Come one she's a old woman with only her cats for company give her some peace and quiet, and keep your kids off her lawn.
kitty ping.
I knew people like this growing up. Old timers who did not want kids on their lawn. Our parents just told us to respect them and stay away from them. If anything happened our parents handled it but not like this. People are so entitled these days.
So, it’s a cat fight right?
> Come one she’s a old woman with only her cats for company give her some peace and quiet… <
Well, yes. The neighbor has no right to tell the lady what to do on her own property. If she wants to feed stray cats, she can feed stray cats.
And if the neighbor doesn’t like the cats pooping on his property, he can put up a fence. It’s just as simple as that.
I despise crazy cat ladies. They are not nice neighbors.
Its not necessarily the FEEDING, its the cats using his backyard as a bathroom because she is feeding them that is the issue.
Will she come over and pick up all the cat crap? Its her direct actions causing this.
She isn’t just feeder her cats, she is feeding feral cats, which means she isn’t feeding them in her house but is just putting food outside. When you put feed out for feral cats, you attract an ever-increasing number of cats, and also raccoons and opossums. I doubt she is standing out there watching the cats eating every morsel and making sure it is only cats, most of the time people just leave food out all the time. And, these cats that are lured in won’t be vaccinated for rabies or feline leukemia or anything, so by drawing them into close proximity, the odds of a sick one passing a disease to others is extremely high.
It may be the crap on his lawn is not just cat crap but also opossum and coon crap, and coon crap is particularly full of nasty stuff.
It is like bird feeders...bird feeding to excess is a problem because leaving seed out overnight draws rats, mice, coons,possums and squrrels.
And for the animals the dependency that feeding creates can ultimately cost them their freedom, making them very easy to trap. It isn’t as kind or harmless as people think.
It may be she is only putting a little out, but if this was just her feeding her own cats it probably would not have escalated to this point.
I wouldn’t want my children playing in a yard filled with poop from feral cats my neighbor keeps feeding. Too bad she’s always spying on him because there are easy ways to rid her of the cats.....
Cats don’t defecate on lawns.
They dig a hole first, go in the hole and bury it.
It’s instinctual behavior all cats have.
I’m with you, Morgana.
Everyday this place gets worse.
“He does not like her feeding her cats but she probably finds his anchor babies loud and annoying as well.
Come one she’s a old woman with only her cats for company give her some peace and quiet, and keep your kids off her lawn.”
They both need to give a little. She should tell him she’ll put up with his kids if he’ll put up with her feral cat feeding. Life is too short to be digging trenches.
she’s a crazy cat lady. The cats she feeds crap in his yard and that’s OK but god forbid a kid retrieves a basketball from her yard? She’s clearly got mental issues.
Geez, if you're going to dig an ugly trench, at least don't make it crooked.
I’m on the crazy cat lady’s side (not the crazy rat lady). The animals are in the neighborhood. They’re hungry. Anyone who makes their life better is a good and kind person. As for the kids, they should be taught to not play outside the windows of an elderly’s home. They’re supposed to grow into good people and if they don’t learn empathy or the result of their misbehaviors, they’re going to become more scars on humanity.
Contribute to animal charities. They need it more than human charities.
Right. So a trench and a fence will keep the cats on her property.
Idiots.
My wife’s uncle solved a bad feral cat problem in Price, UT many years ago. He and his neighbor sat in their back yards with .22 rifles. All the cats they culled got buried in their gardens. They had really nice gardens.
“Come one she’s a old woman with only her cats for company give her some peace and quiet, and keep your kids off her lawn.”
Living in an apartment for the first time in my life I can understand her wanting her peace and quiet. I can also understand her neighbors desire for a clean yard for his family to use.
What tips my support to her neighbor is the fact that cats aren’t the only things being fed. Because food is usually left out overnight rats, mice, squirrels, skunks, raccoons, foxes and larger predators like coyotes take the opportunity to slide by the late night buffet.
In the apartment complex I live in someone is constantly feeding the feral cats and we will become overrun by them. Then for some reason we can hear cats screaming at night and the population declines precipitously. The coyotes have returned. Then we have to call the city because the coyotes don’t leave, they just wait for more feral cats to be born.
Cat shit is 100 times worse then dog shit.
“...she probably finds his anchor babies loud and annoying as well.”
Quite the hater aren’t you?