Cat deterrant?

aileth

Think a lot of you would go bonkers with our house.

Our two cats always go in the tray or in our own garden, which is really fantastic, but there's loads of other cats that 'hang' around our garden. Not sure if our two or super popular or something, or whether they're being bullied perhaps, I haven't seen the others pooping (yet), but one morning my OH came downstairs, our two were on the patio and there were eight other cats surrounding them on the fence.

Seemed to be like some sort of kitty council, which is great, but with that number of cats we won't have much soil left, just pure unabated cat poo.

Carmina-Piranha_2

My friend's cat used to go in their garden and cover it up. He reckons that other cats came to visit for cat parties, but he doesn't think the others actually pooped in the garden, perhaps because it was his own cat's territory?

Down the road they have 8 or 9 cats, and they have cat councils and cuddly clumps on sunny doorsteps across 2 gardens, but they don't poop there - they do it on the lawn of the other neighbour. It stinks, I reckon you'd know if there were 8 cats pooping in your garden.

Poppops

m1kjm wrote: »

I too am haunted by cat poo and shagging noises through the night. I haven't found anything that works yet to keep our yard clean or stop our sleep being disturbed.


I would just like to correct those people proclaiming that cats like to bury their poo, cat poo doesn't stink and it's probably foxes. You're wrong on all counts!


I can distinguish between cat poo and fox poo and it's definitely cats. Plus I've seen the cats pooing.


Cat poo does pong - badly, especially when you're trying to scrub it out of your carpets or car mats.


And the cats round here definitely do not bury their poo. I've seen them going on the paths, on gravel, in the street. And the cats have the audacity to look down their noses at me while they're doing it like I'm being the filthy one!


It's definitely not an environment I would want a young child to experience. I'm sorry I don't have any solutions to offer you OP but I share your frustrations and you have my sympathy.

I'm not doubting what you say at all but am really surprised by the not burying bit. I've had cats all my life. My mother loved them so I grew up with them and over the last 10 years have fostered some who have been treat appallingly. I even took 11 kittens in once until Cats Protection could find them some forever homes. I can honestly say I've never known a cat not to bury its poo. It's their natural instinct to do so. It's very unusual for them to just do it on a street.

Rachylou1981 I agree with a previous poster. Cats smell bleach as wee and so will do their business there to mark their territory and try and intimidate whoever did it first. I think you have inadvertently made things worse. I would fill a plant spray with lemon juice and spray it on the ground. Whatever you do, never use any cleaning product which contains pine. They love that. You will get every cat in the neighbourhood round.

Although all my neighbours seem to love my cats, I fill large empty pop bottles with water and lay them around my border where in joins with a neighbours to stop them invading people's gardens. The cats are frightened of crossing them for some reason. A vet told me that when I had one who was poorly and I didn't want him to stray.

I only have 2 cats currently and one is small and had a rough time with a previous owner and there are a couple of big toms who worry her a little. I think they are stray. I find shaking a newspaper or carrier bag to scare them off works better than spraying water.

However I have the opposite problem as one of my neighbours lets his dog roam around and every time DH cuts the grass he first has to collect what he calls 'dog eggs.' While I'd rather not deal with either, you can't train a true outside cat and their poo is smaller

Carmina-Piranha_2

There are cats here who don't bury it, and will sit and poo on a lawn while looking right at you!

balletshoes

Carmina-Piranha wrote: »

There are cats here who don't bury it, and will sit and poo on a lawn while looking right at you!

yep, one of my neighbours cats does that (in my garden until recently). She preferred longer grass to poo on, but short would also do, she wasn't that fussy. She made no attempt to cover it up.

Cloudydaze

The cats that poo in my garden don't bury it either. They somehow manage to dig up the plants and leave the poo on show.

I know the culprits, they are a couple of very ugly short-haired Siemese type things who just glare at me and give me the creeps. Give me a fluffy moggy any day.

Rachylou1981

Poppops wrote: »

Rachylou1981 I agree with a previous poster. Cats smell bleach as wee and so will do their business there to mark their territory and try and intimidate whoever did it first. I think you have inadvertently made things worse. I would fill a plant spray with lemon juice and spray it on the ground. Whatever you do, never use any cleaning product which contains pine. They love that. You will get every cat in the neighbourhood round.

:eek:

I wish I'd read this thread a year ago. Would have prevented me making my yard the cat hang out. Hopefully my new tactic of a sonic sound machine and some sticks for my plant pots with a citrus smell will do the trick.

Limey

Dominant cats leave their doings on display sometimes on a little mound of earth to make it more prominant, non dominant will bury it. All part of territorial marking.

Poppops

Limey wrote: »

Dominant cats leave their doings on display sometimes on a little mound of earth to make it more prominant, non dominant will bury it. All part of territorial marking.

That's probably why I've never experienced it then. Mine are always ones which have been tortured elsewhere and have had the pudding knocked out of them. :mad: Definitely not the dominant types

Carmina-Piranha_2

Poppops wrote: »

That's probably why I've never experienced it then. Mine are always ones which have been tortured elsewhere and have had the pudding knocked out of them. :mad: Definitely not the dominant types

Poor kitties