Yeah, but supersoakers are more fun

the best solution is to try to find a masochist who is just as unsatisfied with their neighbors as you and switch places.

If little rat catchers aren't catching rats, put them down.

Call animal control or ask him to muzzle them or remove them since they are being a nuisense

And our cat did her best "playing dead" impression when my sister tried to take her outside

I've had cats that was in heat. They're absolute terrors. Constantly pissed on my bed and would not stop meowing (if thats what you call it, it was more of a banshee screech).
It should be a law or something to have cats spayd/neutered if they're going to be outside.

I understand the dog thing. I don't really like dogs. Most owners don't care at all about keeping them in line. We once had a lady in our apartment building that had a german shepard in her one bedroom apt. Apparently that was her idea of a "small pet".

I love cats though. Having more than two at a time (i've had 5 full grown ones at once before) can be a real pain.


My aunt has this one really cute dog. Looks kind of like a dachshund but is only a bit bigger than a kitten. Curled up and peed in a ball every time it got scared. It was adorable. Was a little yippy, but thats just when it wants attention.

My neighbors are awesome sauce. Even the ones with 20 or 30 dogs.

Summer, aren't your neighbors about an hours away up there in Alaska?

My nearest neighbor is about a quarter mile away. The nearest musher neighbor is about 2 miles but I can hear the dogs when they get all howling at once. More often I hear the wolves and coyotes.

I have the same problem with my neighbor, instead swap chiwawa's with small children; fortunately we have three toy poodles so we make a bit of our own noise too. House was empty for three years and then this bastard moves in with his poor parenting.

I am SPEECHLESS. Do not shoot the cat, it is cruel and barbaric. I'm astonished that someone even suggested it.

I can't believe nobody knows this, but if you want the cat to stop using your garden as a toilet, spread orange peel around your borders and spray a orange or lemon scented spray on your garden furniture. Cats hate the citrus-y smell, but it doesn't hurt them.

As for the dogs, I'd say have a word with your neighbour about it, and if he doesn't do anything then you can report him.

Re:all the methods to keep cats from using your yard as a toilet:

--citrus doesn't work on all cats in terms of keeping them from spraying/pooing. Neither does aluminum foil, black pepper, planks of wood, large pebble stones, lava rocks, tanbark (tanbark actually makes it worse), pieces of chicken wire tacked to strategic areas of dirt, letting the weeds grow tall, pheromone sprays, and so on. They do work on some cats, or in some situations. They are not a cure-all and aren't good for your entire yard (I can't cover my entire property in rocks....) and even when they do work many of them require constant re-use/work every couple days to keep them from coming back.

--auto sprayers and noise makers and such: they're great if you don't have any cats/pets yourself, or aren't concerned about also keeping away other wildlife. They sprayers are also largely only useful for areas that are farther away from where humans want to congregate, or if there's only a few "problem areas". But if the trouble is everywhere, that doesn't work so well.

It was a joke...

Wouldn't "cruel and barbaric" be coming at it with a flail?

Wouldn't be for me, my suggestion would be far, far worse which is why I've barely made my opinion noted here and kept it more to the practicality of seeking legal recourse.

Why should a person be forced to clean up after neighbours pets, including those like my wife that are allergic to common pe(s)ts like cats?

I think a fair warning would suffice, then, well.. [censored] happens. I don't care how inhumane it sounds. There's fewer things I can stand than a neighbour that has no respect for the property of those around them. If it leaves a person no recourse than to keep other people's animals off their property by any means necessary then I guess it does.

But rather than that type of commando attitude right off the bat obviously one should exhaust other options first.

I did look it up for the guy that there are fines for pets and barking, and restrictions on birds and stuff.

But even kg you were going to kill one of the animals, shooting it would be one of the last ways to kill it since you would go to jail.

Because as we all know, cats and their owners share a telepathic link. Why should something have to die because you have a beef with your neighbor.

Because the beef with my neighbour would be the cat in this circumstance, and since I couldn't feasibly erect a type of barrier tall enough to keep their cat out (the fact that I would pay for this myself is beyond the type of compromise I should consider, but I did say I'd exhaust other options first), it's up to the neighbours that own their cat(s) to keep them off my property, especially considering the health effect cats have on my wife. The cat's health to me is completely irrelevant, even more irrelevant is the lack of telepathic link an owner shares with their pet, I value my property more than someone's pet, aka an animal, and I value my wife's health way beyond that animal and it's health. If it sounds bad or inhumane that's unfortunate but I don't really care, health and property are pretty serious and contentious issues, and I don't bend over for anyone else to be completely disregarding of others in this respect. I wouldn't allow any pet of mine into another property like that, I expect the same treatment all things considered.

Oh really? Then how do you police your pet so well and make sure that it doesn't do that?

You keep it indoors, except when you take it out for walks (dogs).

This is what bugs me too.
They could build a giant wire fence outdoor area for their cats, for example, like a "dog run," that keeps them from free-roaming but gives them the great outdoors. I've seen some cat owners go so far as to connect windows to tubes to such outdoor housing so they can still go in and out as they please.

It's up the to the owner of the pet to find ways to compromise with neighbors complaints. I shouldn't have to redesign/relandscape my whole property because they don't care/think it's "natural" or don't want to clean up litterboxes themselves.

I know it sounds difficult but it's pretty simple, keep the animal in the house if you think it'll wander onto other people's property. I'd also assume neighbours (especially decent ones that communicate like mine) would likely know if someone living next door is allergic to specific pets as well and take extra care, but I'm interested in what argument I'm about to read that could possibly make me concerned about someone's friggen cat more than both the cleanliness of my own property and more than anything else my wife's health.

Because it's an animal and doesn't know better does not excuse the owners to disregard other people's property. How the animal acts is their responsibility, not mine.

"And the man's house? Gone, torn down brick-by-brick. We'll have us a little rat-dog barbecue in the yard. They'll see the flames for miles. We'll dance around it like wild men!"
OT, though, I'd inform the authorities or tell the guy that his dogs are bugging you.

I'm now feeling slightly perturbed. Nice one.

We've shot mice, chickens, rabbits, cats, and dogs before. Welcome to America.

Might as well not have cats at all then, even the laziest ones want to go outside sometimes; if they want to get out they'll wait until you leave the door open a second too long and make their move. And if you're neighbors are decent ones that communicate with you where exactly is the problem?

Frankly I don't care, human concerns always superceed those of animals and rightly so; but then again I have to deal with other people's incompetance and [censored] on a daily basis and my immediate response isn't that I want them killed because I'm not responsible for their actions. They're proper channels for dealing with animals problems, neither them involve shooting someone elses property but co-incidentally all of them are actually legal.

Cats carry/can get toxoplasmosis in their poo from eating rats and such as well...normally not a big risk or anything, but if I was a pregnant woman, I wouldn't be cleaning up the neighbor's pet poo/gardening in those areas. The neighbors would get to come over and do it for me.

...and yes, I really do love cats. Just not blindly. People have to get along in this crowded world, and one's love of pets isn't just about "you".