AIBU - my neighbour's flower bed is my dog's toilet

[SevenWaystoLeave]

I routinely let my dog wander unsupervised around the neighbourhood and he's taken to going into my neighbour's garden, digging up their flower bed and taking a massive stinking dump there. It's his favourite spot to go. This has become a daily occurrence, but I can't stop him, he's an animal and needs his freedom, and I'm not going to clean up after him either because they can't technically prove it's my dog, and not someone else's free-roaming unsupervised dog.

...Yes this would be really fucking unreasonable wouldn't it and people would be quite rightly calling the authories on me and I'd get fined and a control order slapped on my dog. So why why why the ever living fuck is it considered okay and normal when cat owners do this?!? It's absolutely disgusting and I am so so sick of cleaning cat shit out my garden on a daily basis. AIBU?

YANBU, it is horrible

Haha half asleep and only read first paragraph

Yanbu whatsoever

@LakieLady

My neighbour's cat not only shits in my flower beds, but kills birds and leaves the corpses for me to find. The little fucker killed a beautiful goldfinch the other day, I was really upset.

I take it you’re vegan?

If cats never poo in their own garden, there must be a cat pooing in every garden. I never see poo in my garden, but I often see cats that aren't mine. My cats go in their litter tray, they don't seem to go outside.... unless!

Yeah it's annoying but I think you're over-reacting just a tad.

@ArtOfTheImpossible

I agree with you OP. My life is so hard between full time work, single parenting and doing everything in life on my own. Then I want to do a nice spot of gardening, and I'm clearing stinking cat mess out of everywhere in my garden. I haven't got any animals myself. It's horrible, it makes me want to cry. I don't know what the answer is but it's not OK.

Reduce your working hours? Go part time? Could parent with your Children's father more effectively?

This is why I shriek "caaaaat!" And send my dog out flying when one enters my garden. Don't want any cats in my flower beds! Works a treat (he would never catch one!)