Neighbours cat sh*ting in our garden

[Sasha818]

Does anyone know how I can stop this from happening pls? I have a toddler who loves to be outside playing in the garden. Next doors cat for months now has decided our garden is it’s toilet.

There is sh*t everywhere around my child’s toys, on our cobblestones just everywhere around the grass in the garden really. My partner is picking it up every night.

they have 2 small kids 2 big dogs and artificial grass so I’m guessing that’s why the cat comes to ours (was told they don’t usually toilet on artificial grass?)

please give me some tips to get this creature out of our garden without me constantly being afraid of my child falling or rolling in it’s poo! It’s also a very scruffy outdoor cat.

I had one who kept shitting by my gate. Chilli powder worked.

@RobertaFirmino it's entitled to think that nothing else on the planet should annoy or inconvenience you in any way. And if it does it should be somehow contained or outlawed.

Cats are allowed to roam. There is very little cat owners can do to monitor where they shit. However there are lots of cheap and simple ways to deter them. Gardens are full of wildlife. Birds sometimes shit on my windows. It's annoying but it doesn't mean I think they should be 'banned'. The only difference is cats have owners so people think they have someone to blame.

I'd love to stop my new neighbours cat sitting and throwing up in our front garden. Bloody thing is a pain in the backside. More than once we've come out in the morning to find sick on the drive it's crapped on our lawn as well. We have two dogs and a sonic scarer which don't work. I used to love feeding the birds in the back garden they don't visit anymore because of the cat. It's also taken to jumping onto our flat roof extension which is where our bedroom is and strolling around which sounds like a herd of elephants on the new fancy roof covering we've just had installed. So.sick of the damm thing

@Okbye
I actually very recently said to my husband that the next time our next door neighbours cats shit in the garden I'm going to throw the shit back over their fence. Then if the little cunt does it again I'll post the the shit through their letterbox.

That would be a criminal offence of harassment.

If you read my earlier post my NDN started leaving poo bags on my welcome mat in my porch. It wasn't even my cat pooping on his lawn. Just another black and white cat that looked similar and he didn't bother to try to find out or even talk to me first.

It was horrible thing to do and my family were so disgusted and angry at the NDN for his harassment of me (not even my cat remember!!) that had he continued I or they would have definitely called the police. Slam dunk conviction for the offence too as he left a signed note admitting what he was doing!!

Even years later we still talk about how disgusting and unreasonable a man this NDN is / was, although I'm polite to him, I and my DCs have told the story about 'nutty G" from next door to a few people! That's his reputation...

Putting any kind of poo through someone's letter box even if you think it belongs to their pet, would never be seen as reasonable by a judge in court. Imagine that conviction reported the papers . You'd have to move away to get away from the repercussions.

Only thing that works is having a dog. The cats round here very rarely dare enter our garden!

How some people can compare their cats to wildlife is beyond me. I want my garden full of wildlife, not your choice of pet inflicted upon me. Your choice to have a cat is the reason I have it unwanted in my garden, destroying things and ruining my pleasure of it.

This thread has gone the way they always do, and always will. Cat owners will defend their animal’s right to roam, or declare that it must be a fox, or say it can’t be a cat as they bury their poo. Or say that their cat would never…blah blah.

recipients of the cat poo will say chuck the poo on their doorstep (which I did many times) which doesn’t remove the problem entirely but is quite satisfying.

I will never understand why that in 2022 it's still legal to let a domestic pet roam.

Especially with the damage that cats do to the environment and wildlife.

The onus should be on owners to contain them with fencing, long leads, supervision, etc. And fines for trespass should be imposed.

Especially with the damage that cats do to the environment and wildlife

What damage do they do exactly?
I have cats and wildlife. Multiple types of birds, multiple nests. Hedgehogs, foxes, deer. The cat catches mice, we chuck the bodies into the field, the birds of prey or foxes eat them. It's called an ecosystem.

My friend fertilized her garden with lion shit bought from the local zoo. No cats came near her place.

The cast majority of cats won't poo in their own garden.

DH waged war on the cats in our neighborhood and nothing worked. Poo everywhere. Those sonic devices? The cats just got pissed off and attacked it, but not before doing their business.

I made friends with one of the cats. I don't let her into the house (1, I'm allergic and 2, I don't want to steel someone's cat) but I go out every time I see her and play with her. She now comes into the garden every day and she chases off all the other cats. No more cat poo.

As she is a black cat, she is also mental, so she's also beaten up the fox that used to come and sleep here sometimes. So no fox or poo either.

I get my boys to wee along the wall when the neighborhood cats get too poopy, it does stop it for quite a while. And the boys think it's hilarious.

So annoying! Happens to us also. I bought a motion sensor that emits a high pitched beep which is meant to put them off... it's supposed to beep so high that cats hate it and go away but it's too high pitched for human ears.

Pros - cat poo has reduced
Cons - we can hear the beep (extremely annoying), hasn't fully solved the problem.

Spray lavender everywhere it comes in. On the fences, on the walls it climbs over etc. They hate it.

Google "cats killing songbirds."

Picturing a cat on a long lead 😂😂😂

The thing is, cats exist. People choose to keep them but unlike a dog and other domestic animals, a cat can look after itself. It's totally unfair to keep them caged. I do accept that someone else's pets shit on your lawn would be annoying but it's unreasonable and nigh on impossible to lock all cats up. Especially when there are ways to deter them safely and cheaply.

It's just another example of people being utterly intolerant.

Here you are OP - problem solved !

www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Roar-Lion-Manure-Repellant/dp/B0002B7OT2

When l put out fresh compost on plant pots, the neighbours cat thought, it's their toilet. I shouted at the cat and hit the wall with a broom to scare it away. This was enough to train it away. I was very cross in my tone, zero tolerance attitude, it got the message. Every time l saw it, l went out and shouted, get out.

Made me laugh anyway

Get a massive bag of chilli powder, chuck it all over the garden, keep topping it up for a couple of weeks. It worked for us and they haven't come back. Also, they like fresh bare earth, so leaving it to get quite overgrown helps.