Cat spikes around garden

I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, I haven’t read the whole post . I also tried everything. The only thing that consistently works is male urine.

We have a terrible rat problem here as we back onto a farm but I never have a single rat in my house because my cats murder them the second they pop their heads up.
My black ex feral dumped one on the doorstep the other day that was MASSIVE. I didnt know they came in that size.
Apparently a couple of years before I moved in here there was a serious rat infestation and the council pest control unit found hundreds of rat tunnels and nests under all our homes and the rats worked their way up the walls and were popping up in bedrooms under the floors.
Even after poison was put down the problem kept recurring so the neighbours got cats and its under control now.

Cat owner..

id pick it up and put it in their owners garden.

You could also put chili flakes down where they poo or consider one of those things that makes the horrible noise cats dont like.

Your neighbours are unreasonable to know their cats are doing this and not help with a deterrent

I would get a small dog or even borrow one now and again.

Fair enough OP, and I say that as a cat owner (who uses a litter box). Several neighbours have put spikes up though and generally the cats find ways to get over them. One neighbour resorted to barbed wire, I cringe when I see the cats slithering under / over it but they still manage.

Same. I have two cats but they don't stray very far. My garden backs onto to wasteland so they use that or their litter trays for the loo. If I thought that they were causing this much distress to my neighbour, or of course in dange, they would become housecats.

Low quality trolling 'FernandoSor'🙄

You are a real red flag. You want to poison cats?? Clearly you're a weirdo. And yes, I mean that in a judgemental way.

Currently our cats do roam in the garden (though very rarely go any further). That said we ALWAYS every day will pick up any cat poop in the garden and tbh when we move we are considering them becoming more indoor cats (with safe access catio)

I grew up with the issue and have a dad who's always hated cats doing their business in their garden so I get it's frustrating and also there are the risk of harm to the cats and/or wildlife

Our opposite neighbours have 10 cats, that all come and shit in my veg patch, the neighbours have even put up a sign saying caution cats crossing! Yes to take a shit in my garden! I have two dogs that have made friends with the cats ( N.B Irish setters are useless😂🤣😂) so this year i have grassed over my veg patch. I am really upset by this as i enjoyed growing veg, even though we didn’t eat it because of the cat shit! But grassing over has stopped it.

@Dragonflyspeeding
Areas with trees which are fenced off from us residents, chill out!
The cats think it's their personal mini jungle..

@VividDenimTiger you need to cat proof your garden , it keeps cats out as well as keeping them in . Have a look at Protect a Pet or the roller system .

You're a silly billy. Stop making things up for attention 😂

Also plastic pipes on tops of yr fences so they can't jump into them and into yr garden. Have a google..very effective apparently..cat lover here who's own cat poops in my garden!!

Where is the common land though?
Where children play?
Where other people spend their Saturdays trying to pick up litter and cat mess to keep the area nice for others?

We had problems with cats in our garden. One even managed to sneak a paw into a breeding cage and rip apart our newborn baby guinea pig! In front of my kids!!
like you the owners did nothing.
I ended up sitting in the garden for 3 days straight with a hose and every single time a cat paw came over the fence, they got hosed down and utterly soaked. On the 3rd day I filled a super soaker with lemon scented non toxic body spray and soaked them in water and lemon scent. Eventually I found out I had upset the cats owner as now their cat was coming home dripping and stinking out their house. Told the owner to keep their cats to themselves, otherwise it would get worse, and they ended up keeping their damn cat inside!

My neighbour has 'trained' the cats who have adopted me.
She really doesn't like them climbing into her garden, even though she likes cats, & why should she? She shooed them away & they have learned not to go in people's gardens, & find common land. :-)

Well, hedgehogs are a native species and protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Cats are neither. (Except for Scottish Wildcats obviously).

It’s legal under most circumstances to humanely destroy invasive species such as grey squirrels, signal crayfish, Japanese knotweed, and domestic cats.

I used to have three cats and had litter trays indoors. I didn't want a cat flap so they only went out when I let them out. If they needed to use the litter tray when they were outside they would come in and use it and go out again. They preffered the dry litter tray to damp grass or borders.

If you own the fencing or have a shed they climb on, you could also try anti vandal paint. It sticks to them and they would track it back home, making a mess in the owners home. Prob need to make sure its not toxic to ani.als first tho!

I’m a cat groupie and have two Siamese, I live in a cottage that has communal gardens. My cats have two litter trays indoors and I follow them with poo bags when they go out, so I’m right with the anti cat shit team. I do know how you feel. I’ve fallen out with my neighbour as she lets her cat do enormous poo in the communal beds which I plant up and care for, it’s very upsetting & the worst is that the other two neighbours think I’m unreasonable at the cat owning neighbour is 85 years old. So fecking what, old enough to know better then 🤬

Get a dog maybe?

I a huge cat lover and have my own cats, who are my babies. YANBU, cat shit is vile. I hope the spikes work!

A dog with high prey drive is not aggressive. There have been threads on here where OP lost a cat to a neighbour's dog (usually a lurcher or greyhound) It happens, and is not really a non-issue at all.

I have numerous cats passing through my garden . I don’t have the problem of them using my garden as a toilet . I have plants that cats don’t like the smell of. In the winter I just put netting on my flower beds. It works .