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

Sue-UU

evie451 wrote: »

some people really really really need to get a life, hello, free roaming domestic animal.......besides lots of other wildlife will sod around in your garden hedghogs foxes and yes i suppose some will say 'i saw the cat do it' but if you did are you spending entirely too much time looking out your window for said cats?

Evie, there's a big difference between cats which are as you said domestic animals.

Foxes, hedgehogs etc are wild animals and should roam freely - and aside from anything else have you smelled the difference between the faeces of them all!!! Some folk reckon foxes faeces are the worse, it never 'says' that to me, but cats stink something rotten!

As to how much time people spend looking out of their windows, that's their business surely, though it's not always to look for cats, but if you wish to keep them from the birds you need to.....yet they're other people's cats. Life and it's ironies eh!

Sue

emptygrape

I had an idea today I think I'm going to trial. In my garden is the old xmas tree cut up with nice dry spiky pines still attached, I'm going to cover my next freshly dug patch with these and see how it goes. If it works then next year I will be gathering all the trees family and friends have.

Sue-UU

Worth giving a shot at for sure, if not try the holly or brambles.

Good luck!

BuddyBonthenet

emptygrape wrote: »

I had an idea today I think I'm going to trial. In my garden is the old xmas tree cut up with nice dry spiky pines still attached, I'm going to cover my next freshly dug patch with these and see how it goes. If it works then next year I will be gathering all the trees family and friends have.

Recycling! :T

Golden_Anemone

BuddyBonthenet wrote: »

Hiya! :beer: How are you? Are you posting on DS at the moment?

Hi Buddy, not much tbh - I sometimes look in on the DoI forum but it's just not Strictly is it? I'm mostly to be found on River Cottage and the RHS gardening forum mostly and recently I found here. :cool:

Always nice to see a familiar "face". :T

BuddyBonthenet

Golden_Anemone wrote: »

Hi Buddy, not much tbh - I sometimes look in on the DoI forum but it's just not Strictly is it? I'm mostly to be found on River Cottage and the RHS gardening forum mostly and recently I found here. :cool:

Always nice to see a familiar "face". :T

DOI is definitely NOT Strictly! :rotfl:

I like it on here though.:D

Golden_Anemone

It's very nice on here Buddy. :j

daska

evie451 wrote: »

hello, free roaming domestic animal.......

yes, quite, it's your choice to have this pet so please could you keep your animals' crap in your domus and come and clear up the crap it leaves in mine so that I can let my toddler be free roaming in my domus...:p

TBH I don't mind the odd cat - it was the FIVE cats in the gardenless flat above us and the fact that the occupiers thought it was unreasonable of us to block our garden gate so that their dog couldn't crap in our garden as well. If it helps, the fact that they've now been evicted might be some evidence that their general behaviour was less than acceptable.

daska

Tabatha_Kitten wrote: »

Daska.
Iam not a lazy pet owner.
I have a dog who gets walked for an hou in the morning, an hour in the evening, plays out in the garden for the rest of the day, and a walk before bedtime.
I have two tropical fishtanks, of a suitable size for the fish I keep in there, with two 10% water changes each week/
And I have 3 cats.
Who are allowed to be just that. Cats.
If they s**t in your garden. So be it. Tough. I will not put them on leads, or keep them as house cats.
And I would rather associate myself with them than the likes of you.
You disgust me.
I would like to put you in a box and drive you 300 miles away.

OK

1. The remark about not getting caught is genuine but was intended humourously, people break the law all the time, they don't get punished unless they get caught!

2. I didn't say you were lazy, I just pointed out that a cat is a perfect pet for a lazy person and that some people mistreat their cats to the point of not even washing out their bowls and thereby exposing them to increased risk of infections.

3. I did not advocate dumping animals in a box and it is unfair of you to misquote me to imply that I did. I said I got very tempted to put them in a box and take them to the RSPCA 300 miles away. i.e. far enough away that they couldn't make their way back of their own accord but would be in good hands.

4. It is your choice to have pets. You should not impose that choice, or the responsibility for caring for them / cleaning up after them on others.

5. Your cats are partly responsible for the decline in bird and wildlife population. So, your decision to keep pet cats makes you an accessory - some animal lover you are!

evie451

daska wrote: »

yes, quite, it's your choice to have this pet so please could you keep your animals' crap in your domus and come and clear up the crap it leaves in mine so that I can let my toddler be free roaming in my domus...:p

TBH I don't mind the odd cat - it was the FIVE cats in the gardenless flat above us and the fact that the occupiers thought it was unreasonable of us to block our garden gate so that their dog couldn't crap in our garden as well. If it helps, the fact that they've now been evicted might be some evidence that their general behaviour was less than acceptable.

oh i do hate to break it to you but the outside is dirty/mucky and there is nothing you can do about it except perhaps get the child to wash its hands after playing outside......many other forms of wildlife visit your garden and yes crap in it! foxes, hedgehogs, birds, rats/rodents the latter being basically incontinent!