To NOT want the neighbours cats shitting in my garden?

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Newish house - with a large garden.

Our neighbours seem to all have cats which wander where they like.

Just been out to shoo one away and caught it casually squeezing one out whilst staring me in the eye. It couldn't care less.

Obviously IANBU to not want this - so what suggestions does anyone have to keep the dirty little beggars out?

I can still smell it sick, not envy..

The cats, not the owners.

I have a Dog and still have to pick up about 3/4 lumps every day. I have just accepted it is one of those things I have to do now, I just get on with it I am afraid there is nothing you can really do about natural things, and as for squirting with water, I couldn't do that to a defenceless animal, people say it doesn't hurt, but it is just so unkind.

It's cat shit, not nuclear waste.

I don't have a cat and love my garden, but can;t get worked up about the odd lump of shite.

I spray cats that come into my garden - particularly in Spring when there are fledglings. I don't want to come across cat shit in my flower beds, whether it's been buried or not.
I very rarely come across fox poo even though we have several foxes around - a couple of times a year at the most. Foxes, unlike cats, leave their poo as a territorial marker. You may have foxes under your shed and have no poo in your garden.

@Hairyporker You might do if your child picked it up off the lawn and then put it in their mouth or their hand in their mouth? Or you kept standing in it or accidentally touching it when doing your gardening. It's my garden, I don't have a cat because I don't want one, so fuck off cat and shit in your own litter tray.

Maybe teach your kids not to eat shit?

Easily done when they're older. Bit different when they are a toddler and you pop them on a blanket on your lawn without realising that some cat has arrived in the neighbourhood after living there for 5 years with no cat shit. Not telepathically minded, I wouldn't have thought to have checked the lawn after that length of time, not having a cat myself, nor either of my immediate neighbours.

Maybe teach your kids not to eat shit?

Oh fuck off, keep your cat on your own property if it has a tendency to shit everywhere.

Some cat owners think their cats shit gold nuggets and the rest of us should be grateful.

I don't have a cat, can you not read?

You can get this stuff called Lion's Poo, they hate it.

My Dad hates his neighbours cats in his garden, we got a dog and now it comes with us for BBQs etc. He hardly gets any cats in there anymore.

That puts you in the same category as the shitting cats.

Not exactly, that would require me to defecate willy nilly in other people's gardens.

Cat owners are cat shit owners. Non-cat owners should not have to own cat shit.

This is my life the neighbourhood cats use my garden as a toilet! I've tried everything I spend my life picking up shit out of my garden
Their owners can't actually do anything about it

‘I don't have a cat and love my garden, but can;t get worked up about the odd lump of shite.’
Everyone’s talking about lumps of shite? In the 15 years we’ve lived here I am yet to find a lump of shite in the garden. The shite which fills our garden is always clarty wet crap which leaves a giant skid mark on the grass after I’ve scraped it up with a trowel. And then I have to clean the grass and the trowel.

Should I offer the street some dry cat food? Is it those damn gourmet posh cat food pouches which are to blame for the slush puppy shit?

Should I get a lion? Would that stop the shit?

@ShatnersWig. Most likely to be fox poo if it was on your lawn. Cats prefer to dig and bury their poo in soil.

Our lawn is full of cat poo. They don’t care where they shit.

@Pawtrayt That gets brought up every time on these threads. No, it was cat. And 8 times out of 10 on the lawn not the borders and when it was in the borders it was never buried. Proved when I eventually caught not one, not two but THREE cats in the act at the same time. All came from the same flat a few hundred yards away. New bloke. We soon discovered that in this flat he had 24 FUCKING CATS.

24?! Nightmare!

24

our cats don't bury their poo, I don't know why people claim that all cats do. From my perspective it's handy as I can see it to pick it up and it doesn't take me by surprise when I'm gardening.

And it's really easy to tell the difference between cat and fox poo.

However, in defence of cats we have never had mice (a first for me, had mice everywhere I've lived previously) since having our cats and hopefully the neighbours haven't either.

@ShatnersWig.They sound like cats that have been taken from their mum too early so haven't learned by watching her. Very sad.

24 cats in one flat is so cruel, I hope they were rehomed.

He basically didn't believe in getting his cats neutered, moved in with about seven to start with and before you knew it.... We (neighbours collectively) had a great issue but eventually got it sorted.

But they were still cats shitting and not foxes, and still on people's lawns.

It must be an endemic issue here then, or, shit parenting by our region’s cats.

All the cats I've had have buried their poo. I suspect that you've hit the nail on the head, @Pawtrayt and cats that don't were removed from their mothers too early. They learn instinctive behaviours from their mothers.

Although I think I've read somewhere that cats are known to deposit faeces on lawns when marking territory.

If the deterrents don’t work, consider a motion activated camera and then returning the feces to the owner of the cat.

Irresponsible pet owners drive me nuts. I have pets. I deal with their waste. No one else should have to ever deal with it.

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