The neighbor a couple of doors down claimed that my cat was doing the same in her landscaping mulch. She said she saw it on camera, and raced out to stop it, slipped in cat crap on her porch, and went flying into her front yard. She lost me at cat crap on the front porch. I’d like to have seen that, though. She’s s real lawn Nazi...set up ultrasonic beepers to scare cats and birds out of the yard, topped the fences with spikey things....
Is there a leash law in your county? Our county is about 95% suburbs, so even cats as well as dogs have to be on leash outdoors. Animal control can come out and fine the owner if the neighbors report a roaming pet caught on security video.
“She’s s real lawn Nazi...”
A coworker of mine, years ago, complained about a neighbor who wanted to get “yard of the month” so bad that he chased off all the kids (including his own), and constantly watered, weeded and fertilized it.
I came in a couple days later and plopped a bag of wildflower seeds down in front of him. It took a few seconds for the light in his head to come on, but then he didn’t stop laughing for ten minutes. He put it to good use.
h/t George Hayduke