Neighbours cat fouling our garden

lxpeanut

EmmyLou30 wrote: »

I do think cat owners should train their cats to use their trays, put spikes on their boundary fences to contain their pet and do everything possible to stop their moggies messing on other peoples property.

Its not so easy with cats. Any responsible owner will try to keep them in their own garden but they are animals that need to roam so will always try to escape any attempt to contain them. As for training them to use a litter tray it doesnt guarantee anything. Mine do have an area in the garden they are encouraged to use but are still likely to be going elsewhere as its a way of marking territory. Unfortunately if you on the border of a couple of cats territory you are likely to get more poo.

lxpeanut

westernpromise wrote: »

So the solution to the garden being full of cat poo is to fill it with cat poo?

Cat wee would be more effective but yes the best way to keep cats out of your garden is to mark it as the territory of a different cat.

Lord_Baltimore

Aw, this thread so reminds me of Melody, next door's kitten who was only 8 when she died. I became very fond of Melody over the years and even have vivid memories of the day she left us.

Melody used to come into my garden regularly; she seemed to know how much a lonely old man like me needed her company. I had a ball of wool she would play with in the grass before she laid on my lap for a sleep. She pampered me as much as I pampered her.

One day, before she returned home as usual around about 5pm, she purred at me, jumped onto my newly mown lawn and did a tiny poo to mark her second home and to let me know she loved being at my place.

I impaled her with the shears.

domcastro

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Pretty much disproven about the role in control of the spread of most STD's now, http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/STD/vanhowe6/

That was from 1999

Get with it
Even the CDC endorse it

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20141202/cdc-endorses-circumcision-for-health-reasons

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TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials are poised to endorse circumcision as a means of preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released its first-ever draft guidelines on circumcision that recommend that doctors counsel parents and uncircumcised males on the health benefits of the procedure.



I'm British and work in the medical profession. If I had have a baby boy then I would have given him the snip. Helps with erectile dysfunction in later years as well



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fairy_lights

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

Aw, this thread so reminds me of Melody, next door's kitten who was only 8 when she died. I became very fond of Melody over the years and even have vivid memories of the day she left us.

Melody used to come into my garden regularly; she seemed to know how much a lonely old man like me needed her company. I had a ball of wool she would play with in the grass before she laid on my lap for a sleep. She pampered me as much as I pampered her.

One day, before she returned home as usual around about 5pm, she purred at me, jumped onto my newly mown lawn and did a tiny poo to mark her second home and to let me know she loved being at my place.

I impaled her with the shears.

I tried not to but I laughed and now my cat is throwing me dark looks from across the room...

adouglasmhor

domcastro wrote: »

That was from 1999

Get with it
Even the CDC endorse it

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20141202/cdc-endorses-circumcision-for-health-reasons

"
TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials are poised to endorse circumcision as a means of preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released its first-ever draft guidelines on circumcision that recommend that doctors counsel parents and uncircumcised males on the health benefits of the procedure.



I'm British and work in the medical profession. If I had have a baby boy then I would have given him the snip. Helps with erectile dysfunction in later years as well



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The article is wrong starting with the headline. The CDC is running a consultation process about recommending it. Not the same as recommending it (I assume they are in the analysis and interpretation stage just now). The stats in the consultation document need careful reading though do tend to support it for HIV and HPV, same as the study I linked. Not so for other STDs (which are much more widespread but more easily treatable).

I wonder if that is the best source you could manage, a web rewrite of an article in Scientific American but twisted and dumbed down.

[Deleted User]

I had this at my previous house where the neighbour had 3 cats. They all used my gravel garden as a toilet. I got fed up of clearing it everyday and disposing of it in my bin. After asking the owner to clear and dispose of it and being ignored, I cleared it but left the carrier bag on the neighbour's step.

Pixie5740

The Yarra Range in Australia now operates a 24 hour cat curfew.

Happygreen

lxpeanut wrote: »

Its not so easy with cats. Any responsible owner will try to keep them in their own garden but they are animals that need to roam so will always try to escape any attempt to contain them. As for training them to use a litter tray it doesnt guarantee anything. Mine do have an area in the garden they are encouraged to use but are still likely to be going elsewhere as its a way of marking territory. Unfortunately if you on the border of a couple of cats territory you are likely to get more poo.

An elderly friend of mine digs up a small patch in her garden for her cat. It works as he never litters the neighbour's gardens.

AMILLIONDOLLARS

Must be something wrong with my Cat. I let her out to play, but she always comes in to use the litter tray! LOL



AMD