to throw all the cat poo back into neighbours gardens?

[misdee]

three houses either side of me all have cats.

there is a tiny flower bed type thing near my front door. its full of cat poo.

should i share it equally between the three houses?

yes i am joking. i do need to clear that patch, but as have just had a baby i havent been able to do it and dh cant as immune suppressed, i dont think the dd's will do it for me.

its really disgusting. its just this one tiny patch that is just larger than a litter tray that is full of poo right by my front door.

i was hoping to plant stuff there in the spring, so any suggestings about what to plant would be good (lavender did someone say?) which deters cats away from that patch.

we were also hoping to gravel the front lawn (its just a mud pit tbh), but am worried they will just use that as a giant litter tray.

i cant have cats/dogs due to dd's allergies and dh being immune suppressed. otherwise would get my own and let him/her mark the front garden as their own.

honestly, the scatter crystals really work misdee, we use them all the time

It's not about blaming the owners exactly, but they must like cat poo or they wouldn't own one. They probably step in it on purpose to enjoy the squishiness and aroma. Therefore it will not make them unhappy to get it all back

nightmare isn't it.
the one shitting in our garden stopped suddenly after I announced to dp very loudly one afternoon (on hearing neighbours out in their garden) that if I caught the cat shitting on my lawn again I'd catch it and take it to the RSPCA and tell them it was a stray. and what a shame it was that I couldn't let my children enjoy their own garden because I was constantly having to check for piles of poo.

i think you are being totally reasonable. And the best idea i have heard all week

I am absolutely roffle.
Dh thinks i've gone [more] bonkers. So I read it to him - title and first 5 or so posts.
now he phsl

If you want a serious and quick answer to this.
Put a paving stone over the patch. Cats like soft places to poo and the stone surface should deter them. Or any other hard surface.

If you want to start a feud with your neighbours chuck poo about to your heart's content. Apparently gorillas throw their poo at you when they are cross so its nice to see how far we've come up the evolutionary scale.

BTW I know you were joking OP but I think some of the others are quite serious.

Shingle or shale work much better for ground cover if you want to avoid cat poo issues, Th stones also travel less, and I think although a bit more expensive, are more attractive. Cats rarely poo in their own gardens unless they are very stressed or old, or both (like mine was). So the pooing is usually reciprocal where you have several cat owning neighbours. Not so good it you don't have one of course. Personally I'm not sure any of the remedies work, but having flowers that smell nice helps hide the problem. We put down cocoa shell which has the advantage of desicating the poo and making it easier to clear up (for our decrepit cat before he started pooing in the grass, which was an utter pain). A previous cat used to go up to those crystal things and give them a good stiff before pooingnext to them (and uprooting the small plants I was trying to protect). But he was also old and probably didn't have much of a sense of smell left.

dh threw gravel at the cat who came around to terrorise one of our more shy cats, and that did seem to work at keeping him away, but I'm sure his owner would not have been pleased, so you do need to be careful if they belong to near neighbours.

I have two dogs and I still get cats pooing in my garden. My BIL goes and wees in their garden that's supposed to put them off. I hate cats good luck with this.

well the problem we had was that they were shitting all over the lawn!
the only times they stopped were when we let the grass grow really high.

so it meant I couldn't even just let the kids out to play

Oh I was serious yes.

It goes like this: "I think I'll buy a cat. The neighbours kids will just have to get used to not using their gardens to play in. A small price to pay for me wanting a cat"

It may be difficult to stop a cat shitting on your neighbours lawn, but that's the owners problem and one they should solve before they buy one.

Well I hope when your kids make a noise in the garden

and lose their ball over the fence, the neighbours just pop

it- and then tell you that having kids in a residential area is

one you should have worked out before you got pregnant.

Throw it at their windows, its funnier.

Yes because flinging poo around is a great solution. But if that floats your boat...

I can't believe I am up this late discussing the merits of poo slinging. I need to go to bed before I get woken up in 10 minutes. Enjoy your debate.

kill the cats

only reasonable IMO

No you should not.

It is your responsibility to keep your property clean, even of poo. But if you are seen to throw poo into your neighbours garden, you can get an asbo. It is anti social behaviour. If you keep doing it, and they FILM you, you are in trouble....

It doesnt matter how the poo came into your garden in the first place. There is a difference between a cat having a poo, and a human throwing shit into somebodys property.

You can buy stuff from garden centers to keep them off.
Cat poo is horrible though and I have a cat. Other cats come and crap in my lawn to annoy me and my cat!

right, so gravel wont work, woodchip wont work? what about that slatey stuff? would that stop cats pooping in that one small patch?

i am not really going to sling poo around. i can barely stand there and look at it, much less pick it up and throw it over fences and hedges.

gracie101, belive me in the area i live in my 8, 6 and 3yr olds making a noise and occasionally losing a ball over the fence is the least of my neighbours worries sadly. btw, in over 4 yrs, only a bouncey ball went over the fence at the old house 3times.

I do sympathise, but unless owners keep their cats in, its pretty impossible to police where they poo! I think the best thing is if you catch them at it, then make a sudden noise (they don't like the hiss of an aerosol spray, or loud bangs) If they get a fright while pooing there, they should hopefully associate pooing there with an unpleasant experience, and not want to repeat it.

Years ago, one of my neighbours came round to complain that my cat was staring at her bird table and frightening the birds away. I said "Erm, ok, I'll have a word with him..."

Here are some of the things we used (cats moved house now, thank goodness).

Pepper

Orange peel

Cat Off (or something like that)

Tin foil

Sonic cat repeller

Are there posters who really think the OP was going to go on a cat-poo-chucking spree? Really?

boggles<

OP, plant something really sharp and spikey. They have very delicate little cat bottoms and won't like it.

Scifinerd on Fri 21-Nov-08 20:32:42
"If you want a serious and quick answer to this.
Put a paving stone over the patch. Cats like soft places to poo and the stone surface should deter them. Or any other hard surface."

So how come our concrete path is full of poo every morning?

"gracie101 on Fri 21-Nov-08 22:55:32
Well I hope when your kids make a noise in the garden

and lose their ball over the fence, the neighbours just pop

it- and then tell you that having kids in a residential area is

one you should have worked out before you got pregnant."

This isn't going to happen- the garden stinks too much for my children to play in. It is a cat lavatory, not a garden.

If my children were able to play in the garden and did kick a ball over the fence, I should expect the neighbours to return it. So by the same token, when their cats bring poo into my garden, why may I not return it? Perfectly pleasantly, of course