Any tips to stop cats shitting on my lawn??

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AIBU to ask if you clever people have any tips that work? I've never had a garden before so never had this problem. I'm not in any way a cat hater, and although I wish they would just poop in their owner's gardens, I accept that this is never going to happen! Hence asking for any suggestions.
Anyway - I was just doing some gardening and put my hand on a bit and I am so grossed out. The smell has gone up my nose and may never come out.
Thanks in advance :-)

Cats don't tend to shit on lawns - they like a texture they can shovel like soil or sand. Unless you've witnessed the cat in action, lawn poo is much more likely to be fox or badger. While cat poo isn't exactly fragrant it dries out very quickly and the smell goes. Fox poo on the other hand is the stinkiest substance known to man.

There also isn't a fox deterrent.

One of my proudest moments was seeing my cat sitting on the electronic cat deterrent my bitch next-door neighbour had bought (we didn't get on for non-cat related reasons). So they aren't 100% effective either

I'm is afraid it probably is cats. Our cat likes to go on the lawn and scrape a bit of grass over. Our open plan front lawn had to be replaced as it became the local cat toilet, at one point there were over 30 'gifts' left. Replaced the whole lot with cotswold stones with a rougher appearance. Occasionally a cat goes on the stones but it can be scooped up more easily. At the moment no other cats come on the back lawn because our cat guards it, but when he goes (he's terminally ill) I don't know what we will do. There's no easy answer really.

Just get a lion problem solved...

Cats do not usually Bury shit... Some do but not all of them do.. even if the earth is soft. It's the kind of stuff cat lovers tell themselves to console themselves what their animals are up to.

Apparently getting a dude to piss in the garden helps or maybe in a bottle and sprinkle about?

Our new neighbours got two kittens recently, they do not bury their poo all the time. I have some of those noise machines and found a big poo in front of it so it didn't work in my garden! I find throwing a stone at my wooden fence so it makes a loud noise tends to scare them off but i've not found anything that keeps them away forever.

Get a dog, its a bit of a long-term solution and you end up with dog shit on your lawn but my those cats really can't move fast enough across our garden.

Definitely get a cat
They don't shit in their own gardens, as you can testify
They also won't tolerate another cat shitting in there
I have a bastard half Maine coon you can have if you want

Thanks everyone - here's hoping my potty training DS who has wee'd all over the garden today will do the trick.

Yes I also laugh at the "my cat only buys his shit" comments when I sit in my living room watching them curl one out on my lawn.

We have a borderless garden, and when our neighbors moved in with their two cats a cat loving friend of ours said "oh it will be better for you, they will set it up as their territory, so other cats won't shit on your lawn"

Actually what happens is they spray and shit everywhere to mark it as their territory, then the big fat ginger Tom who has lived over the road for years comes back and reclaims it with even more shit and piss. Then they have a big cat fight on my patio, under my bedroom window in the middle of the night.

So I've stepped up my preventative measures a lot more.

Oh and keep the grass as short as you can....it's hideous running the mower over a turd buried in long grass.

Burys, not buys! I have some for sale if they want tho.

A dog

Shoot them

Cat poo tends to smell of cat food. Fox poo smells like dog poo but much, much worse. I'm inclined to think it might be fox poo because every cat I have ever known has buried their poo, and not used the middle of the lawn.

I obviously have a very strange cat - he goes in his own garden (I've seen him) and all the other local cats come in as well!

It's most likely a cat trying to claim its territory - hardly any of the lazy critters around here bother to bury their poo.

We had some success with three intersecting sonic devices set to different frequencies, plus some scented repellent and pepper to break the cycle of the cats trying to claim the area.

Also scaring the wotsits out of them if you spot them and using a supersoldier are great for driving the point home.

Or a supersoaker... thanks autospellcheck! Though admittedly if anyone knows of a handy supersoldier that would probably be even more effective! :-D

I can't use a super soaker because my neighbour comes to the edge of her lawn to supervise her cats shitting on my lawn and gives my DS evils when he chases them away.

Getting a cat doesn't work, with have 3 and others still come in.

The best thing is to ensure the lawn is regularly cut, they shit in long grass.

Also I do advocate getting a water gun to hose any car coming in, it's what I tell my neighbours to do.

We put cayan pepper on the grass and it stopped overnight

We put chicken wire all around the base of the hedges and fence (just the wire type, you can barely see it), we've only had 1 cat in since, before we did that we were getting about 4 or 5 cats shitting in the garden daily

This is excellent

www.amazon.co.uk/STV-STV610-Mega-Sonic-Cat-Repeller/dp/B000NR8Q1U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1403299966&sr=8-2&keywords=cat+repellent

Contech scarecrow motion action water sprayer, no foxes or cat in our garden now, it's magic!!!! Sorry can't link!

The cats that crapped in my garden don't bury it. Feckers. It stank for miles and I couldn't let my kids dig in our own garden. We don't have foxes or badgers, it's just the cats. :( I put loads of that stinky powder all over the garden, they seem to have found some other poor sod's garden to crap in now.

You're joking, Wally? . I'd be giving her a fecking blast, never mind the moggie.

Get a dog.