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.

Our neighbour's cats are free t come and shit in our garden, being wild animals...

...just in the same way they are free to drink the antifreeze laced water in the ornamental fountain.

Seriously? Are you kidding us @anticatwoman

I love cats, and I love MY cats, and fortunately they do go (to the best of my knowledge,) in OUR garden! I am fairly sure of this as I see them occasionally pooping on one of our lawns, or in the flower beds. And when I till the soil in our garden, I rake up LOADS of cat shit. Also, no-one has ever complained about our cats pooping in their garden. Not saying they never have, just that as far as I KNOW they haven't.

But if I KNEW mine were going in someone else's lovely garden, I would be so embarrassed, that I would try and go pick it up with a trowel and remove it myself. And if someone bagged it up and gave it back to me, I would be MORTIFIED; not sarcastic and condescending like YOU are.

You cannot be serious. Surely not!

You have no right to be indignant about your neighbour handing your cat's shit back to you.

As I said on another thread. People should catproof fences like they dog proof them so cats stay on their land. Simple as that. And I actually really like cats and dogs.

“It's now unreasonable to dislike cats shitting in your garden?”

It’s not unreasonable to dislike it, it is to throw it over the fence as some sort of passive aggressive message instead of just talking about it.

I really like our neighbours and I really like their cat but I am so glad that since we have had a dog the cat never, ever shits in our garden anymore. Cat shit is foul. Be grateful she bagged it

Good on her! I'd do the same.

Your neighbour is not at all in the wrong.

I have an indoor and outdoor litter tray but cannot control where they roam.

Yes you can; you can and absolutely should catproof your garden so your choice of animal doesn’t affect anyone else.

Your neighbour shouldn’t have to put up with your animals shit. Sort it out.

I would have thrown it back without the bag, if you want the cats then you must be fine with their poo. If you don't want cat poo (as she doesn't) then don't have cats.
If I was you I'd apologise to her and do something that prevents your cats leaving your garden.

YABVVVVU.

I do the same with my next door neighbours cat's shit except I don't bag it. Shovel it and chuck it over the fence.

Have approached him politely about it twice and nothing has changed. I've spent money on devices etc to try and deter the cat but to no avail.

His cat, his shit, his problem.

I think it’s fair enough
I’d think it’d even be fair for her to throw them back unbagged. You’d probably notice it less.

What’s your point, that it’s unpleasant to have turds appearing in your garden? Just contemplate that.

You take her flowers, you say your so sorry and help her catproof her garden.
It might be yours or some other cat. But by being a good neighbour you win.

I think this is a reverse. Surely no one can be this daft.

@changi

Oh, dear. This thread is not going to go the way you think.

On the contrary. This thread is going to go exactly the way the OP intended.

The fact that her username is ‘anticatwoman’ reeks of the dreaded reverse.

Could be worse, my cat shits in my garden

@CyberdyneSystems

Could be worse, my cat shits in my garden

😂

@FixTheBone

Our neighbour's cats are free t come and shit in our garden, being wild animals...

...just in the same way they are free to drink the antifreeze laced water in the ornamental fountain.

@FixTheBone that's really dangerous and irresponsible. It won't just be cats drinking from there but all sorts of birds, insects and wildlife that are beneficial to the environment and our well being. Look up ways to protect your fountain in the winter and stop inflicting slow, painful unpleasant deaths.

it's YOUR CATS POO and its in a BAG - failing to see any issues at all - just pick up the bags and bin them - it's not like she's flinging shit everyewhere

She's returning your property...what's the issue?

@CyberdyneSystems

Could be worse, my cat shits in my garden

yes so do mine - all bloody 5 of them - an on the lawn as well not even the borders!

Lucky you don't live next to me as I would stick and flick it back over

Ok I have to say that I missed that but it's NOT ok to lace water like that and whoever does that ahould be fucking ashamed. Just turn the water feature off over winter instead of poisoning wide range of creatures😱

Bloody hell. People building bird houses, bee friendly plants being planted and then people go and do shit like that😱

YABVU. I say this as a cat owner. I have a large garden though so am the one with the problem. My cats never left the garden though and the remaining one is well over 19 so poos on the grass, which I clear up.

You have young dcs though and will be well aware of the disease cat poo can cause, which is why she bags it. Go and talk to her, even if you only put a bin higher up where she can deposit the bags.

Now I need to tackle the ndn who has left bagged dog poo on her side of the shared access. It's been there literally years

OPs done a good job of getting you all wound up. 🤣

@tabulahrasa

“It's now unreasonable to dislike cats shitting in your garden?”

It’s not unreasonable to dislike it, it is to throw it over the fence as some sort of passive aggressive message instead of just talking about it.

OP's cat shit belongs to the OP. It's not unreasonable at all to return the OP's belongings to her.