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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to object to neighbour's cat...

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clam · 18/01/2011 10:47

..shitting on my lawn?
I've just been and counted 15 separate piles of it!! Have only really noticed it since the snow when, I guess, it couldn't find the flower beds to dig a hole. But it's

The thing is, I haven't identified which cat it is, therefore which neighbour to speak to. And what do I say? What can they do about it anyway? well, offer to come and remove it, for a start. I really do not want to have to do it myself as, to be blunt, it's all wet and sloppy after the rain.

Grr..

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jaydulwich · 20/01/2011 23:41

lol we have lots of foxes around here and they often poo over my front step its so yucky to open your door up to that

rupert1 · 21/01/2011 00:06

How horrible for you,in an ideal world i suppose you would get rid of the cat or pick up the poo and post it through next door letter box.But as they may not be aware of it pooing its a shame to do that so best thing is just clear it up every day, save it in giant black sacks and try to completely adopt the cat taking over all the feeds etc,and if they ever knock wanting the cat back tell them they will also have to take all the poo you have collected.Try to put it in a nice neighbourly way may be over a cup of tea, Hope this helps.

Hk13 · 21/01/2011 00:13

@ madamdeathstare!

I've heard planting marigolds in the summer helps. Apparently they hate the smell.

We don't have a cat problem at this house, the old owner used to but as we have two terriers that would run through brick walls to get to a cat we don't seem to be having any problems with them now

As it's winter I would say the super soaker would be an excellent choice.

aurynne · 21/01/2011 00:38

We used to have a problem with cats shitting in our veggie garden.

Now we have a Cairn terrier... she loves chasing cats out of the garden.

She also poos in the garden herself.

And she eats our tomatoes...

Should we adopt a crocodile? Please tell me they don't poo in the garden!

newwave · 21/01/2011 01:27

The cat problem rears it's head again :o

I keep a number of half house bricks by the rear door and any cat in my garden is fair game, if I hurt or kill it then tough. Easy answer for all cat owners is "keep your cats out of other peoples gardens".

All the ideas regarding Lion poo or sonic deterrents is fine as long as the cat owner(s) pay for them but I dont see why I should.

Oldsilver · 21/01/2011 01:54

This is a recurrent problem for us too-everybody else in the street has at least two that use my garden as a public convenience. Thought someone had built a snowman during snow - but when it thawed there was a pile of cat poo . So far I've used kebab sticks, imprisoned me plants in a maze of string, garlic and nasty green crystals which I now have to stop cause i don't want it to hurt my toads which are due! I also have a water pistol for those that I see.

echt · 21/01/2011 04:33

Aurynne crocodiles WILL poo in your garden, but you can eat them. The crocodile, not the poo.

They taste like chicken. I know this 'cos I've scoffed one - not a whole crocodile. That would be greedy. And weird.

You get the fun of saying:"I'd like a crocodile sandwich, and make it snappy."

SkyBluePearl · 21/01/2011 05:59

aren't cats entitled to poo anywhere they like? we live in the sticks and i've no idea where my 2 go - maybe in the woods next door? best option is a hose or washing up container with water - sqirt them. Or visit the pet shop and buy some kind of replent.

idlingabout · 21/01/2011 16:55

The thing is if all cat owners are operating on the smug assumption that its ok to let their cats out to poo wherever they like, then I dont think it is unreasonable to approach a cat-owning neighbour about the poo in your garden as inevitably their cat <strong>is</strong> pooing <strong>somewhere</strong> that is not that owners garden.
The trouble now is that far too many people own cats in built up areas so that if you are the one homeowner without a cat then your garden gets treated as the community cat toilet.

BlueCanaryInTheOutlet · 21/01/2011 17:02

'I keep a number of half house bricks by the rear door and any cat in my garden is fair game, if I hurt or kill it then tough' Nice newwave, just lovely

fortywinx · 21/01/2011 17:03

We have poop all over our back garden and are pretty sure it's the neighbours cat, although I have to admit that having owned/raised/lived near many many cats over the years, I have never known a cat go for a crap in the middle of the lawn over a flower-bed. I'm sort of assuming this cat is a bit weird.

Hmm it's interesting about the foxes, but we've caught the cat in the act at least twice, and it sort of attempts to cover it with the surrounding grass (which of course doesn't work, especially as we keep it short for that very reason).

My DP is at his wits end. Thinking of getting a super soaker...

Asteria · 21/01/2011 17:24

We have new neighbours (moved in a couple of days before xmas) who have been very difficult to communicate with. They avoid coversations with a very perfunctory nod/scuttle tactic, which is rather unnerving as our village is tiny and aside from us there is only one other family who lives there full time (there are 2 holiday/second homes). Their cats have taken to crapping in my garden so after a day of picking it up I was rather cross when I spotted the larger of the three heading back in for another round (seriously - how much do they feed their obese cats) so, mindful that the father was in his garden at the time, I shouted "stop shitting in my fucking garden you bloody cat" at it... I have no idea if it will make any difference, or indeed endear my new neighbours to me, but I felt lots better!

MadamDeathstare · 22/01/2011 03:29

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Piggles · 22/01/2011 03:56

I would be mortified if my cats were pooing on our neighbour's lawns, that is really nasty.

In fact, I would be so mortified that I would clean up and happily buy them supersoakers or lion poo to help ward my cats off. Is it possible that the cat owners are just not aware of the problem and would take action if they were politely informed?

About a week after we first moved into our current house, DH caught one of our cats pooing in our new neighbour's flowerbed and dashed over to chase her out and apologise, but our neighbour said "oh no, don't chase her out of my garden, shes done great work catching all the pesky rabbits, rats and moles round here!"

Apparently within a week of arrival slaughtercat had murdered and displayed to him just about everything that once devoured and wrecked his beloved veggie patch and thus won the right to poop anywhere... I still prime the waterpistols at the little toad if I spot her squatting in his plants though.

As for throwing bricks at cats

GooseFatRoasties · 22/01/2011 07:26

Just sling it back into their gardens. Divide it half and half if you are not sure whose cat it is.

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clam · 22/01/2011 14:32

UPDATE: just looked out of the window to see Mr NextDoor with gloves, bag and scoop, clearing up catshit from his garden. Went steaming in to DH to rant, "what about ours?" whereupon he said, "oh yeah. Spoke to Mrs this morning and they're going to do ours as well."

Thanks for telling me, DH. I've been boring the pants off ranting all week to all and sundry about this, and he neglects to tell me it's sorted! What's more, she (Mrs NextDoor) brought it up, not DH. Apparently said she wasn't sure whose cat it was, but that they'd deal with it anyway. Bless her (or rather, her DH!).

Will go and say thank-you later.

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