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To want to kill this cat?

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namechangeafternamechange · 12/02/2015 19:02

Looked out my window this afternoon while cleaning (and still feeling smug about it Grin) and saw next door's cat shitting on my garden [mad]

I went out to chase it away to find that it clearly isn't the first time it's done this!! Now my garden needs a mow as it hasn't been done since november (bloody rain) so I haven't seen the sea of shit that now hides in my grass. Pissed off doesn't even come close, I live in the country FFS and surrounded by fields so it's not like it's lacking in places to have a crap [mad]

How can I stop it shitting in my garden? My toddler has just started playing in the garden again now the weather is a bit better, I really don't want him to go blind!!! (ok so a bit melodramatic but still!)

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MojaveWanderer123 · 13/02/2015 14:53

Who needs grass anyway, you have to mow it and look after it. Patios are much nicer and your little ones can easily ride their trikes and bikes on it. Plus if it's wet outside they can still play as it won't be muddy.

SorchaN · 13/02/2015 14:53

waitingowaiting Not always, and not usually if they're on grass. Also, some cats leave it exposed to mark their territory.

Actually, OP, it occurred to me that one solution might be to get your own cat - a big scary male Bengal, for example! That should sort out next door neighbour's little tyke.

farewellfigure · 13/02/2015 14:54

I own a cat that poos on our lawn. And on the naice gravel around our deepy grotty posh outside dining area. And in the vegetable garden waiting to be dug up in the spring. And she also poos all over the house, especially delighting to do so on the cream carpet (we're buying a poo coloured carpet next time). Also there is NOTHING on this planet as vom-inducing as the smell of cat poo. Especially when it's all over your shoes, slippers, socks or bare feet... all which have happened.

I feel your pain. I sometimes fantasise about doing in my own cat. So I can imagine why you lightheartedly commented on doing the same to a cat for whom you have no feelings.

However when she's all furrily curled up on my lap purring and kneading away, I forgive her until the next time because I love her really.

Sadly I fear there is nothing to be done. Cats poo where they want. But YANBU for how you feel about it.

crazypenguin · 13/02/2015 15:18

No one has mentioned that it makes a good fertiliser yet! (Playing cat poo thread bingo...)
It does not by the way.
I'm experimenting with a cat shit on the naice cobbles in my front garden. I'm seeing how long it takes to break down of it's own accord. About a month and counting...
I might just give up and use my special poo trowel to fling it back from whence it came.
Grin

richthegreatcornholio · 13/02/2015 15:20

If a cat enters, then it's the owners fault if it gets mauled. My dogs catch rabbits, they are sighthounds. Small furries in their territory are fair game

Absolutely this. My garden belongs to my sighthound. If a cat is stupid enough to enter then it's fair game as far a she's concerned and I'll be the poor bugger having to clean the blood off her lovely white coat.

Sunny67 · 13/02/2015 15:24

my ex next door neighbours had cats. They got one because their kids wanted a pet. It hardly ever went in the house and it was left on its own outside while they went on holiday. They did ask another neighbour to feed it. Unsurprisingly it got run over. They then got another. These were well educated folk with good jobs. The second cat was a ruthless git of a cat. Killed whatever it could get its paws on, mice, pigeons, sparrows, a black bird, all sorts
I had a super soaker to squirt the assassin, it used to lie in wait under the bushes and my very dim neighbours would put food for the birds on the ground!! I've got two dogs so it didn't come in the back garden but would use the front garden as I never let my dogs out there. It got to a point where I used to put the dead birds I found in my front garden, over the fence in to theirs. Including the very large pigeon I caught it with one day when I came home from work. Since they moved we've got more birds around but I've not seen loads of mice and I've never seen a rat!

DidoTheDodo · 13/02/2015 15:30

rich nasty sentiment there.

fluffyraggies · 13/02/2015 16:00

U2TheEdge - fellow ragdoll owner :)

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namechangeafternamechange · 13/02/2015 16:12

mojave we have a patio, the cat isn't in the least bit interested in the patio making my house sound like a fucking country manor house, no it isn't

So general feeling......can I fling it back into it's own garden??

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monkeyfacegrace · 13/02/2015 16:19

Yes you can OP. Preferably right onto the head of the owner Wink

Jengnr · 13/02/2015 16:20

sigh No Findogask I don't expect owners to follow their cats around. I expect them to keep them in or secure the perimeter so they have to take care of their animals themselves rather than foisting them on their neighbours

jellypi3 · 13/02/2015 16:42

It's the sick, twisted people on this thread that make me certain having indoor cats is the right thing to do.

My cats can't be a nuisance to others indoors, and at least that way I know one day I won't find some fucking psycho has poisoned / hurt my cat for doing what any roaming animal does naturally.

MythicalKings · 13/02/2015 16:45

I might just give up and use my special poo trowel to fling it back from whence it came.

That's some aim if you can get it back up a cat's arse.

blackcats73 · 13/02/2015 17:17

Someone's dog pissed on my doorstep . I'm going to squirt them both . Selfish lot. Then I'm going to horribly torture with a blunt spoon the anti social dogs that yap next door all day and all night .

Frusso · 13/02/2015 17:36

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AmantesSuntAmentes · 13/02/2015 17:36

My cats can't be a nuisance to others indoors, and at least that way I know one day I won't find some fucking psycho has poisoned / hurt my cat for doing what any roaming animal does naturally.

There is no other roaming species, which generally has a selfish, irresponsible, lazy arsed owner, sitting on their sofa at home, while the wider community is forced into taking responsibility for said creatures care, such as shit clearing, corpse collection and mark sanitising.

I wouldn't harm a cat but one of my dogs is pretty damn psychotic, regarding cats, tbh.

Lovemycatsandkids · 13/02/2015 17:45

I don't know any one in RL who gloats about animal cruelty. Maybe they hide such things. I suspect some of the comments on here wouldn't be made in RL either.

CalicoBlue · 13/02/2015 18:45

My siamese cat hated my dh, one morning Dh work up to find the cat peeing on him. I was away, I thought it very funny. DH phoned me, he was apoplectic. He never forgave the cat.

pickwickcrocus · 13/02/2015 18:45

Sorry for the late reply but yes we got it from amazon. I'm also looking forward to messing around in the water spray in the summer with dd!

richthegreatcornholio · 13/02/2015 18:48

nasty sentiment there
Not really. I'd prefer her not to kill someone's cat however I don't have that much sympathy for someone who allows their cat to roam into my garden or for a cat that's stupid enough to do so.

bigjimsdiamondmine · 13/02/2015 18:52

yabu, acab (all cats are beautiful) and my lovely preciouses. In terms of poo just give that cat a squirt with a water pistol if you see it doing that, soon teaches them and they won't come back. Doesn't work with dogs though because they are dumb twats Wink

Toadinthehole · 13/02/2015 19:05
  1. Cruelty to animals = predilection to cruelty to humans.

Therefore:

  1. Those who want cats out of their gardens are psychopaths.

I think this is called "furry logic".

Toadinthehole · 13/02/2015 19:05

In terms of poo just give that cat a squirt with a water pistol if you see it doing that, soon teaches them and they won't come back.

No it doesn't.

Toadinthehole · 13/02/2015 19:08

nasty sentiment there

If cat owner's aren't responsible for their animals' natural behaviour, then nor are dog owners.

duchesse · 13/02/2015 19:09

YANBU. Cat shit is disgusting. It stinks. I really do think that everyone should be forced by law to have a litter tray at home if they have a cat. I speak as a cat owner who has a litter tray to avoid the cat shitting in our own garden.