Chat Shit on Garden

[thesagarollson]

I have numerous neighbours with cats.

For the last year I have had various cats shitting on my front lawn (I have cctv to confirm ). Previously it was my elderly neighbours cat but they have since moved house .

There is another cat coming to shit and I can see whose neighbour it belongs to.

I have tried various suggestions to deter with nothing working plus my bin is only emptied once every 3 weeks so not ideal in the summer with the smell. Not to mention the expense to buy such devices.

Would you say something to this neighbour or just accept its nature. My lawn is ruined and stinks.

BTW before you come for me I actually genuinely love cats but it’s like I own one with the responsibility of dealing with it’s toilet.

We had the same problem but didn’t know who the owners were.
We bought those ultra? Sonic cat scaring devices from Amazon. Battery powered, spiked into the lawn. Took a few weeks for them to be effective, I think the cats eventually move somewhere easier to poo.

Do you have any big twigs you can cover the grass with, we use them in the ‘rockery’ where we have patches of soil.

Sure, I guess the owners can:

• have a strong word with their cat and let them know it's unacceptable. Guaranteed to work.
• they could follow their cat around everywhere to retrieve their poo.

I see why it's annoying, but I think you'll have more success in making your garden less desirable to them.

This is so strange. I've had cats all my life, and have never known either them or other people's cats to poo on the grass. They usually do it in flower beds and make some attempt at scraping soil over it to cover it up afterwards.

I’d give the poop back to the owner! I’d not want it in my bin.
I'm interested to hear how to make a garden less desirable for cats.

This. The neighbourhood cats seem to poo in my borders and veg patch.
How unusual.

Because they have cover/screening of plants and shrubs?

Our front garden is on a slight slope away from the house. Grass first then plants and shrubs in a small rockery? ( a circle of large stones ). The cats have cover provided by the rockery and are a little further from the pavement.

Never known a cat to be such an out and proud middle-of-the-lawn shitter.

Foxes on the other hand...

We regularly find cat shit on our lawn, despite the fact that there are more hidden areas in our garden they could use that we wouldn’t even notice or care about. It definitely happens. I love cats btw. The only reason we don’t have one is because DP is highly allergic and DS1 and I are moderately allergic. So not cat hating😁

One of the neighbourhood cats shits on our lawn, but it started during the rainless period of last summer, so the surface was dry, and therefore acceptable to its butt needs.

The subsequent scraping that neighbour-cat did post-process pulled up the grass, and then it colonised that general patch. I do chase it away every single time I see him, but I'm obviously not home all the time.

I did shoo away another one last week from another bit of the lawn that's turned to moss - he had assumed the position, and when I went outside gave me a look of absolute, "I can't believe you're doing this, I'm right at the brink here", but it did scamper off in time.