cats in my garden grrrrrrr

neverdespairgirl

vroombroom wrote: »

Um I seriously doubt I have thousands of animals in front my garden - its tiny.:cool:

Ants, woodlice, beetles of all sorts, earthworms....

vroombroom

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Ants, woodlice, beetles of all sorts, earthworms....

Ok, am off to inspect my garden for the poo of the above critters :money:

Beetlemama

I never thought about ant poo before, I suppose they must do.

FatVonD

vroombroom wrote: »

BUM SPIKES

Are you not worried that they may become eyeball spikes when the children you're trying to protect from cat poo fall over onto them?

Mrs_Imp

FatVonD wrote: »

Are you not worried that they may become eyeball spikes when the children you're trying to protect from cat poo fall over onto them?

Even my son has so far failed to poke his eye out with things that children 'need to be careful with in case you poke your eye out' eg elastic bands, sticks, scissors, pencils etc.

We can't wrap children up in cotton wool, but we can try and protect them from eating poo.

OP, we have a sonic wotsit, and it works a treat. The ginger cat has stopped pooing all over our lawn and trying to eat our fish, and the tabby hasn't been seen since. The black cat (never seen it poo in our garden) just sits and suns itself on the lawn. If I see it poo, or see evidence of it pooing, then it'll no-longer be welcome in our garden.

jellyhead

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm not sure how she does that - every cat I've known as a pet has come and gone as it pleased, and they do wander.

I'm surprised at the suggestion of cat poo lying around on the surface - cats bury it, surely?

Perhaps it depends on the cat? The cat that was using our garden 2 years ago just used to do it in the middle of the lawn and leave it. Around a dozen houses away there's a family with 11 cats and they all mess in next door's garden, leaving it uncovered. They aren't even secretive, they will poo while you are watching, unlike next door's cats who prefer not to be watched. So it's not foxes, because we've seen the cats doing it.

We got some gel crystals that smelled a bit like olbas oil, and they worked 2 years ago. Next door's cats currently have a fancy for our strawberry patch At the moment we're trying garlic smelly stuff but it doesn't seem to be working so I'm going to try the lemongrass suggestion next, or olbas oil.

We like cats and don't want to hurt them, but we also don't want poo amongst our strawberries.

Bum spikes don't have to be painful - I put bamboo canes in my pots and that's kept the cats away because they don't have room to squat. I suppose a child could fall onto it, but I take that risk anyhow with my tomato plants. My other neighbour (who doesn't have cats) suggests cocktail sticks but I'm not sure if they would damage the cats? The chicken wire suggestion would be a good one, and the strawberries would grow through it. It wouldn't stop the type of cat who doesn't dig and doesn't bury their mess though.

luxor4t

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

....I'm surprised at the suggestion of cat poo lying around on the surface - cats bury it, surely?

None of the cats round here bury it - they leave it out for all to admire... or used to, as I now have ultrasonic cat scarers. These cost about £18 each and work well.

krlyr

Those using ultrasonic devices, have you found your neighbours to have any issues? I'm convinced my neighbour has started using one for rats (they feed the birds a lot, I've found rat tunnels into their garden from ours and seen the odd one - not that they bother me as there's nothing in our garden to convince them to stick around), as I can hear a high pitched constantly on and off in the garden. It's quite unpleasant actually, especially in this weather where it's nice to sit out in the garden.

Just something to bear in mind if you go down that route. I'm 25/nearly 26 so I know I can probably hear higher pitches than some at the moment, but I do think it's worth considering the impact something like that may have on your neighbours.

olibrofiz

Had to laugh at some of the posts :rotfl: got me thinking of something (for me) worse than bagging & binning any offending turd.

Next door is currently rented out, but I've heard the owner may be moving back cos he can't sell the house. He has two cats that not only used to crap as much as possible in my garden, but he also left the back window open so they can come and go as they please.

Would rather have a pile of cat crap in the flower bed than cat crap all over the house cos !!!!! has inadvertently gone in the wrong window and met my two hounds from hell (extremely loose bowl moment) :rotfl::rotfl:

jellyhead

After reading this thread, I checked my son's sandpit because he'd left the lid off, but I thought it didn't matter because it wasn't going to rain. Oh dear I've thrown all the sand away and cleaned it out, cleaned the spades and the moulds but I don't have any more sand.

My neighbour actually complained while I was cleaning it out that the sand from my child's sandpit has been going through his fence and making a mess in his garden! I told him it's his cats using it as a litter tray that's making the sand go into his garden.

He just asked why we don't have a sandpit cover ... honestly, these people they know full well that their cats are messing in other people's gardens and they just shrug their shoulders. They seem to think it's our responsibility to keep them out of our gardens, and that their cats can just keep messing anywhere where the house owner isn't stopping them. So that will be my 93 year old neighbour's garden then, if I manage to successfully stop them from messing in my garden.