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Neighbours cats nuisances.

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Iovefootball25 · 16/05/2019 21:02

Fed up of the neighbours cats treating my garden like there own. The sun beams down on my garden so I’m guessing they like that but it also shines in their owners garden. Tonight I’m fuming because I caught it doing a crap in my front garden. First it dug a hole then did the business. I threw water at it so it ran away.
I know my neighbour would knock my door if it was the other way round. What should I do? His is really irritating me now. And they’ve got 4 cats by the way. Not really a fan of next door but we’re civil and polite’ish.

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Gorse · 18/05/2019 02:07

My neighbour has a constant stream of cats, they grow up, they attempt to cross the busy road to adjacent fields, they die. When they're not getting killed on the road they're in my garden stalking the birds and shitting anywhere that's friable. That is, cultivated soil, and the latest craze, the gravel around my picnic table. I can assure anyone interested that coffee grounds, orange peel and other kindly distractions DON'T WORK! However, a good sprinkle with chillie powder is quite effective - until it rains. I've used upturned plastic forks (cats just push them aside) and really pointy wooden skewers, which are reasonably effective if you use lots of them. Unfortunately I've jabbed my hands on the skewers, and stepped on one so rather dangerous. I really don't care if cats get jabbed because I'm so sick of clearing up after them. Their owner's "garden" has not one square foot of earth, it's completely concreted over making parking for six cars. They've recently acquired a dog but no one has bothered to put up a fence to stop it from accessing their (unfenced) frontage, so the dog is kept in by a cluster of wheelie bins. Oh, and one of the cats is pregnant, owner's delighted having been offered £30 each for the poor little sods. What completely irresponsible morons!

notsodimwit · 18/05/2019 03:46

My next door neighbour's dog killed a cat that wandered into their ( large secure fenced )garden last year its so safer to have a house cat.

19lottie82 · 18/05/2019 08:35

one of the cats is pregnant, owner's
delighted having been offered £30 each for the poor little sods. What completely
irresponsible morons!

I totally agree. As a cat lover I volunteer with the Cats Protection and canvas low income areas offering cat owners free or low cost neutering.

TheGardenFairy · 18/05/2019 10:59

gardenwhy on earth do you think I don’t look after my pet properly? And where did I even say my cat craps in my neighbours garden? You seem very dramatic

You have stated that you can't possibly keep your cat in or train it to use a litter tray. Of course your cat is using your neighbours garden as toilet!

You allow your cat to roam, exposing it to many dangers such as poisoning, louts thinking it a great idea to torture and kill it, running through traffic and ending up under the wheels.... etc

Try looking after it by keeping it away from danger. Many cat owners get a cat, secure their gardens with cat proof fencing and provide a toilet area for THEIR pet in THEIR OWN garden.

Responsible pet ownership is obviously over your head!

FamilyOfAliens · 18/05/2019 11:04

Oh look - another of these threads 🙄

19lottie82 · 18/05/2019 11:40

Of course your cat is using your
neighbours garden as toilet

Oh really?

So your point is, any cat owner that lets their cat go outside is a bad owner? How ridiculous!

Cats enjoy roaming! There are small risks obviously, but their happiness outweighs that.

You could get hit by a car, or attacked, or struck by lightening, but you don’t stay in the house 24/7, do you? And before you say humans don’t crap outside, no they don’t, they do a lot worse!

Sorry but your simplistic viewpoint is utter bollocks.

I volunteer for the Cats Protection society every week so please don’t insult me by calling me a bad owner or saying I don’t care about my cat!

TheGardenFairy · 18/05/2019 20:43

I volunteer for the Cats Protection society every week so please don’t insult me by calling me a bad owner or saying I don’t care about my cat

Let's hope perspective cat adopters don't listen to your advice then...

19lottie82 · 18/05/2019 21:09

Let's hope perspective cat adopters don't listen to your advice then...

Funnily enough, the advice I have given is the general advice of the CPL. I guess you know better than them though, eh?

boobirdblue · 18/05/2019 21:10

Let's hope perspective cat adopters don't listen to your advice then...

Let's hope they do and they don't listen to your bat shit craziness @TheGardenFairy !

@19lottie82 you sound a perfect cat owner

TheGardenFairy · 18/05/2019 23:03

@19lottie82you sound a perfect cat owner

😂😂😂 Sounds like a typical moggie owner.... gets cat, throws it out to piss the neighbours off. Can't understand why posters don't want their moggie causing havoc within the neighbourhood.

Responsible pet owners don't expect the neighbourhood to take responsibility for the pets they didn't choose to have. But I guess you won't understand that. I really feel for my elderly neighbours. Their lives have been made a misery by neighbours cats being allowed to use their beautifully tended garden as a toilet. Their lawn furniture has been ripped to shreds by their irresponsible neighbours cats. Their house has been tarnished by cats coming in through the windows. They are at their wits end.

I just let my dogs out. If they catch a cat in our garden (The space they are allowed to use without being leashed) then so be it. Why can't a cat owner get up at 4am to let their cat into their garden to crap? Some are perfectly able to - others don't have it in them.

