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You can't keep her out of the neighbor's yard, sweetie.

If you love your cat, keep her in the house. If you don't, sooner or later she will be hit by a car, poisoned or meet some other dismal fate.

My kittehs--a 15 1/2 year old Grumpy Old Man cat and 2 18 month old Little Girl Sister kittehs are all indoor cats. They have never spent any time outside. They have windows to sit it and watch the birds and traffic, and they seem quite content and happy.

One neighbor had the decency to speak to you. Not everyone is this civilized. There are plenty of creeps out there who do horrendous things to small animals, and in some places, there isn't any legal penalty because pets have no $$$ value.

Keep your beautiful kitteh indoors. Play with her. Keep toys available (ping pong balls in the bathtub--Kitteh Pong!!!). Make kitteh spaces where she can climb and watch you from somewhere near the ceiling.

Cats really do live much longer (statistically speaking) when they live a strictly indoor life. Our indoor-only cats usually live at least to their mid-teens. And they can be amazingly adaptable, in terms of keeping a former outside cat inside all the time. Years ago we brought our wonderful Manx cat, Sam Gamgeepuss (now departed to Kitty Heaven, and seriously lamented by his family) indoors from a former outdoor-only career. He was some kinda tough character . . . Samwise hadn’t been neutered, and so had a neck like a bull, and crenellated ears. I learned not to play with him barehanded after giving him catnip. Getting whacked by his hard paw was like getting smacked with a furry ruler. He was TOUGH cat. And . . . we converted him to an indoor-only kitty (after getting him neutered) and he never asked to go outside. Not once. He was happy to be inside and that was that.

The point of this discourse is that perhaps your outdoor kitty could likewise be converted to an indoor-only kitty. Worth a try!