How to stop my cat using neighbour’s garden as a litter tray?

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Hey all. Woke up this morning to an anonymous Facebook post from someone in the area telling people to ‘look after their cat as it frequently visits their garden as ruins plants and sh**s everywhere’. Attached is a blurry CCTV image of what looks like it could be my cat, might not be.

We rescued a beautiful kitty several months ago, we kept him indoors for the first 6 weeks but it was evident he was longing to be outdoors so we let him out. He’s very well behaved, doesn’t leave for long periods of time, comes back when called so definitely doesn’t wander off for miles. He is also very loved and very well looked after. He is only allowed outside when we’re indoors, there is no cat flap and during the week we work so he will only be outside in the morning while we get ready and in the afternoon for an hour to two, mostly staying in our garden.

Anyway, no point me over analysing, the facts are that ever since we let him go outdoors, he’s not been using his litter tray at home and has learnt (or resumed as he was a rescue), doing his business outside.

like I say the post may not be about our cat, but in case it is, I know I can’t exactly sit him down and say ‘hey please can you keep your toilet antics to your own garden as you’re upsetting the neighbours’ so I’m looking for any tips on helping him toilet in other places? I don’t even know if that’s possible! TIA

Unless you cat-proof your garden, use a catio or keep him indoors, you can't.

Try a sandpit in your garden. They love going in sand. You can get a cheap plastic one off ebay. Keep it clean.

Cat proof your garden so it stays in your own garden

Had a similar problem recently after losing our dog. Was sceptical of these. That said, had no poops in the vicinity of them lately. Made cutting the grass lately so much easier and less smelly. Also, no more flowerbeds hiding surprises.

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This is naturally for the people having the cats come into their property rather than stopping them leaving.

Thank you all, we are in a new build estate and all the gardens are super crammed together so I really don’t think cat proofing is an option (it would impact about 4 neighbours. I did consider a cat run but again those are huge and our garden is tiny. With 2 kids we selfishly need that space.

sandpit actually sounds like something I could give a go!

@ShambalaAnna thank you for the suggestion but I guess the person that’s having the issue would need to install these and I’m not exactly sure who posted as it was anonymous and I don’t know if it was in fact directed at us.