I hate cats!!!!

I agree it’s not natural. Sadly in the US I believe it’s still legal to declaw cats.

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When you say that you have cat poo in your garden everyone on MN says it CANT be cat poo and must be a racoon/fox/zebra that found it's way into your garden. Even if you saw a cat curling one out on the middle of your lawn carrying a toilet roll and copy of The Sun.

As a pp said, I don't hate cats but cat owners do have a lot of cognitive dissidence about where their pets are crapping. Also hate it how they think it's cute to kill birds etc. Our garden became the local litter tray for a while and it was horrible when the kids were playing out. It seemed sorted when we got a dog though OP? Can you not send him out on patrol when they appear? Soon scared our local crappers off.

The neighbours do not own the cats, the cats own the neighbours.

I'd be upset in your shoes though.

That’s what I was thinking. It could be fox poo.

I love cats but the dog that a did a huge shit at the bottom of my drive the other day can do one.

I live in the US, where around 90% of cats ARE FORCED TO stay indoors.

Fixed it for you. Given the choice, no cat would ‘stay’ indoors. It’s not natural.

Love all animals but there is one big "mouser" that lives a few doors down. She wakes me up v early as she terrorises the birds. Frequently killing them, then, their corpse falls into the no-mans land behind my house and she doesn't even have the decency to either eat her prey or gift it to her owners 🙄

I have had the cat problem in the past, and things that worked for me were a) citrus peel left in the area where they poo b) soft spike beds in exposed borders c) Labradors chasing them .

I have had my most consistent success with the Labradors , but the others helped.

YANBU. I love cats, but I live in the US, where around 90% of cats stay indoors. If I had random neighbor cats wandering onto my property and defecating on my grass, I wouldn’t like cats, either.

YANBU

Our neighbour loudly proclaims at social events that she "doesnt do kitty litter as it is gross" and that she prefers it does its poos elsewhere.

[awkward glances exhanged all around as neighbours refrain from saying "yes but they fucking shit in our gardens!!"]

I went theough a period where I couldnt have any windows open because the cat would literally climb in. Guests arriving at my fromt door would comment on the stench of shit lingering (despite my cleaning up).

It only changed when I got a dog.

Dogs have their issues too regarding wildlife. For example: www.gwct.org.uk/blogs/uplands-blog/2026/march/dog-walking-awareness-in-the-uplands/

No. Bird decline is due to habitat destruction and intensive farming.

No, but in the block of flats I used to live in and only recently moved from, we had youth piss all over the (indoor) stairwell, drug and fag ends, used gas bottles, vapes and the charred remnants of plastic things they brought in and then set fire to.

I'll take a cat poo in my (outdoor) flower bed any day.

Give me a feral cat over a feral youth any day too!

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Ditto dogs, though I wouldn't harm one, (except the one which slobbered all over my 1 year old granddaughter sitting in her buggy).

Good grief, OP doesn't want local domestic cats crapping in her garden, she doesn't need Lions doing it 😉

Have you thought about lion poo, OP?

YANBU.

Selfish people will blab about fertilizer and birds to not face the fact that they are chosing to have a pet and letting it endanger your children's and dog's health in their own garden.

Unfortunately, many cat/dog owners are becoming seriously antisocial.

@AlcoholicAntibiotic "If people choose to have pets, they should make sure others aren’t inconvenienced by them."

What about all the human shit and piss in our oceans and rivers, to say nothing of the gazillion tons of indestructible plastic, radioactive and foul noxious waste on land and in the atmosphere. It won't be cats that destroy the planet. There's only one animal capable of that and it's well on the way to succeeding. The name of that animal is human and they are the biggest "inconvenience" the earth and everything on it has ever seen.

I know I’ve said my bit on this thread, yes I have a cat who roams, I’ve got neighbours with dogs who walk them on stupid extendable leads whose dogs pee on my front hedge, or bark. It’s annoying but unless you live with no neighbours you just have to live with things. Having said that if a neighbour complained about my cat pooing in their garden and they could prove it was him I’d happily clear it up. He has a litter tray but prefers to toilet outside. I also have no objection to anyone taking steps to keep him out providing it’s not harming him.

Birds are part of nature and aren’t owned by selfish people who then make excuses for why they should be allowed make a nuisance of themselves on other people’s property. Do you see the difference?

Urine is an excellent fertiliser for the soil.