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

Thanks for the tip mooma, will try gripper rods in the borders. Hadn't thtought of that one. You can get this stuff to stick on the top of fences like non-sharp gripper rods. My FIL uses it and says it's effective, but it is expensive at £12/metre. With a 120' garden that's a lot of money. He uses it in just one area, but the 15 bastard cats next to us door jump over the 6' fence anywhere they feel like.

My local councillor suggested I and the other 6 houses in our row write a letter explaining the cost and health implications of them owning 15 cats and that we will begin to bill them unless they deal with the problem. My neighbour the other side has a beautiful garden. She is retired and her pleasure is her garden. She spends a lot of time and money having to remove dead plants and cat faeces

I also agree with the posters about the wildlife. I get reallly P*ed off with picking up dead birds (I also happen to feed them so I am creating a little feeding station for the kittys!)

It is good to see that a lot of cat owner on her take their responsbility to their pets seriously and ensure they have litter trays, or that they don't stray far.

I don't generally go around wishing death on innocent creatures but when you hve to check your garden every day before the ds plays football and you are picking up sick, poo and dead animals (when you are pregnant!) the idea of shooting becomes an obsessive fantasy.

YANBU; you don't want someone elses life choices to have an impact on you. Oh yes I know I will get all the "how can you kill an innocent creature?" bleeding hearts. But if something represented a health, money and time issue for you, wouldn't you want to resolve the problem? I have tried many different things - lion poo, pellets, constantly water pistol and hose pipe the buggers, even politely requested the neighbours find a solution - to NO AVAIL!

Let the shooting commence.

Disgusting creatures. I'm a big believer in trying to 'live and let live' as far as you can but when you're clearing shit from somebody else's pet out of your garden on a daily basis and you have young children it's not on to just say that "cats like to be outside so just deal with it". There is a cat repeller that has a motion sensor and you attach it to a hose so it can squirt any offendors. Maybe unrepentant cat owners could be billed to supply their neighbours with them??

I'm no expert but given the amount of cats shitting in my garden I imagine they are not leaving much business in their OWN gardens!

Having said that, the fecking pigeons round here are worse. I have to clean the most enormous pigeon poos off our furniture and garden all the time...especially when they've been at the blackberry bushes...[chokes on vomit emoticon]

sorry to say in the past i have put poison down. i hate peoples pets in my garden full stop.

I agree with whoever said that if you can't control your pet's behaviour, you shouldn't have it as a pet. How do you know that it isn't shitting in someone else's garden when you let it out? Of course it is. That's what cats do.

HOWEVER ... I have news ... DH's wee seemed to work!! No cat poo this morning in the area he sprayed last night but a feckin' huge cat poo about 10 feet away

So, as he can't produce enough wee at night to cover the whole lawn, I'm going to ask you to pass me the gun please.

I also have news - we put down this product GET OFF (my lawn/garden). Like bright green gel pellets/liquid.

DH also boarded up a gap under our gate at the back of the garden.

On first glance I can see anything..

BUT - why are we having to go to all this effort to deal with other people's life choices????

Will we be buying a bottle of get up every 48 hours??

But I would never poison or shoot, just for the record. I don't actually blame the cats, I blame the owners.

But I would EVIL eye the owners and would fantastise about posting said shit back through their letter box

You know ladies when I suggested arsenic in an earlier post I didn't think you would take me seriously!!! However, I am fully in support of whatever actions are necessary to keep them off the fecking garden.

What tips can you suggest for keeping them off my car bonnet!

When I lived in Britain I had the same problem. Finally bought our own house with small garden for the dc's to play in and had to go out ever day and check for cat poo. Absolutely disgusting.

Cat owners who let their cats out and let them poo in other people's gardens are imo extremely selfish people. Toxoplasmosis in its extreme form can cause blindness but then that's o.k. isn't it because it wouldn't be fair to keep the cats inside. Better to let them out and risk a child getting toxoplasmosis.

I used lots of different things to try and keep them out, none of them worked. The only effective method which I have now witnessed in my own building is getting a cat of your own. I think I've read it somewhere that cats do not like to poo in their own gardens and they keep other cats out of their territory. New neighbours moved in below us a few months ago bringing a cat with them. We used to have a lot of strays walking through and pooing in the garden but since he moved in, the other cats have moved out, so to speak.

