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?

I have cats, my neighbours have cats and I never seen cat poo in my garden. They usually go under a tree or bush and bury it.

Have plenty of fox and badger poo though, will scoop that up and post it back to them.

Cars are beautiful animals that may be Stopping that rat in your kitchen.

Wild animals my arse!!! It gets fed, watered and looked after. If it was a wild animal then maybe I could chuck it in the boot of the car, drive 150 miles down the road and release it into the wild??

I'm all for bird and snail poo in the garden, dont mind that, I just don't like domestic pets being allowed to shitin my garden when it could be easily rectified by the owner.

NicNoc you sound great. It's not the cats, but the attitude of some cat owners which makes this a hot topic. While in law cats are not 'domesticated animals', that is too often trotted out as a disingenuous excuse for lazy cat owners to abdicate all responsiblity, when many cats (including the OP's neighours cats!) can be trained to poo somewhere where their owners can deal with it. I can very well see why lots of them don't fancy doing it -- I am revolted by cat shit, hence I don't have a cat.

The day cats can be generally accepted as wild animals will be the day we stop seeing 'missing cat' posters everywhere, begging that they be found and returned 'home'. I am yet to see a 'missing squirrel/badger/fox/mole' poster.

Put it all in a paper bag, on the doorstep. Light the bag, ring teh doorbell and run for it.

Joking, btw!

Of course owners should try and solve this issue e.g. litter trays. But its not always possible to train cats to poo in litter trays if they have access to outside.

Good luck training a cat where to shit

You don't need good luck MrsJREwing, just patience and determination. It's no more difficult that training a dog or a child for that matter

So how do you train a cat when it is free to roam around. Perfectly possible I know to train a cat that is kept in the house all or most of the time and then attempt to transfer that learning when you let them roam free. But I don't know how you can do it if your cat is outside for at least a couple of hours a time and you don't know if, where or when it is pooing?

How then can you train a cat, other than to use it's litter tray when it is at home? Like it is going to walk half an hour for a shit in it's litter tray when out prowling when it has a nice bit of soil to shit in next to it.

I'm loving the idea of all animals crap in your garden....although I am yet to find a snail shit to clean up,,....what does that look like??? Op I am with you on this...cats don't do it in my garden, I don't have a dog though, but I have two very enthusiastic children who cats seem scared of for some reason. They leg it as soon as I let the kids out!

We trained our cats to only use litter trays. Granted they don't leave our garden but we've not had a stray one. Again, solid toilet training as babies and make use of substrate preference, praising when in tray. Most of my colleagues have litter only cats that do roam. They aren't shitting machines.
In actual fact my rats are litter tray trained to but whatever.

And nope, it takes a lot more than poo talk to put me off a biscuit!!

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Get a massive fighty tom. It will scare all the other cats off and will crap in someone else's garden.

Failing that, water pistol. But I don't think poo chucking is a good idea unless you want all out war.

I think if cats don't leave your garden you can train them to use litter trays. I think if they do, you can try, but the truth is you have no idea if they are pooing elsewhere and so can't take action as part of the training to stop them pooing elsewhere.

We have had problems with my neighbours cat coming into our house and snuggling up on the sofa if we leave the back door open. When I mentioned it to him a month ago he was shocked as he had no idea his cat was doing that. How could he have done anything to prevent it when he can't see what his cat is doing in the first place?

Ultrasound device that is sure to keep cat out of your garden FULL STOP.

My neighbours cats are forever pooing in my garden, and then my idiot dog eats it

My dog loves nothing better than eating poo. No I won't "kiss" him as my mother does.

Here's my top tip for stopping cats going in your freshly dug veg patch etc.

Get some garden canes and using secateurs cut them ( at a 45 degree angle if you are feeling especially viscious) into small pieces, say about 8 inches long.

Place cane spears vertically into the soil, pushing down so that they are quite stable. Place them at random intervals. Basically they need to be close enough to prevent the cat from squatting down in your patch.

This really works very well as a deterrent as there are too many obstacles for them to poo.

And before someone starts yelling, I do have a cat and it was to stop him and his chums.

Buy a Tom cat? Or a tiger to keep in the garden? Or a gun . I feel your pain op, my neighbours the same. Her cats like shitting under dd's swing. I haven't figured out what to do about it yet, neighbour seems to find it funny too. The neighbour the other side collected it up from his garden and threw it at her windows. Not the right thing to do but I can see his point. When someone finds it funny then it's hard to be nice about it.

I saw a house which had plastic forks sticking up from the garden, ready to spear any pooing passing animal.

I can't say I have ever had to lift snail poo what does it look like?

I failed Biology O'level.

Do snails even have bottoms?

I suppose if they do, then 'wiping your bum' wouldn't be much of an issue if you just drag your bare arse all over the place anyway.