To not want neighbours cats in my garden?

Well, yeah, have you ever seen a dog gracefully scale a fence?

I don't hate cats, sheep, alpacas, goats or donkeys. I don't want any of them in my garden though and I don't want them coming into my garden to shit.

28°C in DS's room tonight.
Finally gave up and accepted I had to shut the window as the room was sticking from cat shit on the flat roof as mentioned earlier.
Went to the window only to find a pair of eyes looking back at me.
Shouted at it, it just looked at me.
Sat there while I went to the bathroom, filled a bottle of water, returned, opened window wider and threw the water at it.

Little shit didn't care at all.

Genuinely can't understand everyone on this thread who doesn't see this as a problem.
There are literally mounds on my roof I can't safely access, but I just have to accept it.

My son had more freedom in a cramped flat than this house we a garden we can use and now even upstairs is disgusting if we simply want a bit of air.

In the UK they have a right to roam by law. Dogs by law have to be under control.

After reading all the outright hatred of cats on here, people insisting that owners should keep them indoors, or trap them in their garden, putting barbed wire on top of fences, or encouraging their children to throw rocks at them, I'm really glad that in the 40 years I've owned cats I've never had any neighbour complain about my cats, every single one of which has roamed freely in other people's gardens and maybe even had a shit in them.

Not one of the vitriolic, hate-filled posts has made me think about restricting my cat, in fact completely the opposite, because most of the anti-cat brigade on here seem to have the most laughably ridiculous expectations, clearly know zilch about cats and appear to be verging on lunacy.

Cats aren't wildlife. They are property.

So you're very much in favour of killing anybody or anything that comes and poos in your garden, then? Got it.

That's assuming you understood the simple point that PP was making?

I saw the headline title a few days back
I didn’t read it
Some People are sick and evil and I hope they all rot in hell !

Picking up animal poo is part and parcel of being a responsible pet owner- I do hope you offer to do this if a neighbour can prove it’s your cat. Mine do thankfully!

No thanks- that just spells lazy to me.

If you think that is torture I advise you to not read the news about what people are doing to cats and kittens online and in trees in rural areas. I don't like cats, at all, but this even made me feel sorry for them. It was quite sickening to be honest and I expect that the children that did it will probably be named soon. But seriously, if I had a cat (and presumably liked or cared about it) and I lived in those areas, I absolutely wouldn't let it exercise it's "right to roam".

You taught you kids to torture cats @AWitchCalledMeg

Bet they’re going turn out really lovely adults to be around !

Disgusting

This is vile, shame on you

If you shit in my garden it will be the last time you empty your bowels

I feel your pain. Our back garden neighbours have two cats who like to poop in our garden (sometimes just openly on the lawn!) and we have small kids.

We asked if they could encourage the cats to use the litter tray more (treat training, a garden border etc) and the neighbours told us they’d try a border. They then proceeded to put plastic turf everywhere! 🙄

Personally I don’t see the point in owning an animal you never see that just goes round causing a nuisance to your neighbours 🤷🏻‍♀️ Our fences are all scratched to bits as well 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yes fox poo is fine.

this.

@DrPrunesqualer that is even worse 🤮

Our dog eats it 🤮🤮 if I don’t get to it first.

@DrPrunesqualer You can easily tell the difference between fox poo and cat poo particularly if you’ve owned a terrier that thinks rolling in fox poo is exciting . Yes it is totally to do with other peoples pets .

So it’s just to do with other people’s pets then @tinyspiny
Poo in general and picking it up from your garden isn’t the issue as long as it’s not from someone else’s cat.

Now
How can you distinguish poos 🕵️

‘Let me explain’. Hold on I may need to

@DrPrunesqualer let me explain - none of us want to pick up poo that is in our garden that doesn’t belong to our own personal pets that we have chosen to get and look after . With actual native wildlife we pick up the poo because they don’t have an owner to keep them away from my property .With the local cats , most of us that object to the poo / killing etc would like the owners to keep the cats on their property as they are the ones that chose to get the pet . WRT dogs , there is a law that says you have to pick up poo it’s nothing to do with keeping people safe or dangerous dogs they are different laws .

Again. What about foxes and rabbits and rats tho. Someone’s got to pick that up. I do but they aren’t my pets
I just get on and do it.
No one can stop cats roaming because it’s not in their nature. Dogs have to be kept under control and on leads because some are dangerous. That’s why they can’t roam around, it’s not to do with their poo it’s to do with keeping people safe

'So Is the issue that it’s certain poos that are OK and people are fine with clearing it up Or Is the issue really that some people just hate cats'

I like cats.

The issue is not poo per se, for example I pick up my dogs poo but I would not pick up other people's dog poo.

The issue is when people let their pets roam and poo in other people's gardens.

That’s not what I’m asking though.

Im asking
Poo is Poo and some people on here gav an issue with poo. I’m thinking poster upthread who spends hours in their garden etc. and doesnt want poo in it.

So
Is the issue that it’s certain poos that are OK and people are fine with clearing it up
Or Is the issue really that some people just hate cats