To not want to suffer other people's cats in our own gardens??

[Kione]

They have peed on DP veggies, they have some acidic pee or something that killed strawberries? I do not touch anything that grows in our garden as I am pregnant. Bliming unfair.
One killed mt DD's bunny last year, bunny was about 12 weeks old. Can you imagine DD's heartbreak?? I well up just remembering.
There is one that has made his den in the front garden bushes, the grass around his den is gone and he is there all day.
Yesterday I stood on poo in my own garden.
I am seriously pissed off now!!!

I hate birds and slugs and wasps. I don't want them shitting in my yard or eating my plants or stinging my family. Just because they don't belong to me and I don't want them there doesn't mean I have some sort of right for them not to be there though.

MozFan,
The foxes I see in the garden are not beautiful at all - scrawny and with a greyish tinge, it's those who live in the forests that tend to look healthy.
And as Yoda says, they poo as much as the cats but they also bring rubbish in, also seen dead birds a couple of times AND the worst thing is they dig bloody holes all over the garden.
I don't want to hurt them but what the hell am I supposed to do - see my garden dug up?
Cats aer really hardly a big deal after that, I like cats and dogs and they aer cute too, Moz. Cats are more easily deterred with orange spray etc - so all 'damage' they do is leave poo sometimes.
I know foxes are 'wildlife' - but I didn't choose rural living to avoid dealing with rural issues, they choose not to live in the country but become pests in urban areas. This is not a big town, they should bugger off to the coutry and feed on roots/small animals in forests as they used to do.
Yoda, yes lots of them in London but when I lived in London I didn't have a garden so didn't impact me directly - you are getting it full on obviously.

I'm sorry for them because they have to eat so they go and dig in the bins which people don't close properly. But I'm more fed up than sorry tbh -including being woken up at 1.30 am by screechy wails. Thankfully less frequent than it was in the summer.

CatMom is right though- inconsiderate people are much worse than any animals because they ignore rational requests which you can't make to animals.
Otoh cat owners can NOT keep them indoors all the time - it's cruel (unless a cat prefers it whichj is rare). Cats help prevent rodent problem, and also they are great therapeutic pets for many - so attacking cat owners is ridiculous. If you aer bothered by cats, find who owns them and ask for hte tips of how to deter them or maybe they'll offer to clean up.

Morning everyone
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YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet thanks for the comment no idea why the comments still are allowed to stay though?

Mozfan1 my mother keeps getting foxes in her garden, they're beautiful

Re slugs and wasps etc.

They are wild. Cats aren't. You might not be able to complain about wild bees/ wasps, but you might object to a neighbour setting up a beehive in his/ her garden. (Waits for people to claim they would love that as bees are so important).

My cats are kept in my garden. The netting keeps them from getting to birds (although I can't guarantee never getting one). And they don't annoy the neighbours (although I'm sure somebody, somewhere would be more offended by my netting than the cats pooing on their garden🤔)

That is incredibly cruel jollo

Can I start off by saying no cats were harmed during the following story.

I had a cat poo problem, nothing worked. Tried it all, bloody cat kept crapping on my garden. In the kitchen one day, I saw the culprit, filled a glass with water and ran out into the garden to catch the little swine. Cat ran off and I launched the water at him. Unfortunately I accidentally launched the glass too. Missed completely(phew) but frightened the bejesus out of the cat and since then.......No cat poo problem. Yay

Cat sonic repeller don't work! I have 2 in my garden and it's starting to piss me off!!! We have spent so much money on all sorts of crap to deter them but they just adapt. I made a nice little area for my babies to play outside and my neighbours' 2 cats just come and piss on it!

To me they are as much of a pest as a mouse! I didn't sign up for this shit!!!! Cats are not 'wildlife'! Some selfish nasty piece of work of a neighbour I have made a conscious decision to get 2 'domestic pets' that seems to spend more time in my garden than his!

I bloody hate cat owners. If u want a domestic pet, get one that doesn't affect ur neighbours!

I live in an island with no foxes and no badgers. I live rurally, miles from any other houses and I have 14 cats. There are no rabbits at all within about half a mile of the house as the cats kill them. This time of year we get a slew of young rabbits and young rats that have unintentionally wandered into the cats territory while looking for a territory to call their own. Once they're dead we get almost nothing else for a year. Cats most certainly do kill rabbits of all sizes!