Neighbours cat keeps crapping on my lawn
Discussion
I'm a cat, and indeed animal lover, and I would never do anything to hurt an animal.
I have my own cat. She's quite a little cat, not very big or strong, and quite timid too bless her.
Anyway, the neighbour across road, got a cat a while ago who is bloody huge, and a wee bit aggressive and seemingly quite territorial. It's actually a lovely-looking animal, long-haired grey and white, with a huge fluffy tail!
However, it started coming into our garden a lot, and fighting / attacking ours. I saw this happen a couple of times, and ours was clearly terrified out of her life and usually turned tail and ran back into the house before getting injured.
The first thing I did was buy an electronic cat-flap so that the neighbour's cat couldn't chase mine back into my house. However, I didn't want it coming into my garden at all really.
So, I did what has already been suggested - I bought a huge water pistol and kept it full up by the back door.
There were three occasions when I heard our cat start to howl outside when the grey came into the garden, where I opened the back door and let it have it right in the face with the water pistol. It obviously does the cat no harm at all, but after three goes, it had the desired effect completely. It's been over two years now since then, and the cat has never been into our garden since.
It really does work, and causes no harm.
I have my own cat. She's quite a little cat, not very big or strong, and quite timid too bless her.
Anyway, the neighbour across road, got a cat a while ago who is bloody huge, and a wee bit aggressive and seemingly quite territorial. It's actually a lovely-looking animal, long-haired grey and white, with a huge fluffy tail!
However, it started coming into our garden a lot, and fighting / attacking ours. I saw this happen a couple of times, and ours was clearly terrified out of her life and usually turned tail and ran back into the house before getting injured.
The first thing I did was buy an electronic cat-flap so that the neighbour's cat couldn't chase mine back into my house. However, I didn't want it coming into my garden at all really.
So, I did what has already been suggested - I bought a huge water pistol and kept it full up by the back door.
There were three occasions when I heard our cat start to howl outside when the grey came into the garden, where I opened the back door and let it have it right in the face with the water pistol. It obviously does the cat no harm at all, but after three goes, it had the desired effect completely. It's been over two years now since then, and the cat has never been into our garden since.
It really does work, and causes no harm.
Jasandjules said:
Petrol Only said:
Get a dog. A fast one that does not like cats. It's great entertainment 
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Again, serious issues have arisen out of such conduct. And some cat people will happily poison a dog which has attacked their cat - easily done with food over the fence. .Unsurprising. I have decent neighbours who also enjoy the comedy.
lenats31 said:
Our solution to have 4 cats without disturbing the entire neighbourhood. We plan to expand it
Neighbours must love you - just like living next door to Jed Clampett (Google Video search it)
OP - solution : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc
Edited by elanfan on Monday 8th September 01:25
elanfan said:
Neighbours must love you - just like living next door to Jed Clampett (Google Video search it)
OP - solution : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc
Neighbours are happy. Now they can feed birds without putting their lives at risk. They can grow vedggies, flowers and what not in their garden.OP - solution : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxBa5bQfTGc
Edited by elanfan on Monday 8th September 01:25
But there are a few more things to it:
No angry neighbours who would love to hurt or even kill our cats.
The risk of finding them as road kill is reduced to the bare minimum.
Some sounds scare cats, and maybe to the point where they come too far away from home to find their way back to it.
The cats love it.
I used to live in a cul-de-sac with a "T" shaped end. My house was on the RH bar of the T. My front lawn was PITA to mow, so I dug it up, and laid gravel. A neighbour's cat thought "oh goody", a big poo-spot.
After a few turds, I had a word with the neighbour who was a a bit of a t
t about it, and unhelpful. He threatened me with a baseball bat when I offered to return the presents to his front garden. So I got a couple of ultrasonic thingys. After a few days, it was actually great to see the bugger walk all-around the left side of the T to avoid setting off the ultras.
Result.
After a few turds, I had a word with the neighbour who was a a bit of a t
t about it, and unhelpful. He threatened me with a baseball bat when I offered to return the presents to his front garden. So I got a couple of ultrasonic thingys. After a few days, it was actually great to see the bugger walk all-around the left side of the T to avoid setting off the ultras. Result.
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