About my neighbour's cat?

[Liketochat1]

The cat in question has now moved, but I wasn't using AIBU then and I would like to ask for views in retrospect!
Next door had a cat which kept coming into my garden to poo, wee (which stank) and laze about all day. It also would come into my house if I left a downstairs window open or the patio door. Thus, for two summers with a small baby in the house, I've had to close them when I wasn't in the room. It was also left outside every night in the summer so would start miaowing very loudly outside by baby's window every morning from 5 am onwards to get back in.
Would it have been unreasonable for me to complain about this animal? Is this sort of inconvenience just to be expected if you live next to a cat? Just wondering now... I guess because I'm enjoying my first cat free summer for a while!

I would have got the waterpistol out.

Were you my old neighbour?

Sorry

I would have got more than a waterpistol out. Bloody cats.

I wouldn't mind, the only time I've stopped a cat coming in was when it was scaring my cat (think it was a full tom, she was just coming up to being old enough to have the snip).

I love cats, but I agree. Waterpistol.

You should have had a good stern word with the cat and told it how unreasonable it was being and sent it on its way for it's very un-cat like unreasonable behaviour! Or you could have complained to the owner and she could have sat the cat down and explained that this was not acceptable behaviour and must stop immediately. That would have done it

Water pistol?! I couldn't do it to the cat. Maybe I'm mad, I'm not particularly a cat lover but I didn't think it was the cat's fault I suppose!
You've cat to be- are you French? My ex neighbours were French.

I've squirted my own cat when it's got into a yowling competition with a neighbouring moggy at 3am. It's only water...

Water doesn't hurt the cat and deters it from thinking your home is a handy crashpad. Better that hating it on a daily basis, or throwing heavy stuff.

cat spray - apparenlty it trains them after a while not to shit/piss etc....as well as a drop of vinegar in a spray to spray it with if you see it - general chasing etc, and if its coming into house tell owner.

Trains?..... ...... Do tell me more about this strange creature, the trained cat.....

I'd have used a water pistol, and I am a cat lover. It doesn't hurt them, and if they spend the next hour cleaning water from their coat they can't be doing anything to annoy you in that hour. And they're smart, they learn that action x = water pistol. They decide to either not do x or to do x elsewhere.

My old cat used to go in thru the neighbours catflap and eat her cat's food and sleep on her bed. Neighbour would wake up with my cat curled up on her bed at night and her cats cowering on top of the wardrobe. We bought her a water pistol and told her to squirt him whenever he came in.

He used to steal other neighbours childrens furry hair clips too. It was very embarrassing. We would wake up to find a stash of 'treasure' on our bed

I'm the soppiest idiot about cats and we have a water pistol permanently ready to go, to deter a few local toms who like to terrorize our cats. It's not hard - doesn't hurt them at all, and you don't even have to spray it right at them if you don't want to. Water in their general direction will make most cats run off. Try not to aim in their face though, obviously.

Hahahaha! A cat burglar!

That was for Spuddy's cat by the way

Squirty water bottle - less pressure than a water pistol but same effect.

supersoaker for me. t doesn't hurt them.

Oh yes, I used to have a supersoaker. The water pressure meant I could reach the bottom of the garden, and hit the enormous tomcat that used to terrorise my cats. Happy memories!

My cats hate anything flapping. Tesco bags are their nemesis. This is what I suggested my neighbour do as the nosy monkeys wander into his garage.

If I were your neighbour & you told me about the problem I would have gladly bought you a water pistol (or a supersoaker, even). We still shoo away other cats from our garden in spite of having 2 cats ourselves (who ought to chase the invaders off if they weren't such dire wimps).

We have this very problem at the min

I'm off to buy a water pistol...

YANBU to ask but are BU to ask after the cat has left the area so isnt coming in your garden anymore so is not relevant to your enjoyment of your garden

I'm glad I asked! If and when I ever have this problem again (I'm in the process of moving, fingers crossed) I will know what to do. Grab the joker soaker pistols!

Our cat once got in to our neighbour's house- and jumped on his lap when he was on the toilet