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Cat shitting on front lawn every morning!!!

61 replies

martha16 · 27/04/2016 09:04

I do not expect to get up and have to pick up diarrhoea cat/dog (I assumed cat but someone said they bury it?) every morning!! It stinks, it's vile. I'm pregnant so shouldn't be touching it anyway!!

We had builders doing the front path and not once in the four days they pooped on the grass!!! As soon as they have done its back at it! We have a mental fence up at the front so no idea how it's happening if it was a dog, although sometimes the poop (a cat and dog?) look different and sometimes both at the same time!! Iv tried smelly beads that didn't work! House is a brand new build, grass only been laid 6 weeks, why aren't they doing it to next door!?

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happysunshineandrainbows · 27/04/2016 12:38

I hate cats

I just had to say that

Maybe cat owners should clean up the cat poo from gardens their cats visit. Why do dog owners have to clean after their dog when cat owners can just "oh they have a right to own...blab blah...more annoying cat bullshit...blah blah...poor neighbour but I can't possibly litter tray train my little feline friend because of some other cat roaming BS"

Eugh!!!

parmalilac · 27/04/2016 12:43

It would be very unusual for a cat to do that and leave it unburied, and in the same spot every time. It's dogs that shit anywhere and everywhere.

BayLeaves · 27/04/2016 12:45

We got some of those bleepy high pitched noise things. Only trouble is that we are still young enough to hear it ourselves, and it's REALLY annoying.

Agree with the previous poster. Why should I spend my time and money repelling cats from my garden and clearing up their shit, I don't own a cat or want a cat, so why should I have to suffer so someone else can have one? I really think people who own cats should be made to pick up their cat's shit just like dog owners do, or train them to do their business indoors where they can enjoy the stink instead.

They also deter lovely birds from visiting our gardens. Horrible horrible cats.

Grrrrrr.

AppleSetsSail · 27/04/2016 12:46

It would be very unusual for a cat to do that and leave it unburied, and in the same spot every time. It's dogs that shit anywhere and everywhere.

Not in my experience - my neighbour's two cats used to poo repeatedly in the same spot in our beautiful, newly landscaped and astroturfed garden. No worries, we installed 3 metre high trellising which has sorted that out. My neighbour feels our wall is cruel to the foxes and cats, but that's fine with me.

My dog does poo anywhere and everywhere - fortunately, I'm right behind her to clean it up.

ceebie · 27/04/2016 12:51

It would be very unusual for a cat to do that and leave it unburied, and in the same spot every time. It's dogs that shit anywhere and everywhere.

Unusual? Really? So dogs are leaping over my 6 foot fence, pooing in my back garden, then jumping back over the 6 foot fence?

And don't start on the it's a fox thing. Already discussed above. It's not a fox.

DameXanaduBramble · 27/04/2016 12:59

There is a cat doing this in my garden atm. it terrorises the birds in my bird boxes, sits on my garden coffee table and thinks it owns the place. Bloody thing.

BobbyV · 27/04/2016 13:08

Try this ...

www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Roar-Lion-Manure-Repellant/dp/B0002B7OT2

worked a treat for us

HermioneJeanGranger · 27/04/2016 13:18

My cats are indoors only, so I'm the only one who has to deal with their poo Grin

And cats don't always bury - ours have litter trays but often poo and then just saunter off! It's never runny unless they've eaten something they shouldn't, though, so runny poo sounds like foxes - they can climb and squeeze through tiny gaps just like cats can.

Try water pistols or motion-activated sensors. It won't damage the cat, but might put them off coming into your garden if they know they'll get squirted. Or, you might get a cat that loves water - one of mine gets in the shower! Weirdo Hmm

DrPiggle · 27/04/2016 13:30

Cats keep digging up my raised vegetable bed and shitting in it. They destroy seedlings in the process. I know for a fact that it's cats. Nothing I've tried has worked.

It's pretty much the end of me trying to grow vegetables in my own garden. I've given up after finding my latest batch of seedlings once again destroyed.

I hate cats.

AppleSetsSail · 27/04/2016 13:32

I hate cats too. I bitterly resent their presence in my garden. That said, I'm freed of them post-trellising.

TheCatsMeow · 27/04/2016 14:05

Piggle cross sticks over your beds. My cats kept pooing in the veg until I did this.

Oh and mine climb trellis like a ladder

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