cat poop on grass

helcat26

Hi
I love cats, however my new neighbour has 2 who spend most of their time outside. The younger one ( not much more than 8 months old and an absolute little sweetheart) has decided that the bottom lawn of our property is where it should poop. It has now got in the habit of it as we did not realise for a while as the weather was so bad.


So my question is can I retrain this young cat? I do not want to stop cats coming into my garden- I enjoy seeing them and playing with them. I do not want to do anything to frighten or harm this sweet little cat.


I do not even mind if they poop under bushes in the border.


Is there anything I can put on the lawn so that the cat stays off the lawn? Pepper, citronella, chicken wire until it gives up and goes somewhere else?


Does anything work?


Thank goodness I had not let the grass get long enough to need to use the strimmer!

gardner1

helcat26 wrote: »

Hi
I love cats, however my new neighbour has 2 who spend most of their time outside. The younger one ( not much more than 8 months old and an absolute little sweetheart) has decided that the bottom lawn of our property is where it should poop. It has now got in the habit of it as we did not realise for a while as the weather was so bad.


So my question is can I retrain this young cat? I do not want to stop cats coming into my garden- I enjoy seeing them and playing with them. I do not want to do anything to frighten or harm this sweet little cat.


I do not even mind if they poop under bushes in the border.


Is there anything I can put on the lawn so that the cat stays off the lawn? Pepper, citronella, chicken wire until it gives up and goes somewhere else?


Does anything work?


Thank goodness I had not let the grass get long enough to need to use the strimmer!

Try a kids super soaker gun or hosepipe.......because it isn't going to poop in another garden

*~Zephyr~*

Tell the owner to be a responsible cat owner and buy a ruddy litter tray!

Failing that, poke some things into your lawn - lolly sticks or such like - spaced just close enough together so that the cat doesn't have room to squat and poop.

It will be a bit unsightly, and you might need a lot of them, but its only for a little while until it's found another place to poop.

GwylimT

We use lion poo as we don't want our cat urinating on certain parts of our garden and its quite successful. You can use things like cocktail sticks, but generally once removed a cat will start going into the area again.

helcat26

Seem to have found something that works!


http://www.medicines4pets.co.uk/p-4377-get-off-dog-cat-crystals-640g.aspx?gclid=COvW_Mai18wCFYcp0wod4kkA3w


Sprinkle these rather gloopy crystals on the grass and the cats are now walking around the lawn


They smell very strongly of citronella, are not harmful and seem to last about a week. I am hoping if I keep this up for a month cats will have selected somewhere else to poop

katglasgow

My neighbour used garlic granules and orange peel. The orange peel is a bit unsightly but acts a while the cat should be in the habit of going elsewhere and then you can stop.

balletshoes

katglasgow wrote: »

My neighbour used garlic granules and orange peel. The orange peel is a bit unsightly but acts a while the cat should be in the habit of going elsewhere and then you can stop.

Please don't use anything with garlic in, its toxic to cats and other roaming animals.

GwylimT

balletshoes wrote: »

Please don't use anything with garlic in, its toxic to cats and other roaming animals.

Including dogs.