to be pig sick of finding cat poo in my garden?

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I clear 3 - 4 lots out every day in my borders on my garden and have tried dozens of different cat repelant stuff but it doesn't stop them, It's doing my head in, each time I pick it up and dig over the soil I come home from work to see it dug over and pooed in again. Bloody cats!

We had a major problem with this and tom cat spray on our front door (disgusting!!!!!), not good with a toddler eploring the garden. We cat proofed the garden by blocking any gaps in the fencing as we think our garden and path were on the tom cats daily stomp around his territory.
We also bought a sonic cat deterent thingy from B&Q. It sends a very high pitch noise humans can't hear when a cat walks in front of it. As it doesn't work through fences our next door neighbours cat was unaffected. It can take up to a couple of months to work, but it works. It took about a month for us. £30 well spent. Buy one.

Get a fierce antisocial cat of your own. Buy your cat a big litter tray filled with decent clumping litter (minimal smell, easy to cope with.)
You will not get any more cat poo in your garden i promise.
Just fox poo ;-).

Yes Natural, I will take that . Thanks.

Apologies, I have spent the past 24 hours on MN it's put me in a bad mood. :(

blimey, what have you read on MN in the last 24hrs that put you in a bad mood?!
our neighbours cats were weeing all over our front door - it would seep under the door and make a puddle on the inside so i thought it was our cat - it had dried on the outside before i chekced. we put up a porch door so now it wees all over the wheely bins instead.
i have noticed neighbours down the road have empty plastic bottles on their newly raked/planted flower beds so was wondering what that was all about.

I have a neighbour with 5 cats. ALL of them were shitting in our garden and the neighbour refused to do anything about it. I rang the rspca and the man told me to spray them with water and IT TOTALLY WORKS! You only have to spray them a couple of times and they won't even come into your garden anymore and as an added bonus my annoying chav bitch neighbour and her family no longer speak to us! Yay! Op you truly have my sympathy. I hate any kind of animal ordure!

Natural Mainly the rape apologist threads. :( It has put me in a very, very bad mood.

As far as I have been told the plastic bottle thing actually works. :)

Turdass - spraying with water doesnt always work..
I spray my persian cat with water when the weather is hot and she loves all but a high jet of water.
To keep cats away I recommend playing recordings of a noisy dog, shouting aggressively, or give in and get your own cat.

Nullus, I'm sorry you felt patronised upthread - it really wasn't the intention of my post. I am genuinely asking about toxoplasmosis. Is it not something we need to be worried about as parents of young gardeners?

It could be worse. You could be cat sick of finding pig poo in your garden!

Regarding toxoplasmosis (or any other germs in ANY situation): - kids should be told not to touch their eyes, mouth and nose with unwashed hands. Keep nails short and clean, and obviously all their jabs (tetanus especially) up-to-date.
The same applies if DC play in local parks where they will encounter all kinds of animal and even (bleurrgh) human waste.

We eventually got our own cat to stop other cats messing in our garden. We do however have a litter tray and our cat does use that quite a lot. So although we still have cat poo to deal with, it is in a tray and away from DD. Mokie does occasionally poo in the garden but only where I've not planted flowers. It is much better now and it's a rarity I find any poo and it's definitely stopped sinking so much (and no more poo on the lawn!).

ziptoes - aplolgy accepted. but as others have pointed out, they really are at no more risk than from playing in a park or everyday germs. Get them some gloves and make sure they wash their hands.

Did you know there is actually a bacteria that lives in garden soil, that in some people if moved to the eye eats the flesh in your body? Also if it gets into a cut sometimes. You really cant erradicate all risk. Cats are the least of your worries.