Minteeleaf wrote in message ...
A blast of cold water smack in the face.
My neighbor lets his cats run loose & they love to dig up my
container garden. Each time I catch them, I blast them with cold
water. After several hard-pressured blasts, they stayed away
last summer.

Now spring is coming. This time, I plan to set out poison.
If the jerk won't control his cats, oh well. It's the cats
or the veggies I worked hard to grow, & I don't like cats
in any event. I want & need the veggies. Cat stew is also an
option. I've had it with this irresponsible cat owner.

Minteeleaf, not gonna take it anymore.

Minteeleaf,

First.. there is no such thing as a cat owner. Cats own themselves and
******** to everybody else.

As much as I dislike cats, I do feel that you should tell this guy
thatyou are laying down poison before you do it... even if the only
reason is to avoid getting the hairs sued off your butt. Tell him that
you have a raccoon problem or something... and that as you have seen
his cat in your garden, you only think it fair to advise him that it
is at risk of imminent, prolonged and painful death.

Don't mention how much pleasure this would give you.

Do put it in writing and keep a copy.

I had a dog poisoned once by some neighbors who decided that they
didn't like the barking during the day. We were unaware that there was
a problem until she suffered cronic liver failure. If they'd told us
it was a problem we could have looked at fixing the situation rather
than ending up with a mortal enemy on the other side of the fence.

We got our own back by getting friends in the local council to
redirect the new sewer system through his carefully tended back
garden. He keeled over from a heart attack shortly after. Hopefully my
dog bit him the moment he walked through the pearly gates.

Matt