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To throw cat poo over my neighbour's fence?

387 replies

Sixofone · 20/06/2007 22:17

I suspect I probably am but have had a few glasses of wine so here goes!

My neighbour's cat turds all over my garden and it's really pissing me off, especially as dd crawls around out there and will eat anything. So, DH stalks the cat, surmises that, because it spends an inordinate amount of time statistically on one particular neighbour's flat roof, it must belong to them.

So, I tipped a whole bucket of saved up cat poo (I mean, what else can you do with it - it surely isn't nice to put it in the black bin with your food waste?) over the fence, so it is now sat there in a rather suspicious looking mound. Some of the turds have gone mouldy. I expect my neighbours will see it in the morning. I have now had to throw the bucket away. Do you think they'll think it's me, or just a rather large cat? AIBU for being a cat poo thrower?

OP posts:
3catstoo · 22/06/2007 14:14

Missymoosal - people like you should not be allowed to own any kind of animal. I'm sure other dog lovers would agree! You give dogs a bad name!!!!

LilRedWG · 22/06/2007 15:11

Just a thought! Sixofone - are you sure it's not fox poo? Foxes don't bury faeces, cats usually do.

kiskidee · 22/06/2007 15:30

moggies are not part of nature. it is an invasive species, whose numbers are artificially supported by the intervention of man.

handlemecarefully · 22/06/2007 15:40

Ummmm I am sympathetic - but this might lead to confrontational escalation...

SomethingIncrediblyWitty · 22/06/2007 15:53

its quite simple, get a dog!!!

Why? I don't want a fcking bst*rd dog!!!!

And cats do NOT all bury their poo, for the fifty hundreth time ,and it is not bloody foxes in my garden as we've seen the cat doing it!! And looking guilty while running away from me as i chase it out me garden!!

SomethingIncrediblyWitty · 22/06/2007 15:55

As for invasive species - whaddaya think we are? Did humans start out here?

Bit too late now innit...or should we all emigrate back to (errr...where was it homo sapiens was originally from???)

KerryMum · 22/06/2007 15:57

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kiskidee · 22/06/2007 16:05

yes, we are also an invasive species but we normally don't go pooing in other people's flowerbeds and killing songbirds, voles and dormice though.

well at least I don't, incrediblywitty.

LowFatMilkshake · 22/06/2007 16:07

My garden seems to be cat central at the moment. I have my two then two ginger ones who use our catflap to get in and eat our cats food. Where as our cats are too stupid and will only use said catflap it when we hold it open.

Then one neighbour has a cat mine fight with and the other has just rehomed a stray that was found on our street and all the other cats picked on.

Going along with the idea that cats never crap in thier opwn garden - I thought having so many cats claim my garden as territory would mean there would be no cat poo....... I was wrong .

Now I need to find a repelant because my DC's also like to use the garden!

weebleswobble · 22/06/2007 17:01

to calm you all down

SomethingIncrediblyWitty · 22/06/2007 17:04

Ah but, Kiskidee, how many wolves did ya see today? Or brown bears, or wild boar?? Cos they've all been made axtinct by human activity...you know i think this is a whole other topic - the OP was only throwing cat poo

pointydog · 22/06/2007 17:16

weebles, I admire your cat-posting stamina

LowFatMilkshake · 22/06/2007 17:19

Umm we do get hedgehog poo as well - we've seen one do it! You can also tell because it's smaller and often on the path. Hedgehogs dont mind where they poo where as cats like the comfort of soft dirt or grass.

weebleswobble · 22/06/2007 17:49

yay! pointy

kittywits · 22/06/2007 18:03

I lived next door to someon whose cats had the most awful case of worms. Their cats shat all over my garden. When I was very heavily preg with ds1 I remember gardening and coming across a cat turd that was so infested with worms that it was practically crawling along the grass!!!
Shortly after my neighbour said the cat had been run over and killed. I very very pleased I can tell you.
I used to throw the work ridden turds back into her garden.
I would happily have fed it rat poison. I think so many pet owners are terribly selfish, dogs shitting and barking, etc. etc.
Shoot the lot.

kittywits · 22/06/2007 18:04

read: Worm ridden

Emprexia · 22/06/2007 18:23

I may be in the minority here.

But No, YANBU.

My neighbour lets his dog wander into our garden through the gate (we have shared access) and it frequently uses our lawn as a toilet.

Whenever we find any, it goes straight over the fence, i dont want it in my bin, we dont have a dog and i dont see why i shoud tolerate theirs sh*tting all over my back lawn or having it in my bins.

ftr, yes we have asked him not to let the dog in, but he ignored us.

kerala · 22/06/2007 19:27

Snap Kaishay - neighbours dog leaps our high fence (that we put up at our expense to keep it out) and craps in our garden. Have spoken to them about it but get back "its my right to have dogs innit". Actually no as we have spoken to their landlord and their lease prohibits them from having dogs as does our lease.

Dd crawls in our garden. Have no compunction about lobbing the crap back over the fence. Urrgh

pointydog · 22/06/2007 20:05

weebles, you get me every time

Original poster
Sixofone · 22/06/2007 23:24

What's the latest Weebles? Did Kittypoopoo reply?

(All still quiet here on the turd tossing front - think I have gotten away with it )

I am thinking of starting a petition to get cat owners fined for letting their cats poop irresponsibly, like dog owners are.

OP posts:
weebleswobble · 23/06/2007 11:32

No response to my email yet. I can't think why because asking how you train your cat to pee in what is essentially a washing-up bowl is a legitimate question. Perhaps kittypoopoo is so overrun with enquires for this seemingly wonderful washing-up bowl, sorry, cat toilet, that it will take some time to reply.

Now, Sixofone, I really don't think you're going to have much luck with the Council bringing in a new by-law to prosecute cat owners for allowing their cats to poop in other people's gardens...you know as well as I do that it's time they got of their bums and enforced the current laws to prosecute those manky old dog owners before starting on those lovely cat owners

UCM · 23/06/2007 19:58

I would like to post my entry for the Cupcake competition here as I don't know whether to shoot it or eat it

theres a cat on my fence

pointydog · 23/06/2007 20:12

har!

shoot it, ucm. I know you wanna

UCM · 23/06/2007 20:19

Nah I might just eat it, boiled.

mrsharrypotter · 23/06/2007 21:23

YANBU. My neighbours cat not only uses the whole of my garden as a toilet, but also eats baby rabbits in there, leaving me with eye's and intestines to clean up, and brings most of the rabbit back so I have cat sick to clean up too. Then I have to hear my stupid neighbour go on about how she refuses to use a litter tray, and they don't go in her garden, so why should she bother

Rant over, and relax....