To chuck cat poo on my neighbours path

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OK, I'm hoping this won't turn into a bun fight but I'm fuming at my neighbour.

We get on well, chat, help each other out and i've nothing against her cat.

But she's taken to keeping the litter tray outside so it's mostly full of water. Which means her cat has now taken to crapping in our garden. I've done the 'nice' thing and collected it and thrown it in her bin (in a bag I might add). I've spoken to her about sorting the litter tray our so it doesn't shit in my garden and her response was, 'it's not my fault that she prefers your garden' and then nothing happens. A couple of weeks later and several shovels full of shit I've asked her to come and remove the cat poo from my garden a couple of times a week following my 4 yr old DD and then my DH standing in said cat shit, and nothing has happened. I've asked her to do this on two separate occasions now and she's not bothered.

I've now just started to throw it on her path outside her front door! Am I being petty (yes probably) but i'm fed up with my garden stinking and shit being all over my flower beds, lawn and now my strawberry plants (which now stink of cat piss)

What else can I do?

well you have asked nicely!

Am I correct in thinking cat would go in litter tray in her own garden if it wasn't full with water? In which case it's actually quite easy for your neighbour to sort out isn't it?

In that case YANBU. Her cat, her poop! I'm guessing you know it's her cat doing it as you watch it

The shit issue is what stops me from having a pet - our urban environment is simply too condensed and built up to cope with all the crap in a proper way that isn't totally gross or winding the neighbours up. If you are going to have a pet you really do need to be prepared to take responsibility for what comes out of it.

Dee03, glad you don't live next door to me, but not as glad as you should be!

I am having the same problem - only it's my cat and he's just taken to shitting in my freshly dog over veg patch. He used to crap in the scrubby earth behind the shed but just lately he's taken to using the nice, soft stuff that I've just dug up. Grrrrrr.

I have no objection to wild animals pooping in my garden. I object to other people's domesticated pets crapping in it. You wouldn't accept next door's dog popping over the fence for a shit, so why is a cat any different?

YANBU. You asked her to pick it up. She didn't do so.

Oh dear! I really wish people would grow up and get something else to get worked up about.If you don't want cats in your garden, then get some cat repellant stuff, citrus peel is a good one.

People just want to have a moan about absolutely anything these days

I don't have a cat, but I really can't get stressed out about all this.

Cat owners-get a nappy on your pussy childish snigger

Get some 'Silent Roar' for the flower beds and lawn, use Jeyes Fluid on the paths/driveway/any other hard surfaces (my mother has researched this extensively and those are her preferred products).

See, that ^^ from Dee is exactly why cat owners make me feel the rage.

That disgustingly smug way they say 'cats don't tend to crap in their own gardens'.

That's what makes cat owners selfish selfish people. No one is forcing them to have a cat. You want a cat? Move somewhere where it's unlikely to annoy other people. Because that cat woudont be crapping I your neighbours garden if it weren't for a choice you made. It's not the same for wild animals. Wild animals don't have someone paying for food for them every day. Cats do.

As for 'my cats were here first' What a horrible, self centred, inconsiderate thing to say. And I doubt that cats were there before the houses, which were put there for people to live in.

I've just got two cats and they went out this weekend and bee lined straight for next doors garden.

We've been round already and apologised, and suggested she uses a squirt water bottle to deter them. It won't be long before they get the message.

And since I don't want poo in my garden either I'm keeping a covered litter tray near the back door.

Headfairy- come on really? I refuse to listen to your chocolate digestive blasphemy! I was a bit too involved in consuming it because it was a bonus one I liberated from under the hobnobs [bleurgh]. I have very little else going on to be fair

I asked my neighbour very nicely about her two cats and she said she didn't want a litter tray they are unhygienic was her reply - well it's also unhygienic for my 2 year old to stand in it and try and pick if off with his fingers. So I fling it back over the wall. Then I bought the sonic thing muh better, and less hassle.

As cats are officially vermin(!) you don't have to report it if you accidentally kill one! Did you know that?

I have no objection to wild animals pooping in my garden. I object to other people's domesticated pets crapping in it

Yeah but shit's still shit at the end of the day....it all needs cleaning.

I have to clean my dog's shit out of the garden so if I have to clean a few random cat turds too, so be it.

Poisoned catmint! That's what I would use if I had a county neighbour with four shitty cats.

Cats aren't domesticated pets, they are wild animals.

And unless you've had a DNA test it's likely to be other cats too and not just this one kitty.

Either get a cat, some lion poo or break up wooden skewers and stick them in the flower bed.

And anyone who buys shingle is a numpty - Even at 22 when I bought my first house I knew not to buy shingle and to buy gravel at 15mm or above to prevent cats shitting in it.

But not everyone has to clean their dogs shit Worra. Maybe they don't have dogs because they dont like cleaning shit.

NicNoc I'm just too much of a piglet to even contemplate a chocolate digestive for one second. Nomnom, two bites and it's gone :o

if you were talking about a custard cream or a bourbon that would be a different matter. Lots of contemplation to be done while removing one layer and licking off the filling. And don't even get me started on chocolate Bahlsen biscuits, which involve precise nibbling of the chocolate from around the edges. That takes AGES!

Get your own cat, then it won't shit on your lawn anymore

Super soaker the little bastards.

Or buy a dog, my garden has zero cats thanks to the dog.

Lots of people don't keep pets because they don't want their garden to be full of shit.

So it is a lot of trouble to have to clean it up.

Another option is sneaking over the fence when you need a shite yourself.

If shit in the garden is no problem, I'm sure your neighbours won't mind disposing of your enjoyable al fresco poos.

Speak to your local zoo and get lion urine, that cat will no longer come into your garden - works like magic :)

Headfairy - darn you and your biscuit siren ways! As an edge nibbler, filling licker and jaffa cake peeler I can spend many minutes engrossed in the proper procedure! Thanks to you and my terrible will power I now have to pop to the corner shop to liberate some decent biscuits!

I have read that citronella keeps cats away. Spray it where ever it shits, rosemary essential oil apparently works too and Raw onions and vinegar. Cats are meant to hate these smells. If these don't work then...I'm all out of suggestions.
We have that problem too but it's a fighting battle, there are loads of cats around here. My ds will be running around soon which is a concern. I'll be trying these remedies out.
I don't think I'll be throwing shit on anyone's path though, I like my neighbours.

Honestly-chill people.Is it really worth getting worked up over a bit of cat poo and falling out with your neighbours.Life's too short.