Neighbour throwing cat poo into my garden

[anticatwoman]

I think my cat hating neighbour has thrown bagged cat poo into my back garden. It would be cat poo from my cats who like to shit in her lovely lovely garden.

I have two children under three and we were playing in the garden this morning when I spotted the bag (looked like a fragranced sanitary bag) in the top corner of our garden filled with what is most definitely cat turds - although I couldn't confirm if they are from my cats of course.

We've lived here 3 years. Had cats for two. She's a proud gardener and my entitled cats love to shit in her vegetable patch and play on her lawn. I've seen her chasing them off/ throwing water at them, putting chicken wire and spikes on the fence to try and stop them getting over. They enjoy the challenge. If I see them in her garden I try to entice them back to mine with treats. As long as she isn't hurting them I don't mind her chasing them off. Not everyone loves cats and that's fine. It's complicated by the fact the old lady next door again loves my cats and frequently lets them in and spoils them. So our shared neighbour's garden is a passage way to tastier cat food and non stop affection.

My back fence is very tall and has no back access. It backs on to a main-ish road. After my back fence is a little stone wall about a metre tall which is filled with prickly blackberry bushes, then the path, then the road. My point being here is that if a dog walker was going to dump a bag of poo from the main road they could easily toss it into the blackberry bushes and not be noticed rather than throwing it miles over my fence to land in my garden. My other next door neighbour has a scary dog so my cats don't dare visit that garden.

I can't prove it's her but the fact that it's cat poo and where it's landed makes it quite probable. I have an indoor and outdoor litter tray but cannot control where they roam.

Whilst I sympathise it's annoying for her, I'm not breaking any law whereas I think she is by throwing things into my garden? If she's going to the trouble of bagging it why not just bin it instead of acting out of spite?

What should I do? Clear it up and forget it? Wait to see if more shows up? Loudly proclaim in the garden that I'm checking cctv for the culprit? Ask her directly? I've clearly and calmly explained to my cats not do do it anymore and am hopeful the message has got through.

@ShesMadeATwatOfMePam

I've taken to chucking my neighbors cat shits back over the fence. There's cats on both sides so each side gets one shit each in rotation.

brilliant

To be honest I think she was being nice by bagging it especially as you have children. I have an indoor cat and other people’s cat crapping in my garden is so annoying. For me the law should be changed and cats should not be allowed outdoors for the reason you stated they roam and you can’t control where they shit.

@ ShesMadeATwatOfMePam that made me spit out my tea

I'd have thrown it back minus the bag. I used to do this when my ndn cat used to shit in my garden, I'd get a trowel and throw it back.

I got a dog a few years ago and her cat never comes in the garden now so problem solved.

Your neighbour sounds like a lovely reasonable person who had just had enough. You should have apologised too. I'd be mortified if I knew I was causing such a nuisance to nice neighbours.

I'm just surprised at the number of posters who actually think people own cats. Surely it is universally known that cats, in fact, own humans.

Get a lurcher, problem solved

I also hate horses that shit in the street. I know you can't stop and get a massive Tesco bag to pick it up and then carry on, but it is really annoying. I live in a village and our roads are full of horse sh!t.

Gross that your cats are pooing on her vegetables. Don't they carry that disease Toxocariasis.

@LadyEloise

Gross that your cats are pooing on her vegetables. Don't they carry that disease Toxocariasis.

Normally Toxoplasmosis.

As an owner of two furry bastards.

YABVVVU.

@bluebluezoo

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Is this a reverse?*

Totally.

Classic mumsnet neighbour poo post designed to get everyone up in arms.

It's been a whole week since we had one Blah blah

Cats bury
Fox shit
Here's a picture of my "boy"

Lucky she has bagged it. I’d have scooped it up with my shovel and just flung it back over. I have a toddler and neighbours cats use my garden as a toilet. It pisses me off having to de-poo my own garden of other peoples cat poo before I can let my child out to play. Cat poo is far more disgusting than dog poo as well.

This reminds me of last summer, was sitting out in the garden.. a cat sauntered along, squatted on the border, blinked, got up and sauntered off, leaving a foul sulphuric smell that made sitting outside suddenly very unpleasant!

I think it was very generous of her to bag it up, I'm sick of spending money on poo bags to clean up neighbours' cats' poo when I have no pets myself.
Also, your high fences make no difference, ours are very high and the vile things still manage to get in. 🤢

Anyone’s Cat poo in the garden thread Bingo Card full yet?

Why should she fill her bin with your cat shit. Litter train your vermin

Clean up after them yourself. I'd be putting them through your windows and they wouldn't be bagged so think yourself lucky.

It's been a whole week since we had one that's the thing, I think it's been way longer than that. I was starting to worry.

I can’t believe you didn’t apologise too OP, there was no need for your neighbour to apologise or being you a nice gift of flowers. You should’ve reassured her as such, honestly you’re coming across very arrogant and entitled here, at least try to see why she’s chucked it back over? Cat pop is really disgusting especially when it’s amongst the food she’s growing for herself.

You should also pay her for the spikes, chicken wire and poo bags. And make it clear that she has no reason to be giving you flowers. I have been that perfectly normal neighbour turned into an obsessed cat chasing loon. It completely spoiled my enjoyment of my garden. When I managed to block the access my neighbour sheepishly admitted 'it's quite annoying now it's happening in our garden.. I am really sorry I didn't realise.'

Returned to have a read and going to try some of the suggestions. I assume it is not illegal to return said cat poo to the cat owner - perhaps through the letterbox/over the fence/ or deposit on their flowers and veg plots?

I have a small garden that I kid you not, is absolutely covered in cat shit. I can't use my own garden. Can't even open the bank windows the smell is so horrific. It's one neighbour, one cat. I've made them aware. Can't clear it even as it's embedded in grass and plants. Would really appreciate any advice on what else you can legally do to put the onus back on the owner. This shouldn't be OK.