Neighbours cat fouling our garden

GwylimT

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Yikes! Well, when that happened to me before, ie a neighbour to my last house told me that a cat was coming in and "doing its doings" on some bags of compost I was using for foodgrowing in my back yard, I promptly threw them away and wouldn't have contemplated using the food after that.

After all, look at all the fuss about the unhealthiness of children being exposed to "dog poo" and I cant imagine cat poo is any "healthier". We do have this concept of humanure (as in recycling our own "doings" by using different style loos), but I believe that things are supposed to "mature" for a year or so even there. Not exactly possible to wait a year for a few lettuce to "clean themselves" off so to say before eating them...

It really isn't a problem unless you eat your food while still covered in soil/compost, after all soil is made of sediment, faeces and other organic matter such as decaying plants and other organisms.

elsien

ThumbsUpBoy wrote: »

What size slates did you use, 20mm or 40mm?

I know bark is a no no unless I want to open a communal litter for all the cats in the area.

Great idea about the twigs.

No idea. Big bits is the best I can manage, sorry.

robatwork

This thread has made me lose a bit of hope for the human race.

wrkactjob

Awww cats!

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prowla

Super soaker, or a bucket of water; they won't actually harm the animal, but they might make your place less attractive than somewhere else.

ethank

Ulfar wrote: »

Cats do have the right to roam

There is not a set of cat rights. They do not have a fundamental right to enter my property.

ethank

Anatidaephobia wrote: »

Basically, it's because you have chosen to own outdoor space which is accessible to a variety of animals, all of whom will treat it as they wish unless there is something/someone in the garden which deters them. Short of giving your garden four walls and a roof, you can't really prevent various animals from entering it as and when they please. It is simply a consequence of having outdoor space.

What utter rubbish, it is a bit like saying that burglary is a consequence of living in a house.

ACG

ethank wrote: »

There is not a set of cat rights. They do not have a fundamental right to enter my property.

I hate cats, I really do.

But there is sod all we can do to get the owners to keep the cats in their own garden. The best we can do is spend our own hard earned money to make the garden air tight or less attractive to them - therefore passing the problem to someone else.

Anatidaephobia

ethank wrote: »

What utter rubbish, it is a bit like saying that burglary is a consequence of living in a house.

Hardly, but equating cats to burglars is an interesting insight.

haras_nosirrah

ACG wrote: »

I hate cats, I really do.

But there is sod all we can do to get the owners to keep the cats in their own garden. The best we can do is spend our own hard earned money to make the garden air tight or less attractive to them - therefore passing the problem to someone else.

But how would you propose that the owners keep them in the garden? As a cat owner I would prefer my cats stayed in my garden so they are safe and don't get hit by a car. Unfortunately they have this ability to climb and jump which makes them impossible to contain unless they are kept indoors 24 7 which is cruel. The only option is for people to make their gardens unattractive to cats if they do not want cats in their garden as cat owners can do sod all to prevent their cats leaving the garden