[quote pennywiselives]@SevenWaystoLeave honestly OP, I would rather be an irresponsible pet owner and anti social neighbour than be bitter, aggressive and pedantic like you. This thread is full of people suggesting cost effective, simple ways to deter cats but you are choosing to ignore the helpful advice and just carry on ranting about how terrible cats and their owners are. Which suggests you just enjoy moaning.
My cat has a litter tray which he uses but he also roams outdoors as is his legal right. So I have no idea what he gets up to during that time. The only way to 'control' him as you say is to keep him indoors 24/7 and im not willing (or legally obliged) to do that. Thankfully my neighbours all fuss him and like to see him rather than being so unpleasant.
I can understand why it's annoying of course. It's also annoying when birds crap on my windows or mice get in my shed. You seem to think that because cats have owners there should be some magical cure to containing them but the facts are that they are free to roam just like wild animals are and if there weren't so many owners there would simply be a lot of wild cats procreating and shitting in even more flower beds.
You seriously need to chill. There are bigger things happening in the world. [/quote]
I already do most of the things suggested on this thread to deter cats, they still come in. The only things I haven't done are the suggestions that would cost me literally hundreds which I can't afford. I'm not posting for tips, I'm posting because I'm sick and tired that even after trying every cat deterrent in the book, I still have this problem which I shouldn't have because it's not actually my responsibility to be controlling or cleaning up after other people's pets.
I don't give a shit about your legal rights to be quite honest, the law is archaic because it's based on cats once being useful as mousers, it's not designed for fat urban house pets. Legalities aside, you have a moral obligation to be a responsible pet owner and a decent neighbour, neither of which entitled cat owners seem to give a shit about. I bet your neighbours are far more annoyed about your cat than they let on. And if your cat gets squished by a car, as happens eventually to the majority of outdoor cats, it'll be 100% your fault but you'll never accept that. You'll probably expect the driver to pay your vet bills because as an entitled cat owner nothing is ever your responsibility.
It's not "magic" to contain, control and supervise your pet, the owners of absolutely every other type of animal from dogs to chickens to horses to parrots to lizards manages somehow to contain, control and supervise their pets (and if they don't they are recognised as irresponsible). Cat owners can, there are plenty of cat owners on this thread who manage to do it, you just don't want to. That's your choice and you may be within the law but you are still an irresponsible pet owner and an anti-social neighbour.
they are free to roam just like wild animals are and if there weren't so many owners there would simply be a lot of wild cats procreating and shitting in even more flower beds
I'm sorry but I have to address this special bit of idiocy - there is no such thing as a "wild cat", cats are not wild animals, they are domesticated, they don't just magically appear, they appear because people keep them. Cats without an owner are not wild, they are stray or feral, and are either owned cats which have been abandoned or are descended from owned cats which have been abandoned or allowed to breed without control. In areas which have significant populations of unowned cats, they are considered a nuisance and programmes are put in place to trap, capture, neuter or even kill them to limit their numbers. Nowhere is there a utopia where cats roam wild and free. In places where the majority of cats have owners there is zero excuse for them to be allowed to cause a nuisance.