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Sick and fed up picking up the neighbours cats shit in our garden 😡 No attempt to cover it up just do it on our lawn , filthy bastards 😡 So I was thinking of putting those spike strips on the top of our fence to stop them coming over . So can I get in trouble for doing this ?
They come with the legal guidance about where to fit them.
We brought some to stop our cat getting onto our bungalow roof via the fence, they don't work, he just walked along them.
Our neighbour put some up and our cat sits on them watching him clean his motorbike in his garden , im sure if I listen really hard I can hear the cat laughing
What about borrowing my mates air rifle and taking up a sniper position I guess that's frowned on then ? 🙄
Cats normally bury their feces, are you sure its not fox poop ?.
You need lion poo, or better still a lion.
in trouble no, out of pocket as the cats will just find a different route, see it as a challenging game or just ignore and carry on as normal
You need lion poo, or better still a lion.
But even then you'll have feline feaces in your garden, you just can't win.
You need to invest in your own cat who will poop in someone else's garden and keep other cats out of yours. It's the only way. It's how they plan to take over.
Or scoop it up and post it back through the owners door
The Old fella next door has a pocket full of pebbles and is a great shot, you should hear the yowling when he hits a feline sh*t machine.
I've had the same issue with cat poo in the garden. It was a regular bugger setting the camera off 2.30pm in the morning.
Put a cat repeller that detects movement and sprays a jet of water in the cats direction. After a few showers it didn't come back.
Because animal cruelty is so much more lolworthy when it's someone else's pets.
The Old fella next door has a pocket full of pebbles and is a great shot, you should hear the yowling when he hits a feline sh*t machine.
The **** is wrong with you? He needs arresting.
What about borrowing my mates air rifle and taking up a sniper position I guess that’s frowned on then ? 🙄
You'll be more than 'frowned on'.
"The maximum penalty for the following offences increased from six months to five years from 29 June 2021: Causing unnecessary suffering (section 4, Animal Welfare Act 2006)".
Which is about right for scumbag animal abusers IMO.
We have the same issue, it's really annoying. We've tried all sorts including lion poo. Not much seems to stop them, we just put canes sticking up in the beds that aren't netted now and clean up the shit on the rest of the garden.
Put a cat repeller that detects movement and sprays a jet of water in the cats direction.
Haven't tried this though, might try it.
You know I was only joking about the air rifle don't you ? 🤔🙄
qwerty we always had cats until our last one sadly passed peacefully of old age see blokeuptheroad told you 👍
We decided after our last one we didn't want any more, I think that's when this started .
I just don't get the doing it on a lawn I always thought they like burying it ?
You know I was only joking about the air rifle don’t you ?
No, how could I know that? Thank you for clarifying. I don't get the 'joke' though.
I just don’t get the doing it on a lawn I always thought they like burying it ?
As another poster said, some cats do, some don't. In my neighbourhood, they like to leave a half eaten bird then take a dump in the middle of the lawn. Hateful things.
Truly admonished, perhaps missed the tense out of my story, the old fella is long since passed away. The cats in the area were largely feral rather than pets, and although he threw the odd pebble it would make the cat jump rather than injure, nothing compared to what the cats did to each other when defending their territory. I sympathise with anyone who has unwanted cat poop in their gardens, I have no sympathy for the cats which decimate the bird population every spring though.
Go for the source. The self entitled cat owner who thinks it's fine to buy a cat; allow it to run loose in the neighborhood.
Crapping in gardens and play areas, murdering the local bird population and villifying the unsuspecting motorist who runs it over. Irresponsible animal owners really get my goat.
IGMC.
blokeuptheroad
If I'd have known I was going to be labelled as a scumbag animal abuser I wouldn't have mentioned the air rifle 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
brian2 not sure the owner can be blamed for cats going walkabout?
Wish we had cats around here. Might keep the squirrels and the pigeons at bay. Never see a cat. How much is a cat?
