To think this is a bit bizarre.

[maybeimamazed456]

This afternoon had a knock on the door from my neighbour who I've spoken to once. She said my 8 month old kitten had been shitting all over her garden and there was shit everywhere.

I find this strange as -

1. Cats usually go in private areas and bury their mess.

1. Other than picking up the shit there's not really much I can do.

I of course said to her I would go round tomorrow (working from home today) and pick it up. But I just find it an odd thing to go to someone's door about.

I'm even wondering if it's a fox that's been making the mess because cats wouldn't usually just leave shit at random all over the place. I also said I will look into anything that can be added to her garden so I've found deterrent spray but if that doesn't work, I can't do much more. They're cats.
And I'm not going round to her garden everyday to pick up shit.

AIBU?

I dislike cats. Their shit is toxic. You need to stop it happening. You wouldn't like it if I sent my dog to crap on your garden.

Cats burying their shit is myth number 1. Myth number 2 is them finding a quiet place?? One cat evil stares at me through the kitchen window while he shits in the middle of my lawn.

@TramaDollface

What sort of cat doesn’t bury it’s own shite?

That’s fox poo

Oh that’s a point. My cat uses her litter tray but in my fenced in back paved garden I get lots of fox poo

I know this cos I googled what it looks like - not a pleasant experience

@CSIblonde @TramaDollface my mum did say that actually that its more likely to me fox shit. But judging by this thread it doesn't seem likely.

Tell her to buy a small water pistol and if she sees the cat to give it a little squirt, it won't do it any harm and might put the cat off coming in her garden.
Our neighbour has two cats that shit all over our front and back garden, dig up my plants to use the pots as litter trays - it's vile.
I can see both sides as I used to have a cat and it's not like you can follow them about is it, but ours did always have a litter tray.
Must admit I wouldn't go knock on our neighbours door though (just seethe quietly instead!)
In my experience most of the shop bought deterrents don't work, although I haven't forked out for the noise one.

Tell her to buy a water pistol.

We had this with our (insane, as it turns out) next door neighbour. We had been living there about six months and the kittens had only just started going out. Didn’t make a lot of sense to me because I’ve had cats all of my life and never known them to do what she was saying they were doing. Turned out- when she set up cameras at her own time and expense, because she’s a bit barmy I assume- it was a fox.

She still throws water at our cats whenever she sees them though, she’s proper mean. Maybe suggest your neighbour gets a camera.

The best way to stop them pooping in your garden is to pet the cat and make it seem really welcome, so that it considers your garden part of its territory and poops elsewhere.

Just remembered that we bought some of those spikes that you put in the flower beds to deter them and every morning we woke up and the cat had taken a neat little dump right on top of them, felt like it was giving me the finger every day 😂😂

I used to see my neighbour shoo her cat over to my driveway to shit. I knocked on her door to ask her to stop, and was told the cat shit on my driveway couldn't be from her cat because her cat always used a litter tray!
I told her I'd seen her sending the cat over to use my driveway as a litter tray and,funnily enough, it stopped.

Why dont you make your garden cat proof and give it a litter tray?

@Thelnebriati how would I make my garden cat proof?

Cats are twats. UABU

(I have a cat, he doesn't shit in my neighbours garden but he does have his own armchair 😎)

[quote maybeimamazed456]@Thelnebriati how would I make my garden cat proof? [/quote]
purrfectfence.co.uk/

In my experience the only thing that stops cats doing their business in your garden is getting a cat of your own 🤭

And before you say it my cat isn't off pooing in everyone else's garden because he's too daft to climb the fence

Buy your neighbour a dog. Our dog eats cat shit 🤮

My neighbour once had a right go at me about my cat constantly shitting in the flowerbed under her front window every day. I told her that it wasn't my cat, but she kept going on about it until I pointed out that I knew it wasn't my cat because it had been dead for 6 months.

I have a cat that doesn't bury it's poop. Just does it on my borders then walks off. Luckily my cat doesn't venture out of my garden but I could imagine the annoyance of the neighbours if he was going into their gardens to mess.

@stablefeet thanks for link but I can't afford that unfortunately.

of course said to her I would go round tomorrow (working from home today)

So your neighbour has to put up with cat shit all over her garden until tomorrow? That's not on. Our previous neighbours had a cat, it would shit on our lawn and not bury it.

YABVVU.

Neighbours’ cat regularly shits on the lawn right outside our back door. This week it’s been diarrhoea as well. Absolutely foul. Cute cat though - we look after it regularly when they’re away so it’s not like he doesn’t have to be nice to us if he wants to be fed in future

Yeah cats do this, let’s not pretend the neighbours suggested the cat grew wings and flew to the moon,,😂

@pumpkinsoups she said not to bother till tomorrow as she was going away for few days to her partners house. I said is it okay if I pop over after work and she said just come tomorrow I'll be away for few days anyway and it will be dark tonight.

[quote maybeimamazed456]@pumpkinsoups she said not to bother till tomorrow as she was going away for few days to her partners house. I said is it okay if I pop over after work and she said just come tomorrow I'll be away for few days anyway and it will be dark tonight. [/quote]
That's very different from the implication before.

OP, you are asking a lot of very basic questions that seem to demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge. You've got a cat, like millions of other people, because you see it as an almost zero maintenance pet. How can you possibly be a responsible cat owner when you don't understand it's habits? Or where/how they defecate? Or that cat proofing is a "thing"?
So many cat owners are completely ignorant to how much of an impact their pets have on the neighbours. It's absolutely miserable to not be able to let your kids play outside until you've cleaned up all the shit that someone else's pet has left in your garden. Every single fucking day. And of course if you're sorting the baby or working etc you can't always do it immediately, so the kids are stuck indoors waiting around or getting aggravated and tempers getting frayed. It has a real impact on people's daily life and ability to simply enjoy their own property.
It's really upsetting to see people laughing merrily about the way that their choices cause genuine problems for others and making fun of posters who are explaining how it affects them. If the pp upthread takes pride and puts a lot of time and effort into growing vegetables for her family to eat, is it really funny that someone else's pet shits all over them and renders them inedible? Surely you're not that much of an arsehole?