How to stop cats sh#tting on garden

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My neighbours, who have a cat, have recently paved their garden so there is no grass. Now their cat has taken to shutting in our front garden a few times a day. We have young children who now can't play there and it absolutely stinks. When I saw the cat there I hissed and shouted at it but nothing. I am considering a water gun , but all the solutions I've read online are toxic. Has anyone had this problem? How did you stop it?
I'm literally at my shits end

Water pistol.

For me what stopped them was putting chicken wire on part of the lawn they use to poo in when the garden wasn't in use. They hate the feeling of it. Also cat sensors but don't know if they really work or not.

Get your own cat. They're territorial.

Water pistol is probably the best option

They (usually) stop using it if they think another animal has claimed it as their territory. My understanding is that cats "mark" their territory by urinating at key points in the garden. So another cat won't use z garden that's already "marked". You can buy stuff to sprinkle on garden (some lion poo derivative?). Alternatively, I heard a tip on the radio about saving your own urine for a few days, and sprinkle that around the garden edges/boundaries. It works.... Sounds disgusting but better than poo everywhere. If doing this, check weather forecast first, as no good if immediately washed away by rain...

Having been put off, the cat will find somewhere else. Effect lasts for ages *years in our case)

Also had similar problem with nightly visit from fox(es) in garden, and again solved by putting them off with smell...in this case sprinkled olbas oil around garden. It worked but afterwards someone pointed out coukd be harmful to animals, but idea similar.

@nasiisthebest

Get your own cat. They're territorial.

I hate the bloody rhingab

We used to have a serious problem too. We now spray garden once a week - used to be 2-3 times to start with - with diluted lemon disinfectant 100% works.

We bought a sensor thing for under £20 about seven weeks ago and since then no cats have pooed on our front or back garden. Previously they were doing it every day, the house opposite has five cats We have watched the cats just walk past ours.It flashes and also gives off a high pitched noise what only they can hear.It does seem to be working so far.

You can buy lion poo online to sprinkle on your lawn, you’ll have to keep off it for a while but it should deter the cat from coming back once they’ve smelt it.
They don’t like the smell of curry powder either so I’ve been told, but I had success with the lion poo when I had 4 cats visiting my garden daily.