to object to neighbour's cat...

[clam]

..shitting on my lawn?
I've just been and counted 15 separate piles of it!! Have only really noticed it since the snow when, I guess, it couldn't find the flower beds to dig a hole. But it's

The thing is, I haven't identified which cat it is, therefore which neighbour to speak to. And what do I say? What can they do about it anyway? well, offer to come and remove it, for a start. I really do not want to have to do it myself as, to be blunt, it's all wet and sloppy after the rain.

Grr..

They can't really do much I'm afraid. I have no clue where my cat shits, he rarely uses his tray unless he is ill.

I hear that lion poo or is it wee? can be bought on ebay and is an effective deterent.

My neighbours both sides are lovely, but I don't want to make a fuss. But on the other hand I'm furious about it.
Would I be unreasonable to suggest they remove it?

Nothing you can do about it, I'm afraid..even if you did know which cat it was and who it belonged to. Cats are 'free to roam' so can indeed shit where they like.

Luckily mine is a bit odd and only stays in our garden, so I get to clear it up.

There is nothing you can do about it and asking your neighbour to do anything would be silly. They cannot lock a cat up!

Cat shit is a nasty fact of life when yo have neighbours.

This is something that really winds me up too tbh-its disgusting and my personal opinion is that you wouldnt let a dog go shit in someones garden so why let your cat do it. Shit is shit at the end of the day so why is it ok to let a cat out to do its business wherever it wants but you get fined if you let a dog do it. There are probably ppl who disagree with me but for me its something that really gets on my nerves!!!

If it is on the lawn it is probably foxes, especially if come spring it continues and you get bleached grass from the wee. Cats tend to do it in the flowerbeds or in corners, even in the snowy weather, foxes are more "TA DAH this is MY poo". Yuk either way though.

You can get ethical sonic deterrents that work for both cats and foxes.

Do you have a wheelie bin?

Maybe if you knocked on their door and said that you understand thats what cats do but you really can't bear to pick it up yourself they might.

3Of1 what do you propose cat owners do? Start wlaking our cats on leashes or keep them penned up when they are predominantly out door animals?

If you'd like to come and put a harness on Fat Cat you are more than weclome. I value my eyes too much to try myself.

lucky1979!

Very true that it's more likely to be foxes. Cats do tend to try and bury poo, so leaving it on the lawn isn't often an option.

The difference between cats & dogs is that you can control where a dog does it's business. You usually take it out for walks or clear it up from your garden. Dogs are not legally 'free to roam' like cats are.

A cat can often travel miles during the day wandering about. A dog doesn't, simply because they don't have the ability to scale trees and walls in the same way.

Cats do shit on lawns. My mum was plagued by it for years. It was obviously cats as the neighbour had loads, and we saw them do it more than once.
Lion poo was the only thing that stopped them. The product is called "Silent Roar".

Super soaker.

If it's on the lawn it is not cats doing it, it is foxes, as smethwickbelle said.
Cats don't leave it uncovered, so they do it in flowerbeds, gravel, woodchiops etc, anything they can use to bury it.

Whereas foxes leave it in the middle of the lawn, uncovered - its a scentmarking , territorial thing with foxes.

Cats use urine spray to scent mark, against walls and fences etc.

So, no, don't go knocking on your neighbours doors, as it's not their cats!!

I've had cats for years and years and years - they've never shat on a lawn. THey'll use a border/earth and make some vague attempt to bury it. I'm in the "you have a fox problem" camp. Fox poo is almost black - cat's poo a bit lighter.

Get one of the tried and tested products such as Lion Poo and stop being 'furious' about such a silly thing.

Of course you can't ask your neighbours to remove it - you don't know if it was a cat or which cat it was. Don't be daft.

I accept you can't stop a cat pooing, but they could offer to come and clear it up, if we established it was their cat.
Well, I'm off to buy some spray deterrent, at least.
If that doesn't work, a pair of hob-nailed boots to turf the bastard animal over the fence, once I see it in action.

Not sure it's a fox - seems too small..

But when there was lots of snow the cats wouldn't have been able to dig. All my neighbours who have cats have commented on the amount of cat poo on their lawns after the snow has melted.

We have loads of cats round here and i actually saw one of them just randomly shitting in the snow and using the snow to cover it-maybe thats why you havent noticed it until the snow had melted and maybe thats what explains the cats dont shit on lawns theory??

"stop being 'furious' about such a silly thing."

Silly thing? Might seem silly to you, but it's not your kids, or you, for that matter who keep treading in it! 15 piles of it all over the front lawn! Vile!

A fair few mounds are new. Snow disappeared round here weeks ago.

Yup, it could have been the snow of course.

Foxes don't always create huge piles of poo, so it's still possible?

Sorry clam, x posted :)

Yes, I'd forgotten how thick cats can be. THey probably did shit on the lawn during the snow, and buried it as if the snow was mud. But in the absence of snow and the cats now being able to see the mud, it shouldn't happen again.

THe super-soaker idea is a good one, or just a squeezy bottle of water. Cats hate it, it doesn't do them any harm and they may learn to stay out of your garden - it's worked well with my cats/neighbour's garden. She soaked the hell out of them for a few weeks and they haven't returned there in years, according to her.

Yeah agree with the water idea- ive drenched a few of the cats round here and i think they are slowly getting the message that i dont want them in my garden..