Cat shit nightmare!

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Does anyone know how to stop cats shitting all over my garden?

They aren’t my cats but it’s about 2/3 of them. Every single day there’s a theme park of turds.

I’ve tried lemon juice, sprayed them with a water gun, lion poo pellets.

Im absolutely sick of picking up either a log or cat diarrhoea.

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Summary: Get a dog.

I don't know why you would use lemon juice. It's orange peel they hate.

Buy the cheap chilli powder/flakes and sprinkle it everywhere they go, obviously it'll have to be done regularly as it disappears but it worked a treat for me!

Get a cat!

A big tomcat from the rescue centre.

Cats bury their poo instinctively. They never shit on grass.No way it is from a cat.

I'll show you a picture of my cat's litter tray next time he has a dump! He scrapes at the litter a bit, shits in an entirely different place and then scrapes at the floor outside the litter tray and seems to be satisfied that everything is buried. He does a similar thing if he goes outside.
We used to have a neighbour's cat come and shit on our grass - I watched it do it several times.

The lies cat owners tell themselves to make themselves feel better about their cats shitting in other peoples gardens.

I've had cats shit on my lawn, in my flower beds and in my vegetable patch - absolutely disgusting. They might dig a very shallow dip or kick a bit of dirt in the direction of their poo, but it's still very obvious to anyone with eyes. I know it's cats as I have cameras. Absolutely vile.

Sorry OP but nothing really works including orange peel IME.

Cats disputing territory often leave poo uncovered

Get the sonic deterrents, they work

I thought that this was going to be about a cat pooing indoors, like the time I found that ours had shat in dd2’s knicker drawer. The stink was unbelievable - I couldn’t face it straight away - just shut the drawer and went downstairs to gird up my cat-shit-clearing-up loins.

He never did anything like that again, so goodness knows what possessed him.

I had this when I moved into my house last summer.

It was during a dry spell and the soil was rock hard. Any time I dug over a neglected patch in the flower beds, the next day I would find some cat poo (I didn’t have a cat)

I started leaving bits of branches and sticks across and sticking out of any loose soil, and firming it down. The idea is that they can’t get enough clearance to get down to poo. It’s an annoying solution, but this spring it seems to have stopped.

I found it works if you do it where you have found cat poo as they like to revisit.

My cat went through a phase of pissing on any fabric left on the floor - clothes, bath mats, curtains waiting for adjustment, a pile of old towels - and also shat on my son's clothes which were on the floor when he stayed overnight. However, I had recently moved house and he was extremely stressed.

Not necessarily. It depends where they are in the local pecking order. A lowdown cat will want to hide the smell of their poo from a boss cat, but a boss cat will want to ensure their poo will be smelt far and wide.

All the neighbouring cats, were pooping in my garden. I tried chilli, cat deterrents, lavender, orange oil, garden wire over the flowers beds. Everything. Long story short, I got a dog and now I’m cat poo free as they don’t dare squat long enough. Still have to pick up dog poop but at least it’s my dog 🤣

If it's in specific parts of your garden, get scat mats put down. We live in a Cat Close and they're our bane. You also might want to get a water gun and squirt them if you catch them doing it or looking as if they're scouting for a shit space. That tells them it's not safe to go there again. It's of course immensely satisfying to do, if also a bit hit&miss and time-consuming.

Total rubbish. Some do and some don’t.

If you are going to have a water gun, put a few drops of citronella in with the water. In concentrations, citronella can harm cats but not when it is very dilute. The smell will be an extra deterrent to them.

Nope.

Cats will use exposed shitting as scent markers, cats will shit in places where it can't be buried to do this, cats in some areas where most of the ground is tarmac/flags/concrete have no choice but to shit on bare ground.

The most effective deterrent is either a cat - who claims your garden as their territory, or a dog - who chases out any cats and they learn not to risk it.

These both present unpredictable and moving deterrents, which is what makes them so effective.

They do. One of the 17 cats that I've had living in my garden in the last 4 years did it, and so all the others started copying him! He was a scraggy old barn cat from the farm up the road and he decided that he was moving in.

When he died they all stopped. Every now and then we remind ourselves how annoying it was to do a morning poo disposal round.

My mum swears by used coffee beans. She gets a big bag of the stuff from her local cafe and crumbles it around the perimeter of her garden.