Neighbours cat fouling our garden

nonnatus

I agree that Lion Poo works! You can get hold of it over the internet (Honestly!!) but our local Zoo also sells it as a cat deterrent. Also try a Cat Scarer (the ultrasonic things already mentioned.

I feel your pain - we have the same issues, except the neighbour has FOUR of them, all of which used to use our garden as their private En-Suite. I ALWAYS used a troll to pick the offending stuff up and throw it back into the neighbours garden. They know I do it and don't seem too bothered. I don't want it stinking up MY bins, so they can dispose of it in THEIR bins.

A couple of big dogs also work...

GwylimT

The car will be litter trained, their mothers litter train them.

Allowing a cat outside is looking after them correctly as cats require freedom, locking a cat inside is cruel, just as it would be cruel to lock a dog inside and deny it walks. Our neighbour used to find it appropriate to hurl cat poo over our garden fence as apparently our cat was pooing in her garden, she also somehow managed to poo their when she was in a cattery.

Our cats favourite place to go would be on our vegetable patch as it is always fairly freshly dug, we use lion dung which both deters cats, foxes and badgers, but it will also fertilise the soil.

nonnatus

Obviously I used a TROWEL not a TROLL (as above! Although using one of the TROLLS that frequent these boards to pick up poo would be a marvellous idea sometimes!!!!)

elsien

Chances are it's more than one cat. There's at least 4 that I regularly chase our of mine. So scooping up all the poo on dumping on your neighbour would not only be antisocial, it would probably also be unfair. Its not nice but it's an occupational hazard of owning a garden.
Those water pistol guns can be very therapeutic, but tend only to deter when the cat can see you.
They are more likely to crap on the lawn when the grass is long, so keep it mown. They are more likely to go on exposed soil so when your plants get established that will help.
Try putting short sticks where your new plants are - worked with my pots. My current weapon of choice is a large bag of cayenne pepper from the local Asian store. Ok till it rains.

because

I agree with elsien .I had a similar problem when I moved house,I placed loads of cocktail sticks in the ground around my plants so that it was too sharp for a cat to be near . It takes a while to place each one in the ground but it worked for me.Also agree with keeping the grass short.

jc808

From another perspective, ive owned cats before, and have always understood karma, and how they will, realistically 'do it' outside, if they dont 'do it' inside.

This year I got a dog.

Occasionally, when she hasnt been home for a few days (She stays with my mum and her dog during the week, and I look after both dogs weekends) the dogs will bolt up the back garden, and dissapear under the conifers.

Fair enough I think. They like conifers.

They come back, both of them with foul breath after gobbling all the cat poos left behind by next doors cat.

Thats Karma

Modgepodge

jc808 wrote: »

From another perspective, ive owned cats before, and have always understood karma, and how they will, realistically 'do it' outside, if they dont 'do it' inside.

This year I got a dog.

Occasionally, when she hasnt been home for a few days (She stays with my mum and her dog during the week, and I look after both dogs weekends) the dogs will bolt up the back garden, and dissapear under the conifers.

Fair enough I think. They like conifers.

They come back, both of them with foul breath after gobbling all the cat poos left behind by next doors cat.

Thats Karma

That's MINGING!!! Can't believe dogs will eat s***!!

OP, there's nothing you can expect your neighbours to do about this really. My cat goes outside. She has a litter tray and knows how to use it. She's used it once in about 2 months. I have no idea where she 'goes'. There are 3 other cats regularly in my garden, they're probably using it.

My cat only used to poop once per day (I know from when she used the litter when she wasn't allowed outside)...if you're finding that much it's probably more than one cat and not just your neighbours' 'fault'

Ps love the concept of putting lion poo down to deter cats from pooping. Does that smell and have all the same issues?!

honey_badger_3

lion poo

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SplanK

I got one of those sonic scares as well. We laid out some pea shingle and tithe cats just used it as a litter tray. I bought myself a so if scared (one with a soler panel and adjustable tone) and no more cat poo! Ext door cat still wonders through the garden, but so far it's wired well. I just need to move it around or get a second for the other end of the garden!

SnooksNJ

Anatidaephobia wrote: »

Realistically, what is it you expect your neighbours to do about this issue?

All you can do is attempt deterrents. Google has lots of suggestions.

The BBC morning show had a news story about how Crazy American's keep their cats indoors. It's nuts because who doesn't want to step in cat poop and smell cat pee all day long. I have a crazy cat lady on my street so it's times 15. Nothing starts the day off right seeing a poor road kill cat when walking my dogs in the morning.