How do i stop my cat shitting in neighbour's garden?!

[ErictheGuineaPig]

I'm desperate for any help! I really don't want to pee our neighbours off. They've just redone their front garden with a load of lovely gravel/pebbles, bark and fresh compost. Our cat thinks it's the best litter tray ever. At first neighbour kept mentioning it but wouldn't let me do anything about it but has now agreed for us to come over every morning and check for poo and clean it up. I would also like to stop it altogether.

Are there any products I can buy that would deter her? We have a litter tray in the house, and she does also poo in our front garden and we make a point of keeping one or two poos there for her to smell in the hope she'll go there.

I am also off work next week and thinking of staking our his garden so I can spray her with a water pistol if she goes near - this worked really well in keeping her away from our Xmas tree.

Any other suggestions gratefully received!

You are overthinking a bit. All you really need to do is make a patch for her in your garden that's even better than the neighbours' one. So a couple of feet square of freshly dug, soft earth, with no plants or stones, and she should hopefully use that.

Don't start spraying her

You need to give dcat a jolly good talking to.
And threaten to stop buying Dreamies.
Tell your nd they are welcome to spray your dcat with water. My ndn had a Fairy bottle of just water on her window sill and she just had to lift up the bottle and dcat ran!!

Can you put some of the same surface in your garden?

Buy the neighbours a water pistol.

Do your neighbours have a hose? Tell them to soak cat (or try) if she's comes back, cat will soon think neighbours are evil monsters, and stay well away.

Thanks all. I've just been out and dug over a big patch of mud in our front garden. I'm skint until tomorrow when I get paid so I could potentially buy some gravel etc then. I have advised the neighbours she hates being sprayed with water and told them to feel free to squirt some at her!

She's a naughty tortie so needs more than a talking to and - bizarrely doesn't like dreamies!!

Our mud in our garden is quite stoney and full of roots so I'll buy some compost as well I think..

Don't buy gravel. Compost is much better.

My cat likes sand. There was some builders sand left over and she's been using it for years.

Don't let our cat out at the front of the house, let her into the back garden only?

Compost and sand would probably be a good mix.

I don’t know if it is this that works, but something I have been doing in my garden for a while is squeezing oranges and lemons in areas NDNs cat has been. I also put it in the flowerbeds as a preventative measure. As I say, I don’t know if it is this that has done the job, but I haven’t done anything else, and it seems to have stopped.

Cat netting/ fencing. Keep her in your own garden.

I make sure there's a few areas in our garden the soil is nice and loose to encourage our cat to use those spots. I give it a hoe every week or so. Seems to work.

OK, I'll try some compost and sand.

I can't keep her in our back garden unfortunately. It's massive and would be impossible or very very expensive to make it cat secure.

I've heard citrus fruit can keep them at bay, I'll see what the neighbour thinks to that.

Garlic water can prevent them.