Neighbours cat fouling our garden

haras_nosirrah

condoghost wrote: »

So, I'm wondering why this isn't a problem in quite a few other countries where they have their own open space? Living in Asia for some 15-years I never once came across fouled pavements, fouled open spaces. No dog mess no cat mess anywhere. I wonder why that is? Perhaps it is that they may well have dogs and cats but only in recent times have they been treated as "pets". And now as they keep cats and dogs as "pets", they are always small enough to carry. And few dogs if any are ever walked on a lead. Where cats are carried outside it's often in a cat cage of some sort. It's all about "responsibility" and our differences as to when it is appropriate to have a cat / dog as a pet and when it is not. You may well have a dog / cat in the house as a "pet" but you never ever for example take the dog off your property out for a walk on a lead to foul and urinate anywhere as it pleases. You never ever see cats going into others open spaces and dropping their mess there. It just doesn't happen You'd be shunned by everyone if you allowed that to happen. It's the difference between a responsiblr society across the board and a responsible society where some choose not to be.

Are you serious??? You are saying it is a responsible society that doesn't allow dogs and cats outside at all but had them trapped in doors 24/7 - this sounds like a cruel society and absolutely horrific. Who makes you god where all other animals are given a crap life so you never see a piece of crap in 'your' garden

Shame you have a garden. Maybe you should move to a top floor high rise and never be allowed to leave your four walls - well if it's good enough for cats and dogs then it's good enough for you

And what is that about training dogs and cats to crap in the jungle like they do in Asia? We don't have a lot of jungle near residential areas and as you say cats don't roam for miles. They are fouling in the accessible land they have - your garden

You have a few choices

1) live in a property with no garden
2) accept it
3) cat proof your garden to make it less attractive
4) move back to the very civilised continent of Asia where dogs and cats aren't pets but lunch

Either way make a decision and stop ranting

haras_nosirrah

condoghost wrote: »

I'm lost as to why anyone would think it cruel if it's perfectly legal to shoot a cat if you see it out and about after 9pm. Shoot it dead that is, not leaving it injured. So many are "lost" in this world of their cat being a "pet" and at the same time "free to roam and foul wherever same as a wild boar perhaps. The wild boar that is bred for food. I've seen cat served up in some countries. Some say very tasty. Yet others get so upset with that. It's okay for their cat to go foul in others gardens but not their own and it's so cruel to shoot them when they're out fouling, killing birds, and so forth. Strange world you've all created.

Maybe it should be legal to shoot any free roaming kids out after 9pm too

Not to injure them - kill them outright otherwise it would be cruel

The teenagers I hear in the road outside my house. Waking me up, dropping their litter everywhere.

Surely responsible parents would keep them inside their own house and garden at all times and train them properly not to dump their McDonald's packets or similar crap in the street

Some parents think it is ok to allow their children to roam around their neighbourhood and mess up wherever they like, damaged other peoples cars with their footballs, annoy people with their screams and hurt the planet with their litter yet they also think it's cruel to shoot them

Strange world we live in right op?

ecgirl07

My cat is littered trained and was a flat cat for the first 4 years of his life. Now he has a wee garden he shouts to get out to use outdoor facilities preferring this to his clean litter tray.

Even a litter trained cat would rather do its business outside.

mrginge

Remember kids, say no to drugs.

KateBob

mrginge wrote: »

Remember kids, say no to drugs.

Especially catnip!

FBaby

I came here looking for info on preventing neighbours cats fouling our garden.

Well here you go: YOU CAN'T.

Now what will you do? Go and look for a property where you have vetted all residents in the neighbourhood to make sure they don't have cats?
Move again if anyone with a cat moves in in between?
Or maybe you could build a tight secure fence around your house and put wires on top so that no cat will want to jump in?

In the end, you need to get it in your head that you can't make your neighbour do anything to suit you when it comes to your cat doing its business on your plants, you can only control what YOU can do about it. What that is is up to you.

I personally find that accepting the situation the easiest way forward, but you don't come across as this is an option for you...

mufi

mortgageFTB wrote: »

(No, I'm not a cat owner)

Indeed you are not. Cats have staff.


A. Cat

itch_for_a_glitch

condoghost wrote: »

I'm lost as to why anyone would think it cruel if it's perfectly legal to shoot a cat if you see it out and about after 9pm. Shoot it dead that is, not leaving it injured. So many are "lost" in this world of their cat being a "pet" and at the same time "free to roam and foul wherever same as a wild boar perhaps. The wild boar that is bred for food. I've seen cat served up in some countries. Some say very tasty. Yet others get so upset with that. It's okay for their cat to go foul in others gardens but not their own and it's so cruel to shoot them when they're out fouling, killing birds, and so forth. Strange world you've all created.

Is that true ?

News.

Thanks.

domcastro

In some states in America, it is illegal to have a cat outside of your own garden. The same rules for dogs applies to cats. Collect the cat poo and chuck it against the owner's windows - just don't get caught doing it. Doesn't solve the problem but maybe when the owners are having to clean their own cat's poo for a change, maybe they'll learn some respect

CathA

My husband used to get big catering pots of pepper and chuck it on the grass after he'd mowed it and also mix it into the borders if he'd done any digging. It worked for him but you have to keep applying it after it rains.