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.

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

And I'm inclined to think dickheads hating on defenceless animals are the most hateful people of earth.

@majesticallyawkward

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

And I'm inclined to think dickheads hating on defenceless animals are the most hateful people of earth.

I'm with @majesticallyawkward

@BadEyeBri

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

It's not the germs. It's the screaming. In the garden, in the supermarket, in the restaurant. Grant you - not all toddlers do that. Just like not all cats poo in their neighbours' gardens.

Dogs are worse though. My friend lost her vision in one eye because of dog poo.

@BadEyeBri

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

Not sure when I last witnessed a lone toddler going around shitting in peoples gardens

@MsF1t

God, you're going to get roasted. But... although I've always been quite fond of cats, getting an allotment recently has given me a different perspective.

The feckers from around the neighbourhood seem to delight in digging up whatever I plant. They poo in among my salad leaves. And yesterday was the final straw. One caught a baby rat and took it to the other side of the fence from where I was working.

I get it, they're predators. But it tortured the thing for nearly half an hour. The screaming was horrible. And the cat kept looking over and locking eyes with me as it did it. I'd considered getting a cat before, but this has put me right off!

The larger the prey, the longer the cat will "play" with it. It's not torturing the animal, it's weakening it. The prey is capable of delivering bites, scratches and damage to the cat, so the cat bats it around until the prey is weak enough for the cat to deliver a killing bite to the neck without being hurt itself. No animal other than man is deliberately cruel, nature has a sensible reason for all animal behaviour.

Pointless things, kill birds and shit everywhere. Ideal pet for a selfish person.

@randomer

Then I’m a card carrying selfish and completely unapologetic person with an outdoor cat :-)

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VillageGreenTree - that just shows that Dog Poo is not suitable as eye mask!

Not sure when I last witnessed a lone toddler going around shitting in peoples gardens

No they don't need to shit in your garden just grab at you with their sticky, smeary, snotty hands, or cough or sneeze on you. I'm much more likely to catch a communicable disease from a small child than I am a cat. That's science. You are welcome.

So, so happy I have a cat that ‘toys’ with rats. Keeps the resident vermin down around our chickens.

@BadEyeBri

Not sure when I last witnessed a lone toddler going around shitting in peoples gardens

No they don't need to shit in your garden just grab at you with their sticky, smeary, snotty hands, or cough or sneeze on you. I'm much more likely to catch a communicable disease from a small child than I am a cat. That's science. You are welcome.

Can honestly say I've never had a random toddler pass by and "grab at me" or cough or sneeze on me, and I'm in kids places a lot! Again not quite the same, or as disgusting as standing in a random animals shit thats in your garden. Thats just a fact. You're welcome.

Such pleasant people on MN this week. I won't be keeping my outdoor, rescued cats in, but thankfully I live near kinder people. Anyway it's badgers, foxes, moles and deer which annoy garden-owners around here. Maybe we should lock them up too?

@VillageGreenTree

Dogs are worse though. My friend lost her vision in one eye because of dog poo.

This can happen with cat poo too.

@Emmapeeler2

Such pleasant people on MN this week. I won't be keeping my outdoor, rescued cats in, but thankfully I live near kinder people. Anyway it's badgers, foxes, moles and deer which annoy garden-owners around here. Maybe we should lock them up too?

When people claim to be keeping these animals as pets, I will expect them to keep them confined to an area where they don't negatively affect other people.

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion lucky you. I work in a public facing roll and it happens to me daily. I just wish I could be sure that people wormed their children as often as I worm my pets.

Normally I don't mind cats hit recently we've had lots of cat shit appearing in our garden it is fucking annoying. Yanbu!

Totally agree. There've been a few incidents where we live of cats causing huge damage to people's car paintwork by scratching. For some reason this is excused, yet if a dog dares to wee on a front lawn there is uproar. Cats continually come into our garden, poo on our veg patch and dig up our plants. I just don't get it!

@BadEyeBri

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

LOL. I saw the OP lived in Australia and I suddenly thought - surely there are worse things to worry about living there than cat shit!

@Glitterbubbles

Totally agree. There've been a few incidents where we live of cats causing huge damage to people's car paintwork by scratching. For some reason this is excused, yet if a dog dares to wee on a front lawn there is uproar. Cats continually come into our garden, poo on our veg patch and dig up our plants. I just don't get it!

never ever seen a cat do this. My cat if he saw cars knew them as 'to be avoided' or 'that big metal thing which takes me to the place where people stick huge needles in me or stuff up my bum (thermometer) - the other two probably thought the same - they'd cry all the way their back in tuneful unison and all the way back, loudly.

@Tadpolesandfroglets

So, so happy I have a cat that ‘toys’ with rats. Keeps the resident vermin down around our chickens.

at our local railway station a local cat has been 'adopted' (it has a home) and keeps the mice and rats down - unpaid of course - but she has won the hearts of commuters and I recently saw has been donated not one but two cat beds which I saw her sleeping in the other day.

Whenever there's a mouse/rat problem in a house or flat generally cats will find them and hunt them and kill them. more humane than poison.

@Emmapeeler2

Such pleasant people on MN this week. I won't be keeping my outdoor, rescued cats in, but thankfully I live near kinder people. Anyway it's badgers, foxes, moles and deer which annoy garden-owners around here. Maybe we should lock them up too?

don't foxes also shit randomly? but they also kill mice, rats etc. But still people whinge about them. And whenever I see a fox it runs away from me - so don't say they attack humans because I'm sure that's rare.

@hoorayyyy