Yummy mummy nasty neighbour

I'm of the shovel up and chuck in hedge brigade. Or even drop over the dividing fence/wall – not to where the children play, just at the edge.

I'd use the apples (eat or compost depending on their condition) or chuck them back – again not at the children, not even while they were there, just back into their garden.

In short, deal with the problem but essentially ignore the neighbours.

Re the cat, I too use cuttings from spikes plants and these worked 100%.
Re the neighbour and her kids try this repel kids
An old lady I know was being plagued by teenagers, screaming, shouting abuse at her, they attacked her cat and it was starting to get out of hand. The police didn't want to know. Her grandson installed one, well hidden, in her front garden. Within a few days they were gone, so he removed it. They never worked out what was happening so there was no come back on her. Problem solved.

Thanks for the advice , the sonic cat repellent is movement activated so only goes off if something comes into the range, it stands at 6 inches from the ground , the cat poo was on my strawbs and it wees there it stinks
My neighbour has fallen out with the people who lived here before me who sarcastily wished me good luck with her , the other side neighbour moved because her lovely little girl was being bullied at school and had to endure them at home, she accused me of having a rat , she put poison down and they found 5 mice in her house , she isn't a nice person

8annodomini* DD does something similar but uses holly twigs on her veg plot to deter the cats. It works very well. ditto sprinkles of dead holly leaves. Anything with thorns from rose clippings to blackberry cuttings should be effective

We have had sonic animal scarers in our loft since an invasion of squirrels and we cannot hear anything either in the loft or elsewhere innthe house.

nanaej, I also use citrus peel - mainly orange - on our garden. It really does deter fouling.

My cats haven't read the right books so don't bother to go and use other peoples' gardens. I've had quite good results spreading nice spiky Mahonia cuttings over the bits I wanted kept clean.

When we had a veg patch we used to keep a small patch of garden with nothing growing in it all. We would regularly hoe it to keep it nice and soft ( cats love soft earth ) and the cats would use that and leave our veg patch alone.
We have a cat and I know they can be a nuisance buts its almost impossible to keep control on where they choose to 'poop'.

If you live in the country be thankful for cats. Would you prefer rabbits to turn your garden into something resembling the Battle of the Somme?

Or badgers to do the same?

Our badger got squashed on the road. Sad innit.

A victim of the mechanical age.

Ours has relatives....

Ana

It did used to scrape quite big holes in the grass. I think it was thinking of moving in permanently.

i have heard that many of the badgers one sees by the side of the road have not been the victims of speeding cars, but shot by farmers and lobbed on to the road to look as if they have been hit.

David Archer tried that and got prosecuted.

However I find that most unlikely. Any farmer could just dig a hole in a field and bury a dead badger and never get caught. They have every means to do just that. They have every thing to hand. Diggers, fields out of view etc etc.
If you were a farmer and wanted to get away with this would you dump it on a road where someone could see you and pretend it was road kill? I doubt it.

Also causes Toxic plasmosis (probably not right spelling) if caught by pregnant women it can cause late miscarriage , blindness and mental handicap to the unborn child and depression to the mother , my daughter luckily only has a scar on her eye ball from it , pregnant women should be very carefully in their contact with cats and not empty cat litter trays

Toxoplasmosis!

I nursed a baby who was damaged after his mother caught Toxoplasmosis, it was the most heart rending thing to see.