Cat poo

[Sunkist12]

We've got a cat and for the past month someone keeps delivering cat poo in a bag to either our front door or the back garden. This has happened 4 times already. I get this must be annoying, especially if you don't have cats... but is posting the cat poo back really okay?! Also, how does that person know the poo they bagged belongs to our cat? There must be tons of cats roaming in the area. I'm at a loss at what to do and have 3 young dc, so finding bagged up poo around our property is not on. My aibu is what would you do, if a cat frequently visited your garden? Would you take back the offending poo?! If the person who did it was genuinely upset, I'd buy cat deterrent supplies and do what I can. But honestly, he's a cat, I can't police her everyday.

cats only really poo once or twice a day, usually after eating. if you keep him in for 30mins after eating and make sure he poos then i dont really see why he would then poo in someones garden.

and LOL at the horrifically outraged people on this thread. you share a planet with millions of different species, only one of which (dogs) you have to clean up after. you’ve probably sat/rolled in fox, hedgehog, bird, mouse, squirrel poo to name a few. BUT cats are the real bastards arent they

..no, they arent. you just have issues to feel so angry at an animal doing what its naturally supposed to do. are you just as outraged at horse shit left by horses/police horses? i hope so

op i’d either do nothing, so the neighbour realises his attempts are futile. or id deliver it back to them

We are the only house who either doesn't have a cat, dog or a paved garden. So we are the local toilet. It got to me when they started pooing in the sandpit, in the middle of the path, under the washing line and anywhere I'd step in it or find it. We've used water spraying but now use a box that makes a high pitched noise when the cats pass. We have to have a criss cross effect!

Perhaps they have kids and them finding cat poo in their garden isn't on either

willow

It wasn’t sarcasm. I’ve known dozens of cat owners and never met one who chose to keep their (naturally roaming) cat indoors unless the cat was either blind or disabled. The thread has nothing to do with dogs.

And no need to @ me - I’m on the thread.

I don't like birds crapping on my car, not fond of badger poo or fox (the list could go on) we have most the cats in the neighbourhood poo on our gravel drive (amazing big litter tray)
Annoying but part of life your neighbour should go get a life and accept that's what animals do

Had a similar issue with ex neighbour who once brought it wound with a trowel and smeared it on my front door - the thing was my cat was ill and had actually been inside for 2 weeks!
Some people get obsessed, cats are generally quite discreet and whilst annoying if they went in someone else's garden they do a good job of covering the evidence.
I actually went to the police who told her she'd get an ASBO if she kept doing it!

It’s not cruel to keep cats indoors in general as some are suggesting (plenty of animal welfare groups that say it is fine as long as the environment is suitable, and some actively encourage it). However, it would be stressful for a cat that is used to roaming to suddenly find itself trapped inside. NDN’s cat was tormenting my indoor cats by banging on the conservatory glass and hissing. We bought some cat repellent and now it doesn’t come near. Bagging and returning poo anonymously is a bit strange

I have two cats and I have a litter tray. Cats are notorious for not going in their own garden. It’s my choice to have cats and my neighbours shouldn’t have to pick up their poo.

I would buy a super soaker and super soak the cat a few times*

• I wouldn't, because I wouldn't care, but the above method is a proven deterrent

I believe you can buy fox urine to sprinkle in areas where you want to keep certain animals away. Maybe give your neighbour some to put in their garden. The hard part is catching the neighbour then offering them fox piss with a straight face . Personally, I'd get a Ring or Nest doorbell to catch them on video so you know who you're dealing with first.

Babcoc, we have neighbours 2 cats who come into our garden and shit on the grass. They make no attempt to bury it. They also urinate on our patio sofa. My dog would never do that.

I can’t cat proof my garden because of community rules re fencing. My dh is also allergic to cats and suffers badly when they have been on our outside furniture.

Cats are shit pets.

aged cats aren’t shit pets, you’re just a shit human

If your kids crapped in your neighbour's garden would you expect your neighbour to be okay with it?

As has been pointed out ad nauseam, your neighbour's kids can be trained where and when to crap, cats cannot. Cats enjoy a right to roam where they please - they (like me) don't give a fuck about the ornamental value of a lawn, nor about whether children play there.