I don't think that suggestion will go down well but thought I'd mention it.

Toodles...but then doesn't your cat poo in everyone else's garden too?

Just a btw, but you might also be finding fox poo in the garden as well.

Fox poo is worse even than cat poo. It smells far worse and whilst cats often (but not always) bury their poo, foxes use it to mark their territory.

We have a fox that likes to dump on the lawn just after I've mowed it. Yum. Not sure if anything deters foxes...

If your are picking the shit anyway... what about using nappy bags to collect it, keep it for a week and then deliver the full load to your neighbour to see if that gets the point through?
Obviously she will say cats will be cats but you won't feel so bad about disposing of the cat.

I recomend cayena pepper.

Yes Trell, we get that...but in our front garden, together with a collection of the neighbourhood nappies torn to shreds.

Fox poo f'ing stinks.

Just pop round to the cat owners house, squat down and poo on there lawn every morning. They will soon get the point.

Mozley, you can't shoot an innocent creature, no. That's unacceptable. But what about capturing them one by one and leaving them as strays at your local pound, RSPCAs etc? they sure would get a better and less overcrowded home?

The cats here like to shit amongst our lettuces so they cost us money too

Thanks orange fish, but chances are they are micro-chipped so would come back. There is no escaape and clearly no easy answer either. I wouldn't really shoot a cat, but the fantasies...

Sprinkle the soiling areas with cayenna pepper... it works...

I offered to scoop a poop when I saw our cat looking a bit likely accross the road. They declined! I still feel I ought to though, but don't want to be done for trespassing.

If it's any consolation he poo's in our garden too. The dope.

DeathbyDora - I'm sure the m'netters who would consider buying a cat to avoid this problem, would be the kind of people who buy a litter tray for their cats and train them to poo in that, so avoiding the problem of their cat pooing in someone else's garden.

OK,OK, I pretty much know I'm going to get flamed but some of you will appreciate this...

here

I know it's quite horrific and not a nice way to go but my first thought was - 'that'll teach the fcker for squatting in someone elses garden'

To pre-empt the attack, I say this - why on earth should the owners of the snake not be allowed to have thier pet out in thier own garden!? I'll keep what I damn well like in my own garden and if that happens to be a snake then as long as it stays in my garden then it has fuck all else to do with anyone else.

It is the cat's owners fault for letting thier cat out to crap in that garden

Honestly I think some of you are a bunch of sick fucks. How can you contemplate killing an innocent animal that is someone else's pet, that some child loves.

Nevermind that may not be the one using your garden as a toilet. I have hedgehog poop all over my garden, I thought it was cats for a long time. There's also foxes and the birds make a huge mess under the lamppost.

Whats also shocking is that some of you would rather have poison in your garden, is this not infinitely more dangerous than poo. Oh and Ha Ha Ha, thats hilarious joke about kicking a cat and hearing a satisfying thud.

My cat uses an indoor litter but goes out and ventures around the neighbouring gardens. She was an indoor cat but started to get ill from stress which was cured by letting her out.

My friend recently witnessed a cat on the street being ripped to bits by a dog that wasn't on a leash, do you lot think thats what the cat deserved? What the hell are you teaching your kids, it's okay to kill someone else's pet and it's okay to hurt animals?

The OP has 15 cats next door, thats ridiculous and I'm sure the poo is a problem. The owners should be reported, that many cats is an environmental hazard. One cat (if it is a cat, could be foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, etc) is no reason to go out slaughtering.

OP have you tried this - www.greenfingers.com/superstore/product.asp?dept_id=2235&pf_id=DD1099D&source=webgains&siteid=39408 it's drastic but I have friends who use them and they work.

Have to say when I read the first post I thought the person meant tell the neighbours there is poison so they keep their cat out of the garden not actually put poison down

I am shocked by the people who think it's acceptable to even think about killing someone else's pet.

Fuck me what a bunch of evil bastards you are talking of hurting/killing an animal.

Feel sorry for your children if you have that hatred inside of you