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Help with cat shit!

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Mollypolly2610 · 07/02/2020 18:15

My neighbors two cats shit in my garden. I would get a water pistol but I don’t catch them very often, just see them covering it.

One of them yesterday had a massive shit near my hut and I only heard her covering it up. I went to look after I chased it and can see there is now piles of shit where she is covering it up and shitting in the same small area all the time.

Any ideas what I can put down to make her go somewhere else to shit (preferably her owner’s garden!)

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Fluffycloudland77 · 07/02/2020 18:21

Get a cat of your own, it will defend the garden as it’s own. That fat tabby didn’t know what had hit him when we got the Bengal. Your gardens the edge of their territory so they poo there to scent mark.

Failing that, get big pebbles to put over the earth so they can’t dig, not little stones or bark clippings because that’s basically cat heaven.

Please no chilli powder though, it can cause serious problems if they ingest it or it gets into their eyes and doesn’t actually deter them anyway.

FeckaDecka · 07/02/2020 18:24

Weirdly...put food down, they never shit where they eat. Sprinkle cat food all over, they'll soon go somewhere else.

TalaxuArmiuna · 07/02/2020 19:10

buy lion poo and spread it around. it's a great fertiliser and the cats won't poo where there's a bigger feline marking its territory.

cats are wild animals and can't be trained. if these cats weren't pooing there, different cats would be

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AdaFromYorkshire · 07/02/2020 19:28

Prunings from holly or berberis can work, it's too painful for them to scratch there.

Bloomburger · 07/02/2020 19:36

T bags soaked in jeyes fluid worked for us.

BellaBellaBelle · 07/02/2020 20:04

Would love to know a solution to this. 5 neighbouring cats all shit in my garden. Seems to be worse when the grass is longer.

Lampan · 07/02/2020 20:14

I have the same problem. Coffee grounds seemed to work for a while but they get washed away when it rains so not very effective long term. It’s disgusting and I wish I could find a solution!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/02/2020 20:21

Food in the garden round here would get you a load of foxes (their shit is worse than cats

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Mollypolly2610 · 07/02/2020 20:34

Will try orange peel and the teabags. In Scotland, so it rains every fucking day here so coffee grounds no good. Will go up to the pet shop next week and see if I can find anything there. Or might put down some mesh wire fencing on the ground. Do you think that would deter them?

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FemiLANGul · 07/02/2020 20:37

buy lion poo and spread it around

So your solution to prevent shit from a cat being in your garden is to put shit from a cat in your garden.

Genius...

Gonetoget · 07/02/2020 20:38

There are plenty of things you can try that have already been mentioned. Wouldn’t recommend mesh wire on the ground unless you fancy untangling a cat that get caught in it.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/02/2020 20:40

Ooh I was going to suggest the male (human adult) urine , but that's foxes .

And it doesn't really work.

When I had guinea-pigs (and no cats) I had to clear the garden using water , clanging the metal food plates together and schrieking like a banshee as I ran down the garden.

The neighbours got used to me , property prices weren't affected and my guineas weren't eaten .
Result I say .

HappyHammy · 07/02/2020 20:40

Dont use jeyes.fluid. that is poison. I would use netting..can you throw the poo back into their garden and maybe cat will start going there instead.

TopBitchoftheWitches · 07/02/2020 20:41

Please do not use jeyes, very damaging to cats.
Citrus fruits apparently work.

TheSpottedZebra · 07/02/2020 20:44

Jeyes fluid is extremely toxic so only use that if you're truly evil.

You can get sprays containing things like citronella, especially for this. Or a supersoaker, to put the cats off. Or run at them and give them and bit of a shock. Or combine any of this with thorny prickly clippings.

slipperywhensparticus · 07/02/2020 20:46

Get a random lawn sprinkler so they never know when it's coming

Plastic bag on sticks work well when its windy it causes rustling noises shapes weird movement etc all things that put cats off crapping

Dont waste your money on those fake cat scare things they dont actually work

Use your garden loads they hate an audience

Starbucks give ueed coffee grounds away so if your passing get those too

MaxPanic · 07/02/2020 20:49

I'm having the same problem - my dog died in November and since her scent has faded from the garden, the ginger cat from up the road is having a whale of a time laying massive turds in my slightly too long lawn.

We can't cut it as the ground is too wet at the moment. I bought 2 of those high frequency sound emitters from Amazon though, and after a few days stopped noticing new poo parcels appearing...fingers crossed he's decided its no longer a relaxing environment for a nice satisfying shit. Once the ground dries up enough to cut the grass that should help...

PigeonofDoom · 07/02/2020 20:53

Citrus, running at them, super soakers are all useless ime. Physical barriers work in flower beds though- spikey sticks shoved into the ground, bramble or rose cuttings scattered on beds- these have worked for me. Thing is, they’ve all rotted down by this time of year. I went out into my teeny garden and counted 7-8 shits in the beds and on the lawn, it’s absolutely vile. Stops me from getting a cat tbh (cats most definitely DO crap in their own backyard ime). Gardening is my main hobby and it is so horrible that I have to spend half my time chucking out other people’s cats shit before I can even get to my beds. Gives me the rage.

PigeonofDoom · 07/02/2020 20:55

Caffeine isn’t great for plants so I would go easy on the coffee grounds. I don’t think it stops cats either ime.

MaxPanic · 07/02/2020 20:55

I resolved it in the flower beds by using prickle strip. But I've never had to deal with it on the lawn before. Yuck.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 07/02/2020 20:56

Use your garden loads they hate an audience

unless they are my cat , perched on my plant pot hovering his tiny bum above the compost !
We have Stand Offs - once he's in situ , he won't back down.

Wifeofbikerviking · 07/02/2020 20:59

My husband pees in the garden when it's dark and neighbour seem to be sleeping. It does work.
Alongside us having put various rocks and wood offcuts in the flowerbeds so there is no big patches of soft soil

Letsbegin · 07/02/2020 21:00

Lemon juice sprinkled all over the flower beds.

PigeonofDoom · 07/02/2020 21:02

Everyone who says human wee has obviously never seen a cat drink from a toilet!
I’m going to try the prickle strips though, they look ace.

MaxPanic · 07/02/2020 21:03

God that reminds me, the little bastards used to dig and shit in my patio containers as well.

I honestly don't know of anything that truly deters them other than a resident dog or cat. I like cats, I wouldn't want to do anything that was mean or would hurt or poison them, I don't even want to scare them - I just don't want their horrible shit in my garden. Maybe if I put a litter tray and a pile of Viz magazines in one corner they'd use that.

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