Neighbours cat fouling our garden

Pixie5740

I'd highly recommend the scarecrow sprinkler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jHYV6nJksw

I got one for my parents and my dad had great fun looking out the window as it jetted water at next door's cats and sent them scurrying back over the fence. He was sniggering like a schoolboy.

Melaniep101

JP08 - The point is that I don't think my cat IS crapping in his garden, I clean out 4 turds a day from the litter tray inside my house (i only have 2 cats), besides which, we have a raised bed and a couple of square metres of rough earth which has been used on occasion. We can't wire the perimeter of the garden as it is mostly hedges, and he would go loopy if we modified "HIS" fence. I literally don't know what else I can do. When I asked him for a suggestion of what he wanted me to do, he said "not my problem"...

My neighbour on the other hand is happy to ruin summer evenings for the neighbourhood with his obsession with loud machinery (petrol strimmers, pressure washers, grinding machinery, chippers etc) - going on till 10 at night so no one can enjoy a peaceful evening in the garden. Bonfires are pretty much every other day too so forget putting washing out to dry or having a glass of wine in the garden.

I live and let live mostly, but I hate being bullied by the small minded, nasty character that thinks he rules the street. i could have slung the turds back over but someone has to be the adult!

JP08

Gods. How big is his garden ? We've got a normal sized patch and couldn't collect enough stuff for a bonfire a month (if we wanted one - never had one - the green bin and odd dump run suffices to get rid of our excess stuff).

Melaniep101

He's a gardener for a living, brings other peoples garden waste home and burns it.

fairy_lights

Melaniep101 wrote: »

He's a gardener for a living, brings other peoples garden waste home and burns it.

Maybe he's bringing turds home from other peoples gardens too!

Jagraf

I used to have two cats. They were sweet little things. When I moved house my neighbour said she was going to miss them. I responded with "I bet you don't see them much they're so lazy", to which she replies "I see them every day. As soon as I open my bedroom window they creep in and lie on my bed".

4 years they had been doing it. I was mortified! I didn't even let them on my own bed! She hadn't wanted to upset me by complaining.

I will never have cats again. You can't control them and I hate the hassle they cause other people.

I am still very good friends with my lovely old neighbour.

tealady

Melaniep101 wrote: »

He's a gardener for a living, brings other peoples garden waste home and burns it.

Then I would consider checking your LEA's policies re running a business from home, disposal of trade waste and their bonfires policy

Lady_Python

My elderly neighbour was blaming my cat for doing his business on her lawn. Cats bury their mess, not leave it in full view (an instinct thing to deter predators).

We caught the culprit on CCTV. A fox. It would squeeze in my neighbours gate and leave his calling card on her lawn. When I showed her the evidence she was gobsmacked. She had a lovely garden and to be fair, the only time my cat visited her garden (not for a poo) was when I was visiting her. He would sit outside waiting for me.

Sadly, my neighbour passed away last year, her house was bought by a BTL and his tenants destroyed her garden, down to every last plant, burned to mask the fact they were growing and dealing drugs. They were reported to the police by myself and other neighbours but nothing was ever done. They've gone now (landlord evicted them) and our new neighbours, a young family seem to be OK but the garden will never be the same again

Believe it or not, another way to deter strange cats visiting your garden is to get your own cat. It's a territorial thing - and they keep the mice down.

m1kjm

Lady_Python wrote: »

My elderly neighbour was blaming my cat for doing his business on her lawn. Cats bury their mess, not leave it in full view (an instinct thing to deter predators).

We caught the culprit on CCTV. A fox. It would squeeze in my neighbours gate and leave his calling card on her lawn. When I showed her the evidence she was gobsmacked. She had a lovely garden and to be fair, the only time my cat visited her garden (not for a poo) was when I was visiting her. He would sit outside waiting for me.

Sadly, my neighbour passed away last year, her house was bought by a BTL and his tenants destroyed her garden, down to every last plant, burned to mask the fact they were growing and dealing drugs. They were reported to the police by myself and other neighbours but nothing was ever done. They've gone now (landlord evicted them) and our new neighbours, a young family seem to be OK but the garden will never be the same again

Believe it or not, another way to deter strange cats visiting your garden is to get your own cat. It's a territorial thing - and they keep the mice down.

I'm sorry but this 'cats always burying their poo thing' is a myth round here - they brazenly defecate on the tarmac footpaths giving me evil looks as they do so as if I'm the one being vile.

Oh and let's not forget the garnish on top of the gravel drive which is brilliant fun to scrub off the car mats or the house carpet.

EmmyLou30

Total rubbish, they don't cover it up. Well at least they don't in my garden and its loose soil so they could if they wanted to.