to be disgusted by the neighbours shitting in our flowerbeds?

[KvetaBarry]

and all over the lawn - it's repulsive! every morning, I have to go on turd patrol before DS is released into the garden. And apparently there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

Cats hate walking on silver foil!

MY grandmother used to save plastic bottles and fill them with water and leave them on the lawn overnight.

I have no idea if that works.

The sonic cat scarer worked here, then we got our own cat, and he does shit in our garden

P.S cats do shit in their own gardens. My MIL told me to feed one of our repeat offenders and the fucker shat right in front of us after having a few morsels of chicken. The following week at a bbq at her house we watched two of her three cats shitting all over their garden.

that sounds like a delightful barbeque Malkie :o

no sympathy for cat owners. I have a dog and I don't let him wander over neighbours gardens, doing his business anywhere he wants. In fact I pick up his poo! AND cat poo is very dangerous for women who are pg, toxoplasmosis!

If they loved their cats, then they would care about where they were. Again - no sympathy for cat owners whose cats get run over by cars. I keep my dog in the garden because I don't want him getting run over, and I won't let my children run anywhere they want.

zukiecat if anyone kicked my cat i'd kick the shit out of them,
if he didnt take there foot of first

[holds ninja cat close]

I don't think I've been advocating cruelty to cats - merely looking for harmless solutions to their faecal contamination of my garden :)

Kveta, I feel your pain, but it 's an argument you won't win on here. The MN world is firmly divided into cat loversVcat haters. I am in the former camp, but live next door to nine shite machines.

The only possible solution is to get a large taxidermied tiger to sit on a big revolving plate in the middle of your garden to scare the little buggers off - I've never known it to fail.

I know zukie I do worry about some people on here

"AND cat poo is very dangerous for women who are pg, Toxoplasmosis!!"

Unless when you are pregnant you like to roll around on fields and lawns in shit im sure you will be fine. Really, calm down.

lol I was gonna say if it was people some strategically placed stinging nettles may be good

DS would LOVE that Dappy :o

I'm realsiing that Kreecher - I'm firmly in the ambivalent about cats camp - but can see from later comments that this is irrelevant!

Nullius - do you know much about the transmission methods for toxo infection? "A primary risk factor for human toxoplasmosis is contact with infective oocysts (Figure 1), which are found in cat feces (>1 day after shed), contaminated soil, and water. Thus, gardening and playing in sandboxes increases the risk for humans of exposure to sporulated oocysts." from PMID:20202907 ("Toxoplasma gondii: epidemiology, feline clinical aspects, and prevention." April 2010, Trends in Parasitology).

So cats shitting in gardens is an increased risk factor. I am not in any way suggesting cats should be harmed to stop them shitting in gardens, but in all honestly, I have lowered the risk of infection to myself and my family by not owning a cat, so why should I happily let other people's cats increase my risk?

Ha ha I love this about MN, the way that people try and make out you must just not know or understand if you disagree with them.

I do know about transmission, you're right though, I mean really, how have we survived as a race?

With one in three owning a cat and some owning more than one, and all these cats shitting everywhere, im amazed anybody makes it to full term!!