My poor next door neighbours must rue the day we moved in. The loudest toddler known to man, a dog who barks at everything that moves and now a bloody house-cat who escapes from all my efforts at containing him and wee's in next doors garden. Now I discover he has been into their house and tried to escape through the window when they tried to shoo him out and broke their binds. 
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Obviously I apologised profusely and offered payment for a new blind, but they are still pissed off although being awfully British and polite about it. I have got a bark buster and shut my dog in the kitchen where he can't hear the postie or anything that might set him off when I'm not there, and don't allow my toddler out early in the morning and try to stop him shouting etc. I have also tried a kind of plastic chicken wire fencing at cats' escape points but will make my DH do the whole garden.
Would a box of chocs and a few beers as well as payment for the blind and a note of how we will stop it in future be ok or is there more I can do. I'm so stressed as my dog is poorly and I suffer from anxiety anyway and can't deal with extra stress just now.