to tell the neighbours they put slug pellets down ??

[Alfiedoggy]

Ok I need some advice in a slightly awkward situation. ... slightly odd elderly neighbour lives next door to me. His wife has been getting v v upset about cats using their lawn as a toilet....I get on well with my other neighbours . Odd neighbour told me had sprinkled slug pellets on lawn to poison the cats

What do I do......

1. approach odd neighbour but he's v unapproachable. .....
2. tell nice neighbours to keep their cats in ?! But unrealistic and they are likely to go to odd neighbour and have a go ?? If they do odd neighbour will know I told them and I have to live next to him.....If I don't cats might be poisoned. .. Help !!!!!!!

My neighbour got a cat about 5 years ago and I've always suspected that it's inbred to within an inch of its life.

It continually sh*t in my garden - I remember having to lift 11 "parcels" one morning before visitors arrived (very small garden).

I know it was her cat because I saw it "in action" and the turning point was finding the most massive sh*t EVER one morning - if I didn't know better I'd swear a lion did it. The inbred beast wouldn't bury it - just left it in my longish lawn.

I got stuff from B&Q to repel the beast. It was about £10 but so worth it - herbal fragrant granules to sprinkle wherever the cat "went" - my whole little lawn.

I don't know where the cat goes now - but one summer of using it has repelled it and it's now in the habit of knowing my garden isn't cat friendly, so doesn't even visit. I still put a drop down when I put slug pellets out to be on the safe side

suggest your neighbours get some repellent and tell your cat owner neighbours to keep their cats in for a bit?

But closer, to me they aren't pets. I don't get the cute head bops, the cuddles, the amusing catty stuff. I get to see Tiddles crimping one off on my lawn. To me, they are vermin. And the fact the owner gets all the good bits, but conveniently none of the bad stuff annoys the hell out of me.

Pets or not, wishing animals dead is horrid

We don't wish them dead.

We wish they didn't fucking exist in the first place.

There really should be a change in the law so that ALL pets have too be kept under control at all times. If that means that cats become unsuitable choices for pets then so be it.

can you imainge you put down rat posion on your propitry and the lovely little child comes to your property and eats the posion you do know you as the land owner would be held accountable and if the child died you would be charged with manslaugther despite it being your own proptry

A "lovely" lady next door to one of my old houses hated all birds and used to leave plates of posion fruit in her (unsercured garden) and a 4 year old eat some of the posioned fruit and she was actully chagred as the child was in intensive care for 3 weeks

so just rember that you can use legal posions in your garden but if you actully harm others doing it you WILL be charged. (that also includes endangered animals that eat your posioned animals so not just humans)

Omg worridmum!!!! That's awful! Why lay out fruit when that will bring more birds than not!?!? That's like putting up a bouncy castle when you hate kids!!

Apologies, I've not R all of TFT, but for anyone who cares about cats inadvertently eating slug pellets and is looking for an alternative, Nematodes are a popular but expensive alternative. Slug beer traps look to be my next attempt.

Slug pellets also kill hedgehogs, I rescued an underweight adult male hedgehog just before xmas and have paid for a sanctuary to look after him until release. I had him for 5 days and grew really attached to him, but they won't let him come and live here again because of the risk of him being poisoned either directly by neighbours' slug pellets or by eating a slug who has ingested one

Agree with pp, slug pellets poison garden birds, toads, other wildlife and animals. Why anyone who enjoys their garden would ever use them is quite beyond me. Use the environmentally friendly alternatives people! Don't poison your thrushes and blackbirds (they eat the poisoned slugs). I reallly thought that no-one under eighty still used them, as it is common knowledge that they are toxic.
Re the situation, i would tell the cat owners, and also tell the mad neighbour that if they kill or injure a cat that would be a police matter.

I would like cat shit to "be a police matter". Disgusting really. And a largely disgusting attitude from many cat owners.

And no, I would never poison an animal - it's too horrible a death to inflict on a living creature. It's wrong. But I understand how some people get so frustrated at "oh, I can't possibly control Tiddles" brigade.

Worriedmum, that doesnt sound believable. Surely the parent was equally liable for not being in charge of the 4yo. If it was in someone elses garden it could just as easily be in the road, attacked by their dog. (Kidnapped)
And loads of parents would be prosecuted for bleach poisonings etc.
Even if there was no fence it would be up to the parents to watch them or put up a fence.

SivVix, you are talking shit. If the cat eats a LEGAL slug pellet and dies it is most certainly NOT a police matter. Get a grip of yourself.

Blimey "talking shit" ? That is the first time anyone has ever said that to me. I am . I mean it isn't as though i said that Rolf Harris was a nice man really or that the moon is made of cheese...
Anyway. The ndn clearly stated that their intention is to poison the cats. That is an RSPCA and police matter. Antifreeze is perfectly legal but if you left saucers of it out with the intention of poisoning your neighbours cats, then that would be a police matter.

sadly it did happen and she used fruit to attact the birds so it would kill more of them and thus less likely in the long run to come in her garden.

the posined fruit i think comes under the same law that says while your legally allowed to dig a deep hole in your garden/land and put sharped sticks in it and if someone falls down said legal hole and dies / suffers serous injury the LANDOWNER / person who dug said hole is held laible despite the victim being a trespesser etc

It is most definitely not a police matter. Slug pellets are perfectly legal to use in the garden. It should never have to get to this point. If you love your pets it's your job to keep them safe and make sure that they don't bother your neighbors. Train them to use their litter tray. It's not rocket science.

sadly the RSPCA/Police would argue that point with you the only sticking point is proving it was your traps/substance that poisoned the animals.

why do you think groundkeepers get prosicuted for poisioning animals with legal poisons.....

But closer, to me they aren't pets. I don't get the cute head bops, the cuddles, the amusing catty stuff.

Why not?

I've been clearing up other people's cats ' poo from my garden since I before I was ten and I've never known a cat that used my garden that wasn't quite happy to be affectionate to me!

Cats harassing your chickens? Do you have particularly lame chickens? My chickens beat the crap out of my cats. Even the Norwegian forest cat was scared shitless of the pekins and he could have eaten them in two bites. Dogs now, nasty stinky bitey barky little buggers. Can't get on with dogs.

Slug pullets don't stop the neighbour's cats crapping on my lawn or borders, nor have any of the blighters been poisoned.

Worrid AFAIK it is only illegal if you mix the slug pellets in food. There is no law to stop you covering your entire garden with slug pellets if you want to and if an animal dies because they ate them, the garden owner is not liable and has committed no crime.

TeddyBee My chickens are behind wire because I also have a dog. I have watched the cat stalk along the boundary & the chickens do not like it.

So yes, I would class that as harassing them.

Don't they peck it through the wire? Mine have the whole garden in which to menace cats and have no problems. They get a bit bothered if there's a fox around but that's it.

cats dont eat slug pellets but dont tell him that and warn the cat neighbours

I don't have a cat, I don't really like them. I have lots of cats coming into my garden, and yes I have stood in cat shit a few times. I don't like it, but it is just life. I accept neighbours can't really stop their cats pooing in my garden, although I do chase them out.
I do think some people are very intolerant.

I like to imagine there's a MN equivalent somewhere for aquatic animals where, right now, there's a raging thread about fecking humans filling their environment with shit, chemicals, rubbish etc. etc.

These threads are so repetitive. Cats aren't going to magically disappear, there will never be a law passed to restrict them to the indoors and animal cruelty will always be illegal so, cat/cat shit haters, your quickest solution to a less stress filled life is to just get over it.

I was going to say 'just suck it up' but that seemed a step too far.