Cat pooing on astro turf

[Springhare76]

We had astro put down in our garden 2 years ago as we have a small garden and couldn't get grass to grow. The astro has made the space so much more usable, however, our cat uses it as a toilet and just won't be deterred. Every morning we go down and there is a massive pile of crap in the middle of it. I've tried various powders, chilli etc but nothing stops him. It's making the lawn unusable as it's always covered in shit. Any ideas how to stop him?

But they often don’t. There’s unburied cat shit in various places in my garden. I wish the local cats were more like yours.

I think it’s pretty gross when someone else’s cat buries its poo in your vegetable patch! My little boy never notices and I have to watch like a hawk when he’s digging in my garden as he doesn’t like wearing his gardening gloves.

If it’s a fact that cats poo where they like, it’s also a fact that most humans are revolted by digging up their poo in the garden.

I am a cat-lover, but anyone else’s cat gets a water squirt and a scolding if it ventures onto my land!

It sounds like you’ve done everything humanly possible to encourage your cat to poo elsewhere but the cat has decided for itself. I’d invest in plastic gloves, a watering can and some poo bags and give up!

😂Your scorn directed towards my growing of carrots is hilarious! Are you OK?

There is a saying about arguing with fools, but I will indulge you anyway.

"You are invested and het up about where a cat shits." Cat poo is unpleasant. You must agree that this is the case, or you wouldn't have started this thread about your anguish over your own cat's defecation habits. Surely you cannot accuse me of being unreasonable in my finding the presence of cat poo in my raised beds on which I work regularly with my hands revolting?

"Maybe not a lot going on in your life perhaps other than your carrots?" How much would one need to have going on in their lives for them to have handle the poo of someone else's pet and for them not to have a negative response?
Let's use a comparator. A dog gets into your garden and poos on your plastic garden carpet. You have to pick it up and dispose of it. Is it reasonable for you to voice your displeasure at the need to do this to, for example, a partner, and would it be reasonable for them to accuse you of having no life following your statement?

"Do you condemn all cat owners for where their cats poo?"
I do think that it is right for cat welfare that they have the right to roam. I do also think that it is a symptom of selfish human behaviour to introduce non-native species that are known for their disruption of native wildlife populations at the levels that we, particularly in England, a nation of cat-lovers, have done. I personally would not choose a pet that I knew would poo in my neighbours garden and kill small birds. I acknowledge that my opinion is not popular, but it is my opinion.

"I assume you practice what you preach and model environmentally friendly behaviour... otherwise you are a massive hypocrite."
Are you stating here that unless one lives a life entirely free of actions that have side-effects of environmental harm (an impossibility - see The Good Place), one may not advocate for any environmental benefits? I will see your astroturf garden and raise you a garden full of zero carbon footprint food that feeds my family despite it being an occasional cat toilet.

They can’t bury their poo if you put a green carpet over the soil.

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