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Cat poo on door step

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Misspollyhadadollie · 12/10/2017 10:01

The other day I came home to find a runny poo on my door step, I wasn't very pleased but assumed it was a one off anyway I've came home today and there was another poo on my door step. Hard this time. Clearly a cat. What can I do about this? I get cats pooing in gardens but door step is taking the p surely?

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confusedlittleone · 12/10/2017 10:23

I don't think cats understand the polite place to use the bathroom.. apparently spraying citrus repels cats

Misspollyhadadollie · 12/10/2017 10:29

I thought they didn't use concrete? Could be wrong though.

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bottlesandcans · 12/10/2017 10:31

sonar cat repellent- if the local cat lovers don't like it they can keep their anti social beasts inside.

GlitteryFluff · 12/10/2017 10:47

I have this a few times a week.
In the summer I would step out front door in sandals and accidentally step in some that would squish all up my foot. Envy < not envy.
It's infuriating. I don't suppose there is much anyone can do. I just end up out there with boiling water and disinfectant after the school run. It's so grim.

Pickleypickles · 12/10/2017 10:50

Try vinegar, it stopped them pooing on the bark chippings at the bottom of my garden.

AnyFarrahFowler · 12/10/2017 11:16

I didn't think they pooed on concrete either but our neighbours cats started pooing on our drive. We bought 2 of those sonar repellents from Amazon. I resented having to spend money on them when it's someone else's bloody cat, but I have a toddler and I'm pregnant and didn't want their shit on our shoes/pram wheels/anywhere near us.
Horrid things.

slbhill42 · 12/10/2017 11:20

problem is once one has done it on your step, others will smell it and think that's just the perfect place. There are things you can get to obliterate the small and then hopefully they won't do it again.

Yecartmannew · 12/10/2017 11:39

sprinkle pepper all over the doorstep. Animals always sniff before they poo, the pepper will dissuade them.

BathshebaAndGabriel · 12/10/2017 11:43

Are you sure it's not fox poo?
Poo is poo though, innit.

FatBastardHead · 12/10/2017 11:52

We used to have this in our backyard, which is all concrete. I chopped up a load of lemons and scattered them around. As PP have said, I really resented spending money on this (they're only about 50p each but still) but it did the trick.

KindergartenKop · 12/10/2017 11:54

Cats love to bury it, maybe it's a fox?

Aquamarine1029 · 12/10/2017 11:56

Try a anti-cat citrus spray.

ohhereweareagain · 12/10/2017 12:50

sounds like fox poo to me

JonSnowsWife · 12/10/2017 12:53

cats love to bury it

That's a myth.

I like cats. But I don't like twatcat. When they're not spraying all over my Children's trampoline netting they are pooing wherever they want in our garden, and twatcat has never had the decency to bury it.

FooFighter99 · 12/10/2017 12:53

We have 4 cats, and one of them (I have my suspicions which one!) kept pooing in our extension, so I sprinkled white pepper on the carpet and it hasn't happened since!

Strong smells, like vinegar or pepper will stop whoever it is from pooing on your step

Good luck Smile

Dontspeaktome · 12/10/2017 12:54

LOL you wasn't very pleased I'm sure most people would not be 😂

Misspollyhadadollie · 12/10/2017 12:54

I'm not sure. There's a cat who I suspect it is as it's always hanging around near my house and has ripped open my bins a few times.

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FatBastardHead · 12/10/2017 12:56

A friend of mine caught her neighbour's cat in the act a few times so she was sure it was their cat. She scooped up the poo in a doggy poo bag and posted it through their letterbox Shock

Scaredparent · 12/10/2017 12:56

Cats are vile things

Fell out with the neighbors over there cat messing all over my garden and popping the paddling pool

bluebump · 12/10/2017 13:01

I find jeyes fluid works well as I'm assuming they don't like the smell. Need to do my garden again soon as a friends dog ran out in my garden and rolled in some cat poo the other day, yuk.

PsychologicalSaline · 12/10/2017 13:33

Our neighbour's cat did this on a couple of occasions. I came home late one night and startled it up from sitting on our step. The poo was evident and the culprit clearly obvious but our neighbours were less than impressed when I asked them to clean our doormat. Perhaps I was being a CF in asking for it to be cleaned? Who knows? They were miserable people (who quite often shut the cat out) and I was glad to move in the end!

lozzylizzy · 12/10/2017 13:37

I came home to a mini poo emoji on my door step a couple of weeks ago. The kids were baffled/almost excited and told everyone!

My sister had a dog that used to poo on the top of her solar lights stuck in her garden!

Ethereall · 12/10/2017 14:23

I've had this several times but once I removed the doormat it stops.

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