To shoot every fecking cat that comes and shits in my garden...

[Pheebe]

...then send the owners the bille for cleaning dcs clothes, shoes and my carpets

Fecking disgusting bloody animals

Pepper spray them in the eyes syc, that will work

Oh and don't waste bullets on them, just kick them Johnny Wilkinson style back over the hedge. Meeeeooooowwwwwww you can just hear the screech now and that satisfying thud

Agree CurlyCasper, it is just getting dark now (that's why he's back from surfing ) but I probably should tell him to wait a bit longer, just to be on the safe side!

I think there's a business idea in here somewhere. Anyone want to buy some Man Wee?

Could we take this to the Dragons' Den, d'you think??

Unfortunately you need the aiming device too - and all bar one one of the dragons already has one of those! (debra meaden will be our target dragon then. Man wee in hollow dildos, the only cat deterrent you'll ever need )

Now, as I'm getting silly, I'll push off and do something more productive.

I just asked DH to go and wee in the garden, in a specific area, in an arc, on the grass, and he asked me if I'd been drinking

Which I haven't!

id rather shoot people

YANBU

It's bloody disgusting and a complete PITA. We have a large garden and I have to check it for cat shit every bloody morning before my ds's go out to play.

I have spent the past 8 years in this house running out of the house screaming and roaring like a mad woman trying to be a lion in order to scare the crap out of any shitty cats daring to venture into my garden.

I also like to see garden birds in the garden so this is another reason I will use fair means or foul to rid mygarden of cats.

We used to live in Australia where we were permitted to shoot any cats on our land as they kill the native wildlife (as they do here!).

Really?? it's ok to shoot cats but not wildlife never heard that.

It is a PITA, I have a cat and yes she is an outdoors cat for 50% of the day. But KILL her because she may poo in somebody's garden?

Are we going to kill all hedgehogs, birds, foxes etc etc????????? If a neighbour has 15 or so cats next door, then I really bloody sympathise and the neighbours should definitely take steps to prevent this. But saying that if a cat poos in your garden from down the road - you would kill it????? Wow

Hey people, the planet does not actually belong to human beings alone. Other animals live here too. And they haven't evolved to use lavatories...

As for birds, it's changes in farming practices that are largely to blame. And the protection of predatory birds that prey on songbirds.

I hate cats too, I shouldn't have to check the garden for poos before I let my kids into my garden and sometimes you can't just pick it up as it's too runny (disgusting).

I wouldn't harm one through poision, gun etc but filling the borders with branches from our spiky shrub worked to some extent. They still get the lawn and gravelled areas though. Lion poo pellets, lots of DS wee and one of those sonic things haven't worked.

My mum put carpet grippers in the border and by the fence for a while and that was pretty effective and then she removes them when they are out of the habit. I wouldn't go that far and my mum claims to like cats!

OMG. I cannot believe that some people think that they are so superior that they are allowed to kill innocent creatures for what comes naturally. Cats live on this planet too. What about birds, they s**t all over. Are you going to shoot them too???

As for trying to keep a cat in. I only let my cat (who does go out but only for a short while and uses an indoor litter tray), go out during the day but on a night if we are out she waits for us to come home and then runs out between my legs before I have stepped over the threshold.

Is an animal which won't stay in it's owner's garden suitable as a domestic pet?

Talk about a feckin' over reaction.

No one is going to kill any cats FFS!!!

But your cat is shitting 6 times a night in my garden.

It IS disgusting. Why am I picking up your cat shit everymorning and swallowing down my vomit? Stopping my DS poking his fingers in it?

Your cat isn't in your house naturally, you put it there. That's why it's nosing around my garden rather than running wild where it ought to be...so take some responsibility!!!

The cat that is shitting in your garden might be wild. We have quite a few wild cats around us. How do you know that it is a pet cat that is the culprit.

The tinkle of a bell as they run away is usually a good indication.

i will happily join any mass cull of garden fouling fuzzy bastards, not constructive in any way but i f*ing hate cats.

YANBU.

They crap in my garden and they make me sneeze. Shoot away.

Time we followed in Canadas footsteps. Seems cats do not have to be kept indoors BUT they must not be allowed to trespass on anyones land. Not sure how they police this but sounds good to me.

Dream on Scrummy. Every house on our street has a cat. Oh, of course, the ones shitting in our suburban garden are WILD.

watch they dont come in through your open window, karma has a way of biting nasty people on the ass.

AFAIK because cats cannot be contained, they are considered semi-domesticated in some way, their owners in law cannot be held responsible for their actions in the way that dog owners can.

kerry always shows up on a cat thread she loves them really.

I used to have a huge pump-action water pistol for the local cats, it was fairly accurate to about 80 feet (the distance to the garden wall from the back bedroom window - god knows what the neighbours thought I was up to). Pretty soon they associated my garden with getting wet and stopped coming in. It doesn't hurt them, and they had to spend the next hour or two cleaning themselves tip to toes, a task they seemed to prioritise over fouling my garden.

I'm not a complete monster , my priority was keeping them from bullying my two small and rather timid - and litter-trained - moggies.

If you can water-pistol them, it is effective and nobody can have a go at you for cruelty, because the cats aren't hurt (just a bit miffed).