to worry about toxo after neighbs cat crapped on the radishes

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13 weeks pg and discovered this morning that next door neighbours cat has dug up the carefully-netted radishes and crapped in the raised bed. Wore gloves and used trowel to clean up then washed hands for about five minutes but am now paranoid.
Please tell me IABVVU

Sure you are being very unreasonable!

as long as you didn't give the radishes a good lick first don't worry!

yanbu - cats are vermin and should be destroyed

YABU - should have got your neighbours to do it. Whilst giving them a lecture about responsible pet ownership. Yet more evidence that cats are evil.

Grim but I wouldn't worry about toxo too much - it's relatively rare in the UK.

We have an allotment where foxes crap all the time (nice!) and I survived three pregnancies. However, when I lived in Spain, they were completely paranoid about toxo and we were tested for it in every semester. I did raise the idea of having a test in the UK but the MW said that if you wash your hands well and the food, you will be fine. Not nice though!

I can understand you being worried but as long as you washed your hands properly dont think it will cause a problem,

Cats are indeed evil occludo. It continued its vendetta this morning by knocking over my prize chilli pepper plant, because I had tightened up all the mesh on the other raised beds so it had nowhere to crap.

Luckily where I live I get toxo tests three times during the nine months.

Put pea sticks in between your veg - if they're fairly close together, cat won't be able to crap there.
How do you know it was the next door neighbour's cat?

Don't worry about toxo - if you wore gloves you will be fine

LB I've put tiles down on the rest of the garden which seems to have worked wonders. Thinking nex

I know it was next door's cat because it's the only one that still comes back to the garden. There are five cats in the road, all of them have at various times crapped or vomited outside my door and all have been yelled at and had the hose turned on them. Only next door's cat is hard faced enough to come back. It likes staring me out.

The other thing that works wonders is a super-soaker (hide from your DC). If the cat gets a faceful of water every time he comes into your garden, he'll start going elsewhere sharpish