Cat faeces - can I ask owner to come and clear it up?

[HungryHippo11]

There is a new black and white cat in our neighbourhood, I've seen it in our garden once our twice.
We went away for a week and I've come back to find piles of cat shit in the space between our car and bins, covered in flies. Obviously cat has found a nice quiet spot to do his business.
We have a neighbour Facebook page, so I can probably find out who the cat belongs to. WIBU to request that they come and clean up the crap? And is there a way to prevent it happening? Luckily it driveway is a little away from the house so at least its not right by my front door.

BadMother is persistent I'll give them that

What I find the most interesting here is that it's the non cat owners that know more about cats and their habits while cat owners are in denial.

As evidenced by ring cameras at our front and back gardens, the piles of poo on the patio, lawn and gravel (none buried) turned out to be three different cats.
Cats roam blah blah blah but cat owners ought to be more responsible. It’s disgusting.

Can cat owners at lest stop overfeeding the cats so they start being useful and catch the rats around?😂

Get your own cat, it will deter other cats and your own cat won’t shit in it’s own backyard (allegedly). Though when I had an outside cat it shat in our garden under the hedge but the dog ate it for breakfast every day.

The only thing that I found worked are the strips of plastic spikes that stop cats walking / shitting on a surface. We had our garden totally redone with new planter beds, new lawn etc and I was picking up about 15 shits per week. It was absolutely disgusting. Cat scarer electronic thing didn’t work, nor did lemons. Get a roll of the spiky mat and weight it down with a brick at each end. Do it in every place you find a poo. I’ve not found a poo for three years now.

Gosh we’ve reached a whole level of bizarreness, when we’re comparing cats who roam and poo to children throwing stones at cars and drunks being sick

How is it bizarre? They're all forms of antisocial behaviour that make other (unconnected and innocent) people's lives worse.

If I built some sort of contraption that fired poo from my own property into all of the neighbours' gardens, I can't think of a single one who would think me in any way reasonable - but choosing to get a cat and not train it/monitor where it poos/clean it up is effectively the same thing.

Cats roam and poo wherever they like, true - which is a very good reason not to have one in a neighbourhood if you aren't going to supervise it all the time when it isn't on your own property, as a dog owner (almost always) would. Lots of other animals would be similarly unsuited to close neighbourhoods, which is why people don't have them.

Cat owners always come up with reasons why others shouldn't be upset about poo being left on their properties - I'd actually have a tiny little bit more respect if they would at least own it and say "Yes, I chose to have a cat knowing full well that it would poo anywhere it likes, but I don't care about other people, because it's less effort for me to just ignore it."

Just leaving this here .... I like the sound of Knox! A catshit free paradise ...

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pet-cats-banned-wandering-under-24446138.amp

A cat poo in the garden thread. reassuring that things are returning to normal around here.
I'm a cat owner (sorry about that) but she has a litter tray which she actually comes back in to the house to use.

My friend once had a neighbour ring the doorbell and he was standing there with a poo on a shovel. He said he was returning her cat's poo to them. She doesn't even own a cat.

@tookindforowngood

Im having the same issues in my garden, next doors cat going all over it and making it impossible to let my 3 year old out without having to 'minesweep' the garden first. Tried the gel crystals, within 2 hours of them being down and h garden freshly cut a package was left . Next is a water pistol followed by an automatic motion detected water sprayer ( £22 on amazon).

Do you have a link to the sprayer?

Our drive (gravel) is literally a massive cat litter tray all of a sudden starting a few weeks ago, it's driving me mad. Literally 3-4 huge piles of shit every morning, sometimes uncovered, sometimes scraped into nice piles of gravel for the kids to not see and step in 🤬

@ThatsNotMyReindeer

That is what I've been looking at but all the other listed ones should be good

Can't be bothered to RTFT but cats DO sometimes shit on hard surfaces and also shit without burying it - it's called 'middening' and it's a way of marking territory.

@Hopeisallineed

I think it’s unlikely a cat would shit on gravel, snd that sounds like a lot of poo ! But you could try putting down orange peel or strong smelling aromatherapy oils as they don’t like the smell, peppermint or citrus works. Dilute it in a spray and apply liberally!

They love to shit on gravel.

@HunterGatherer no cats round my way do it and I can count 12 in the immediate area. They usually like newly dug flower beds in my experience.

@HunterGatherer that's why I sadly changed my mind about my terrace design... I wanted small pebble area but I refuse to clean more shit. On the other hand... Maybe it would sdistract them from veg patch😂 Though since i laid new bramble branches down, I have no issues there.

Why are cat owners happy to pick up cat poo in other peoples gardens if they can prove it's from their yet they expect non-cat owners to just pick it up regardless of which cat/s have left it and not complain about it. It's a two minute job stop whinging but I won't pick it up unless it's from my pet, double standards isn't it?

Well unless you live in Wales where we recycle food, paper, cardboard, glass plastics separately have a black bin every four weeks for unrecyclable stuff have to visit recycling center three times a month max for clothing electronics, metal, wood then not impressed by virtue signalling on here

We pay extra for garden waste as well once fortnightly for grass, flower trimming. Anything bigger hire a skip

Ignored wrong thread

@Monestera

Cat poo in the garden is one of life's little annoyances. You cannot expect owners to retrieve it. It's what cats do.

Ditto dogs. Dogs naturally roam throughout the day, returning to their loving owners for meals and cuddles. Dog poo in the street is one of life's little annoyances. You cannot expect owners to retrieve it. It's what dogs do.
(England, 1975)

People aren't following their cats around all day whereas with dogs the owner has to deliberately ignore the mess.

Not pleasant, but it's not preventable, realistically. Just deter them from the garden to the best of your ability is all that can be done. But let's also not forget the amount of pollution and mess each one of us produces is gigantic compared to any other animal- only difference is ours is taken away to sewers or landfills so we don't have to see it (somebody else deals with it)