Neighbour throwing turds

[Tooslowchickenmarengo]

Our neighbour has been throwing cat shit across the fence into our garden. It started about a month ago when I was hanging washing out on the line and was hit in the face by a bit of cat shit thrown across from the neighbours garden. Admittedly, I should have said something about it at the time but was pretty shocked and preoccupied with getting my face clean!

Since then, we've had a growing collection of cat turds gather by the adjoining fence- it's not fresh iyswim so definitely not been laid there by a cat. After not taking the opportunity to say something the first time DP and I were waiting to 'catch them in the act' before saying something, but this morning I've gone into the garden and there are about ten turds glistening in the light scattered around the bottom of the fence; some delicately balanced atop our thyme plant and a few on the bench by the fence- there are hundreds of bluebottles making themselves at home. I've no doubt that the neighbour has chucked them over being annoyed at finding shit in his garden.

We have two cats that we rescued in November. They are outdoor cats but have plenty of space to do their business in our garden, which they take full advantage of. There are lots of cats in the area and we often have some do a business visit our garden too. The neighbours have a cat as well- although I haven't seen it for a couple of months so it might no longer be with them.

I know not everyone likes cats and it's not nice to have cat shit in your garden- but I feel like throwing shit into someone else's garden is petty and rude especially considering there are a number of cats in the area (possibly including theirs), and it's quite possible the turds don't belong to our cats.

Wibu to say go round and say something to them today or am I completely in the wrong for being annoyed by this?

Farty- the neighbours' cat probably shit in OP's garden. The shit in the neighbours' garden could be from numerous other cats. If they do have scientific proof the shit is from OP's cats, there are better ways of dealing with this issue than flinging the shit in OP's face.

Ingenious the 8ft wall round our garden is only allowed because it's 200 years old, and it is too low to stop my cats getting out and other people's cats getting in. Your 'simple solution' is not a solution, and that'll be why more people don't do it.

From the sheer amount of shit OP has said they've thrown over the fence... Am I the only one curious why all the local cats travel to shit exclusively in the neighbour's garden? I really want to see their garden now

This; Ladies and Gentlemen, is a cat proof fence.
Let's dispense once and for all with the notion that it's impossible to confine cats to their own gardens

Doesn't look particularly pretty, but if you want a cat, keep it to yourself.

I had a neighbour who stopped me in the street once and tore me off a strip because my cat was constantly pooing in their garden. I said I didn't think so, and they said it definitely was ours because they'd seen it in the act, not only that, but they'd seen it that very morning.

I said it definitely wasn't my cat. They were adamant it was. Quite insistent. Until, that is, I pointed out that my cat had been dead for more than two years.

Because of the time frame perhaps it is pretty easy for your neighbours to identify the culprits. Look throwing it over the fence isn't nice, but then having loads of cat shit in your garden isn't that great either - which ironically you know as you're complaining about it.

I would go over and try to come up with some compromise. I had a bit of a problem with the neighbours cats so I ended up buying a bottle of a gel repellant stuff and that seemed to do the trick , so maybe bring round a bottle of that.

pretty sure this comes under anti social behaviour [the neighbours - not so much the cats ] if you don't want to speak to them direct perhaps you could contact the council. cats mess is enough to give anyone the rage though esp. as they never seem to use their own garden [shows they're smart if nothing else].

I just don't understand how you can get hit in the face by a flying cat turd and not spontaneously shout Oyyyyy!

It must be terrible for you to have all that cat poo in your garden.

No floggin I reckon the OPs neighbours will still be able to lob shit in her face even if she put up a monstrosity like that.

I now have visions of cat shit sitting all along the top of that fence, Flogging. It's not helping my horrendous hangover.

As a responsible non-cat owner I would take great care not to hit anyone on the face whilst returning their cat's shit to it's rightful owner.

I am glad that toddlers are kept safe from cat shit while the neighbour kindly takes care of providing the cat toilet and doing the bagging up.

If you own a cat you are spreading shit into neighbours gardens, just via the cat rather than direct.

However if these neighbours have cats themselves they are being somewhat unreasonable.

A real cat fight lol

Here is the neighbors side of the story

Tricky, but as your cats are probably contributing you might want to find out what measures they could take to discourage them, and then have a chat about it - there's no way that you can control your cats, so finding a solution together to dissuade them is a better way.

Totally difference situation, but my MIL used to gather up the mess left by her dog in her garden, walk across the lane outside her old house, then throw it into the farmland opposite where sheep grazed - the farmer was very pleased when she moved......

That's funny dodo. I think we may have had the same neighbours! Ours were convinced it was my cat, until they called me in to deal with a large ginger Tom - and I alerted them to the fact that I had two small black and white girls.

As a responsible non-cat owner I would take great care not to hit anyone on the face whilst returning their cat's shit to it's rightful owner.

Don't chimps throw faeces at each other?

Are your neighbours chimps?? They might be chimps.

"But a dish even if OP did what you say and made her garden Kitty Fort Knox, how would that stop the neighbour from throwing poo ( which may be from foxes, badgers, their own cat, other cats) over the fence?"

Good point, happypoobum. You are right ... of course a cat-proof fence couldn't stop the neighbour from throwing poo into the garden.

However, as things are at the moment, if OP tackles her neighbour about this, the neighbour is simply going to turn round and say that it was OP's cats that deposited the poo in the first place!
Argue the toss, as she might, it's not really going to be possible for OP to prove otherwise, something she clearly could prove if her cats were confined to her own garden.

Could you stick little flags in them saying 'not ours' and sling 'em back over?

You were hit in the face with shit...and didn't say anything?!?!

^^This?? Is this actually true? It sounds very unlikely.

Go and talk to them.

Yes! MrsMuppet is the maniac who lives next door to OP.

Or it's monkeys

The neighbours cannot possibly know where the shit comes from and even if they did, it's totally unacceptable to throw shit around/at people.

People who think they can control which wildlife poops in their gardens are deranged.

People always raise the foxes and badgers. I live somewhere with no foxes, badgers, hedgehogs or similar. My neighbours cats shit in my garden. They're in our bloody garden all the time. Now I wouldn't fling shit at them, what with being drug up right, but it is annoying to have shot in my garden.

Not a cat person.

do you live next door to my dad?

Prior to mowing the lawn he used to find the cat shit rather than mow over it and toss it, using a shovel, to the cat owning neighbours on either side.