Neighbours cat fouling our garden

Marktheshark

Ball slinger £1 shop, load, bend fire.
Poo returned to sender

New_User

From my experience, the only effective methods are either netting / chicken wire around your garden.
Or failing that, just have the whole space patio.

borkid

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

why can't cat owners buy outdoor litters trays like another poster in this thread has?

I have an indoor tray an plenty of outdoor space , freshly dug for my cats to use but I can not guarantee my cats use it even though I encourage them.

My cats keep down vermin for which I am grateful. I do not have to get someone in to put down rat poison, as others who live on the next road have had to.

Niv

It does seem silly to me that some people are very het up about cats specifically. Unless you observe the cat depositing the said waste, you cannot be sure of:
1 - it was your neighbours cat
2 - it is one cat to blame
3 - it is actually cat waste

There are also other sources of waste that are very much not cats, such as birds, bugs, foxes, badgers the list goes on.

I own a cat (mine prefers to stay indoors despite my best efforts - however the poor thing is rescued), I also get nearby cats visiting my garden. Rather than threaten my neighbours, kill the cats, throw a wobbly online, what I have done is identify the things they seem to like best - such as a gap in the fence and repair it to prevent them from the easy access and for about two weeks I put down a cat repellent powder. I no longer have cats visiting my garden. I do appreciate that I may have been 'lucky' but what I am saying is that a little effort to prevent unwanted animals easy access to your garden is not hard and does not need to be expensive - there is no need to go on a rant about paying for others pets, its just nonsense

ukcarper

I do think cats are a real pain not only because they poo in my garden but because they kill some of the birds I try to encourage into my garden. But I accept that you can't stop people owning cats and there is little they can do to keep the cats in there own garden. I have tried most things to discourage them and most have been ineffective I am know using an electronic scarer and it seems to be fairly good.

prowla

Cats need to know that they are not welcome; I've no compunction about scaring one.

One was in my garden just now, and I chased it out; when it got to the bottom of the garden it found that I'd half-fixed the hole in the gate which it must've got used to using, but it managed to make it through what was left of the gap in a slightly comical panicky fashion.

I'm happy chasing them off like that, and it's nothing compared to what they do if they catch a bird or a mouse (cats are nasty, vicious animals).

TopQuark

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

See, I have to adjust my living arrangements to pander to pet owners.

Oh get over yourself. People without children have to pander to those, like you, who do - all the time. I'm thinking especially in the workplace when it comes to holidays and sick kids etc. Most people have to accommodate the life choices of those around us to a greater or lesser extent, especially when their impacts are difficult to control. So why not join the realms of civilised society and acknowledge this.

You can realistically no more control your kid getting sick than a cat owner can control the movements of their cat.

ethank

Loopy28 wrote: »

The best way to stop getting cat poo in your garden is to get a cat yourself. Cats generally don't poo on another cats territory.

I don't like cats, so will not be doing that!

Pont

TopQuark wrote: »

Oh get over yourself.

You can realistically no more control your kid getting sick than a cat owner can control the movements of their cat.

So wrong on so many levels!

If my kids are sick I would not expect them to puke over my neighbours garden fence. My kids are my responsibility - they do not have the 'right to roam', they have no right to enter our neighbours garden, nor to dig up our neighbours flowers, nor to c&#p in our neighbours begonias!

Furthermore, I would not expect my neighbours to pick up the tab for 'kid-proofing' their gardens against my 'nuisance'.

Sometimes I find the arrogance of some cat owners exasperating.:(

woodworm001

Pont wrote: »

Furthermore, I would not expect my neighbours to pick up the tab for 'kid-proofing' their gardens against my 'nuisance'.

Sometimes I find the arrogance of some cat owners exasperating.:(

Personally I have found parents to be the worst. As an example, in my old house I had a neighbour tell me I had to cut back some spikey bushes because her child had got scratched when he'd climbed over the fence to get his ball back, in hindsight I should have just dumped all the cat !!!! around that area as well.

My cats just dump in the middle of our lawn, they don't even try to bury it in the flower beds (I don't recommend trying to 'mower it up' either).

Anyway, cat owners are no more arrogant than any one else when it comes to their 'precious'.