To really not understand why people are OK with cats

[Duvetstay]

Full disclosure, I'm allergic to cats and also very much a dog person but I really don't understand how it's acceptable for cats to go round decimating local wildlife and crapping in gardens.

I've lost count of how many times I've had to pick cat poo off the lawn and my daughter came in yesterday with cat sick all over her feet as a local moggie had vommed on our patio. I'm sick of it. It's a health hazard and you shouldn't have to wear a hazmat suit to go in your own garden.

We have tadpoles outside which are about to froglet and I've just seen a fat cat with its head in the water. I'm fuming, a few of the tadpoles are injured and this is the same cat I had to get off a terrified bird last week.

I'm not remotely sentimental about nature, if a hungry creature kills another then that's how life works. However I cannot understand how people can let these cats out knowing that they're injuring animals for no reason and causing health hazards to other people in their own home.

I couldn't take my dog for a shit in your garden so why can your cat do that in mine? They're not even natural predators as they just trot home to get their whiskers.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND!

I guess cat owners like them in the way that you like dogs, the difference being that cats don't shit all over the streets, parks, don't drive neighbours mental with noise,don't attack and sometimes kill humans. ...etc etc.

No they just shit all over other peoples gardens instead

If I had to guess, @cyclingmad, I'd say that more than one cat is vying to add your garden to their territory, and one is pooing openly to scare off the competition (although the one with diarrhoea may just have lost control due to being unwell). You could use cat repellents or, even better, get your own cat, to eliminate the problem.

Why would I get a car when I dont want a pet. And great i have to spend money on something I shouldn't have to because someone else decides to get a pet.

Really don't understand why people cannt see why that isnt fair.

If you want a pet fine go have one but it should impact other people or cause other people to have to spend money just to enjoy their land because of your choices.

Same with dog owners, pick up their poo.

I'm amazed you pick cat poo off your lawn. Cats usually bury it and dont use open spaces.

People keep saying this but it just isn't true. I've seen cats poo on the lawn, the pebbles on my garden and the flower beds. They don't always bury it. Even if they do it's not much better Because then you come across it when gardening

Shouldn't impact*

These posts make me laugh.

There is absolutely nothing you can do about cats that shit in your garden. They are animals that roam free.

Just deal with it and move on, because it will never change.

I can hardly walk fifty yards without seeing dog piss or dog shit all over the pavements.

OP, I think you've got some issues

Really don't understand why people cannt see why that isnt fair.

Whoever said life is fair? If it were fair, you would need to spend your money getting rid of the mice living in your immediate vicinity. Or put up with them scampering across your garden. Odds are, you're benefiting from the hunting of various neighborhood cats, without having to pay for, feed or house them. Cats provide a valuable service for free. Birds leave their excrement everywhere and most aren't nearly as useful to people.

IF IT WEREN'T FOR CATS THE WORLD WOULD BE RUN BY MICE

I have 2 cats. 1 occasionally catches mice which I am thankful for. The other in 8 years never caught anything not counting a bee which led to a trip to the vet. Then last year 3 days in a row he came home with a dead bird.... I have to admit that I was kind of impressed that a 9 year old cat had suddenly learnt how to hunt. It turned out he was walking through our garden, into our neighbours, climbing up their tree and just plucking baby birds from a nest. I was less impressed with his hunting prowess and he has kept his title of laziest cat. I think he was just jealous that the much smaller female cat was catching things when he couldn't. We kept him in for a couple of weeks and he hasn't done it since.
They do occasionally shit on the lawn but it seems to be more territory marking when we have had a visit from one of the local tom cats.
I love my cats. They love me ( when I have earnt it). My little cat knows when one of the kids is ill and will stay by their side till they are better. Its sweet and loving.

Cats are disgusting. I also hate the way they walk around on worktops or sit down on them with their disgusting cat arsehole on the kitchen counter.

Cats always make a house stink.

They are disgusting.

WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE TADPOLES?!!!!!

Yanbu

People who are horrified by the prospect of cat poo: how are you about the excreta of foxes, birds, squirrels, rats, mice, hedgehogs, moles, newts, frogs? Or can you guarantee that your garden is free of any of that?

Are you SURE it's cat poo? If it stinks and is left in piles on your lawn, I bet it's fox poo

Nope. I’ve seen the cats do it. They don’t bury it.

Yeah pretty much I dont see any fox poo or bird poo in my garden and definitely not on my grass or paving stones.

Nor so I see any nice or rat droppings either. Most of garden beds are covered in slate to stop cats digging up my plants so yeah I can say for certain I'd know.

End of the day yes cats can roam but if I wanted to have a job of picking up animal poo I would get my own pet! But I dont want to and shouldn't have to pick up other peoples pet poo.

I hate it when I'm talking my toddler out in the pram and I end up running through dog shit and then have to try and get it out of the wheels when I get home. Or that my 5 year old knows to look out for dog poo on the school run cause dog owners don't clean it up but that's life. It's an inconvenience but so are many things.
I will admit when my cat threw up inside the radiator I did hate them for a short time. 🤢

Op, I am a cat person. But the creatures that are killing my tadpoles?? Sparrows.
Blackbirds.
Dunnocks.

Not a single cat!!!

Cats are great. Birds can be. Bastards.

I couldn't take my dog for a shit in your garden so why can your cat do that in mine?

I literally had a lady letting her GS shit in my front garden right at the end of my path. She wasn't going to pick it up either she started to walk away until I was raged and called her back to pick it up 🤢

Tadpoles ... OP, are you serious?!
Or are you also the kind of person who thinks abortion is always unacceptable no matter what because it is "murder?"

The thing is, most cats aren't badly behaved nightmares, even if they are, they do so many cute and funny things that we forgive them. They also have a lot more personality than dogs who'll basically love you if you feed them and that's about it. Very simple creatures. You really have to work hard to earn the respect of a cat, it makes the relationship much more rewarding.

End of the day if your a pet owner then fake responsibility, if it's a dog pick up their poo. If its cat train them to poo in a litter tray or your own garden or at least by flipping sympathetic when ppl complain about cats crapping other peoples garden. And when cats do bury poo they have dug up my newly planted flowers destroying them! So at least have some sympathy and realise your choice to own a cat does cause other people have to buy new flowers of cat repellent, money they wouldnt have to spend. How would you like it having bought new flowers, spent time planting them and next day they have been dug up trod on and crapped in. To then have to spent time fixing the mess and buy new plants.

Any cat owner here want to say they happy to take that on? Thay if their cat sid thay to their own garden they wouldnt mind?

I like cats but I don't like that that other people's cats poo in our garden. Including the area we gave to the kids to dig over and play with :-( I do think that people should cat proof their gardens if they let them out, not least to keep them from foxes, cars etc. My sister has a fantastic huge run outside with access so it can go in and out of the house but can't get out of the garden.