There should be Cat Wardens, cats should wear nappies or be kept inside!

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Pregnant. Partner hardly home. Cat uses my front garden, back garden and PORCH as the preferred venue for his poo parades. It's gross and I can't pick it up as don't want to catch Toxoplasmosis. Feel pissed that I even have to. Parter pissed at having to go on poo collection duty when he gets back. Cat laws are needed!

Oooh...can we start talking about horse nappies too? Those are my favourite animal poo arguments.

Cats are bought as pets. When you buy a cat you take responsability for their care. Not exactly the same scenario as a hedgehog Narcy:)

Horse poo isn't as dangerous though because they don't eat dead things. You can't catch Toxoplasmosis and risk your pregnancy.

Horse nappies would be tricky!

Is human poo sterile?

Do you understand how stomach acid kills bacteria etc due to its low ph value and the bacteria we excrete is a major cause of lower limb infections in humans?.

This is almost as entertaining as when mil told Dh he was ill because the bacteria on his chest was going round in his blood stream when he had a chest infection.

So blood poisening then. You'd have thought they'd admit him for that not just give him antibiotics.

Toxoplasmosis is not a bacterium fluffy.

Don't put don't cayenne pepper as a pp suggested. It may blind wildlife as well as the cat would you fancy having pepper in your eyes? Pretty torturous. Use a cat repellant, it's just a few pounds, Morrisons sell it.

So how the hell would cat nappies work? Surely they would be worse than horse nappies as cats can claw them off?

Yanbu. Im struggling with the same issue. The cats in question are very cute and friendly but are keep killing plants by spraying them and pooing for England. (I see them so know they doing it). If you have a cat please please make your garden cat proof as its not fair on your neighbours. If a dog owner allowed a dog to poo in my garden mn should be furious but as irs a cat its ok. Why? As for the foxes, hedgehogs etc thats ok they wild and dont have owners or be in such a high density in a small area, therefore more poo from cats. In my road theres about 7 cats in 4 houses at the end road with no earth apart from our front garden. (Mostly parking). Super soaker is my friend at the moment.

(Opens the chocolate!!!!). Excuse my typos!!!

Cats are as cats are. Cat owners aren't legally liable for anything their cat does because cats can only be trained to a very limited extent. They are basically wild animals, near enough. Hence no guide cats, search and rescue cats etc. They're not very different to leopards apart from the size. I know I wouldn't want to encounter a cat if they were the size of a large dog. You can't change an animal's essential nature

You seem to be making heavy weather over something pretty trivial. Spray the area, move turds holding paper or wearing gloves. And, as others have said, are you sure it's not foxes. My 2 cats bury their mess, but a fox has crapped by our back door a few times. Burying their mess isn't something people teach them. They do it instinctively.

www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Toxoplasmosis/Pages/introduction.aspx

You should Deffo stop eating soil and wash your hands.

I will have a word with my cat and tell him no more pooing outside in the "hot blonde with the dick boyfriend" front garden.

I've trained him to wee in the bath if he doesn't fancy the litter tray so I think it's do-able.

I will explain using modern dance and flash cards.

Now if only there was a way to stop "permenantly half naked bleach blonde with the noisy dog" friends weeing in the road when their drunk.

I am with op on this one and I for one would welcome a change in the law with regards to cats coming into our garden. It's not fun when 6 or 7 cats are shitting on your grass on a daily basis. As for repellent it's not great having to spray repellent all over the place after every rainfall.

I agree with getting a super soaker. I once managed to get six of the buggers with a kettle of cold water one night a few months back and they haven't been back since, but I always have a bowl or something handy in case I spot one of them in the garden.

As for people saying the OP is 'overreacting' absolutely not OP don't pay any attention to those posts. It's not my job to clean up after my neighbour's cat and it's not your job to clean up after your neighbour's cat.

Foxes, and other wildlife can't be helped so that's irrelevant.

Fluffycloudland if that's the attitude then don't go complaining because someone has doused him. With lemon juice

It's not the super soakers I worry about.

It's the dog fighters who use kidnapped pet cats as baits to train the dogs, the people who leave antifreeze in dishes to poisen them, the people who torture them for fun and put it on YouTube.

Anyway he's adorable.

Prawn cats bury their poo in their own spaces but tend to leave it out as a marker elsewhere.

I get how you feel OP. In our old house our lawn was a cat toilet for all the neighbourhood cats and I used to have to remove a shit a day before the kids could play.

Tbf the risk from toxo is very low, especially if you remove the shit immediately. It only becomes dangerous when left for 2-3 days I think. But if you know you are not immune (I'm not) it's very stressful when pregnant. It's one of the reasons I'm happy to now live in a garden less flat!

For those saying youre overreacting, imagine having to pick up one small dog turd every day before you can enjoy your garden. It's fucking annoying when it's not your pet and there's nothing you can do about it because "they have a right to roam".

I think is cruel to let cats roam in urban areas anyway given the number who get run over. But then I don't see pet ownership as a right like some do.

Cooking oil. Immensely satisfying, harmless to cat, although they do hate it and not so harmless to owners carpet and upholstery. After a few times and a lot of scrubbing and bathing of the cat, they miraculously manage to discover a way to keep it in. Next doors used to come in my small window and shit in my kitchen so I feel your pain. Funnily enough she stopped thinking keeping it in was cruel when it was her house being ruined.

I think cats are a lazy pet owners choice for this reason. Dog owners are expected to be responsible and tidy up.

Cats can pop in sand pits, gardens, anywhere, and the owner can do nothing.

I do not like cats. Hose pipes with watering gun on the end are great.

12 bore is what you need. That'll learn them.

You'd put cooking on on a cat? Fuck that's horrible.

We're the middle of a row of three houses. The cats on either side have decided to have a turf war over our garden. They're spraying and pooing for England! The smell from the spray is rank in this hot weather!

Both cats have lived, quite amicably, in their respective houses for years so I don't know what's precipitated the current conflict

Just imagining the op's next thread "my neighbour keeps coming into my garden without asking" as surely that's what you'd have to do in order to clean up after it. You can't control a cat unless you keep it inside which is generally regarded as cruel and bad for them. Db's cats are indoor cats but that's because they're in Canada and bears might eat them. Plus their house is massive so not an issue. Maybe you could move there, although a moose regularly poos in their garden which is annoying.

You could try sticking a couple of these around the front garden OP

www.amazon.co.uk/Defenders-STV610-Mega-Sonic-Cat-Repeller/dp/B000NR8Q1U