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

Anya

My grandad always used to go out with a bucket of water!!! Got to the point where as soon as he got to the back door, the cats would run a mile!!! I did hear something about some other droppings - I thought it was elephant. But don't know where you'd get them from and then I suppose you're covering your grass with more poo!!!
We have the same problem though. It's so annoying, especially when the kids come in from playing in the garden with it all over their shoes! Might get the Supersoaker on stand-by!!!!!

waterbaby

I don't know anything about cats, I am curious to know if they prefer short grass.

Last night I cut my 'meadow' at the back of my house. Now it is a lawn again, and this morning I saw a cat preparing to relieve itself on it, I have never seen this while the grass was long. Is it a coincidence?

Oh and I said 'preparing' because I did one bang on the window with my fist, it leapt straight up in the air like it was on a pogo stick and raced off! Hope it got the message.

trafalgar_2

iainkirk wrote:

That's a new one on me!

I didn't know cats were scared of hookers!

Doesn't sound like a very nice area you live in if you've got Toms nearby!!!

I meant tomcats:rotfl:

Curry_Queen

Water pistol is definitely the way to go and you only need to use it a couple of times for them to get the message

Similarly the sound of an aerosol spray nearby should send must cats running, thinking it's the dreaded flea spray coming to get them :rotfl:

Water pistols/sprayers are one of the best aids out when it comes to training cats/dogs

louise35_2

have you tried the smelly toilet blocks you know the round flat ones with the holes in the middle, break them up an scatter around the garden they work... you can get packs of them cheap from wilkos.

jockettuk

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

But cats are only doing what comes naturally to them? It's the owners that are ultimately responsible for them as you hinted at?

I'd try out more humane suggestions. And I'm not a particular lover of cats by the way, just as some people aren't dog lovers.

And until cats are put on leads, (God & Governments forbid? Or maybe not?), it's a pest that needs controlling. But harmlessly?

harmlessly if i get hold of the little sod thats doing my garden im going to do some serious damage to it and the ruddy owners lol

Paul_Varjak

Won't the local dog kennels supply you with urine for free?

Tharweb

calleyw wrote:

But then again you can't pick up nasties from a cat on your engine like I can with cat poo on my garden.

Yours

Calley

Very true, but they poo on my garden as well! :mad:

calleyw

Tharweb wrote:

Very true, but they poo on my garden as well! :mad:

You are just so lucky then

I do understand that it drives you mad as it does me


Yours

Calley

calleyw

waterbaby wrote:

I don't know anything about cats, I am curious to know if they prefer short grass.

Last night I cut my 'meadow' at the back of my house. Now it is a lawn again, and this morning I saw a cat preparing to relieve itself on it, I have never seen this while the grass was long. Is it a coincidence?

Oh and I said 'preparing' because I did one bang on the window with my fist, it leapt straight up in the air like it was on a pogo stick and raced off! Hope it got the message.

I don't know either. As I have had they do it in long and short grass.

Hubby does a check before he mows the lawn anyway.


Yours


Calley