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.

If you choose to take an animal into your home then you are responsible for it and it's actions.

Or... if you choose to buy a house with a garden then you are responsible for securing it. Makes more sense than trying to control the actions of an autonomous being - are you indefinitely responsible for your children's actions, too?

@valtandsinegar

It sounds like you need to take better care of your chickens. If any predator can get to them then your pen is not secure enough.

If you live near people then you run the risk of there being cats. People can't control where their cats go. Don't like it? Buy a big plot of land and live there with no neighbours.

So I should move, just because other people want to let their pet poo wherever?

There's other predators here that can eat the chickens! Just cats. The kookas can't get in. The water dragons are too small. No foxes.

By law, yes I am when they're under my care 🤔

In that case I'll just get myself a dog, let it roam, never pick up after it and claim it's not my responsibility.

Except I wouldn't do that because I'm not an arse and I know that it's disgusting and disrespectful to allow an animal that I choose to take responsibility for to shit all over other people's property.

SelkieQualia If you can't deal with one of the possible consequences of living in society then yes you should move. What else are you going to do? Poison the cats?

Also, I've already suggested that I'd be securing my garden on here and been told to be prepared to "face action" by cat owners

You actually can't win 🤣

@valtandsinegar

If you choose to take an animal into your home then you are responsible for it and it's actions.

Or... if you choose to buy a house with a garden then you are responsible for securing it. Makes more sense than trying to control the actions of an autonomous being - are you indefinitely responsible for your children's actions, too?

As a PP said, I don't allow my preschooler to poo in people's gardens. Or harass their pets.

@elmouno Great idea I'm ordering a pair. Are they bigger than a cat?

Dog owners don’t pick up their dogs shit. If they do then they tie it up in a bag and hang it tastefully on a tree. There are responsible cat owners and responsible dog owners and equally shit dog owners and equally shit cat owners. If you don’t like it then you need to do something about it. There are plenty of things you can do to stop cats shirting in a garden.

Can you imagine the outcry if a neighbour's dog regularly, every night, came into a private garden to do it's business? Why should people 'get over it' when they step into their own garden and regularly have to clear up other pet owner's mess. I have never seen random dogs roaming at night and getting into other people's fenced in gated gardens. At least the cat owners where I live acknowledge it's a problem and tell their neighbours to do anything reasonable to deter their cat. I am not advocating spiked fences ext here but my dm's neighbour told my mother to use a water pistol to deter and actually bought various aids like lion smell stuff ext and brought it around. She also put a cat litter in my mother's garden and one in her own and regularly changes dm's if it's used. Dm doesn't complain at all, even though she's 89 and could do without it, because her neighbour recognises that her pet can be a pain for others. She doesn't tell my mother to 'get over it'

@valtandsinegar

SelkieQualia If you can't deal with one of the possible consequences of living in society then yes you should move. What else are you going to do? Poison the cats?

I'd certainly trap them and take them to the pound. If they are causing a nuisance, that's allowed in my council area.

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.

@EmeraldShamrock theyre about the size of a kitten each but they still scare the neighbours' cats

Absolutely agree. I have a house cat .. cats lives 17+ years indoors whereas cats who aren’t on average live 2-5 years. They’re not an animal who can survive very long in populated areas yet it seems to be just fine! Weird to me! Annoyingly we have cats constantly shit in our garden! Not even our own 😫😫

One regular nasty cat shits in our garden - it actually stared at me. These wretched animals are more clever and sly than we think. Btw, have ordered some devices of amazon that detect move to and emit sound (low/high Pitch - I can’t remember)

I had permission to spray my neighbors cat with a water gun if I caught it in the garden and it did work - my new neighbor apparently thinks her cat should be allowed in other garden without being frightened off by dogs who live there 🤔

The cat itself was a lovely, friendly thing but I'm allergic and the shit done my head in!

@Alongcameacat

I agree with you OP.

Cat owners are hugely irresponsible.
You will be told that cats are entitled to roam wherever they like, Your child is entitled to play safety in her own garden.

I’d try to catch it and take it to a shelter. I have done this twice. Neither time the cat was chipped and the cars were rehomed, hopefully to a better owner.
Failing that put down poison in your garden?

What is wrong with you

Also it is illegal to catch and keep someone else's cat chipped or un chipped, so please refrain from doing so.

Yep problem here cats pooh all out the front and they even try and come in the garden and we have a dog.
Cats pooh also carries parasites not just dogs so is just as dangerous lets not forget that
Lots of people don't have a litter box at home so don't even try to encourage their cat to pooh at home
There are a lot of countries cats actually don't have a right to roam and so many get knocked over .then you have people complaining about cats getting killed,but some have no road sense and run straight in front of a car , giving car no chance and poor cat less.
Then there all the lost posts because cats often bugger off to another house when they feel like it.
If I owned a cat i would keep it in or cat proof my garden due to the reasons above .

How can you hate this?

It's not illegal if you think it's a stray and your concerned that it's out at all hours in all weathers.

I've had to do this before as I had random cat meowing at my door in the night. I genuinely thought it was a stray and the CPL took it away without question.

Thankfully the owner was responsible enough to have him chipped as he was an escape house cat.

She/he's beautiful @ShrikeAttack - gorgeous colouring 🙂

Or thi?

@ShrikeAttack

Or thi?

When cats are contained on their own property, I will happily make a fuss of them. I just don't like cleaning up after other people's pets. I also don't like seeing them squashed on the road outside my house, which has happened.