Have a stern word with the cats? Cats roam, it’s just what they do. Cat proof your garden and get on with your life. You could get far worse.

What are the spikes made of. Cats weave in-between the rubber ones.

I wouldn't want kids trampling on my plants. How old are the kids.but It's mean to block the hedgehog holes and spikes on fences is just cruel.. why does the gardener need to use her back door.

@cauliflowerf the neighbours just sounds like a normal family, where the kids sometimes do things they're not supposed to, because they're kids. They have pet cats like a massive percentage of people in the UK (assuming that's where you live), about a quarter or more of households I believe. The vast majority of which free roam. She's not some freak or targeting you in any way for having cats that do this. You OTOH are all wound up and ready to snap and taking it all personally over what seems like nothing to me. Just my perception and opinion. I wouldn't want to live next door to you but would be fine living next door to your neighbour.

@LadyHexham you bet wrong, I'm not an animal lover of any description.

I can understand being slightly irritated, but couldn't even be bothered to sigh or tut about it tbh. Cats can legally free roam in this country. It's not like the woman next door is training her cats to shit in the OP's garden.

OP comes across as rather irascible, not to mention dramatic. I would expect to be laughed at if I used the word "trespass" about kids who live next door standing on my driveway, it's pathetic.

My advice would be to live on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Although all manner of shit will make contact with your vessel, no one will ask you to take in their parcels and there is only the slimmest chance of those evil little flower tramplers called children happening upon your property.

You sound like a ton of fun.

She has cats and kids who walk on York garden. What a dreadful woman.

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It is possible to cat-proof a garden to keep cats in.

Yabu for blocking up hedgehog holes

You sound like a nightmare neighbour, not her.

What?
Because she doesn't want to clean up her garden after someone else's pet?
Bet you have a cat

You sound like a nightmare neighbour, not her.

Don’t worry, I’m sure she’ll soon realise how unfriendly you are.

But the kids aren't just running on the drive; they're evidently trampling OP's plants.

Not all neighbours do one another favours. She should take the hint soon that you're not interested in helping her. It's all fine, so long as you're not asking any favours of her.

I think you sound a bit cantankerous. I don’t think it’s possible to catproof a garden. I’d prefer the neighbourhood cats weren’t continually taking a shortcut through mine, either, but nothing can be done. My garden has steep brick walls and a 25 foot cliff at the back, and I still see one cat in particular scaling it via climbing a tree close to the cliff face to get into the garden above.

And I assume it is a shared drive, or adjacent drives without a boundary if you had to buy planters to demarcate it. For all you know your toddlers would have been running all over your neighbours’ driveway in a few years.