Preventing cats from sh*tting in my garden?

XYZed

Another one I have heard works is to use cocoa shell on your borders... looks decorative, the cats don't like it, and it smells like chocolate!!! ;D

You can buy them from any garden centre I think.

HTH

Zed

RedOnRed

Perhaps they've got too much roughage in their diets.

Why not try persuading their owners to put them on a diet of burgers and chips. Hey presto, bunged up and constipated like the rest of junk food gluttons.

Or maybe a robotic dog. How about loud music and stroboscopes...that's bound to deter them.

Seems like there's quite a few options.

pinkkipper

my wife is convinced that putting old CD's in the garden scares then - I suspect that its a bit like the water bottle soltion earlier(which is my mothers so'n) ;D

XYZed

The old CD thing is just that they can see their reflections, and think its another cat! I used to keep a small pile of old cds by the back door, and used them as frisbees when the cats came in.... not at the cat as such, but thrown at the wooden fence near them makes a real bang, enough to scare them away....

An actual use for a AOL disk ;D

Zed

jockettuk

sod the animal rights .. get my bloody hands on the cats doing it in my garden im gonna ring there necks.... .. apart from that things ok lol

StephenB_2

use cocoa shell on your borders ... smells like chocolate!!!  ;D

Zed

I think 'stinks to high heaven' is closer to the mark ... slugs love it, too.

SJB

itslougher

When i moved to my new pad i had cats crapping all over my gardens, plus we have a fish pond which does not help when you're trying to get rid of cats.
I used a few things from the garden centre that did !!!!!! all, then a mate told me to put some lemon slices in the borders as cats hate the smell of it.
What do you know, it worked! The little sods have'nt been back since. Plus the lemon is biodegradable and adds nutients to the soil. Flipping marvelous.

RedOnRed

Why not go and have a crap on the cat owners back garden yourself to see how they like it?

The owners would be bound to do something sooner rather then later about the cat problem.

RedOnRed

What can we cat owners do to prevent them cr@pping in other people's gardens , short of keeping our cats indoors all the time?

Nonsense, there are all sorts of GPS satellite navigational/tracking aids you could use to keep tabs on the kitty. Failing that, you could help setup a national database of DNA cat crap.

Woby_Tide

Keep them indoors all the time, theres the solution.

It amazes me that people still keep cats, the most annoying unloyal pets around. You'll house them, feed them, stroke them, pay their vets bills, and get nothing back. Then the day you drop dead, the loyal cat will sniff you, nibble you to see if you're edible, then sod off and find someone else to feed it, stroke it, house it etc.....