If anyone is interested this is the cat sprayer thing I bought. It needs a hose connected to it but it works.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B004YCUT4W?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
You’ll be more than ‘frowned on’.
“The maximum penalty for the following offences increased from six months to five years from 29 June 2021: Causing unnecessary suffering (section 4, Animal Welfare Act 2006)”.
Which is about right for scumbag animal abusers IMO.
What's the punishment for a clean kill?
Oldfart...stop back pedalling! Who do you think facilitates their freedom to run riot!
The double whammy is I love my garden and take good care of it , the cat owner ? Hmmm 🤔 Cat could poop with abandon in its own garden and it wouldn't matter one bit , maybe that's why the cat does it on our grass as it's kept at a sensible height rather than a jungle 🙄
Ever wish you'd never started a thread ? 😔
brian2 not sure the owner can be blamed for cats going walkabout
It's a choice, you can keep them indoors but it's 'a hassle'.
My wife would prefer to live with the knowledge that 'our'/her cat is out shitting in other people's gardens and killing birds for fun, than have to deal with the indignity of cleaning out a litter tray 🙄
Yup. Laugh it off mate, there's always someone to upset
brian2 not sure the owner can be blamed for cats going walkabout?
Of course they can.
The problem is it seems acceptable in our society to get a cat and then just let them wander. There are plenty of options to give cats freedom without allowing them to roam into other people’s gardens. But all these options require the owners to take an ounce of responsibility for their animals rather than just opining the door.
Such a daft thing to get angry over tbh. It rots away quick/gets pounded into the soil by the rain - plus, if you give a monkeys about nature you're not mowing all your lawn anyway. Got a "wildflower meadow?" How can you even see it?!
Anyway. My geese have shat everywhere. They poop on average every twelve minutes and they refuse to stay in their field. And on top of that the farmer's sheep got loose last night and have taken mahoosive dumps all over my goose poo. (Never mind that my car is splattered with the most minging cow shit imaginable because there's a river of the shit flowing from the dairy farm up the road).
Shit happens. Don't let it bother you.
Oh, btw. "Our" cat (we didn't buy him - he just rocked up and refused to leave) sicked up a half-digested mouse onto my o/h's pillow last year.
I consider that a win.
This guy has a few videos on cat deterrents. The DIY effort should appeal to a few on here and the videos should appeal to another subsection.
As far as I'm aware no cats were harmed.
I read somewhere apparently cats don't have owners they have staff , sounds about right 🙄
If I’d have known I was going to be labelled as a scumbag animal abuser I wouldn’t have mentioned the air rifle
I labelled people who shoot cats with air rifles as scumbag animal abusers. If as you say, you don't really intend to do that, then clearly the label doesn't apply to you.
As above the cat sprayers work, once they've got wet they won't come in again.
As for cats burying their poo only non alpha cats bury it, the alpha male in the area doesn't.
I find that the car repellent granules from Wilko deter the neighborhood cats from my veg beds. They generally like nothing better than a freshly raked soil to poo in.
The granules are just clay and garlic powder so harmless although do smell a bit garlicky the first time it rains on then.
Breaking the habit seems to work for a couple of months so a bag lasts a few years. YMMV
Put a cat repeller that detects movement and sprays a jet of water in the cats direction. After a few showers it didn’t come back.
Very good suggestion imo but you might not have to go that far. If you see the cat in your garden and get the opportunity blast him/her with a soaking from a garden hose, follow it as much as possible so that it gets really soaked.
It won't cause the cat any harm but it will be extremely unpleasant for it. I would be surprised if you saw that cat again after doing that once or twice, cats are definitely not stupid and are very unlikely to forget a deeply unpleasant experience like that.
Could just borrow grandsons Super Soaker 👍
Don't be a ****, use grease instead.
Cats ****ing hate it, add chilli too.
Dumped on the lawn ?. not in the borders where cats normally do their business.
