AIBU to think that as I don't own a cat I shouldn't have to clear up cat sh*t from my garden every other day??

[Magicpaintbrush]

I choose not to own a cat, and yet once again I find myself this morning in my front garden shovelling up big smelly piles of cat poo. If it was my own pet I wouldn't mind, but I'm really getting the hump with being up to my elbows in sh*t because someone else's pet thinks my garden is a toilet. I love animals -usually - but it's so gross, so stinky and really unhygenic. It was cat diarrhea on my rock plants at the weekend just as we were expecting visitors, just caught the little sod squatting on my plants despite me banging on the window in a rage. Does anybody have any suggestions of cat deterrants that actually work? We've tried all sorts but they just ignore it. We even had a deterrant containing lion scent called Silent Roar (!!!!) which is supposed to make them think a big hungry predator is nearby - they didn't give a toss. Ideas anybody...?

WRT trays, yes many cats will use them esp if the weather is shocking but then again, most cats I have had prefer to poo outside. And I preferred them to as well!

Oh god. This again.....

I have two cats. They have a litter tray and a cat flap. Neither poo in the tray. I do live rurally though and have a decent sized garden which two neighbours cats regularly poo in. I see them at it. My small cat poos in my neighbours veg patches. Highly embarrassing and i do chase her off if i see her at it and wouldn't mind if he sprayed water at her.

There are 6 neighbouring cats very close by so i think we are all resigned to cat shit, whoever it belongs to though one neighbours feeds cheap crap food and doesn't worm them so that's not pleasant.

Arm yourself with a supersoaker OP. It should only take a few goes.

Obviously the prevalence of threads on this subject shows what a nuisance it is to many people. We have so many cats in just our little cul de sac. One house has seven of them.

We don't have any flower beds, but the flipping things crap in the middle of our lawn. We wasted money on various things but had most success with just rushing out and shooing them away whenever we saw them. Our garden became one to avoid for cats who want a quiet life.

However, now that DS has fallen in love with all the neighbourhood cats and started enticing them into the garden they, understandably, don't get all the mixed messages. So we're back to square one.

It would seem we also need to add complaints that this is the 4th cat thread this week to our bingo game.

I haven't seen a cat poo thread for a month or so TBF so no bingo there.

Please remember that Jeyes Fluid is poisonous to cats.

The bingo is for people complaining about there being loads of cat threads sparkling! Doesn't matter whether they're right or not.

i think house was called a long while ago.

MrsItsNo we also bought a motion detector spray, Contech Scarecrow I think it's called.

IT IS AMAZING!! Best £50 spent ever. From cat toilet (we are talking around 4 poos a day) to zero poo in an instant.

Oh a cat poo thread.

We have 2 cats and a dog. All the poo in our garden is from foxes, badgers and deer.

Those little fuckers should clean up after themselves. Bastards.

Anyway off to the supermarket to park in the P&C space. My youngest is 16 but hey who cares.

Because of course it's either there or a disabled space and let's face it there's far too many of them around.

Watching with interest - lovely new neighbours, ever since they moved in their cat has treated my patch of lawn (tiny) as the local lav........tried the citrus sprays, movement activated alarm, general verbal abuse......(the cat, not neighbours). The cheeky fucker laid a huge great log right in front of the alarm just to demonstrate how much it didn't work. Thing is, I'm on chemotherapy and have at times bloody no immune system. So to open my back door and see 5 piles of cat shit appear overnight, well it's just not ideal......

I hate cat poo, very much more offensive than dogs IMO.

Pepper dust liberally applied helps, as does a jet from the hosepipe if I'm quick enough.

DO NOT use Jeyes fluid! Cats are attracted to the smell of it and it is totally toxic to them. If they like it or get it on their paws they will suffer an horrific death, as there's no treatment.

Get a water sprinkler. If you turn it on enough times in your garden, when you see a cat, that should eventually detere them.

When I was working behind the till in a store I had a gentleman come in and buy about 10 toy rubber snakes, he told me that it's a great way to keep cats out without poisoning/ sprinklers/ getting a dog etc. I told a relative who tried it an they said it works really well, maybe that's worth a try?

Another Jeyes fluid user here- the reason it works is that cats DON'T like the smell so stay away from it. Not at home all day so am buggered if I am going to loiter with a hose pipe/squirty gun.

Also, large gravel/stones - 19mm or larger - they can't scuff them over to crap. Doesn't help with lawn crappers but when we redo our garden next year guess what we're going to put down...

Also I'm damned if I'm not going to use a totally safe and legal disinfectant outside. If people are so worried about what their precious cats might encounter out and about, perhaps they should keep them inside? They are far more likely to be hit by a car after all....

Also, I've found one of my neighbour's cats inside my house several times (once inside my son's cot, no less). Should I ditch my Zoflora on that basis too? Heaven forfend I upset the poor moggie....

I can vouch for the high-pitched thingy in the ground. Keeps them out the back garden and works with the local fox too.

We've now had fox and badger shit as well sparkling so if it hadn't been house already, it surely is now. I reckon deer shit is a relatively unusual one, though. I wouldn't mind a deer shitting on my garden just for the novelty value.

I have never seen badger shit I don't think.

Don't have a problem with cat poo but I do with two neighbours big trees. We have no trees.

DH gets fed up of picking sycamore and lime tree leaves up every autumn. Can you buy a leaf scarer?

You squirted bleach at them? FFS. Unbelievable.

You can get leaf blowers Dowser. I kwym about sycamore leaves, they are awful and ugly and huge.

If you got a blower you could send them all into a pile and make a compost heap

And Jeyes fluid

I'm afraid anyone who chooses to shoot toxic substances at an animal is a bit of a w*nker, in my opinion.

Water would have done the trick.