cats in my garden grrrrrrr

Loz01

OP I feel your pain - our neighbour has a cat that she NEVER (literally, never) lets in the house, if it runs to the door she will quickly slam it so it cant get in??? Even in deep, bleak winter she shuts it out. Defeats the bloody point of having a pet if you ask me, what if I shut our collie/lab dog in the road, they'd soon be knocking at the door...

Neighbours cat eats birds, drinks from our bird bath and generally is a nightmare in our garden, stalking birds to kill and the usual minging antics cats get up to.

I just find them pointless pets as nobody seems to actually take care of their cats where we live, it's just let them roam off and hope for the rest.

powie69

I have had cats defecating in my garden recently. I put down some Jeyes Fluid Freshbin power (the lemon one) and they have stopped using my back garden as a toilet.

Person_one

vroombroom wrote: »

simply not an option. I am not allowing cats to crap in my garden.

What do you do about foxes/squirrels/birds/mice/insects etc?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

The smell from fox crap is a billion times more powerful than cat - but lots of people assume, because of the similar size - that their turds are ones from the local moggies.

But it's easier to blame a cat, rather than a wild animal - because then there isn't anyone to hold responsible for it.

Foxes tend to avoid cats, however, because, amongst other things, attacks from cats are the major cause of death in foxes - so if there is cat crap somewhere, foxes are far less likely to take a dump for fear that some local moggie will beat the daylights out of them.


Then, of course, there's badger crap. That really stinks as well - the clue is in the genus name mustelidae. Which is basically Latin for '**** me that stinks'.


But that wouldn't be a problem - native wild animals in a garden, rather than domestic tabbies. Would it? :cool:

claire16c

alias*alibi wrote: »

I also have this outside the front of my house as my neighbours 2 cats cr&p on the stone chippings right outside my front room window which stinks god awful in the heat. This works a treat and I can tell when the batteries need replacing as the cats start to cr&p on the stones again.

I can hear the noise my parents' one makes. They can't hear it though. I have a friend who can hear it too. We must have cat hearing :rotfl:

Dave_6

When I bought my house I had an issue with catcrap as the house had been empty for a few months.
The soil down the sides of my driveway was being used quite a bit.

I flattened the soil so it was compacted, laid weed membrane around the few plants I wanted to keep & then laid slate chippings everywhere.

Problem solved, a year now with no issues


Cats always want to try and cover it up but kicking slate is uncomfortable and not that easy so they go elsewhere, to my neighbours over the road who have a bark front garden

katiewil

my neighbours cat started using my gravel path as a toilet. this path runs alongside my house, my back door and my car so it really was a bad place. I tried bleach, vinegar, hot chilli spices, curry spice, ginger spice. nothing worked until someone suggested man wee. mark your territory . I also saw an old film where the African landowner did the same to keep lions away. so I sent my husband out to do his duty every night for a week and it worked. problem solved. my husband marks his territory about once a week now. we cant smell anything but the cats can and we never have a problem now.

This_Year

vroombroom wrote: »

I have just got home from work and am so enraged to find yet more crap in the garden I've emptied two bottles of lemon bleach on the soil. What else can I try?

:rotfl::rotfl: In cat terms that's a neon sign. Poo here...

bitemebankers

vroombroom wrote: »

I'm pretty sure putting bleach down in my garden is not illegal lol!

Pouring any toxic chemical onto land and into watercourses is illegal. And for good reason.

What exactly did you hope to achieve, other than creating an environmental hazard?

Birds, foxes, rodents and thousands of other animals !!!! in your garden anyway, !!!!!!!

charliemonkeyface

mgdavid wrote: »

because cats and dogs are different - and are recognised as such in law.

True they are different but what is the difference between cat poo and dog poo.
I don't care where it comes from, i don't want it in my garden.