To think that next door have four cats more than necessary?

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

I understand that people like cats, some love them and make a child substitute of them. Next door have seven, 7 of them, they come into our garden and shit next to DD's trampoline and it is really getting my back up. I did try to speak to them in my extremely limited Dutch but they confounded the issue by answering in a Baltic language. DH spoke to them in French and their answer to the request to keep them indoors was 'they don't shit in our garden'. Well of course they fucking don't, ours is much nicer. I don't condone animal cruelty at all, but I do wish there was a way to keep them out. We do have a motion detector which worked for the first couple of weeks, but, short of sitting outside with a water pistol I can't think what else I can do.

I don't want a fucking cat. I have had them in the past (pre DD) and find them a tie. We tend to go away for long holidays (DH is a teacher) and putting them in a cattery is bloody expensive. I just want next door to either get stomas for their cats, keep them in or cork their arses.

No suggestions but you're definitely not BU. We have the misfortune to be about the only house on our street with no cats so they all come in our garden to do their business. Just what you want with a 5 year old always playing outside & a 9 month old just starting to crawl. Disgusting. Have resorted to getting dh to throw balls at them as he's a better shot than me.

how about this sort of thing?

Wheely bin?*

*Disclaimer: I in no way condone the putting of cats in wheely bins. Wheely bins are for rubbish. Not cats. Or any other type of pet. I just couldn't resist suggesting it. Was only a matter of time before someone did.

I would definately give them back the poo, and if they wouldn't notice it in their garden, I'd leave it on their doorstep or driveway so that they had to notice it. Might not solve the problem, but it would give me a cheap sense of satisfacion.

I have a squirty bottle of water at my back door at all time because of next doors cats, it has worked quite well, but it hasn't stopped them coming in completely.

I soaked T-bags in Jayes Fluid and scattered them around the garden ... also used a squirty bottle of water like curlymama. Don't know if it was that, but the poo stopped appearing.

Mine doesn't like rats. You could put a few of those in your garden?

I think things have finally come to a head, I saw one under the trampoline voiding its bowels. I shrieked at it and the firm stool turned to a river of very loose diarroeah. Lick that off you furry twat. I then spent the best part of three minutes (we do have a very small garden) picking up cat turds and putting them in a bread bag. I put the result on the doorstep next door. They can't fail to know it's from me.

I love cats, but would have no probs with a maximum of two and must be neutered bye-law.

Where I live in Oz, cats aren't allowed out between 9.00p.m. and 6.00.a.m. The ostensible reason is they kill birds. So the declining population has nothing to do with tearing down trees, then.

I've put loads of wooden kebab sticks (broken in half) into the gaps between plants in our flower bed. It's dramatically cut down the amount of cat poo there.

The other flower bed we put netting over it and the cats now can't get in.

Keeping cats yourself or having a dog doesn't help - we've got 2 cats and a dog and still have loads of cats coming to poo here :( our included! (and yes they have litter tray inside which is also used)

Have you thought about setting up an accetable pooing place for them? maybe a sandy area behind a shed, or out of the way corner? at least that might contain it and make it easier to clean up?

Nowhere is an acceptable pooing place. Our garden is minute. The idea of jeys fluid soaked tea bags is appealing, the only problem is getting the fluid. Kebab sticks are out, DD is so clumsy she'd impale herself. I found out from another neighbour (mine are inexplicably unpopular)that they have had up to 15 cats at one time.

I totally feel for you kreecherlivesupstairs. We are the only house in six who do not own cats and the pikey neighbours next door have had up to 14, yes FOURTEEN at a time. They never neuter them and there are new kittens ever year. I have a DS1 4 and a DS2 22 months and DS2 will pick up anything and eat it, so I spend most of the time bagging up turds that don't even belong to me. It drives me mental!

I found wire mesh/netting covering bare patches of flowerbeds works okay but they still come back. We even tried feeding scraps to some of them as I'd read somewhere cats don't sh*t where they eat, but that doens't work. We've been through four motion detector thingys but they're useless. I can't believe noone has invented something that actually works...