cat poo in garden

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got it sussed. sprinkle a jar of schwartz ceyenne and chilli pepper over lawn or garden, it works. been poo free for a couple of months now.

I think pet owning is cruel. Cats cannot be trained because however much you like to think they are domesticated, they will always be wild. Unless you have enough land ie a farm I do not think anyone should be allowed to "own" animals be that rabbits, cats, dogs or birds.

I think it's cruel to keep birds in cages....that's awful!

Whilst we are on the subject of deterants...
I can heartily recommend spidergone. It's a spray that deters and kills spiders in your home...and keeps it spider free for months.

Last autumn there seemed to be a glut of them in our house...on the stairs, in the hall way, under the bathroom door, under the loo door...in the kitchen sink....urghhh makes me shudder.

But....ordered the spray off ebay and haven't seen one since. Blooming marvellous.

So good that hubs has just ordered another can.

flippingebay think you need to chill out, my post was lighthearted dont appreciate your jumped up tone much

for what its worth my wonderful cat is an indoor cat as he cant go out, my dogs excraments are all picked up, and my partner or son have (so far) not crapped anywhere other than a toilet or a nappy

I have cats, and they are kept indoors because we live next to a motorway and we're in a flat. Before we moved back here my cats didn't leave my cats only went into my garden and still came inside to use their litter tray.
But other cats would come in and shit in my garden and I just cleaned it up and got on with it as I realise they are only doing what is natural to them, they are not deliberately setting out to annoy other people.

And if lots less people didn't keep cats, there would be a lot less homes for them which would probably mean more of them shitting in peoples gardens.

I just think it's bloody horrible that people believe it's okay to cause potential harm to an animal for doing something they don't know is wrong.

Sorry, my cats didn't leave my garden not cats. Lol.

If there were less homes for cats, surely there would just be fewer cats so less cat shit?

The food supply available to the feral cat population isn't likely to increase if people stopped keeping domestic cats.

I doubt there would be fewer cats as the ones that would be left to roam free wouldn't have anyone to neuter them to stop them getting pregnant.

It just becomes a pest control issue then.

Interesting thought though - is there a relationship between the wild and domestic cat populations? There could be somethign to do with territory sizes at work I suppose, but the main limiting factor on wild populations in general is food and habitat availability.

I think my cats right to fresh air and excersise is more important than peoples dislike of picking cat shit out of their garden. When I get it in my garden from neighbourhood cats I pick it up, have a moan and eventually bought a deterrent. I don't expect people not to let their pets outside.
If there were less homes for cats, there would be more feral cats, more cat shit and less birds as the cats would have no owners to feed them.
Unless you are suggesting we have a mass cull of cats, foxes and other wildlife that dares to shit in peoples perfectly manicured garden.
In the words of another poster on another thread "they shit, we shit, get over it"

end of the day there is no law about cats shit so u just to put up with it unless the law changes,theres things out there to help in stopping cats coming into your garden.

I have so many stray cats in the garden due to the one cat who kept on getting pregnant, there was a lovely neighbour who got them all neutered which is not cheap here about 70 euro a go!!(in Ireland)
Anyway they kept on coming up to the flower beds by the back door and pooing and the smell was awful and what with all the flies, so what i have done this year is the soil that is open just put small branches and twigs in between the flower beds so they can not dig, and try to cover with bigger shrubs, also my dd is potty training at the mo so i through her wee out there as well, and that seems to deter them, been poo free for a few weeks now

throw her wee!!!

What about birds. I have bird shit in my garden. Shall I take a shotgun to them????

PregolaLola My tone is simply stating how I feel. I'm not directing my comments at you or your cat (unless of course you live in my area and it's your cat that's crapping in my garden) I have no problem with cats, they are doing what cat's do. Animals don't understand boundires etc.

What does annoy me, is cat owners who feel it's ok to let their cats do their business in other people's garden, because 'i can't train my cat, or I can't control my cat whilst it's out, or I won't keep my cat indoors etc etc. IMO, by saying those kinds of comments is the same as saying, 'I'm going to let someone else clean up after my cat' or 'i'm happy for my neighbour to put their hand in my cat crap whilst gardening' etc etc.

Cat owners have a responsibility the same as any pet owner. It might not be illegal for cats to poo in other people's garden, but it doesn't make it right.

Catwhiskers - We don't shit in each others gardens.

If you have a cat and allow it to shit in other peoples gardens this is exactly the same as picking the shit out of your litter tray and chucking it in their garden.

Either action (owning a cat/deliberatly putting shit in a neighbours garden) has the same outcome (shit in the neighbours garden).

The issues of what else might shit in your neighbours garden are entirely irrelevant to YOUR culpability for the cat that YOU feed and house.

flip unless you know what cat has pooed how can the owner clean up after it?my kitten roams about,have told my neighbour(who has a cat too)that if she sees mine doing his crap then let me know and i will come and clean it up but as theres so many cats around here how can wil tell whos is whos poo?

But it is illegal to harm a cat but lots of people on here seem to think that's right... Some funny logic going on here.

ddubsgirl - if you can't be sure where your cat will shit, your moral options are a) keep it on your property or b) don't have a cat.

i would be little bugger slips out of any window or door thats open so am i spose to sit with all windows & doors shut?

PregolaLola or maybe you could keep it indoors or stop it crapping in other people's garden, if that's not possible then maybe you shouldn't have cats?

lets be honest if it wasnt directed at me you have some serious issues with wording.

and thats fine and a perfectly rational thing to feel, same as i feel that cat deterants are fine but, whinging on MN about some turd and how people hate cats wont make it better, i honestly dont give a cat shit if people dont want to pay out for deterants

ddubsgirl, not knowing where your cat poos probably means some other poor sod is doing it for you.

ddubsgirl - If option a is not an options see option b.

So me owning a cat and allowing it the freedom of outdoors is exactly the same as me picking shit out of it's litter box and throwing it deliberately into my neighbours garden?
I dont like the idea of my cats shitting in someones garden but I'm not going to stop them going out because of it.
They have a litter box available which they will not use.
My neighbours have the choice to prevent them in whatever manner they choose as did I with the strange cats which used my garden, as does anyone who has this problem.
If everyone kept their cats indoors, there would be a hell of a lot more rats and mice around.

yes and me cleaning up after others cats so your point is?????its shit,it cleans up,if you dont like it then pay to get something to stop them coming into your garden,not rocket science is it!

so not having a cat cos it shits should overrule that joy and love it brings me & my kids,errr yeah ok.