to throw my neighbour's cat's poo over the fence?

[MrsMuppett]

So , so tired of neighbour's cats. We are surrounded. Today the immediate neighbour's crapped on some newly dug earth. I've used a trowel to pick it and up throw over their side. I thought they were out but don't think they were. Maybe they saw, maybe the just thought it as raining cat poo. A couple of months ago I lost 2 new, small perennials because of their cat- newly planted, £5 each - the cat crapped and dug around them. They died partly due to having leaves destroyed and buried in earth. I've lost count of the cost of seedlings that have had a similar fate.
I am totally fed up with handling stinking cat poo, finding it in the soil when gardening, on my shoes, and having another of their cats spraying my flower tubs.

Ha! YABU. I know it's annoying, but you can't live in a world without other people's cats I'm afraid, so they will be shitting in your garden if you can't find a sensible way to deter them.

Frankly if you're going to be picking their poops up to throw them over the fence you should just pick them up and throw them away; throwing them over the fence just makes you look silly; it's not like the neighbours will be able to do anything to help you anyway so you're not exactly making a point.

This is the way of the garden I'm afraid, some things out there in nature will be beyond your control; even if it's your property, even if you have sensitive plants or inquisitive toddlers. There will still be greenfly, slugs, cats, foxes... Some pests you can exterminate - other people's cats you cannot. I hope you find something that keeps them safely away from your plants though!

YANBU at all. Cold water, stun guns & electrified fences will keep them out.

You'd be my husband's hero

I like cats but they are bloody annoying when they don't belong to you! People who don't have them but want to keep a nice garden have to invest so much time trying to keep them away. It's not fair. I've had to give up on my flower boxes and vegetables and just buy pots instead. The cats don't belong to my direct neighbours, we all conspire to try new things to get them to bugger off.

YANBU, they are

We have the same problem. What mostly works - though doesn't look great - is lying offcuts of hawthorn tree across the top of the soil. Easy to move around too when the plants start growing.

As long as you know beyond any doubt whose it is.

Just lobbing turds randomly over fences is just anti social.

Get a dog!

Spikes along the fence to stop it getting over.

YANBU. Cat shit is beyond vile

Well I'd speak to the neighbours first. But if they were unreceptive to my plight I'd do as you're currently doing.

Water guns are a good idea if you tend to spend a lot of time in the garden
and can catch the little blighter mid shit.

As OP says her house is "surrounded" by cats, I fail to see what she hopes to accomplish by throwing the poo over, or even by talking to one of the neighbours. They are hardly likely to start keeping their cat in, and even if they did, one of the others would move in.

OP is on a hiding to nothing she has already tried all the sensible methods suggested here and they have failed. The only way forward is for her to manage her feelings about it or move.

My neighbour has about eleventybillion cats. The only deterrent that ever worked was bringing home our Alsatian.

Also deters burglars and cold callers.

My dog (labrador) digs up the garden far worse than the cats do............but maybe that's just him and some breeds aren't such keen gardeners? Would a dog work for you OP?

No cat poo in my garden, nope nope nope.

5 dogs. End of cat poo in garden problem.

Possibly a touch extreme - next most effective answer is to fence so that the cats can't get in, which means anti-cat 'spikes' to stop them walking on top of the fence or coyote rollers or both!

Final option - get your own cat. Currently your garden is the territory of other cats, bring in your own cat ... start cat-wars, and claim back that space as your territory... (may not work, your cat might be a wimp and have to go miles to shit in a bush somewhere outside everyone elses territory!).

widdlin don't your dogs poo in your garden? Or dig it up?

Am starting to think poobumdog must be very norty

AYBU?

Yes. Very.

If you go on eBay you can get a cat repeller. I think it puts out a high pitch sound that only cats hear. They are about £20

waits for the cat abuse to start

The only solution I found to the cat poo problem was to cover exposed soil till the plants got big enough, I've used chicken wire,holly cuttings,but whatever you use needs to be hard to push aside.And be obsessive about keeping the sandpit covered.
I have also done the racing down the garden shrieking like a banshee,which doesn't put the cats off long term but makes me feel better!

Bag up the cat poo and next time pussy is found in the garden chuck it's own poo at it.

Ive found putting jeyes fluid on used teabags and dotting them around the garden helps. It smells horrible and deters them for long enough that they start going somewhere else. Then you can just bin the teabags or top up with jeyes fluid if needs be.

I absolutely scared the crap out of my ndn's cat. It didn't see me in the garden just as it started to do a crap in my border. I chucked my bottle of water at the fence right next to where it was, which made a n absolute racket - but, it petrified the cat who has never been back. I can hear it walking the perimeter of the garden as it has a bell on its neck.
I now have small birds in my garden again, which is amazing.

YANBU I think you are doing right thing. I absolutley HATE cats and this is one of the very reasons.

I don't think you're being unreasonable. I'm in the same situation and I happily fling it back into their garden.

Absolutely pissed off about being prisoner in my own fucking home and not being allowed to enjoy my own fucking garden (front and back) and having to watch 3 year old like a hawk so he doesn't stand in it, pick it up etc etc.

If it tried to hide it, it wouldn't be so bad. But no, 3 or 4 times a day, both fucking gardens, right in the middle of the sodding lawn.

We have cat poo problem at the playscheme for disabled kids I work at. Tried the sonic cat scarer: It didn't work just annoyed the hell out of the visually impaired child. Combination of cayenne pepper (sprinkled shake n vac style) everywhere & bottles of water lying around was working until one of the staff left a nearly empty tub of icecream in back garden (was a case of cat that got the cream) that had me running out & wailing like a banshee at it. So back to square one, our volunteer gardener is trying to get hold of lion poo for us to see if that works. Might try the coffee grounds until he comes good.