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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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Lovemycatsandkids · 13/02/2015 12:12

Hating Marzipan is the same as hating an animal! Confused

newname2

Good post and I think a lot of posters are confusing cat poo with badgers and foxes. Most people don't realise how many are out there and in all areas.

DidoTheDodo · 13/02/2015 12:14

Yes. Just like next door's dog bit me and I had to fork out for my own petrol to go to hospital! (And my own Dettol too)

(I was going to say "shit happens" but maybe that's a bit TOO appropriate for this thread)

MythicalKings · 13/02/2015 12:21

So because other pet owners are irresponsible it's ok for you to be as well. Daft logic.

monkeyfacegrace · 13/02/2015 12:37

Love that im an irresponsible child minder as I hate cats!

I also have fab conversations on here regarding anal sex at Center Parcs, I'm often involved in the drunk threads, I swear like a trooper on here, and the things I get up to on child free nights out would give the best pearl clutchers white knuckles.

Funnily enough, I don't display any of this around kids.

Sallystyle · 13/02/2015 12:41

I wish it was illegal to allow a cat to go outside.

I love cats; I have cats. They are not allowed outside. I do not want them to become road kill, I do not think it is ok for others to deal with their shit when it was my choice to get them and my job to clean up after them. Also my ragdoll would not last a minute and would be stolen pretty quickly. I also get loads of birds nesting in my garden and I don't want my cats to hurt them.

My cats lead a good life indoors and get plenty of exercise. I will not allow my dogs out to shit in others gardens and kill wildlife and I won't let my cats either. They are domestic animals, not wild and can not be compared to foxes.

JoanHickson · 13/02/2015 12:45

Op, I now remove you from the stick of tar. A badly thought out thread title has been accepted as so by you.

Frusso · 13/02/2015 12:59

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FindoGask · 13/02/2015 13:00

Cats Rescue wouldn't agree with you, U2 - when they did my home visit one of the main things they looked for was safe outside access.

But I think ragdolls are meant to be indoor cats, aren't they?

Incidentally my cats have always just shat in our own garden - they don't wander far. We have big hedges they go underneath and I do a clean up every couple of weeks.

If this thread hadn't got so nasty, I probably would have said that if a neighbour complained to me about my cat's errant shitting, I would fork out for that sonic thing for them myself - but since the thread started off like it did and then quickly progressed to twats posting about poisoning cats and having them torn about by dogs, I didn't feel too accommodating.

Jengnr · 13/02/2015 13:19

Why should your neighbour have to come to you though? Why wouldn't you take responsibility for your pet automatically?

Calfon · 13/02/2015 13:28

Maybe I missed it but has the OP actually spoken to her neighbour about this issue. Sometimes there is a very simple solution which can be reached by engaging with the other person. If she is a vet she should understand the OPs discomfort and work towards resolving it. BTW we have a cat and two dogs. the cat always poops in the same part of the garden and always buries it.

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namechangeafternamechange · 13/02/2015 13:29

Um thanks Joan still awaiting apology for being accused of animal cruelty

So it seems I have opened a can of worms (and I would just like to point out that I have never/nor will I ever stuff worms into cans as it is cruel and I love worms. I ate loads as a child Grin) and for that I apologise.

I was wondering tho, how acceptable is it to pick up the crap and put it in it's own garden?? That is a genuine question, not intended on being inflammatory, as I don't know what I'm supposed to do with it? There are no poo bins in my part of the land and, even if there were, I'll be fucked if I'm going to put bags of someone else's cat shit in my car!!

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DidoTheDodo · 13/02/2015 13:31

mythical I think my irony was lost in translation. Sorry!

FindoGask · 13/02/2015 13:33

Come off it. As much as you could expect of any pet owner is to do what they can to resolve a problem as soon as they're aware of it, and surely no-one (apart from a goady fuck on mumsnet) would honestly expect someone to follow their cats around all day. Although in my case it would be an easy job, given that they're indoors 90% of the time if they're not in our own garden.

FindoGask · 13/02/2015 13:33

That was to jengrjrjr, or whatever, by the way.

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namechangeafternamechange · 13/02/2015 13:34

FindGask Shock I missed the bit where someone said to get them torn apart by dogs, that was perhaps a step over.

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MythicalKings · 13/02/2015 13:37

We need an irony emoticon, Dido

Endler32 · 13/02/2015 13:42

Get a dog, this is what we did, it didn't stop cats shitting in my garden but the dog cleaned up after them Grin

monkeyfacegrace · 13/02/2015 13:59

Sigh.

OP nobody said get them torn apart by dogs.

I said if they decide to venture into my fully fenced and secure garden, then the whippets would get them.

Not half as dramatic as people like to make out.

DidoTheDodo · 13/02/2015 14:02

God help your postman!

Frusso · 13/02/2015 14:11

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namechangeafternamechange · 13/02/2015 14:11

Sorry monkeyface should've read before I posted that. I understand your comment in the context it was meant and don't believe that would deliberately set your beautiful whippets onto cats.

Next door also have working/hunting dogs kept in a kennel. They aren't allowed out of the kennel until all other animals (chickens, rabbits, cats and their other more domesticated dogs) because they would indeed tear the other animals apart.

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namechangeafternamechange · 13/02/2015 14:13

Yay Frusso some humour Grin

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SorchaN · 13/02/2015 14:20

I have indoor cats who use a litter tray, but I don't think I'd be very happy about cat shit in my garden, especially with a young child. A neighbour's dog used to shit in my garden and I definitely wanted to kill it, even though I could never have actually harmed the bastard creature.

Cats are creatures of habit and it can take time to get them to accept a new toileting area. However, they're very scent-oriented, and if you can bear it you might have some success if you chuck the cat shit back into the neighbour's garden so that the cat will learn to associate the smell of its shit with its own garden. I've heard that water guns and lion dung can also be effective.

DisappointedOne · 13/02/2015 14:35

I'm with Mrs terrypratchett. I'd ban them for the torture they cause the rest of us (and the songbirds).

waitingowaiting · 13/02/2015 14:43

I thought that cats dug little holes, pooed in them and covered it up?