To think defending your cat when it's crapping on my lawn is pathetic!!

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Not me but DP right now was washing up and saw the same massive fat cat start to take a dump in our front garden, bearing in mind this one cat always leaves massive dog size droppings where the kids play and a constant aroma of the stuff!

So he banged on the window but it didn't move so he opened the window and hissed at it, cue my neighbour comuing up and shouting at him that he threw something at it and she'd throw something back, he said what did i throw? she said she didn't know but kept having a go.

Are we supposed to watch the thing do that on our lawn?! we have our own cat and if i saw it doing that on someones front garden i'd shoo her away myself!

This - I'm delighted to say that the posts using pejorative terms related to mental health have been deleted.

As I said, I wouldn't shoot or kick a cat - but I can understand the absolute frustration felt by people who have to clean up cat poo from their gardens or allotments, or scrape it off their children's shoes/clothes as I've had to do it. It's revolting, stinking stuff. If you have to do that time and time and time again, because your neighbours choose to have pets that don't have litter trays indoors, then that frustration can turn to anger. I do get that - even the most mild mannered person can get to the "AAARRRGGGHHH" stage.

Yes Silver, I've seen. Particularly the personal attacks against me again

Incidentally, I am a regular poster, not some nutter as they are saying.

Yi think you e goven some nice attacks yourselfami

Sir i too get annoyed by random animals crapping in my garden.
We have a visiting cat who craps in the garden, most likely to wind ours up!
I would never wish harm on him though.

Actually Sir, you have just described me.

I don't even hate cats and this is the first time in decades when we haven't had a cat of our own.

But I do get so angry , it's just one more thing to have to deal with and it is fucking disgusting

I would admit in reality I probably wouldn't actually kick it, but I would certainly charge at it.

I hope when i had cats I was never as , "emotional" as a couple of posters on here

Which attacks would they be, Kali?

sir I get it too as I've been on the other side of it myself. Before we got our cat all the neighbourhood seemed to think our garden was a toilet. Since getting our cat she has become the only cat to shit in it as it seems to be 'her' toilet, her turf now. She does have a litter tray inside but she still sometimes prefers to do her business outside, she is only out for a few hours during the day though so she doesnt get much opportunity to do it.
to be honest I'm not much of garden proud person and once every few days I would just go round with a shovel and remove it all. If I could be bothered to put more effort into making it look nice, I think I might have invested in one of those automatic squirting things (before we got our cat that is - I'm quite happy to have her shit in our garden as at least she's not doing it in other peoples)

So I understand how it can be frustrating, but reacting with violence is never the way forward in my opinion.

yadnbu if her cat continues to poop in your garden, then ask her to clean it up. you should not have to clean that mess up. that is disgusting and the cat owners job.

AIBU is for any one who chooses to post on it.

Did your cat never go out then,Summery?

No, violence is never the way forward - taking a cross bow to an animal is an awful suggestion. However, I can understand why people might grab the nearest thing and lob it at a shitting cat, or run at it - when it's the same few cats time and time again your sense of reasonableness can go out of the window.

That being said, being riled by people venting doesn't warrant the earlier pejorative language. At all.

Are you reffering to me being 'emotional' and 'getting upset', summery?
Yes I Iove my cat very much (though she probably doesn't give a shiny shit about me!) and I would be so gutted if anything bad happened to her. We rescued her as a kitten and having her has helped me through some very dark times in my life.
So when I hear people advocating kicking cats, shooting them, killing them or generally harming them, regardless of the reason - yes I find it offensive and unbeliveable that people can think like that.
They are living beings and I don't understand how anyone could be cruel to them.

I agree it doesn't, sir and I never use any pejorative language myself though I have been objecting to summery's posts, I don't think I've made any personal attacks either.

FWIW I think there's a distinct difference to chasing a cat and kicking one. I wouldn't object to anyone chasing my cat out of their garden, nor would I necessarily object to them throwing something in her direction to scare her off, but I would object to them throwing something that could harm her.
So a pingpong ball - yes. A brick - no.

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Thisclem. Nope, sorry to disappoint, but not you

No Clem - it wasn't you who used pejorative language. I agree - a brick isn't on. I will hold my hand up to a plastic clothes peg though. I missed, of course - and then spent the next few minutes digging up stinking cat shit and wrapping it so that it didn't honk in the bin for the next 2 weeks until bin day .

"Maybe it's bed time for some of the more "tired and emotional" Indeed summery. Off with you up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire. There there love. It'll all be OK in the morning.

I think the first hot weather of the year often encourage nutters enthusiasm.

the hot weather makes us notice the catshit more...

Are you quite alright there, Rubbish, love?

Time to pull this thread surely MN?- Not much Peace and Love on display here.

You're probably right Silver. No need to delete the thread though, maybe just let it peter out ......

I was kindly saying it's perhaps after your bed-time summery

Are we all refreshed after our bedtimes?

Perfectly refreshed thanks ????

Although I have literally just caught one little bastard in the act as I was going out to my car. I grabbed the water spray, that sits at the front door and chased it.

The little sod is sitting some distance away eyeballing the garden now.

The shit is sitting in a bag at the end of my drive. I need to get to work, but I know as soon as I leave, the wee sod will come back.

Filthy little shitbag.

Mind you, according to another thread, I must be making it up because cats never shit in the middle of the grass, they always cover it, etc, etc.

Disgusting

....and I was going to leave this thread to die a death, but I am now riled up again.

this cat's owner will have shoved it out the house, and I'm left to clean up after it

I feel your pain

Look on the bright side though, at least it doesn't smell - although the cat that left its deposit for us on the grass over the weekend obviously ate a dodgy pie, because that stunk to high heaven.