You can't undo thousands of years evolution with cats for the simple sake of convenience, it just doesn't work like that. Have you considered that humans are one of the most parasitic and invasive species around the world?

As a species, we spew it millions of tonnes of crap into the atmosphere every year, deforest vast swathes of land and bomb holly fuck out of each other - but woe betide a cat crapping next to your latest Homebase garden project.

Our neighbour's cat shits in our garden regularly. I hate it.

When our young twins were learning to walk they would toddle onto her front lawn (we share a path so her front lawn is right next to shared path), she went completely bonkers. She got so worked up because two tiny 14 month old took steps across her tiny lawn.

I haven't said anything about her cat shitting in my garden but I have been so tempted to scoop it up and return it to her. But I am a decent human being.

I get that cats mean a lot to some people pets. What is don't get is is why those people are then prepared to let thier precious pets wonder the neighborhood at risk of been run over, locked in a shed, attacked by a psycho cat killer, or just predating local birds and pooing all over the show. Take some responsibility for your pet. No one is responsible for wild animals. Owners should be responsible for thier cats.

@zwellers as someone else pointed out (most) cats aren't meant to be kept inside. Two of my cats roam wherever they want, when they want.
As much as I'd like to follow them I don't have the time & I have no idea where they do their shits.
I'd hate anything to happen to them but if I forced them to stay indoors they'd have a very miserable lives. I'd rather they be happy doing what cats do even with the risks.
It's unfair to say we're irresponsible for letting our cats do what cats have been doing for thousands of years

I read a thread here recently where a woman said her dog shit right at the waters edge at the beach and it washed away just as she got to it to pick it up, well the dogs abuse she got was unreal, she was called all sorts. I guess cats shit must be ok going by some replies. Come on, shit is shit wether it's from a cat or a dog, both gross and no one but the owner should have to deal with it.
Someone up the thread said that all wildlife visiting your garden leaves shit but cats are not wildlife, they are someone's pet, that someone choose to get them so should be responsible for them. I think the same poster said she hates people who don't tolerate animals, not wanting someone elses pet to shit in your garden so you either have to stand in it or pick it up does not equate to not tolerating animals, maybe it means the can't tolerate entitled pet owners who think other people should deal with their cats shit.
And all this about you can't change a cats behaviour because of years of evolution, is this for real? Dogs are evolved to hunt in packs, so why don't we let dogs out to hunt in packs at night, that is what their natural instincts would be.
OP I think it's ironic that you're complaining about having to deal with cat shit in your garden, as you don't seem too concerned about your neighbours having to deal with it, at least they leave it for you nicely bagged.
We have an indoor cat, because we wanted a pet cat and don't expect anyone else to deal with his shit. We have an indoor dog too.

In my home country cats aren't allowed to roam free in residential areas. But they are still popular pets, they live indoors all their lives and strangely don't have any behavioural problems. The general view is that it is irresponsible to let a domestic cat into the wild, at mercy of other wild animals, traffic/stealing/poisoning etc.

Cats may bury their poo in their own litter tray but you are deluded if you think they do it elsewhere. I've seen it over and over again, doing the dirty business and then just sauntering away.

Our neighbourhood is over run with cats, every house can't just have one, they have bloody two or three cats each. And I know what fox poo for instance looks like, it's quite different from cat's. And the argument that all soft of wildlife poos all over your garden is ridiculous. For every fox there must be something like 20 cats. And for badgers - I've never seen a badger, it's not an animal people usually see in their gardens! Absolutely ridiculous.

But you can't have sensible discussion with British cat owners. Most are unable to accept any criticism or take responsibility of their pets. But then they make you out to be a horrible person if you run over a cat or accidentally have locked one in your garage.

Chris Packham also got horrible abuse when he made a plea for the cat owners to keep cats indoors during the birds fledging season. It was completely reasonable, emphatic plea but he received a horrible abuse over it.

I want to know how you cat proof a garden to stop a cat getting out without covering it with a giant net... To those wanting to keep cats out motion sensor sprinklers work a treat

Here's one example of how to cat proof your garden, i.e. your own at won't be able to escape. There are other methods too. Google is your friend.

purrfectfence.co.uk