Next door cat keeps shitting on my drive

[Stargazingmummy]

Just that really. We moved into a new home 2 years ago and have a relationship with our neighbours where we can say hi and bye to eachother.
However, the cat from next door is always shitting on our drive and garden. We are constantly picking it up from our property. We don't know what to do. My father in law has accidently stepped into it. My children play in the garden and obviously our cars sometimes go over it when driving on and off the drive. It's disgusting.
I know we can't control what the cat does and nor can the owners but what do we do?
Do I have a friendly chat with the neighbour about how regular it is and how the children have to be careful where they play?
AIBU?

Talk to your neighbour. I had this exact issue, years ago. She suggested all kinds of repellent stuff and I suggested she go to the trouble and expense of acquiring the Stuff. Which she did. But of course as soon as it rained 🤷‍♀️.it washed away. That’s the issue with deterrents, it becomes YOUR responsibility! Why should it be?

The cat had several toileting stations on the street, and whenever it used the path outside my gate I used to return the shit to her doormat. She knew it was me. I knew she knew it was me. She knew I knew, etc. we eventually moved, and I guess she still doesn’t give a toss. Perhaps your neighbour will be more… neighbourly.

I've never known cats to bury their shit, even when I've found it in my earthy vegetable patch it's not been buried. They'll shit anywhere.
Don't expect the owners to care or want to take any responsibility though IME.

My neighbour's cat definitely isn't put off by lavender, because his absolute favourite place to sit is on a low wall on the corner of our street, beneath an overhanging lavender hedge!

(I'm actually very fond of that particular cat because he's very friendly and quite the character, but apparently he regularly drives another neighbour mad by shitting in their herb planter - seems there's no smell he's not prepared to overcome.)

Just gravelled our front border and the neighbours cat has decided it's a monster litter tray.

Little fucker. I'll be sorting him out.

I got one of the sonic repellers when I had this problem. Worked a treat!

If I knew my cat was doing this I'd do as a PP suggested and go check daily armed with a poo bag to get rid of it for them. My cat, my responsibility. (Tbf to my cat, she has a litter tray and mostly uses that but sometimes she wants to go outside for an al fresco poo in our garden, probably to make a point to a particular cat.) Sometimes cats will do a half-assed attempt to bury poo but left out in the open is a cat trying to assert its dominance over other neighbourhood cats. Saying that, I do lift poo daily from gardens which is definitely foxes as well, plus the occasional hedgehog poo. They also seem to leave theirs in places which suggest advertising their presence to other foxes/hedgehogs...

In your place if you've seen the cat responsible then ask the owner to please clean up after their pet. If they won't then any cat deterrent should help.

Next doors cat uses my lavender bush as a sofa during the day.

I have already bought those sonic noise things but they haven't worked.
There's been 4 lots of cat poo on my drive today. Just fed up of it because my son can't play freely on our property.

If it is on hard standing this is a fox and not a cat.

Cats will shit anywhere hard standing soil grass and gravel. They will 50:50 bury or leave.

Mg own bloody cats locked in I may add have shit in my concrete slabs, veg bed and next to their litter trays. They do not care they will go where they feel. One had a thing about baths till we made sure the door was always shut.

We have cats and I feel very guilty that they go in other people's gardens, having had that happen to us with little kids in a previous property. I have offered to poo pick for my neighbours and I would do it. I would definitely mention it.

If you're definitely sure it's their cat then yes worth speaking to them but I'd also buy a super soaker and use it.

My old neighbours were sure it was my cats pooing in their garden. But it was a big ginger Tom and I had two black and white girls......

Four lots from one cat? What is it fucking eating 🤣
Our cats have a litter tray which is always available, doesn't stop one of them shitting outside though.

They hate citrus. Try making your own citrus spray with fresh peels or essential oil. Spray liberally.