How do you get rid of bad neighbors?

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 161 points –

So our neighbors have been a growing problem for a few months now. They seem to be a flop house for six or seven people, most of them look high all day. They go out and Rev a Harley at 3am, they burn plastic been our houses in a fire pit, they have a new dog every two weeks because they keep getting out and getting hit by traffic in the busy street we live on, the current two have bit people. I'm not one to care how someone lives, but these folks make the rest of our slum neighborhood look downright utopian.

I've tried taking to them, they're stupidly hostile. I've put in complaints with the city, noise complaints with the police, they don't do anything about it. Does anyone have advice on dealing with this? I'm tired, at my wits end, and my small town tactics aren't as easy to pull off in a proper city.

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Catnip.

Buy a bunch of catnip (it's not expensive on eBay) and sprinkle that shit all over their yard. Get it in the flower beds, get it in the ditches, get it everywhere. It's a mint and it grows like a weed. Next thing you know the neighbors front lawn will be littered in cats and there will be no way to get rid of them.

Added bonus is you'll have cats you can pet, and very little pests in your neighborhood.

Considering who the neighbors are, the cats could be in danger.

Gonna level with you... If they're roaming outdoor cats, they're already in danger. If you really feel motivated to help them this would also bring them to an easier for SPCA to pick up. They're also a threat to local wildlife.

Used to be - by the numbers - a cat that goes outside At All would live half as long as one that never-not-once went outside.

Now it's 1/4. Source: SPCA contact.

And sure they'll kill pests, but a housecat is an absolute killing machine for songbirds. You want less mosquitoes, you need to see far fewer cats.

I think we've done well enough with the insect extinction

I have 3 "strays" currently that are all 15+ years old, born outside and the only time they've seen a vet was when they were fixed.

good on your for animal negligence I guess.

strange flex.

Actually, catnip was on my garden list already! I was planning on getting fast and loose with the seeds so this won't take much extra.

If you want to get really nefarious and don't mind getting a little legally sketchy, bug spray normally kills grass in the areas that it's sprayed in. If you happen to draw rude things in someone's front lawn there's no way to stop it from showing aside from spraying more, or just waiting for it to grow out