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To not care that my cat craps in neighbours gardens

452 replies

Salmotrutta · 17/01/2015 21:08

I have cats.

They go outside (as they should).

They probably shit I the neighbours garden but mostly they seem to shit in our garden.

I suspect they kill small furry animals too and I know they do as well as birds

As do lions, tigers, lynxes, snow leopards, blah blah.

I don't approve of "indoor" cats.

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ghostyslovesheep · 18/01/2015 15:44

Tinks it was obviously a deliberately goady thread from page one - but you where more than happy to feed it Grin

I'm off to kick my cats out - the look like they need a poo

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Salmotrutta · 18/01/2015 15:46

It's a devil that Sanatogen tonic wine.

Actually I was just in a mischievous mood...

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Salmotrutta · 18/01/2015 15:47

Grin @ghosty

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LilMissSunshine9 · 18/01/2015 16:18

The neighbour opposite me has 4 cats! All of them use my garden for their toilet its the most disgusting thing ever. I have had to spend £100 on broken sharp slate to cover all my flower beds and pots and only now have they stopped.

Now the neighbour is moving thank fuck but I am still £100 out of pocket that I didn't need to be.

OOAOML · 18/01/2015 18:28

I don't actually have cats BigRed I was just bemused at the idea of either cats or children crapping to order Wink

BoneyBackJefferson · 18/01/2015 21:13

just use the fun starts 5 minutes in.

hanban89 · 18/01/2015 21:44

Haha love this. We have cats and dogs that shit in or around my property and I just pick it up and put it back on the owners doorstep! They don't like stepping in it anymore than I do, or what my daughter does. They moan and I don't care!

a2011x · 18/01/2015 22:42

I live in area plagued with cats and as a cat lover they are pushing me to my limit. I have walked in to my garden to find 15 (yes 15!) cats ripping open bin bags , killing my fish (8 fish on the floor next to the pond ) having ripped apart the net on the top, ripped up £200 worth of newly planted bushes and plants, cat sick and poo everywhere, cats crying and having very loud relations constantly aswell as fighting, I can honestly say they drove me to insanity which resulted in me camping In a dark bedroom with a torch and a water pistol and my family thinking I had lost my mind. I tried lion poo, garlic capsules, chicken wire, orange and lemon, various sprays and it never ever stopped. I went away for the weekend in summer and the poo was everywhere, it stunk and there were flies and maggots all over my grass and they were coming in my house. This was a period if six months, I called the council, RSPCA because some are not neutered and strays the rest are owned by my neighbours, spoke to the neighbours they told me they couldn't help where there cat poo's and it was my problem. They drove me insane , so I got a dog , a very fast cat hating one and now I still have the occasional poo in the garden but although I would never let me dog hurt a cat (she wouldn't) she chases their smelly destructive shitty arses out of my garden every day and they don't come back. Great, so as you may have gathered I think you are being unreasonable, if I wanted to pick up hundreds of cat poos a week I would get lots of cats , I know you can't help it or whatever but your view of it is still unreasonable

Loopylala7 · 18/01/2015 23:04

I guess to that end you don't care about your neighbours having to clean your pets sh!t up, nor do you care when their toddlers go and pick it up whilst exploring in their own gardens. Nice, really nice.

muminhants · 19/01/2015 10:53

You should absolutely care because cat poo can cause toxoplasmosis. It's largely ignored unless you are pregnant but my husband got it in late 2013. It mimicked the symptoms of lymphoma, which terrified him as his eldest brother died of it. His consultant said it was almost certainly down to cat poo. My husband has been careful to wear gloves at all times when gardening since (although I don't think you can get it twice).

SuperFlyHigh · 19/01/2015 11:53

How do you know where your cats shit though??!! My cat at the moment (9 months old) is indoor - he will be outdoor from February.

My previous cats had a litter tray inside and one never went outside her garden as far as she could help it so I assume if she did shit outside too it was in my garden. Her brother no idea, he wandered so if he shat outside in another garden, how would I know, what would I do?! Confused

They were locked in at night and did use their litter tray so presumably didn't crap everywhere in another garden.

I did care where they shat but sometimes you just can't police the cats.

And forget about the creatures being killed, there are tons of mice about... the birds we did try to stop them being killed and the birds were clever enough to know not to nest/come into our garden too much so the cats hardly caught any of those, the cats were blighters who didn't like wearing collars especially with bells on - we did try! (did for a while then "got rid" of them).

maninawomansworld · 19/01/2015 13:25

I have quite a few dogs. Not too long ago I heard a terrible noise from the back of the house and got out there as two of them were tearing a cat limb from limb.
No idea where it came from, it had been shitting on my front lawn for some time and had come close to being had by the dogs a couple of times. Won't be bothering me again, and I don't care either.

itsbetterthanabox · 19/01/2015 21:22

Manina maybe you shouldn't own animals if you can't control their violence hmm?

BoneyBackJefferson · 19/01/2015 22:17

itsbetterthanabox

"can't control their violence" on a thread about cats, that is ironic.

itsbetterthanabox · 19/01/2015 22:45

Why boneyback?

itsbetterthanabox · 19/01/2015 22:45

Why boneyback?

ChaircatMiaow · 20/01/2015 05:52

manina, this is not a word I ever use, but I mean this with all sincerity and will never regret posting this -you are an absolute cunt.

BoneyBackJefferson · 20/01/2015 06:44

itsbetterthanabox

Because cats are pretty much impossible to control and if they are going to be violent or vicious they will be.

CuriouSir · 20/01/2015 07:50

Cats only crap in our garden once.

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 20/01/2015 07:58

This is the benefit to not having a garden. Or a cat.

soverylucky · 20/01/2015 08:02

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OOAOML · 20/01/2015 10:16

I don't like dogs all that much. I don't have cats or a garden so have no personal experience of having to deal with cats shitting in my garden (although am expert at avoiding masses of dog crap that is on the pavements here) but as a human being I find manina's attitude utterly vile and morally reprehensible. It doesn't sound like your dogs are fit to be around other animals or people.

Sweetpea01 · 20/01/2015 16:04

I would never just watch my dogs tear apart a cat.

However I would like to point out to previous posters that a dog's violence toward a cat is in no way an indicator of its aggression toward humans or even other dog. No more than a cat attacking a bird indicates its dislike of people.

If a dog is enclosed in its own private garden and a cat enters the property, sadly it may be a bad ending for the cat Sad It is ultimately on the cat's owner to accept the risk to their cat when they are allowed out unsupervised.

I say this as an owner of both dogs and a cat. Mine is a house cat and doesn't like going outside - but our previous moggy loved being outside and one day simply never came back Sad It devastated us and our current cat is more than happy having the run of the house.

OOAOML · 20/01/2015 16:27

OK Sweetpea I stand corrected. I might edit my stance to the dog owner not being fit to be around other animals or people? Because putting aside whatever the instincts of the dogs were, someone who watches that and does nothing, then thinks it is fine to tell the internet, doesn't sound like the kind of person I'd want to associate with.

itsbetterthanabox · 20/01/2015 19:01

Boney people shouldn't own cats then either.