Posted on 07/04/2023 1:03:49 PM PDT by Morgana
If what I’m doing encroaches on another’s property. I’m at fault.
Mr. Zoysia needs to trim back his grass so as to not encroach on his neighbor’s lawn.
At my first house, I had some great neighbors. They were friendly, sweet, and peaceful people. Unfortunately, they would also never treat their lawn for weeds. After several years, their entire front yard was a mess of carefully manicured weeds.
Every summer, we were out there battling the weed infestation migrating over from their yard. At one point, my husband and I had to till up the curbside and replant the entire thing with new sod. Time, energy, and money wasted. It could have blown up to a dispute, but their friendship was more important.
Things did come to a head when mice, which had been nesting in their shed (they admitted they had them after the fact) decided to come over to my home. Unbeknownst to us, we were missing the soffit cap at the end of the soffit leading from our outside AC compressor to our attic unit. They crawled up the fins, then the sleeve, and made themselves at home nibbling away at things in our attic.
Despite catching them early, we were out $16,000 in total damages.
As a clean freak, I was horrified that they had gotten in. My husband was furious at the price tag for mess we had to clean up. Their urine is very pungent and ruins anything it touches.
To ensure nothing else came our way, we bought a tomcat. He brought home one or two as “presents” upon first arriving, then things subsided drastically. The smell of his urine was enough to send them running.
The mouse disaster put a chill on our friendship. I couldn’t point directly to them, but it was serendipitous that they admitted to an active mouse nest (that they refused to treat) on their property at the same time our trouble was detected.
If fences make good neighbors..trenches must make really good neighbors.
“Cats don’t defecate on lawns.”
Yes, they do.
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As long as there are no trees near the property line, that should work.
Fences that come with a dog usually works. Kitties would quickly find someplace else to defecate.
I’m wondering if he would be within his legal rights to try to deter feral cats from invading his property by using some sort of air rifle or water hose with a chemical spray attachment to send them back onto her property.
And throwing any poo deposited back over the fence to her property might train the cats to know where to go. Her feed=her poo.
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