To be sick and tired of bloody antisocial...

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Animals, namely, cats shitting on my lawn. Just picked 4 lots of runny cat poop up, that sticks to the lawn, meaning I have to pull out clumps of grass with it, in the hope I get most of it up. My children can't play on the grass until I have checked it thoroughly for fear of them standing in it, or worst still getting it on their hands. Have tried a sonic repellent, citrus granules, tiger poo and nothing bloody works. Don't fancy hiding all day with a bucket of water but what can I do?

Not much else you can do really.

There'll also be shit from birds, foxes and other creatures...it's all part of owning a garden.

There is fox shit everywhere I my garden at the moment and all over the pavements, driving me mad.

I can highly recommend getting a dog to keep the cats out but ours seems to have no effect on the foxes unfortunately.

Um if you get your own cat/s and teach them to use the soil (they will cover up after themselves), they'll keep other cats at bay.

My dad is like a cat poo vigilante, it's hilarious (to watch, not hilarious for him or anyone else suffering with rogue cat poo!). Every so often you'll see him looking out the window while washing dishes/cooking and then he suddenly drops everything and runs down the garden in his slippers, banging a spoon against a pot and yelling like a man possessed.

This all started because his loathing of cats pooping in the garden came to a head when he was transferring handfuls of leaves from the garden into a black bag and found himself with a (gloved) handful of cat shit. Hilarious for us, the start of a full on vendetta for him.

Our cat was a complete clean freak and would only use a litter tray anyway but frankly I'm glad now that this was the case because I do think it's irresponsible just to be letting your cat shit anywhere and everywhere.

cherrybomb that made me laugh.

Did you watch the BBC doco cat wars a couple of weeks ago? A whole programme specifically about this subject, well pretty much. People who hate cats because they shit in their garden. I noticed a cat doing it once, tapped on the window and scared it off. Haven't seen a cat in the garden since. My issue is actually a dog that keeps crapping on my front lawn, I'm yet to catch the dog in the act but when I do hell hath no fury. Sick of picking up dog shit when I don't own a dog and have no desire to own a dog mainly because I don't want to pick up shit.

You can buy things to deter the cats, the products were on this programme. Devices to scare them off like motion detector water sprinklers.

Cherry, that made me laugh. Is your Dad my DH? He never quite makes it in time chasing after them. Seriously though, it's really horrible.
Worra, I don't have any visibly fox poo in my garden, certainly not on the lawn where the children play. Comparing bird poo to cat poo is stupid, can't imagine standing in bird poo is anything like the same as cat poo.

Cumbersnatch, will try the ground coffe. Thank you

We had a terrible problem with cat poo in our garden. My DH got a motion sensor device that shoots water at anything moving in the garden and we are now happily poo free (and possibly fox, insect and bird free too). DH was very proud of himself for sorting it out (he is not a particularly practical soul) and I had to endure a series of demonstrations, including at night. The extra bonus is that I put my tomato grow bag within its range and haven't had to water the things at all.

It's amazing the rage you can feel when an animal craps on your grass, particularly when you have children who then step/roll in it.

For me this year it was pigeons. I very nearly bought an expensive repellant device I was so incensed with them. Big large mounds of the stuff all over the place. I did manage to calm down a little bit when I saw the baby pigeons snuggled up to the adults. So for now they can stay

The reason I mentioned bird poo (I didn't compare it), is because it's all part of owning a garden.

It's quite simply not worth stressing over, since there's nothing you can do about it.

Btw, foxes poo can look very similar to cat's poo. Even the bigger foxes round here, tend to do small runny shits.

My DH got a super soaker specifically to scare cats away from our garden. (It's a small garden, the stream hits the back fence)
It worked.

We have the same cat poo problem and I'm a bit worried for next summer when my DD will be toddling and eating everything in sight. Eww.

I was wondering whether it might help to put a cat litter tray out in the garden, even though we don't have a cat. Might that stop them pooing on the lawn in favour of the fresh new conveniences?!

What do make of that idea?

As new said - pigeon crap can be as big as cat poo..and just as annoying Felt like taking a shotgun to the one that took to sitting above and crapping on my doorstep ...complete with splatters up the door and believe me children are just as capable of walking it in ....

What about one of those sensors that would give off a high pitched particular noise? I've read about them but don't know how they work or what they cost or whence to buy them.

I thought the sensors were to repel teenagers?

I haven't heard of that for cats, will investigate.