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.

I think they probably do clueless. I can’t imagine the police would be overly concerned though.

Just thinking if it were a neighbours dog doing their business in your garden, you'd be entitled to bag it up and deliver it back to the owner to dispose of, right? So if you can be sure that the cat dirt in your garden is being left by their cat(s), can't you return it to them by fecking it over the fence by bagging it up and handing it back to them. A few times when this would happen would be enough to deter them, right?
Also, we've had cats and dogs do their business in our front garden and once the evidence has been disposed of, you really need a strong solution of washing up liquid and water to break down any remaining smells so they don't want to do their dirt in the same place again.
I'd have to say something to the neighbour about how dirty their animal was and expect them (after the first few times when I'd clean up) that they would come and clean it up as its their animal leaving their dirt behind.

As a chicken and cat owner the only thing I could suggest it to try and see the glass as half full. Hopefully the cats will be killing any rats that are mooching around your chickens.

Personally I'd get a fucking albatross and let it loose.

ChickenlessHead

If you are going to try to attract them to a dedicated area. its pea gravel, freshly turned over loose soil or fine sand.

Just thinking if it were a neighbours dog doing their business in your garden, you'd be entitled to bag it up and deliver it back to the owner to dispose of, right?

Yes. But not with cats. They have a legal right to roam.

Which bit of cats are not dogs is confusing people?

Oh just give it up, hot, will you?

Sorry you’re feline this way op you say you don’t hate cats but you are coming over with a fowl attitude towards them.

I last posted 12 hours ago. What the fuck is your problem?

Id get a trowel, scoop the shit out of the sandpit and throw it back over their fence.

Cats do not have rights enshrined in law to shit at will in everybody else's garden. God love anybody living next door to you.

Actually they do.

My cat shits in the house, so that makes no fucking sense anyway.

Well, I'm sadly disappointed that no-one has tried to argue for keeping dogs on leads at all times to stop them roaming (loose equivalent to keeping cats indoors to prevent roaming), or told me why the owners of pet horses dont have to clean their poo up!
OP, Boney beat me to it - smallish gravel, loose, freshly turned soil, or sand. Maybe a strip of each? You're basically mimicking the litter tray contents.

Yes the do, greyhound

I have only just stopped shaking with rage about neighbours cat doing this in my garden...so I will have to step away from the thread. You have my sympathy OP, and if others hadn't pointed out various issues with your plan, I would definitely be saying unleash the chickens!

Giant birdcage type thing enclosing the entire garden mother, or one of those shock collars for dogs which train them not to go beyond a defined line. Actually, cats are so contrary I'm not sure the shock would stop them if they wanted out.

By the way, probably impractical with your size garden, but I effectively kept the problem cat out with chicken wire across holes in hedges, and fixing up some poundland trellis sections (firm enough, but 'flimsy' so off putting for cat to climb) on high bits etc. The other cat still gets in, but has never been a problem.

I was going to say geese too!

My mum had this problem and bought lion poo to put on the flower beds they haven't been in her garden since

I have spoken to my farming friend who will be delivering her 4 fiercest, security geese tomorrow. If that doesn’t scare the bejesus out of them, nothing will.

motheroffour there’s information here about how to stop your cats roaming catsandbirds.ca . Also if you look on Nature Canada page it gives you an insight to the destruction cats are causing.

Absolutely love your latest update
Can’t wait for goose patrol

Please keep us posted about the geese 😂😂 vicious little f**ks the cats won't know what hits them!!