Help!cats using my garden as a loo (merged threads)

Horasio

This has been so funny - I also put rose stalks on the beds too - they don't want to prickle their privates do they?

Mark_petty

Cheers for all the help everyone

If my powder stuff i'm using doesn't get rid (working so far) I will try the follwoing:
Plan of action:
Orange peel
Diluted jeyes fluid in a spray bottle
Buy one of those sensors

While doing all these I will also run at them screaming and will purchase a high powered water pistol (looking on toysrus now)

Thanks again for the help - I will win

janey_uk

sarahlouise210 said "why is it that is seems perectly acceptable to cat owners that their cats poo everywhere?"

Because cats have a legal right to roam - they are protected under UK law. That's why it is illegal to use deterrents that may injure them, such as putting down broken glass etc. Chasing them out, putting down cat salts/orange peel etc is fine, but if throwing things or using non-specialist chemicals you can be liable for any injury they get. (A cat suffering raw and cut paws from glass is something I have sadly had to witness).

Also, you can't expect cat owners to climb over fences to take back their poo! It is totally different to other pets (i.e. dogs) in that they are independent and so you can't watch them all the time.

You can't control where a cat poos. You can offer them a litter tray, ample garden space and soil and they may still decide that next door's vegetable patch is nicer - it's just natural to them. That's why there is no comparison with an adult willingly pouring baby poo into someone's garden!! I think most cat owners would find that an unreasonable argument!!

In the case of the neighbour with ten cats, if the number of pets is excessive you can usually have a quiet chat to your council or local animal protection about it, as it can indicate that the owner's aren't coping (such as by getting them neutered). 'Excessive' depends though on how much space they have - it might be fine in a detached plot with lots of land, not so much in a flat maybe...!

emmaroids

maybe folks shouldent have cats if they cant take any responsability for there poo,

i agree that cats are a free spirit but there still someones `pet` and that person should make sure there `pet` goes in there garden.

why the hell should i clean up someone else`s cat poo??

doesent make sense to me.

madhouseof4

I am not a cat person, never have been and if I had the room/money for a dog, I would get one without hesitation! anythign ton get rid of the damn cats, who seem to prefer my garden as a toilet, which isn't fair on my kids, but they also like to terrorize my 2 rabbits. I did alot of chasing and water throwing last year and this has worked to some extent, but I will certainly try jeyes fluid on the fence tops. I am not cruel enough to try antifreeze, as a lovely neighbour of mine lost one of her cats to drinking it while they were on honeymoon last summer

As for cat poo, I have a long standing dispute with a neighbour from hell and as she isn't around much during the week, I just fling what I find over her fence, she is none the wiser. Childish I know!

Mr_Vot

kazd wrote: »

I am afraid I have to say we got to the point of lobbing it back over the fence because we got so fed up with it. Its not such a problem now as the cats seem to have been dying off.

Tha is the funniest post i have read yet!!!!

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milkydrink

I have a cat & HE goes in the same spot in OUR garden, its his spot. Mind you hes clever & clean.
It even annoys me when I see neighbours cats pooing in our garden, I've trained mine to go in one spot why should I have their cats going everywhere!! So I can imagine how much in annoys non cat owners.

If mines in the garden he chases them off (see picture - hes big!!). If I catch them I squirt them with the hose or jug of water. Most cats hate water & will hopefully stop coming in.

If I leave doors open now with the warm weather coming I have two local cats that try to sneek in my house, if mine catches them he starts hissing & chasing them, but often hes upstairs fast asleep:rotfl: .
So I'm constantly throwing the water in the hope I can get the message through before summer.

Don't know if the citrus thing is an old wives tale, my boy loves yogurts & he loves the orange & manderine ones best:rolleyes: .

Try a nice cold hose pipe:eek:

kazd

I am glad I have managed to give you all a giggle. Can I say in my defence that the cats have not been dying off because of anything I have done. I restrict myself to lobbing the poo back. Its because the owners are both away constantly and the cat care has been left to the cleaner who comes in once a day sometimes less and twice she has come in to a dead cat. Once I belive the cat might have been dead a couple of days because it was bloated with gas and the whole house stank.

Still despite this I don't want them the neighbours to move as you never know who's going to move in next, knowing my luck it will be someone with a Rotweiler.

diluvsdiscounts

Scent off gel!
You can buy it from most garden centres its in a ketchup style bottle and you squeeze blob all around the garden the cats hate the smell and don't come back.It sounds like a kinder approach to some that i've read on here!!LOL
Home&bargain also do a cheaper version@99p but I haven't tried that one so can't say if it's any good.

gertie

Hi fellow chat forumers

We are in the process of changing our garden to decorative pebbles, etc. Can anyone advise of a product (preferably liquid) that can be sprayed on to deter cats etc from using the pebbles as a litter tray? I would be most grateful if someon can help

Kind regards and cheers

gertie