WIBU to let my chickens in next doors garden?

[ChickenlessHead]

Seeing as their 3 fucking cats spend their days shitting in my dc’s sandpit and digging up my plants?

I’ve tried everything - squirting with water pistol, sonic cat repellant, covering up sandpit (they just shit on the cover then). I had a little nest of robins in my tree earlier this year and one of the cats knocked the nest over then put a baby bird on dc’s slide.

We have a low wall at the end of our garden that extends along the bottom of next doors garden too. My chickens are free range during the day and have recently been hopping up on this wall. Dh mentioned we should probably put up some kind of fencing to stop them walking along it and going into next doors garden. But next door have no problem with their pets shitting all over my garden and I’m inclined to feel the same about them tbh.

Cats are no threat to the chickens btw, the chickens have seen off the cats many a time (one of the reasons I’m quite fond of them). Next door don’t have a dog either so chickens would be quite safe there.

You sound like one of those silly dog owners that hate cats

What?

I would rather cats shit in my garden than step in dog poo

The fuck?

What you need (and can buy) is lion shit! You can order from zoos I believe. It is definitely a deterrent for cats! I'm unsure if you can use it as fertiliser but I'm sure you'll find a website that'll help you.
Or plant some thorny plants your side of the wall where they come over.....
Cats don't like orange oil either. You can dilute it and spray it on the wall and places they've been crapping but youd need to do that daily if you could be arsed.

I definitely don’t have anything in the deeds stating I’m not allowed to keep chickens manic. I didn’t realise in some places you weren’t (except flats and places with teeny gardens obviously). I thought quite a few people kept chickens in cities?

Thanks purple. There’s a big cat sanctuary about a mile away. I’ll give them a call.

Never heard of using lion poo before, that's interesting. Definitely need to keep us posted if that one works!
When do the geese arrive 😁

You can’t be sure it’s next doors cat even in a one horse town. My friend lives with only two neighbours for miles around, one day she saw from her bedroom window her two dogs attack and kill a cat. Only cat for miles around was her nearest neighbours, after a quick vodka at seven in the morning (for courage) and feeling absolutely terrible she went to tell her neighbours what had happened. Much crying ensued on both parts and during the day the neighbours put cat bed, toys and food out in the bin. Later that day their cat came home!

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Op: My garden is covered in cat poo.
Other posters: cover it in lion poo instead.

They’re cats: they wander. What do you expect your neighbours to do? Apparently lion dung scares them off. Or orange peel, apparently...

Any news on the geese?

They’re cats: they wander. What do you expect your neighbours to do?

Take responsibility for them and keep them under control.

Please can you update on lion poo. Including the whole transfer of it in the car. :-) But seriously... if it works agains foxes, I’ll consider it too.

Toy snakes in the garden work well at scaring off cats. Might worry the chickens too though

Ooo toy snakes. The kids would love that and potential burgers would think I was too bad-ass to rob.

Can lend you a real snake if you promise not to feed him to the geese 🐍🐍🐍

cucumbers! almost had a eureka moment there!! There's a youtube video of hundreds of cats' reactions to just a lone cucumber & every single one of them absolutely freaked out & legged it. Not sure why, haven't looked into the science of it. But maybe buy cucumbers in bulk & stick them round the perimeter where the cats enter 😂😂

Cucumbers work too because the cats think they are snakes. We decided to try toy snakes rather than rotting cucumbers or plastic bottles and they work really well

Geese are arriving in a couple of hours. My garden is going to be a cats nightmare!

More like just a nightmare. Have you seen what geese can do to a garden? Good luck with that.

Electric fence? Helps keep the foxes out... ;-)

They’re only going to be here for a week or so hotbuttered. I’m going to keep them in the chicken bit of the garden so they hopefully won’t wreck the place too much. I will update with photos if they do!

Love the idea of attack geese! I hate cats roaming as well and I have 4 of them:). They are all indoor and happier then stink being indoor. They are all litter trained, have toys and each other to play with. They are content and alive. We have lots of vehicles, raccoons, coyotes, and possibly bears nearby and we live in an urban setting in Canada! It’s not worth risking their lives to let them roam. Plus, I don’t agree in letting them poo in other people’s yards.

The rescue I adopted my older two from made me sign my life away saying that I would keep them indoor. Mainly for the reasons I stated above. Way too many vehicle deaths and although a very urban area there are still a lot of wild animals around looking for food.

Op is it your sodding robins that come and shit on my washing?? Can’t you keep them in your garden ffs?

Aqua that makes total sense now you've said about them thinking cucumbers are snakes. So funny yo watch.

Haffiana think they're mine...my washing is oddly poo free recently. Send them back!

As a cat owner I'm curious to know how to cat proof a garden without making it look like Guantanamo Bay .

And as a cat owner OP, buy the cheapest, strongest smelling curry/chilli powder and sprinkle it around your garden - it seems to deter cats coming in (though you may get a queue of folk looking for a takeaway)