Neighbours cat fouling our garden

JP08

GlendaF wrote: »

He is a clean cat who is very particular about selecting and cleaning up after himself when he goes to the toilet.

- I'm impressed - most of the cats round here just bury it so you find it when weeding. Yours really goes round with the trowel and puts it in the bin ?

GlendaF wrote: »

he is very much an 'outside' cat, and as another poster rightfully stated, roaming is a mjor part of their nature.

- always the rights, never the responsibilities that come with those rights.

GlendaF wrote: »

and really don't know how to keep him away from the neighbours garden.

- simple (but not cheap) - make your garden a cat secure space so cat can't get out. Plenty of ideas for keeping cats out of gardens in this thread - guess what, they also work for keeping kitty IN. Make it a stimulating place for a cat to be - plenty of stuff on the internet about that. Make sure there's a nice soil area that is kept clean. He can roam and explore etc, just in a safe area. Responsible people who own dogs, or even rabbits (who have a natural habit to dig and also ignore human boundaries - nobody complains about their rights to behave naturally !) manage it day in day out up and down the country. They just built a suitable enclosure for their pet - sometimes that enclosure is simply the whole garden.

GlendaF wrote: »

I am willing to buy deterrents and given them to my neighbour, but I doubt if he would use them, he just wants me to keep my cat our of his yard

- quite right - you want to keep your cat safe - it's your job to do the running around, not somebody else's. Responsibility coming with the rights again.

GlendaF wrote: »

I'm very worried about what my neighbour will do to him (has told me that I am on 'notice')

- it would be against the law - but, realistically, if the cat just "didn't come home" one day, just what would happen? Things happen to cats all the time. You'd have no proof, the police aren't going to dig up his garden, search his bins. If he's as nasty a piece of work as you say, all he's going to say is "Nothing to do with me, but good riddance to the little s***monster".

Sorry, but the blunt truth is, if you are worried about your cat then you are going to have to keep it where you know where it is - which is back to the secure garden above.

SuzieSue

JP08 wrote: »

- I'm impressed - most of the cats round here just bury it so you find it when weeding. Yours really goes round with the trowel and puts it in the bin ?

- always the rights, never the responsibilities that come with those rights.

- simple (but not cheap) - make your garden a cat secure space so cat can't get out. Plenty of ideas for keeping cats out of gardens in this thread - guess what, they also work for keeping kitty IN. Make it a stimulating place for a cat to be - plenty of stuff on the internet about that. Make sure there's a nice soil area that is kept clean. He can roam and explore etc, just in a safe area. Responsible people who own dogs, or even rabbits (who have a natural habit to dig and also ignore human boundaries - nobody complains about their rights to behave naturally !) manage it day in day out up and down the country. They just built a suitable enclosure for their pet - sometimes that enclosure is simply the whole garden.

- quite right - you want to keep your cat safe - it's your job to do the running around, not somebody else's. Responsibility coming with the rights again.

- it would be against the law - but, realistically, if the cat just "didn't come home" one day, just what would happen? Things happen to cats all the time. You'd have no proof, the police aren't going to dig up his garden, search his bins. If he's as nasty a piece of work as you say, all he's going to say is "Nothing to do with me, but good riddance to the little s***monster".

Sorry, but the blunt truth is, if you are worried about your cat then you are going to have to keep it where you know where it is - which is back to the secure garden above.

Excellent post. I am forever picking up cats' poo from my lawn and it is absolutely disgusting. I wish cat owners would take responsibility for their animals.

leeruddecology

Ultrasonic repeller

You can get mains powered ones or solar power/battery ones. Get one or two as they are directional.

Perhaps if you see them scare them off so they get irritated with you?

the cat owner isn't going to clean up the mess as it could be anycats.

Third deterants can be bought for about 20£ and they really work.

Do you have a fence? Some people make them less attractive user friendly to cats with amendments?

Caroline76

My mother had the same problem and she bought a cat repeller gadget for the garden. It was battery operated and worked by giving out a high pitched noise when a motion sensor was triggered. She said it was really good. Problem was it worked on her dog too...! So she had to get rid of it. The gadget, not the dog. I think it was about £20 from a garden centre.

JP08

Lee - they don't work. They are crap.

And you're missing the point - that it should be up to the owner to make their fence less attractive,so their little feline friends crap in their own garden - unlike my cat owning neighbours who, on deciding to plant up a flower bed, installed spikes all along it so THEIR cats would crap somewhere else.

The current situation is like expecting your neighbours to put up a secure fence because you want a dog.