To shoot water at my neighbours cat, who does T-Rex sized poos all over my garden

[Hobbknobb]

My neighbour has about 5 cats. They are cute. I like cats.
But they use our garden as their personal latrine.
There is shit everywhere every time I water my plants and it stinks.

One of them, I think it's the charismatic but slightly overweight tabby that flirts and gets us to stroke him, does the hugest turds I've ever seen. Honestly, they are human sized. That's not normal for a cat is it?
My poo this morning was smaller than his today, and I ate spag Bol for dinner last night...

I bought some spray that was meant to deter them, but it does not work and my clematis has died from what i think is a cats-piss tsunami. It smells bad.

AIBU to buy a water pistol and stake out my garden and get my sweet revenge on them?

I know how to get rid of them

These motion activated water sprayers WORK. They are humane and provide great entertainment. Read the Amazon reviews.

The price goes up and own a bit on Amazon. I think it was about £35 not that long ago.

See if you can stay up late and watch the garden - with that size of poo, it might actually be foxes.

It could be foxes, but in my experience (god how sad) the fox poo is really dark,almost black.

Fox poo and cat poo smell quite different gross that I even know that but my old dog used to roll in fox poo so I've washed enough of it off but I wouldn't discount foxes just because of all the hedges/fences - there are 8/9 in our local neighbourhood and they are often spotted in enclosed gardens. They are extremely agile!

We spray the hose at the cat that poos on our raised beds. DD also rants at it, which is quite funny, but I am a bit concerned that the neighbours can hear her .

Yanbu I gave my neighbour a scooshy water bottle to scoot my own cat if she caught her in the garden she really did like shitting in her bark the cat not the neighbour

I have seen a fox scale a 6ft fence.
looked effortless.
fox poo tends to be 'curled' up similar to dog's poo, cat poo is more sausage shaped.

My long suffering parents bought one of the motion activated water thingamajigs after trying everything else to no avail.

Within a week they'd pissed off somewhere else (the cats with their shit, not my parents!)

No longer a problem, they can enjoy their lovely garden with the family without toddler nephew picking up hidden turds....lovely.

Worth investing in, they work.

Owning a cat should come with a law that says you have to supply all your neighbours their chosen method of cat repellant.

Awesome ideas. I will seriously consider one of this sprinklers.
The poo is long and sausage shaped and quite light do it must be a cat.

I actually want a cat of my own. Is there a particular breed that is very territorial and would chase all the other moghies away? Could i train it to be a big bully?
Would a Boy or girl cat be better as an anti cat device?

Argh phone spelling fail!

Hobbknobb if you want a territorial cat which will also be lovely company try a Maine Coon? They are quite big but gorgeous company. My puss is a moggy but my cousin has an MC and it is a fabulous cat.

I have cats and my neighbour (who also has cats) used to squirt one of mine to keep it out of her house (he was a scratcher and she rightly didn't fancy her furniture wrecked) I didn't mind at all and have indeed chucked a glass of water over an aggressive cat fighting with mine.

You obviously have no malice and water won't hurt them. Have heard about the trick of ordering big cat pee on the Internet but never tried it. My other neighbour to,d tales of her dad weeing in a bucket then 'marking' his territory to stop cats coming in - not convinced it works but amusing enough to get your DP to try

Vile creatures. They should be kept in the house. There'd be uproar if people just let their dogs wonder round shitting in other peoples gardens. All cat owners who let them roam should be given ASBOs.

I do it to my own cats and before anyone complains that they go next door, there is a expanse of desert between us, it is sand, cats should like sand, not my basil

AKAK I don't like them much, either. They give me the creeps, mostly. There are one or two i don't mind, ironically they have more of a 'dog like' character. Staring at you, claws going in and out, twirling their long rats tail round your legs....

I totally agree re dogs randomly wandering around the neighbourhood shitting and pissing in gardens, none of which are their own gardens! There'd be uproar.

What's the answer though? Its just, well, tough shit on non-cat lovers isn't it?

disclaimer! I'm not a dog owner, and agree with all the threads about people controlling their dog, picking up crap etc.