Keep your filthy disgusting cats at home!

[SelkieQualia]

My 3yo son just ran across my front lawn and jumped in the car. On the way, he's trodden in cat poo ( there's a regular offender, and no, it's not fox ). There's now cat poo all across the back seat of my car. I'm first trimester, and horrified at the prospect of toxoplasma, even though I know the risk is low.

This is on the background of my aracuana chicks being stolen by cats from my own back yard. I don't care how lazy you think your cat is - research has shown that even the most placid cat will kill 2-3 animals per night if allowed to roam.

Keep them locked up ffs! If you can't keep them inside, make a run. If you can't do that, keep rabbits instead.

Lol so cat owners should after their cats into the neighbours garden at night and follow them around until they might do a poo? My cat would not poo in front of me. He is quite private.

All this thread is doing is proving to me how utterly weird cat owners are

@UsernameNotValid

I'm still failing to understand why it's fine for cats to shit in my property when there have been threads on here saying dogs shouldn't be allowed in parks because not everyone likes them.

You own a pet, you are responsible for that pet.

Dogs aren't allowed to roam or mess freely so why are cats? It's disgusting either way.

Under UK law a cat is given the "right to roam". A cat cannot legally trespass and so its owner is not legally responsible for where their cat goes. Anyone who removes a cat and prevents it from returning to its owner is guilty of theft.

I'm pretty sure I can humanely remove a cat from my property regardless of the law.

As I've stated, I'm allergic to them and won't be putting up with them roaming my garden if they ignore deterrents.

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@TibetanTerrier

“Cat spikes don't work. Cats are far too intelligent.“

Precisely

@UsernameNotValid

I'm pretty sure I can humanely remove a cat from my property regardless of the law.

As I've stated, I'm allergic to them and won't be putting up with them roaming my garden if they ignore deterrents.

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High powered super soaker it is then👌

You shouldn't have animals as pets you can't keep inside.
Cats shit everywhere, dropped my sheet in some yesterday, had to wash again, disgusting rodents.
Shouldn't be allowed as pets.
Dogs you can keep in, take for walks, not leave out all night for others to cope with, and owners usually clean up after them.
I think cat owners are the most selfish people on the earth.

You're "inclined to approve" of poisoning a defenceless animal?

Poisoning?!

I meant taking an unchipped roaming animal to be rehomed.

Ermmmmmm.... no I won’t keep my cat at home!

My dog loves a roam around the neighbourhood but it's not allowed (no one told him so he keeps trying his luck climbing over the 6ft fence to next door) so I call him straight back ruining his fun (and ability to scrounge food off the next door but one neighbours) however the neighbourhood cats all come into my garden and sit on the shed or greenhouse and spit and hiss at him, they also do poo in the bark chippings. I don't understand why it's acceptable for cats to roam. Dogs at least come when you call them home!

I think cat owners are the most selfish people on the earth.

I've had to deal with more dog shit on our path in the past than cat shit. And plenty of owners leave their dogs outside to whine and bark all day. Only difference is they aren't able to scale fences to get out.

@Devlesko I think you should design a cat prison. Get them off our streets!

Honestly though, you sound delusional.

I actually wish that all I had to worry about in life was the movements of my neighbours cats...

How does that have anything to do with the cat shit we find daily on our premises not those of the cat owner.

OP, I have a suggestion, I do when I can.
Find the owner and shovel it through their letter box. Then hear how horrified they are on the local fb, it's classic.
With a note of course, Just returning your shit

Mumsnetters have got bored with ranting about children and students being "superspreaders" and "selfish arseholes" for merely existing, so they're having a go at the cats now? Playing for time until Saint Boris makes his grand appearance later today, to spout more of his haloed wisdom?

More shit comes out of Boris's mouth than comes out of a cat's bottom.

Yes, but I don’t tend to tread in Boris’s shit or smell it close up (notwithstanding that it’s all pervasive )

I fucking hate cats. They shit in my garden and leave half dead birds for my kids to see. I actually see no point in having an outdoor cat as a pet.

More whataboutary!

"I'm sick of cats shitting in my garden"

"But Boris Johnson talks shit"

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No dog owner has ever been prosecuted for a dog attacking a cat in its own garden. The police told someone who owned such a cat there was no case to answer. There were signs warning a dog could be loose in the garden. If you let your cat wander it's a risk you have to be prepared to take.

Get a hermetically sealed garden if you can't deal with nature, or maybe a flat is better for you.

But they purr 😸

Lol so cat owners should after their cats into the neighbours garden at night and follow them around until they might do a poo? My cat would not poo in front of me. He is quite private.

^^mine would be horrified

Under UK law a cat is given the "right to roam". A cat cannot legally trespass and so its owner is not legally responsible for where their cat goes. Anyone who removes a cat and prevents it from returning to its owner is guilty of theft

Thats all fine... you could never proof which neighbour took your cat on a 500 mile one way trip. No harm done! Just make sure it has a microchip.

I'll keep my cats locked up just as soon as you keep your germ ridden toddler locked up. Fair is fair.