There should be Cat Wardens, cats should wear nappies or be kept inside!

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Pregnant. Partner hardly home. Cat uses my front garden, back garden and PORCH as the preferred venue for his poo parades. It's gross and I can't pick it up as don't want to catch Toxoplasmosis. Feel pissed that I even have to. Parter pissed at having to go on poo collection duty when he gets back. Cat laws are needed!

Both cats have lived, quite amicably, in their respective houses for years so I don't know what's precipitated the current conflict

Have the owners of one changed their work patterns? Has a fence been taken down?

Cats have two territories, their home space, usually another cat will not enter this space. Their wider territory is, for want of a better word, 'timeshared' so cat A might get 8am - 10am and then cat B moves in.

When cats cross another territory or their own outside their allocated space they try to do it from as high as possible - hence the walking along the top of fences.

The other thing that might have set them off is a female in heat if they are unneutered males.

My neighbours cat went through a prolonged campaign of vomiting on my doorstep. She realised and used to clean it off when she saw it. Never even had to ask her.

What an amazingly clever cat

YABU. I have 0 control over what my cats do when they go outside. I am absolutely terrified that they are annoying someone and that someone hurts my cat in retaliation. I would much rather that they speak to me and I would much rather buy cat-repellent for them than they get more and more angry and eventually blow up about it. Small price to pay for getting on well with my neighbours.

I'm with other posters on trying a repellent or a water gun. I have 2 indoor cats (so no pooing on anyone's lawn!) and i know they hate the repellent and run a mile when the see the water gun (both used to keep them off certain pieces of furniture)
I'm also pregnant and have had no issues re cleaning up after them, rubber gloves, poo bag then wash hands, but i do agree you shouldn't have to clean up after it, go tell the neighbours to do it, their cat afterall.

*Maybebaybee*I think it's how they are brought up.
Ours has never been outside. She's 4 now.
We've got a houseful of people and I'm a SAHM. There's lots to keep her occupied. I think if they've been outside its very difficult to have an indoor cat after that.

And the breed matters for them to be happy indoors I think? mine is a British Shorthair, she's very laid back and a real "people" cat.

Disclosure: I have not rtft. I have a cat. Humans do not control cats. I have two suggestions: this stuff lasts a few months at a time so doesn't have to be reapplied very regularly - www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Roar-Lion-Manure-Repellant/dp/B0002B7OT2 and if my neighbour/s complained I would pay and do the application if they allowed me to. My other suggestion may be slightly less tolerable to many pps - get a cat, my cat either doesn't shit in our garden or if he does it's very well hidden and he'll keep other cats away.