Fence spikes to keep cats out?

[Shootingstar2289]

So we live in a village with a huge cat population lol. We don't dislike them but my OH is severely allergic.

Anyway, for a while we have had a HUGE problem with cats pooing in our garden. I have a son with Autism and a crawling baby. Both don't watch where they are walking (crawling). So we are on the constant watch out for poo and picking it up. We cannot relax in our own garden. We cannot even less be our back door open as they often walk in the house!

My partner bought some plastic spikes from Amazon and wants to put them along the fence.

Are we in the right to do this? We tried some kind of cat deterant spray with no luck as well as cat scarers. Neither worked.

We are at the end of our tether.

[pilates]

Sorry Apostrophes, yes I thought you were poisoning cats.

[ApostrophesMatter]

It's ok, I see that now.

[Shootingstar2289]

Thank you JayDot500. Hopefully be the same for us. I love cats too.

As said before foursillybeans. The spikes we have bought won't cause a cat harm. Just more likely to put them off. We aren't cruel to animals. Just fed up of my children stepping in cats poo. They poo in our lawn, in our stones, in our hedges, in our flower bed and on the patch or mud we have after my oh dug up a load of old bushes the old owner planted. Found a lump on our front grass today. But that is not fenced off but of course that could also be a dog.