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.

PregolaLola of course you think it's pathetic to consider the cruelty of keeping animals as pets. You are only keeping them for their benefit after all.

catwhiskers10 Since somone brought up elephants suppose I get one and it shits on your front path. Is that okay? my right to own... blah blah. How about not just one cat, but if I had 3,000 cats which covered your front path knee deep in shit??. At what point does "well I want to do it and I don't care what that does to my neighbours" become abusive in your opinion?

PregolaLola point taken and agree :o

Some on in our area has been poisoning and deliberately harming cats. The Police reckon they are getting closer to finding out who it is now. He/she could be facing jail time for cruelty and at the very least will get a hefty fine. Just something for you all to think about.

There are plenty of cruelty free ways to keep cats out of your garden. Sonic repellents, water guns, regular strength pepper, lion poo, terriers......

I agree ddubsgirl.

How lovely of you to not give them asprin because it's toxic... Oh wait you didn't, you didn't give them it because it was more practical to you.

There is no 'right' to own a cat anymore than there is a 'right' to own a washing machine, a gerbil, or as sense of entitlement.

There ARE consequences, and some of the negative consequences fall on people other than the person who decides to keep a cat.

Keeping a cat means you believe that the pleasure you get from it outweighs the pain it inflicts on others.

Onagar if you had an elephant that shit in my garden, I would shovel it up and politely ask you not to let it happen again. An elephant I believe, would be a lot easier to keep tabs on than a cat.
If you had 3000 cats that left my garden knee deep in shit I would do what I have done already and buy a cat deterrent.

actually onagar i keep them because myself my partner and my son all enjoy having pets, my pets get the benefit of living here being fed and loved (which i defy you to say they dont enjoy)

feel free to get said elephant and shit on my path, i'd take a shovel and bin liner to it
but lets be slightly realistic here ay ?

As a cat owner/ or a person who is owned by cats bot abused little bods who moved in one day and never left. . I advise an always filled supersoaker by back door, good fun and in this dry weather good for the plants to and gets around any hose pipe ban, and for the veg patch-flower beds orange &/or lemon peel, they hate citrus smells.

The chilli pepper etc would worry me because of birds etc?

But would most of the posters on here not have a sense of entitlement in believing it's okay to harm animals because they want a pretty garden?

Is that not actually worse? I mean the animals don't know they are causing trouble but the people wanting to put down stuff that will poison them, know exactly what they are doing and what harm they could cause.

I'm not sure that any deterrent is going to be effective against 3000 cats.

Either way the point is that you are incuring a cost, whether that is shit in the garden or the time, effort and expense of deterrents as a result of someone elses action.

Toxoplasmosis Read the bits on the NHS site about miscarriages and stillbirth and stand up and say proudly "but that's not as important as my right to own a cat"

I believe keeping my cats indoors when they have spent most of their lives free to roam would be more abusive than my neighbours picking the odd cat poo out of their garden.

Strawberry you are being ridiculous...and vastly exaggerating when you say MOST posters think it's ok to harm animals...

I don't believe the deterants mentioned are at all harmful...but merely deterants (i.e put the cats off as they don't like the smell or whatever).

onagar So everyone now has to get rid of their cats incase someone gets Toxoplasmosis? (which most people have already had at some point in their life and become immune).

This is awful. Would people really deliberately put something down in their garden which would knowlingly harm an animal?

There are plenty of humane ways to keep cats from shitting in gardens.

I like the idea of the lion poo....saw it at a garden centre once

So you can keep cat poo out of your garden by having lion poo instead.... Grrrreat.

I can be a lovely human being, I just don't like cats and I fail to understand why anyone wants a house full of hair, scratched furniture and dead birds. Or a garden full of poo (cat or dog).

I'm not talking about store bought safe deterants, sausages. I am talking about the stronger cayenne and chilli pepper soloution, which can seriously harm cats.

Or even worse! Asprin!

And maybe I was wrong in saying most posters, but there are far too many on this thread that thing that is okay to do.

Peetle...it's NOT big freshly done lion poo............

I don't think any poster on here has said it's ok to harm cat's or any animals. Well not that I've read anyway. I also don't think anyone here is blaming the animals, the conversation seems to be around what people think is right and wrong around cat's pooing in gardens other than their owners.

I agree with the Toxoplasmosis comments, very dangerous but that still didn't seem to deter my neighbour on the cat pooing issue whilst I was pregnant. My husband then had the joy of cleaning up after it, when I say cleaning, what he did was throw it back in her garden :o

Peetle So just because you don't like them, you think it's okay to poison them?

Well after what you have said on here, I really don't like you. Does that give me the right to slip poison in your tea? Does that suddenly make harming you okay?

silent roar cat repellent is an organic affective way to keeps cats of your garden. Silent roar is made from pellets soaked in real essence of lions dung. ...

Bird droppings can carry disease, dog faeces can carry disease, rats and mice can carry diseases (and there would be a lot more of them if cats weren't allowed outdoors).
Cats can't be solely given the blame for disease spread through faeces.
I get a lot more bird shit on my windows and car that I have to clean up than cat shit in my garden.

It is believed that around 50% of the population carry Toxoplasmosis, yet around 50% of the population are not blind. It's extremely rare for it present symptoms in people. Only around 2% of cats are thought to be shedding the 'Oocysts' (the infectious thingies) At any one time. Mainly thought to be ferel cats who rely on rats/wild life for food. Pet cats would mark their territory guarding against ferels.

Toxoplasmosis can also be found in undercooked meat, so you best keep away from the BBQ, wouldn't want to go blind would we?

Whether or not anyone has a 'right' to keep a cat is irrelevent. It is legal to keep cats, cats are legally allowed to roam, there is no legal requirement to say that a cat owner has to clean up after their cat, it is not legal to cause deliberate harm or suffering to your neighbours pets.

To elaborate....

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