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.

Pagan it's literally like an outdoor aviary built on the house. Someone I knew used to have one & it worked...until her cat clawed a hole in the netting 😂😂

So a cage basically??? Unless you're minted and can put one round the entire garden, in which case it's a massive cage. Thankfully my cat poos in his own garden but has the good grace to dig a wee hole and bury it.

They're not overly expensive tbh because it's basically just a big net. Safer for some cats

Sorry for delay in replying.

You can get it on amazon, it’s called
Silent roar.

I know the reviews are a mixed bag but I know a few people including myself that it’s worked for

Two things, a plant called Shoo Cat, coleus canina , works cats and dogs. And The Silent Roar, which is powdered lion poo. The plants are a cheaper option in the long run, but both work on my experience.

And if I were you I'd be chucking a handful of layers pellets over that wall....

What spam88 said.

I now throw the neighbours cat shit back over the fence for them.

I now throw the neighbours cat shit back over the fence for them

hope you know for a fact its their cat and not anyone elses or feral cats. Because otherwise you are just throwing shit in your neighbours garden which could get you into a lot of trouble.

I absolutely feel your pain OP I’ve lived here 7 years with no problem, 1 or 2 cats in the cul de sac but as the years have gone on more people have moved here or got more cats so there about 7 or 8 now a lot of new ones, I’m now finding shit every day either on my grass or on my gravel out the back, it is making me so so angry as I have young children and am now having to scout the garden to make sure there isn’t poo before I can let them out. I caught one in the act one day skittering all over the grass so god knows what it’s getting fed but I had to hose that off the grass after chasing it like a mad woman

I think people should only have cats if they have a run or some other form of cat proofing to stop their cats from roaming if they can’t be indoor cats

Oh and I have no pets because I don’t want the hassle of cleaning up or looking after them so don’t see why I should have to do it for other peoples pets

Get a dog, if it doesn't scare the cats off it will at least eat the cat shit for you (and then give you kisses all over your face)

Pagan we’ve cat proofed by putting netting on brackets onto the fence to stop him getting out. I think the new neighbours were a bit when they saw it but my cat’s safety comes first. I wish more people would do it, especially with the cat killer still out their.

Saying that, I must have the worlds strangest cat. Even before the cat proofing he crapped in his own garden and, apart from two frogs, anything he brought home was long dead, presumably caught by something else! When we had a tree in the garden the birds used to throw things at him. I don’t like birds so thankfully we don’t get many and he only watches the ones we do get.

Not every cat is crapping killing machine!

Any news OP, I’m dying to know if geese are the answer!

Not keen on cats but, genuinely, aren't chickens really noisy? There are some about 5 doors down from my mum and it would drive me insane (my neighbour has wind chimes and they drive me nuts), that seems anti social to me, noise pollution?

A world when animal and kids noises is considered antisocial... it’s all part of life in my opinion.