To tell my neighbour I would kick him

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If I saw him kick my cat. She was just peeing in his pretentious little walled garden on his drive. What a complete arsehole. But that is not where I would kick him rant over.

I have indoor cats because I do not agree with owning an animal and letting it wee and poo in other people's gardens.

My pet, my responsibility to make sure that only I deal with the mess (and my husband of course)

I wish we were more like the USA and didn't have cats roam about. See too many dead ones on the way to school and back as well.

He shouldn't have threatened you or the cat but even as a huge cat lover I don't blame him for being pissed off. I hate how I have a lovely garden that I have spent so much time and money on then a cat comes and crap in it.

Oh and foxes etc are not domesticated. They have no owners.

A cat does.

I honestly don't get this thing about people being so concerned about cats weeing / pooing in other people's gardens.

It's part of living in the world, with other people and animals. It happens. If it's causing you that much angst you obviously have very little going on in your life.

You can't change it, so deal with it ffs.

And I feel very sorry for indoor cats - sorry but they like roaming around. I think it's cruel keeping them boxed in their whole lives.

Don't feel sorry for mine. They are more than happy. They know no different and even if I leave the doors open they don't want to go outside. With plenty of toys and a big house to run around they get more than enough exercise.

Plus, my ragdoll would last a minute outside. He isn't too clever, can't jump very high so if he wasn't knocked over first he would soon be stolen for being so pretty. I think it would be more cruel to let him out.

Oh and I wish I had very little to worry about in my life and nothing else going on.

Funnily enough, I can worry about more than one thing at a time.

Typical MN response though. If you don't like something someone else deems petty then you must either lead a very charmed life with no other worries or a boring one where all your stupid little brain has to do is worry about stupid things you can't possibly have a full life and care about cats crapping in your garden can you?

The thing I don't get, is there are loads of cats along our road, so there must be loads of cats using our garden. But it rarely bothers me, as most are clean and bury it.

What bothers me are the foxes. They leave gooey turds everywhere, they even pooed in my peg basket I left on the floor. And they rifle through bins making a mess. Would I harm one? No way.

OP it's because this is a non problem made up in people's heads! People who like to find justification for cruelty to animals mostly.

I live in a road with loads of cats, can't say cat shit has ever been raised as an issue by anyone I know in RL. The cats all roam, like well cats, some get on, some hiss at each other. No big deal. We have loads of foxes too, and whilst I do occasionally notice their poo, again, not really a big deal.

It isn't a non problem within your own head when the cat is 'cleanly' burying it's shit in your veg plot. Or merrily digging out the seeds and seedlings you've just planted so it can neatly hide it's shit.

Just because something doesn't cause you an issue, it doesn't mean you can write off the people who are affected as animal-hating fantasists.

I don't often comment on threads (and it's mostly the dog ones!) but there are comments on this one that I can't let go unchallenged.

Greyhounds mistaking crawling toddlers/babies for prey is ridiculous and there is no crossover between prey drive and human aggression. It is a rare dog that bites a human and certainly not because it has mistaken them for prey! No dog should be left alone with a baby or a toddler and that has nothing to do with prey drive and everything to do with animals and babies not really mixing very well. Any dog that has not been socialised with children is more of a risk (and greyhounds are unlikely to have been) but greyhounds tend to have a soft temperament and are gentle dogs. I have been involved in greyhound rescue for the past 5 years and involved in animal behaviour research for the past 10 years. I have seen plenty of adopters have greyhounds and then go on to have families with no issues and certainly no hunting of the children!

Also cats can be trained - they are animals with a nervous system and so they can be trained. They respond to learning theory the same as anything else. It might be harder to motivate them then a dog and you might need to work a bit more at it but it can be done. I am an animal behaviourist and I have clients who have cats - unless I have imagined the b-mod work that we have done with them, they can be trained. Whether or not the owner has the skill or can be bothered is a different thing.

You need to have an arrangement with him where he can come into your garden and have a piss.

That sounds fair to me.

Next door's cat doesn't just keep coming into my garden. It keeps coming into my house. Repeatedly. If I'm carrying shopping in from the car and leave the door open. If I leave any downstairs windows open. It scratches the carpet near my front door.

It is completely unacceptable that someone's pet is allowed to do this.

Completely unrelated we're looking at getting a dog. Which will be a retired greyhound most likely. I'm not sure how to deal with this situation, other than warn next door we're getting a dog and it is their responsibility to keep the cat out of my house because I refuse to be unable to open my windows.

He should invest in a cat deterrent, and sprinkle it on the fence/in his garden. There are plenty available that will do no harm to the cat. Or he could get one of those devices that emits an ultrasonic sound that people can barely hear, but will repel the cat if it enters his garden. That's not harmful to the cat either.

I have tried every commercial cat repellent known to man. I have also tried those plants that the cats don't like the smell of (pah!, what a joke) I have tried mirrors/ bottles of water all around the boundaries as apparently cats are afraid of their own reflection and won't go past it (double PAh!) I have tried sonic repellars- they just dance around them- and I have tried super soakers, which work well, if you are in the garden. Mainly the feline buggers just wait until we are not in the garden to shit on my lawn. I would not even mind if they buried it in a flower bed- but no- right there- proudly shat out in the middle of the lawn. Fair enough the owners say they cannot control their cats, but can you honestly, honestly not understand why people get so upset about cat pooh in the garden? If I had a cat and I knew it used someones garden as a toilet I would be sympathetic and apologising, not threatening .

House I suspect the problem will resolve itself, most greyhounds rather dislike cats. Either the cat will get eaten or have a lucky escape and not come back. Either way your problem is solved.

threatening violence? Of course it's unreasonable.

Totally agree with chocolate

Yanbu
Your cat, your piss.
If it's pissing in the garden it's probably doing poo as well.
Why the bloody hell do cat owners think it's ok for someone to clear up after their poxy cat.
A kick would maybe deter it in future.
Get a car litter tray !

Sorry ya D bu is what I meant.

I have ragdolls who don't go outside so don't poo etc. in my neighbour's gardens. They are a bit thick so not sure I could train them not to poo in other gardens if they did go outside.

I have trained one of them to sit for a treat though......I digress.

However, neighbour's cats do not do me the same courtesy and shit in my garden with alarming regularity. That is they did until I started squirting them with large water pistol kept by the back door for that purpose....sorted.