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..

Some ideas...

Sonic thing in your garden
Is there an obvious path they always take? You can interrupt their route by leaving out lemons, might make them frequent that area less.
Super-soaker - too much fun

And before any cat lovers bash me, I actually have a cat, but she is ancient and refuses to go out, so we have the joys of litter....and frankly I wish she would go into the garden, but I do sympathise, it's not nice.

Now, how can I deal with the foxes though - they are seriously stinky!

YANBU, I hate cats unless they are house cats in other people's houses. Agree with the wheelie bin, super soaker or any other way of getting rid. Sodding cats, I actually moved house due to my neighbour and his fecking 12 3 cats.

How it is ever acceptable to acquire an animal (which becomes your property) and allow it to shit in other people's gardens. If you can't or won't train it to shit in a tray in YOUR HOUSE then don't get the sodding thing in the first place.

And breathe

Hate cats hate cats hate cats hate cats hate cats! Especially ginger ones, they look so sly!

But your cat loving neighbours will think you are bonkers because they are of the 'cat club' where cats cannot do no wrong and their shit smells of lavender and does 'no harm'. Yeah, tell my 5 year old that when he falls in it. Or my pregnant friend who is minding her own business in her own non-cat world who ends up miscarrying because of a fecking irresponsible cat owner.

My solution is to buy a big, cat hating dog. And yes I pick up his shit.

AIBU to have a little giggle at readywithwellies name , on this thread?

clam - i am sure friend's DH pees only in his own garden

Totally 100% agree with readywithwellies-glad there is at least one person who thinks the same as me :)

I understand you cannot take your cat for a walk as you would with a dog but its seriously irresponsible to have a cat and not know where its shitting and who its annoying. I know they are free to wander etc but that doesnt make it right. You should keep them in if you cant control them its not fair on others to have their property shit on and have to clean up after someone elses animal.

I haven't read any of the posts but in reply to your title, YANBU. All cats should be shot moved away from people who hate them.

I don't actually mind cats - me and my friend had one when we shared a flat but it didn't go outside (it would have been splooshed on the nearby main road in an instant) - it used a litter tray.

It still got plenty of exercise because we took it to work every day.

Even if my DP wasn't allergic I wouldn't have one now, simply because of the shit in my own and other people's garden/s.

ashamed - No YANBU!! agree with Yorkshire!!

Calamity - see, I could cope with your cat. That would be fine. It isn't cats it is cat owners. Bit like dogs I suppose, had a fair few threads recently about dogs too. But dogs are nice. Cats are yuck. So there!

Our overemotionals next door have nine. Before buy the sonic cat-o-cuter I squirted them and threw the shit back over. I do like cats up to a point, but nine is insane.

You need to put a fair glug of citrus oil into a souper soaker, they'll fecking hate you for it and won't come back, it's like a double insult

I like cats, but I don't have my own and boy do I hate other people's little feckers. They DO shit on lawns and leave poo uncovered in flower beds - I've seen them do it many times in our old house.

I have over the years tried everything (lion poo, CDs, bottles of water, spraying the offenders with water, putting down chilli powder, loads of little sticks, and even an electric fence around our veg patch at one point! All useless. We've moved and only seem to have the problem in our front garden here; it stinks as you come in the gate I know which cat does it, but don't know who it belongs to. Last time I saw it I got the dog to chase it (knew she'd not catch it, but she roars and looks bloody fearsome, and so I hoped to scare the crap coming out of it in our garden forever more). That was about 2 months ago and I've not seen it since so hoping the dog-monster-terror has been effective.

get a big dog for your garden

I love cats, and I do understand that their owners can't really stop them coming into my garden to poo. Unfortunately for them, they face a real danger of being attacked by my dog if they come into my garden. We have a fishpond and cats come to fantasise about goldfish slaughter. So far they have managed to escape our dog by a whisker. But I worry that he might catch up with one, and that I might be held to blame, even though my dog is secure within his own territory.

I think only deeply, deeply stupid people fail to appreciate the beauty that is a cat. Sadly there seem to be quite a few of you on this thread.

Op - KICKING a cat in to the air as you suggest in one of your posts would be animal cruelty. I sincerely hope you will be prosecuted if you ever try such a thing. The cat has used the snow on the lawn then when the snow has melted because you haven't shifted the poo she has thought that it's ol to go on using that area. Clear it up and use pellets to discourage her but you'll never stop it altogether.

As for the numpty who advocated training a cat....met many have you?

Ponds are the bane of my life.

I am severly frog-phobic and I get the little beasts in my garden from time to time. One day I was held to ransom by one on my front step and one on my back step. I couldn't leave the house shudder

The little girl next door keeps tadpoles in a bucket too. She took great delight in throwing them over my fence, the cow-bag.

Bottom line is, if you have neighbours then this is one of the downsides. Northernlurker, I agree with you..and I am not a 'cat person' or a 'dog person' (I own both). I take my dog for walks and pick up her poo. Can't quite see doing that with a cat, and I am actually in the cats corner here when I say that keeping a cat indoors with a litter tray goes against the grain.

It's totally unnatural.

One sure fire way of keeping cat poo off your lawn is to get you own cat. (S)He will cover his own poos as you are the boss and also scare away other people's cats - sorted

Deciduousblonde - you would hate my house, then. We have a lot of frogs and they come in via the cellar. One even came all the way upstairs to our bedroom....

You lot make me laugh - have we really helped this poster? We are telling her to check the poo (that was me) or spread other animal's poo around the garden. Oh dear.

Northernlurker is right though - it is not funny to talk about animal cruelty. We had an cat - a lovely old house cat who went out very rarely - who disappeared two years ago. I was very very ill at the time and my animals were exceptionally needed by me. I would hate to think that he met someone cruel.

We don't want foxes because we have chickens - but I would never hurt them. There are products on the market that DO work - you just have to make your garden unappealing and break the cycle...

Best suggestion so far is for someone's strapping DH to come along in the dead of night, whip out his manhood, and terrify the local cats into submission.

We tried the male wee option and had a jug in our outside loo for the purpose. One day we were eating dinner with family and saw my niece running around the garden with the jug.

'Not that!' my OH called out - and we then had to explain....

Not sure it's a fox - seems too small

IME fox poo IS quite small.

My dog loves eating cat shit .

Can you put a fox in wheelie bin or would the RSPCA send you to prison forever?

Gogopops, send your dog round. Just found some more...