To throw cat poo over my neighbour's fence?

[Sixofone]

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?

See? That's exactly why I feel turd tossing is a legitimate sport, neigbours like yours MrsHarryP!

OMG......

OK, have had mouth WIDE open at some of the comments on here - "cats should live indoors and have litter trays" - what, like they do in the wild?!!!

Our cats live indoors as much as they want and have a litter tray. One would rather sit and cross his legs for days than use it. When they go outside, there is nothing I could do to stop them 'turding' in someone else's garden or hunting - seems to just make it more fun for them.

Have rarely caught our cats pooing in our garden but unfortunately they do in neighbours' gardens - they bury it and as our neighbours are all keen gardeners, they don't seem to mind the digging and composting.

As for shooting - well, I would take my own air rifle to the owner's car or something equally valuable to anyone who considered doing this to ANY animal. Cats hunt, instinctively, we're humans and don't need to use powered weapons to take out our anger on small animals - it's only poo FFS.

Squishy can I point out that we are not 'in the wild', we are in a civilised road with gardens and lawns

What about cat nappies? And dog nappies? Please, somebody - invent them!

A civilised road with gardens and lawns perhaps, but what about the residents ?

Squishy...have you ever actually asked your neighbours if they mind having your cats shit in their garden? No keen gardeners that I know enjoy having their flower beds dug up and their organic veg shat on by someone's meat eating cat... that is so naive. You can't put meat in your compost bin and the same thing applies to mouldy cat turds!

Reinforces my view that I was right to return the cats doings (albeit to possibly the wrong person )

Kerrymum, I would have thought in the circumstances it would be better to look down

The nappy thing is going a bit far isn't it? Surely they should be cleared up after by the driver.

I quite like the smell of horse shit - am I alone in this?

Perhaps we should start a Campaign For Cat Vegetarianism, so allthe organic gardeners can compost any turds found in their plot.

That's why I'm suggesting looking down

Sixophone borrow a friend's dog for a few hours a week, send it out into the garden to hang out for a while (making sure that it has had a walk earlier and hence won't add to the problem) - the smell of the dog should be enough should put them off, and if you are lucky enough to borrow it at the right time, a short sharp 'dog shock' as they leap over the fence into your garden should help....