To be furious that some cat has sprayed our pushchair.

[WillYouDoTheDamnFanjo]

Left the pushchair folded on porch last night as weather has been good & our house is cluttered busy.

Just unfolded it to find that has been sprayed by some cat.

I have to take the whole thing apart and wash it in something antibacterial. It might not survive this.

I am sick to death of cats pooing in our garden & having to watch my kids every second in case they roll in it (or in toddler's case, give it the mouth test ), but this has tipped me over the edge, I am FUMING.

Honestly I might just start letting my son wander through the neighbours' front gardens with his nappy off, pissing and shitting at will.

I don't understand the appeal of cats at all, really I don't. If you are a cat owner and you don't know where your cat's effluent goes, then you need to have a fucking word with yourself because it's quite likely that someone, somewhere is having to deal with it for you.

Can anyone tell me how to dismantle and wash a Quinny Zapp and how to humanely keep cats away from my open-plan garden?

And help me to calm down

olivetti... suffering from inferiority complex much?

bemybebe - hee hee! probably!

My god, listen to yourselves! I am not deliberately trying to "Drop in as many things as possible that are posh".

I apologise for mentioning the cat had wrecked the room by trying to climb the chimney. Perhaps i should just pretend that i live in a cramped one bedroom flat? I'm sure you'd be happier then - Don't go curly, as for your "room for a pony boast" reference.... hardly dearie. I live in a 5 bedroom detached farmhouse with 400 acres (room for a few hundred ponies), My DH, DD and i all have horses (gasp) and yes, our house has an inglenook fireplace, that a cat recently crapped in. I don't shut the doors out into the garden because my DD likes to wander in and out , especially in the nice weather. The pony is like a dog, it's always in the kitchen but has never pooed in there before the other day.
I'm damned if i'm going to pretend i don't live where i do, for fear of inciting bitchy comments from the likes of a few chippy idiots like you. I was warned about people like you, so i don't know why i'm surprised.
Get a life.
To those of you who are pleasant and non bitchy, i apologise for this post. I just don't like bullying full stop. Perhaps they should read the note at the top of the page requesting that mumsnet users are "Civil".

If you've access to an outside tap there's a gadget that can be fitted to a hose and automatically sprays anything it detects with a heat signature. Quite expensive but is working so far for us at least within range of the hose. :)

Either that or convince all cat owners in the area to provide a sheltered, private and dry ish area with loose soil/sand for their cats to use in their own garden. ;)

that's quite clever. I'll have to look out for one of those. My husband was outraged this afternoon to discover ASBO cat crapping in DD's sand pit. So gross!

CotswoldCountryMummy You shouldn't have mentioned the sandpit, you'll get taunts for showing off again I am sorry to see that you were roasted after I left this thread. I didn't find your post boastful at all, even though I am always envious of a utility room (what else could you call it?), even one with cat poo in it.

I suppose it goes to show that, however privileged a person's life might be, there are two things that can bring us all up short - being flamed on Mumsnet, and being used as a cat latrine.

orange oil, cats don't like the smell

Thanks WillyouDoTheDamnFanjo - although a cat shit infested sand pit is not really something to aspire to..... !
As for the "Utility Room" ...what on earth ARE you supposed to call it?
MAybe certain people would find it less antagonistic if i called it

"The washing machine/ tumble drier/ wellie boots/ muddy hunting coats/ saddles/ bridles/ belfast sink/ place where we hang dead pheasants that my husband has shot that we are waiting to pluck"

Bit of a mouthful though hey?!

:-)

We have something the estate agent called a "utility room". I call it "the room with the washing machine etc in it". It may be more of a mouthful, but the use of the term "utility room" just cries out nouveau riche. Belonging to the nouveau poor, I couldn't bear to use it....

dear lord!!!

We expect dog owners to keep their dogs under control and not to let them mess anywhere, cat owners should have the same responsibility. All too often they simply say well that's what cats do, well so would dogs if you let them.

Er this is a real zombie 🧟‍♂️ thread...from 2011

What is with all the posts about cat piss being resurrected??!!