Yummy mummy nasty neighbour

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

Toxoplasmosis!

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

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.

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.

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

Ana

Ours has relatives....

A victim of the mechanical age.

Our badger got squashed on the road. Sad innit.

Or badgers to do the same?

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?

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'.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I use citrus peel on the veg patch as well as netting( when newly planted) to prevent cats. If they get through and poop I remove with a trowel and bury under hedge (poop not cats!)

I stuck cuttings from thorny plants (berberis, I think) around and between my strawberry plants in the days when I had a strawberry bed.

Lemon balm as a border plant can be effective but has a tendency for world domination.(for cats not children ) apples here are like bullets and are dropping off the trees. If the children are throwing these they are painful. Just stood on one in bare feet and it hurt.

I'll be speaking to someone tomorrow that used to go round the country lecturing on gardening and I know they've had an ongoing problem with cats in their garden. They have got one of those black metal cats on their front lawn, but not sure if it ever deterred any cats from their garden. I used to give my cats a litter tray but they still went in my neighbours garden because they don't like to soil their own territory and they like nicely cultivated soil [also a territorial thing as well, I guess]. Maybe in future years you could plant coleus [sp] round the edge; cats are supposed to hate it. Much as I loved my own cats I do agree that cat poo is disgusting; even worse when they do it on the lawn and you have young children playing on it.

Our neighbor in Stoke smashed the jaw of our cat, with a spade, because it would visit its veg garden - which of course we could not prevent.

I am a gardener, so I can understand the frustrations of a non cat lover to regular visits, never mind the one of a cat lover. Much better to prevent the cat from coming to said veg patch, than hurt the animal.

Find a way to peacefully sort this out or it could turn all very unpleasant. But she is totally out of order to not restrain (and even possibly encourage) her children from throwing apples. I am so lucky that apart from said neighbour, we've always had fantastic neighbours and collaboration with them all. And same here.

I have just looked up cat poo and vegetable plots and it is not great as it contains parasites. Could you not just get a trowel and heave it into the hedge?

I cannot imagine that there is any way of preventing cats from pooing where they choose - it's a pain I know but just how life is. There could be several cats doing this, not just the neighbour's. We get cat poo in our garden and just chuck it away as we have GC who visit; but we do not seek out the "culprit" as there is little the owners can do. I do not personally like cats and would not keep one, but, unlike dogs which can and should be kept under control, they are free range animals, so complaining to the nieghbour is somewhat futile as she cannot keep it in.

I really do think that falling out with the neighbour over it is the last thing you need to do, and these things escalate.

I am sorry that you are having this difficult situation.