Is there a way to prevent cats using your garden as a toilet?

[Chickpeasorchips]

Fed up with clearing up my neighbour's cat's poo. I don't mind the cat itself obviously but is there anything I can do to prevent my garden being the cat loo?

Cats go where they can smell their previous droppings, so sprinkle strong smells in the same area. I’ve used spent ground coffee mixed with ‘Vick’ vapour rub and lemon rind. Works well on soil. Cayenne pepper also works.
If they’re going on bare earth spaces, I put kebab sticks ( very cheap in packs)in the ground so they can’t get past them.

We've had great success with this stuff:
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Silent Roar, sprinkle it in your garden. It contains, I kid you not, powdered lion shit... Tiddles is theoretically intimidated by the implied presence of Leo and goes elsewhere.

We got a motion sensor hose attachment thing that seems to be working. Tried a few of the scented stuff but didn't work. Neither did the high pitched noise deterrent work. We got it from Amazon

Thanks all lots of good ideas on here. Going to start with the cheapest option of lemon/coffee/vicks and see how I go

I sprinkled cayenne pepper around the edges of my garden to stop this and also foxes who had dug a hole between us and our neighbours.
It did work.

yes, but you might not like it.

cat's are territorial and tend not to poo in their own gardens.

they are also fairly polite and tend not to poo in their neighbours' gardens.

Obviously they only recognise and respect ownership by cats.

So a garden that is not owned and occupied by a cat is vacant ground, not deserving of cat respect.

Get your own cat.

Or befriend a neighbor's cat so it feels at home in your garden and will warn off intruders.

Get a cat of your own.

I resorted to cat proofing the garden in the end. We were fending off about half a dozen neighbourhood cats - and we do own our own cat.

Get a cat

And for those of us with allergies to cats what would you suggest then?

I’m might fucked off with cats shitting in my garden

My cat mostly poos in my garden. My poor leeks are the target at the moment because they are small and not covering the bed as well as the courgettes and squash.

You could try filling empty clear plastic bottles (like squash bottles) and laying them in the flowerbeds etc, that's meant to deter them.

Spray Jeyes fluid on your hard surfaces (patio etc). Only thing that works reliably. Instructions on how to dilute on the bottle.

Some people will be along to say that it’s toxic to cats but so are slug pellets,Zofllora and Dettol (along with hundreds of other common household goods), and once it’s dry it’s harmless.

Mixture of Defenders Cat Scatter granules, chilli powder, sonic emitters, and spikes where they were digging. To be honest it's a never ending battle between me and the neighborhood cats. Fucking hate the dirty shires.

Shites, not shires

There are many reasons for adopting a cat, but acquiring one - possibly quite young, or old and rescued, and on its own - in order to defend a garden from encroaching neighbourhood cats it doesn't know, is really not one of them.

I'm not going to be getting a cat of my own, not practical and tbf surely it would just shit in my neighbours gardens anyway.

Your cat sounds very considerate TroysMammy doing it in your own garden

That's interesting about a filled water bottle. I will try it. Thanks for all these suggestions.

Cat proof your fence. Put netting across it and raise the height with trellis, or a strand of strimmer line.

This is like Aesop's fable about the sun and the wind.

Grow catnip. You may get more cats in the garden, but I have found they are much less likely to use their drugs route as a toilet. You will have to cover the plants with an upturned hanging basket, or similar, otherwise they will destroy the plants.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

And for those of us with allergies to cats what would you suggest then?

I’m might fucked off with cats shitting in my garden

I have a cat allergy but am fond of the furry monsters and befriend my neighbour's cats. They patrol my garden every day and do not shit in it.

Get a dog.

cats watch the dog from on top of the fence. When it has yapped enough and is taken inside, they jump down into the garden.

Feed them. Cats don't shit where they eat.

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My cat shits only in my garden because she is terrified of the outside world so I go round with a bag as if I had a dog and clear it up everyday. Its a 5 minute job.