Perfect cat owner - My arse! 🙄

dirtystinkyrats · 19/05/2019 00:02

Our garden is the local cat toilet. But those sonic cat deterrent things are horrible, and equally anti-social. Id personally rather have cat poo that a headache every time I walk down the round because of the noise.

I think I will be investing in some water guns for the summer and see if we can hit some cats.

dirtystinkyrats · 19/05/2019 00:02

than a headache

boobirdblue · 19/05/2019 05:47

Sounds like a typical moggie owner.... gets cat, throws it out to piss the neighbours off. Can't understand why posters don't want their moggie causing havoc within the neighbourhood.

You do know it's a domestic cat and not a tiger we're talking about don't you?

just let my dogs out. If they catch a cat in our garden (The space they are allowed to use without being leashed) then so be it. Why can't a cat owner get up at 4am to let their cat into their garden to crap? Some are perfectly able to - others don't have it in them.

Not many dogs would naturally catch and kill a cat, mine wouldn't. You've trained your dog that way because of your perverse hatred of cats.

Cats are here to stay and lots of owners don't want an animal shut indoors it's entire life, you're going to have to get used to it.

I don't own a cat, as you will have read in my posts.

HigaDequasLuoff · 19/05/2019 06:50

Have a read through this recent thread from the point of view of a cat-owner in a similar position to your neighbour. There's various points of view on the thread but the most relevant point is that anything a cat owner does to try to restrain their cat is utterly pointless because if that cat stops pooing there, a different neighbourhood cat will start. So your only sane course of action is to make your garden more unwelcoming and leave your neighbour out of it.

MrMeSeeks · 19/05/2019 09:48

That’s absolutely deranged

Oliversmumsarmy · 19/05/2019 09:54

So was ops comment on page 1

Oliversmumsarmy · 19/05/2019 10:11

I have a theory on this.
I have indoor cats and I actually love seeing the neighbourhood cats in my garden.

I have made friends with them (although some newcomers are really nervous)

A few if I am out in the garden will come over and see me and get a stroke and a chat.

I don’t have any shit in the garden.

I have never witnessed any cat even doing a wee.

In the house however Dp hates it when one of our cats goes into his bedroom.
He gets really angry and shouts at them to stay out of his room.

His room has become like a battle zone. One particular cat (the alpha male) has taken to slipping into his room whenever Dp opens his door and jumping on a wardrobe so he can stare down at Dp to annoy him.
The cat has even left him presents to show I think that he has claimed a victory over Dp.

I think if you are kind to the cats they will pass by your garden and do their business else where. I think you have turned it into a battle and if they can shit in your garden and annoy you then for them it is a victory.

FWIW dcats use litter trays, they never go anywhere else apart from dps bedroom.
We have tried to convince Dp that if he was more open with the cats coming into his room they would lose interest.

TheGardenFairy · 20/05/2019 02:23

That’s absolutely deranged

Why? Any pet owner who doesn't want to put their pet in Danger will keep them in. My dogs are very much entitled to be unleashed in their secure garden. Why should I prevent my dogs having the freedom to roam around a garden that I have secured because some cat owner can't be arsed to look after their cat??

Antigon · 20/05/2019 04:35

I don’t have a cat but they regularly come into my garden. One of them cries/wails in my garden nearly every morning and every evening. No idea what that’s about, it’s not miaowing. It has a cat friend so not lonely.

If the cats look they’re going to do a shit, I throw water at them, they leave and I forget about them. But I’m not annoyed at my neighbours for having cats, there are 8 million cats in the UK, they’re fact of life.

boobirdblue · 20/05/2019 06:08

@TheGardenFairy it's deranged and you know it. Keep your dog in, it's safer! He may skip his collar while out and get run over.

You're not worried about the cats safety, you've proved that with your last deranged post.

You've gone too far and your posts are now ridiculous.

TheGardenFairy · 27/05/2019 01:01

Boobirdblue...My dog won't skip his collar and get run over in a garden that has been secured for his safety. It's his garden/territory. If you don't want my dog chasing your moggie, in my dogs garden, keep your moggie the other side of the fence...simple!

Halo84 · 27/05/2019 02:47

@boobirdblue, my sister had a dig that hated cats, and always chased them. He wasn’t trained to hate cats, he just did.

Coyotes, a wild dog, are common where I live and if a cat is out, in areas coyotes frequent, it’s at risk of being caught by a coyote. I have heard the wails of cats caught by coyotes, always when I’m in bed. It is a horrific sound and one you never forget.

StoppinBy · 27/05/2019 03:07

Sprinkle chilli flakes on your garden, since I have sprinkled them in mine I don't have cats pooping in there.

People may think it's unfair on the cats but it's unfair on me to have cat turds in my vegie garden when I don't even have a cat so if the neighbours don't like it they can keep their cats on their own property and off my garden.

boobirdblue · 27/05/2019 07:27

@Halo84 we don't get a lot of coyotes in South London, but I'll bear it in mind if/when I do ever get a cat. 🙄

WeedsAndMoss · 27/05/2019 09:49

It's interesting how many cat wonders want to let their cats roam... my neighbours have about six cats between them. So therefore I can't let my child out in their own garden.

I'm had a thread about this recently. If it was rats or foxes I wouldn't be pissing about with sonar deterrents.

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