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.

Screams "REVERSE" to me, too...

In any case, I have huge sympathy for the poo-bagging neighbour. Agree it's rather good of her (you?) to bag it up.

This, and the bird/wildlife savagery, is why cats are rubbish.

My neighbours cats haven't been near my garden since I brought my lovely rottie home. They were a pain in the arse before that.

What a very long post just to say that your neighbour is putting your own cats poo into your garden. Seems fair enough to me. It would be unreasonable if she was chucking unbagged poo over while your children were playing, but bagging and dropping seems like a reasonable response from her.

My neighbours cats pooed in my garden. I always throw it back in to theirs

At least she bagged it.....my neighbour used to just scoop and throw. I actually didn't mind, although it was slightly annoying as I knew there were at least three other cats in the neighbourhood that poo'd out there. However, I had two that definitely did, so fair do's.

Don't blame her at all :)

Clear it up and forget it?

Yes. It must be really annoying to have cat poo all over one's garden.

So suck it up (not the poo, of course, but your neighbour's actions).

Is this a reverse? It certainly reads like it.

She doesn’t own a cat yet she’s having to clean up cat shit in her garden. I say good on her for throwing it into yours. This post can’t be serious 😖

No one can be thick enough to think their neighbor is wrong. Pick up your cats crap.

Gosh, lucky it came back in a bag to protect the kids, pity you didn't afford her the same protection for her property.
Hope she runs out of bags soon.

@Emeraldshamrock

At least she used a bag, I'd throw it over without a bag.

Yeah, I just used to pick it up with a trowel and chuck it back over the fence.

I have kids too and I choose not to have cats. If my neighbours had an issue with their kids playing near their own cats poo, then they shouldn't have got cats.

I have a dog and I clean up after my dog.

I'd be happier to dispose of nicely bagged cat poo than scoop it from my flower beds. You should thank her.

Oh great a cat poo in the garden thread with everyone suitably wound up. Must be a sign that things are returning to normal around here. Not about the royals or covid.

Hopefully not too long before reclining seats on aeroplanes...

I think all the comments of stopping your cats shitting somewhere is unhelpful, they’re wild animals to an extent. If she is bagging them up, I’d say she is being quite nice, she could just throw the poo over in fairness.
The easiest thing to do would be to just bin it.
If you wanted to go one step further you could offer to go round and pick it up yourself.
It’s annoying for her, she has a nice garden has tried everything to stop them getting in and she doesn’t choose to have cats so can understand her frustration. But there’s little can be done... we live in the city and have lots of problems with fox shit and then bringing random stuff into our garden so can sympathise

I have two cats, one is mostly an indoor cat but the other likes to roam for part of the day, we have litter trays for them both.
One side is a gardener and is very garden proud, they’ve never complained about cat poo but if they did, I would offer to remove any deposits for them and come up with some solutions to avoid it happening.

@Sparklingbrook

Oh great a cat poo in the garden thread with everyone suitably wound up. Must be a sign that things are returning to normal around here. Not about the royals or covid.

Hopefully not too long before reclining seats on aeroplanes...

I have a dog, I pick up his poo. If I let him shit in op's garden she'd have something to say about it I'm sure.

Ha, yes, definitely a reverse, now i read it again. All those references to the lovely flower beds, etc.

YABU.
You spend most of your post sympathising with your neighbour but sum it all up by asking if she’s breaking the law?
Oh and your last sentence sounds pathetic as hell. Grow up

I'm hopeful this is a joke of some sort...

In your neighbour's place, I'd probably never dare throw it back in a bag (though it does make more of a statement that way!), but I'm not surprised she returned the poo to you. A neighbour's pet pooing in my vegetable patch would infuriate me. I'd more likely toss it over the fence, unbagged.

Cats may have a legal right to roam, but it's still very annoying, entitled behaviour to shrug and expect neighbours to put up with the consequences of your choice to have an outdoor cat.

You should talk to her and offer to pick it up or find a solution.

But I do think she is being needlessly aggressive by actually throwing it back into your garden. If she's putting effort into bagging it up then it wouldn't be any harder for her to put it in a bin. It would be less aggressive for her to just come round and talk to you about it.

Oh reading this again, it's clearly a reverse or someone who's winding us up!

I've clearly and calmly explained to my cats not do do it anymore and am hopeful the message has got through

Completely missed that!

Go round and say thank you to the neighbour for bagging it up for you.

Your neighbour's being kind imo.

My ex used to flick my neighbour's cats poo back over their fence with a shovel. No bag used.

I’ve got a cat and I wouldn’t mind my neighbour throwing it back (bagged)