My babies pooping in the neighbours garden

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Our lovely neighbours that we get on very well with, called today to say our cats are pooing in their garden.

Apart from apologising, what can we do or suggest to them that they can do to discourage the cats. It's a terraced house so cats love exploring neighbours gardens unfortunately

Don't let your cats out? They do huge, huge damage to local wildlife anyway.

Is it a small patch of soil?
We use cut down garden canes and branches to deter but not ideal if it's a large area.

Fencing?

Yeah, keep them indoors. Nobody should have to endure your babies shitting in their garden.

No, you can't keep the cats in permanently, that's cruel. Ignore that advice.

You could offer to go round a few times a week and clean it up. Or they could send away for tiger poo, which is supposed to deter cats (I haven't tried it), or there are various other things which are supposed to deter them such as electronic devices or orange peel...I can testify that orange peel in copious amounts works for a bit, but you do have to keep replacing it. Or buy them a water pistol!

My neighbours once complained to me and I said ok I will have a word and tell him to stop…

If you don’t want animals in your garden the onus is on you to stop them coming in

Cat proof your garden?

Seriously? . You don't think the onus is on the owner to stop them getting out?
Utterly selfish.

I lay mesh or netting on the ground where they choose to shit. It does stop them. We also chase out of garden every time woofing.

Do you have a litter tray for them?

It may be that they just like a patch of soil, in which case you should keep a bit of your garden like this, for this purpose. Keep it bare, and clear it every day, just as you would with a litter tray.

When we had this issue we recreated the environment they were enjoying next door in our garden. So they'd just had a load of stones/pebbles laid down. We made a similar area in our garden. This worked really well actually and they stopped going next door. We also cleaned up the mess they'd made next door and urged them to tell us if it kept happening - other things we'd have considered would be buying some kind of cat scarer for their garden. I disagree that the onus is on them to keep cats out. The onus is on me as a the owner of the cat to deal with any mess it makes.

No ideas- but I go beserk about cats coming in my garden and shitting everywhere- in the soil, in my pots, on the lawn. Small terrace too, and it stinks. I'm an animal lover but I despise cats in my garden and we chase them off noisily if we see them, to teach them they are not welcome.
Other people's cats are like other people's children. They are your darlings but the rest of us do not find them charming.
Keep your cats in as much as possible?Encourage them to use litter trays before you let them out? I don't really know. Youre the cat owner so you surely have the knowledge -- and the responsibility.

Get some peppermint pellets for the neighbours garden. Think it's called "get of". We had a stray cat use our garden as a toilet when we first moved in. I sprinkled the pellets around the garden and it worked.

You can't keep your cats in, we have also had this problem. We have made our garden more cat friendly with areas they can use to toilet.
We bought them a sensor which has worked well, they could do this themselves. Or they spray with water if they see them.
Ours don't do it anymore, so the things must have helped.

Catio or cat proof fencing for your garden.

Cats have the right to roam.

if you don’t like cat shit, you probably don’t like fox shit, so really if you don’t want shit in your garden, then you will have to do something about it

Put some motion activated sprinklers near the base of your fence, your side.

@Beepbopblop this attitude just makes neighbours amp up their anti-cat activity.
If the cat owners acknowledge the issue and take steps to curtail their cats activity, the neighbours would probably be inclined to be a little kinder to the cat. Cat owners who think their pets have the right to shit in someone else's garden should expect their pet to be treated like the nuisance it is.

When I looked after a stray for a while I did create a big litter tray I.e. one of my raised beds, and she did use it.

Jeyes fluid or cider vinegar sprinkled where they shit.

Go round and pick up the shit.

ask your neighbours if you can put crushed dried chillies in the pooping area, or lavender oil - thats what we did when our cat popped in a neighbours flower bed, it stopped it nicely

We have 3 old lads (aged 13+) now, they’ve always gone out with us into the garden, and we made a patch of fresh soil into a litter area so they don’t go & crap all over our neighbours gardens. And it’s cleaned every day - it has to be, or my two giant doods would use it as a fresh bakery counter if we didn’t!

We put cat spikes on all our fences for around £100 (Amazon I think?); before that we’d only let them out if we were with them. It’s not much to pay for neighbourhood peace, with the benefit of stopping your cats roaming into the road or fighting (and picking up illnesses like FIV or FELV which are rife in stray colonies around here, or just reducing fleas).

I love my cats, but I also love the wildlife (we have a wildlife pond, fruit trees, feeders, nesting boxes, woodpile, bug hotels etc.). I don’t understand why owners don’t research more before owning cats, and don’t cat proof their gardens so their cats don’t roam.

Next door, they have 8 cats, all shit with great abandon in my front garden (not the back, our cats can’t get out, other cats can’t come in).

It’s repugnant.

Seriously? Hmm. You don't think the onus is on the owner to stop them getting out?

No. That's mad.

Also, although cats do have the right to roam, if you buy a cat, and they are “your babies”, then it’s to your benefit to reduce roaming to protect the health of your animal.