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 :-)

Agree, Ali, get a dog, or borrow a dog. Cats don't always bury their shit, that's a myth, I flat shared a ground floor flat with a cat lover and her five cats puke emoticon. We couldn't use the garden for the pong.

Foxes, they do shit in your garden, but it usually small and easy to clear up. Cats shit softer, fluidey, shitty poo. It stinks.

Let the dog in, pee on the plants, repeat next week, problem will soon go away

Cat poo/wee is the worst smelling thing in the world. Bar none.

I've two dogs and our neighbours cats toilet in our garden. It would obviously be incredibly petty to raise it as an issue (so never would) because the dogs also toilet in the garden. I can tell when it's cat doings though

As others have said, it is an unusual cat that will poop on the lawn.

I doubt it is a cat unless your grass is longish. They generally don't crap in wide open spaces but long grass can be scratched over their little gift so keep your grass short. Mine have never used the lawn, just their litter trays or the bit of garden that is kept dug over for them. I wish they would use my neighbours stinking barbeque that ruins every weekend in the summer.

One of my proudest moments was seeing my cat sitting on the electronic cat deterrent my bitch next-door neighbour had bought

Nice

As someone who is sick of cats coming into my garden and shitting whilst I make sure I poop scoop the dog wherever he goes I find that comment really irritating

No advice, but just to say our (fairly new) cat obviously hasn't read this thread, because she:

a) does shit in our garden. In such quantity that I can't believe she's got any left for anyone else's.

b) shits straight on the lawn (side lawn, fortunately, not the bit the kids play on) & completely ignores all the many suitable places with soil, behind bushes etc. She does do a random burying action, kicking her legs in the air behind her, but this does not - obviously - actually bury the shit, which stays sitting in the grass until someone has to clean it up to mow the lawn.

The only good thing is she's completely stopped doing it in the litter tray.

Plastic picnic forks stuck pointy end up in the soil keeps the neighbourhood cats out of our garden boxes.

It is not a rare cat who doesn't bury its crap. It is a very common, normal cat.

Some years back I lived next to a mad cat woman who had about three half-feral mogs. Tried the super-soaker. Didn't work. Tried the urine (I'm male). Didn't work. In the end I told to the landlord that the cats constituted a health hazard to me, DW and our DD, and insisted that he deal with the matter. Mad cat-lady kept them indoors after then.

We are now living next door to another mad cat-lady. A neighbour down the road ended up with about 6 kittens, which they weren't looking after. Mad cat-lady adopted them. Soon, we had cats running over the garden, shitting everywhere and molesting our chickens. If it weren't for a tree on the boundary (with regards to which we are technically in the wrong) I'd be throwing the shit over the fence into her garden. As it is, I just throw it out into the road.

I hate cats. They are pests, and I do wish their owners would control them properly, ie, keep them on their own property.

Honestly, try cayan pepper, sprinkle it on the grass a few evenings in a row.

Toadinthehole. The cats attack my chickens as well. If my dog leapt over the fence and attacked their rabbit...can you imagine the uproar. I never understand why cats are allowed to attack, foul and behave with total indemnity. Ah but they are wild animals ... Like my dog then?

I have purchased lengths of plastic spikes and placed them on top of all fences etc that said cat uses to enter the garden. The spikes are not harmful but do stop the cat balancing on the fence ready to leap and maul the chickens

It seems to have reduced the cat issue enormously as well. It's about £5 for a pack. I needed two packs and spent a morning screwing them to trees and fences where bloody thing entered garden. I also got up at 5am and lay in wait ready to scare it off. The combined approach has mean I don't seem to have the massive problem that I did have.

google cat spikes

Perhaps all cat owners could show their responsibility and do the job for their neighbours sake instead of putting their heads in their un fouled sandpit of denial that their cat shit is something the neighbour should tolerate. or deny their cat does it?

They are cheap and permanent and worked for me. I do not own the company either!

The cat owner denial in this thread is incredible.

Cats do not all bury their poo! I know this because I see the lazy fuckers shiting in my garden all the time! We have a water spray thing attached to the hose. Works well but need to keep moving it and can only do part of the garden at a time. Also try to scare them off whenever I see them. We need something for the front garden too though.

at cats only crapping in long grass. The little fuckers will crap on patios, decking, kids playmats, whatever happens to be under their arse as they jaunt through other peoples gardens...
Litter box train your little bastards darlings, please.

My neighbours got the noise emitting device and it didn't work as my cat carried on doing her business in their front garden. The only thing that worked was me watching her and telling her off. So embarrassing as they have a beautiful front garden. We grew the grass longish in our front garden to encourage her to go there. Get a cat.

Meganorks that reminds me, my dad got a super soaker water pistol and a bag of small potatoes(wtf) to throw and squirt neighbours cats. It did work but I am not sure about throwing potatoes!

Cats do crap anywhere.. I'm always bemused by these threads.. face it, your animals are a major pain in the arse for other people full stop. You can delude yourself about other things but at least own that.

Artificial turf?

Am quite relieved our cat is only shitting on our side lawn now. Our neighbours all have lovely lawns too & wouldn't be impressed if she was doing it on theirs.

There are loads of cats round us, though, & in the years when we didn't have a cat we never had shit in the garden. I was surprised when our cat started crapping in the (not very long) grass on our lawn, because I thought it was normal for cats to bury it. Evidently not!

Floggingmolly, I think most cats are litter trained, but some seem to prefer crapping outside! Ours did all her poo in her litter tray the first couple of months we had her, then suddenly started doing all of it on our lawn. She still has the tray available to her & a cat flap - it's weird.

If she was doing it on the neighbours' lawns, I'm not sure what we could do about it, other than removing her if we saw her doing it & clearing it up.

I did lots of gardening recently & now the neighbourhood moggies think my lovely weeded flowerbeds are their new toilet. So I'm going to stick these with the pointy ends upwards in the soil till my new plants grow enough to cover the empty parts over.

We have a new neighbour with about five cats. I have seen them openly shit in the middle of our lawn :(. I'm pregnant and really don't want to have to clean it up, worry about standing in it etc. But what can I do? Ack!

We placed rubber snakes, the brightly coloured sort you see in toy shops, on our flower beds, no cats now.

The more I think about this the more pissed off I am becoming!!! Why get pets that you KNOW will shit on your neighbours lawns. Get a rabbit! Get a hamster! Get a dog and pick the shit up. But why oh why do people still get cats?? I know who's cat it is. I saw it do a shit in my garden last night from my bedroom window. I'm considering delivering the poo to its rightful owners.
It's quite a sweet little thing, and only doing what nature intended.... But even so. Picking it up is so gross. And the thought of my boy stepping in it... Even worse.

What used to work for me is orange peel, I used to put it round the boundaries , and mow it with the lawn mower- gave a nice zesty fragrance that cats don't like.

We now have a dog though so have had no cats since he came to live with us :)

Silent roar lion poo works well until it rains