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Original poster

... to put cat shit through next door's letterbox?

259 replies

LakieLady · 04/04/2023 15:54

It's in poo bags!

I've just cut some of the grass for the first time, and have picked up 3 lots of cat shit from an area of lawn about 30' x 15'. I know it's from next door's cat, one lot was in the spot where I saw the beast squatting for a leisurely dump this morning, and the other 2 lots are identical in size, shape and consistency, plus their cat is the only one that dares to linger in my garden.

And we never speak, so it's not as though I'd be damaging our relationship, because we don't have one. Mr NDN has never spoken a civil work to me in the 30 years I've lived here.

OP posts:
ZittiEBuoni · 04/04/2023 15:55

Wow, YANBU, puts my NDN's habit of chucking his cigarette butts over our wall in the shade.

Ursualesther · 04/04/2023 15:58

Oh you’d be “damaging your relationship” OP

not talking is an easy life

this would constitute the start of WW3

Badbudgeter · 04/04/2023 15:58

I wouldn’t but I would leave them on his front door step with a note. I do know someone who keeps a cat poo shovel and flicks it over the garden fence to where the cat lives.

teacakie · 04/04/2023 15:59

You know the neighbour hadn't told his cat to shit there to piss you off?

Nimbostratus100 · 04/04/2023 16:00

Its a garden, animals will poo in it, the cat will be holding off the rats and foxes

LlynTegid · 04/04/2023 16:00

When you see the cat, politely encourage it to move, or even pick it up and place it in next door's garden.

Yabadabadoooooooooooooo · 04/04/2023 16:00

I am not the type of person who puts shit through people's letterboxes or thinks about doing it. Just put it in a bin.

missingthewinchesterboys · 04/04/2023 16:01

Get a water pistol.

Animals poo outside get over it.

Wilkolampshade · 04/04/2023 16:02

Keep a water pistol handy at the kitchen window....

Stripycatz · 04/04/2023 16:02

I'm kind of understanding why they don't talk to you. Yabu

Tidsleytiddy · 04/04/2023 16:04

Just chuck the bag over the fence

Oldnproud · 04/04/2023 16:04

I've voted that yabu, because a) putting cat shit through a letterbox really is slightly ott and b) it would not solve the problem in any way whatsoever.

However, I don't think uabu to want to do it. We also have a neighbour whose cat that uses our garden as a toilet every day. It's disgusting - especially when I start weeding the borders and end up with some of the less obvious stuff on the trowel or even on my hands. It's a health hazard and stinks enough to turn my stomach too. I admit to fantasising over ways in which I could booby-trap the garden to keep the bugger off!

Original poster
LakieLady · 04/04/2023 16:04

LlynTegid · 04/04/2023 16:00

When you see the cat, politely encourage it to move, or even pick it up and place it in next door's garden.

I'd have to chuck it over a 5' hedge to do that! Plus it runs away when it sees me, and there's no way I can catch it.

OP posts:
WildAloofRebel · 04/04/2023 16:05

I’d chuck the bags over the fence

londonrach · 04/04/2023 16:05

Yanbu re cat poo. It's awful..we suffer in our garden but yabu re putting it through the letterbox. I know which cat poo in our garden so pop out when I see him at it. I usually can stop here and he a lovely friendly cat. Nice neighbour s too. Sadly think he does it when I'm not there,..no answer works I've found...lemon juice worked for one day then it rained

WildAloofRebel · 04/04/2023 16:05

Just because I’d probably vom squishing poo through a letterbox

Pootlie · 04/04/2023 16:06

God no that's unhinged. Just leave it in his driveway.

Ursualesther · 04/04/2023 16:07

Oh the irony

on another thread where the OP accidentally poured some sewage in to neighbours garden but it ended up amicably resolved, this was the OP’s contribution

LakieLady ·
So nice to hear of neighbours dealing with an issue like this in such an amicable way.

Monsterjam · 04/04/2023 16:10

Ursualesther · 04/04/2023 16:07

Oh the irony

on another thread where the OP accidentally poured some sewage in to neighbours garden but it ended up amicably resolved, this was the OP’s contribution

LakieLady ·
So nice to hear of neighbours dealing with an issue like this in such an amicable way.

Amazing

Original poster
LakieLady · 04/04/2023 16:10

Ursualesther · 04/04/2023 16:07

Oh the irony

on another thread where the OP accidentally poured some sewage in to neighbours garden but it ended up amicably resolved, this was the OP’s contribution

LakieLady ·
So nice to hear of neighbours dealing with an issue like this in such an amicable way.

Yes, but they were probably nice neighbours.

The man next door is an utter shit, including to his wife.

OP posts:
Xjshdvf · 04/04/2023 16:12

But they can’t do anything about it; what do you really expect from them?

Florissante · 04/04/2023 16:12

YABVU.

Ursualesther · 04/04/2023 16:12

So if current relationship is not taking

why throw gasoline on the situation?

Ursualesther · 04/04/2023 16:13

On the basis of this thread your poor neighbour simply has a cat that occasionally shits In your garden . That is his only “crime”

whereas his neighbour i.e you is considering committing an actual crime

Lorrymum · 04/04/2023 16:15

Someone put cat poo on my doorstep with an anonymous note about 30 years ago. Still no idea who it was or what I was supposed to do about it. I'd have been more than happy to buy a water pistol or some other deterrent to squirt my cat with.