Not a dark black is it ?.
foxes poo on the lawn. Their doings are dark black. And I would think it would more than likely be a fox.
This came up on another thread recently, and the poster(or a reply) claimed they actually were looking out the window at the time and saw the cat doing it. Which is quite a bit of luck, just to be looking out when a cat decided to wander in and leave a deposit. Personally the only shite in that description came from the poster.
It rots away quick/gets pounded into the soil by the rain
Except it doesn’t, it’s well into the weeks before it’s gone enough that you wouldn’t step in it. Out neighbours cats seem to be particularly unwell too because it reeks. I used to like cats until our garden became the DMZ between several and I got a real sense of how inconsiderate to your neighbours it is to keep cats that can roam. I’ve tolerated it for the last few years but now my daughter is toddling and I want her to be able to wander the garden without a fresh turd to find each day, so this spring the difficulty level for cats transiting our garden is going to go up.
OP- I’ve put down some chicken wire on the areas of lawn they like to use so it’s lightly ‘floating’ at an annoying-to-cats height and so far it seems to have discouraged them. Hoping it might just break the habit a bit.
So when a dog poos on the pavement outside my house do I use the air rifle on the dog or the idiot holding the lead who doesn't pick up the poo?
What happens if the cat gets hurt, then neighbour finds our you're responsible and comes round and breaks your legs?
Which is quite a bit of luck, just to be looking out when a cat decided to wander in and leave a deposit.
Our neighbours cat once wandered into the garden while I was hanging the washing out and proceeded to do its business on the lawn while my back was turned. ‘Depositing’ is not exactly an uncommon occurrence and you can see the entire garden from the kitchen so the odds aren’t that slim.
lol @ the gardeners trying to preserve their green carpets and non-native flower beds moaning about cats massacring birds
the poster(or a reply) claimed they actually were looking out the window at the time and saw the cat doing it. Which is quite a bit of luck, just to be looking out when a cat decided to wander in and leave a deposit. Personally the only shite in that description came from the poster.
tbh mate I don't think "I watched as a cat shat in my garden" is the most improbable story I've ever read online
Irresponsible animal owners really get my goat.
ohmigod what happened to your goat???!?
lol @ the gardeners trying to preserve their green carpets and non-native flower beds moaning about cats massacring birds
Don't have a lawn, we mainly have a couple of veg beds with mulch between them. We have some flowers dotted around for the bees.. Our garden is small, if there's cat poo then we will end up treading in it if we don't clean it up. It's not the end of the world, but it is a bit annoying.
I got a dog and taught her to chase the cats, bit of a nightmare when walking her on lead when she sees one though pulls like a train. Taught a good reinforced emergency stop and leave command for when off lead at the park if she sees one, thankfully it works which is good for other situations too.
The only downside is now she's super alert to any movements in the garden so will randomly bark at a bird through the glass door which can scare the crap out of you when you don't expect it
lol @ ........ moaning about cats massacring birds
You might think it is hilarious but there is nothing remotely funny about that imo.
Cats are predators which thanks to humans live in concentrations that the natural environment could never sustain.
Consequently everything possible should be done to minimise their predatory instincts. I don't think laughing is an appropriate response.
the poster(or a reply) claimed they actually were looking out the window at the time and saw the cat doing it. Which is quite a bit of luck, just to be looking out when a cat decided to wander in and leave a deposit. Personally the only shite in that description came from the poster.
tbh mate I don’t think “I watched as a cat shat in my garden” is the most improbable story I’ve ever read online
^This. I sit at my office desk with a glass door to my left which looks straight out onto our lawn/borders. I regularly look out of it to rest my eyes from the screen and must see our neighbour's cat shitting at least twice a week.
I had one shitting in my veg patch last summer. I threw down some brash (spiky sticks, basically anything I got from a general tidy up of the garden) so that it had nowhere to squat without a stick up it's arse. Was highly effective. Seems to have started to use the lawn instead which is fine till you go to get some washing in in the dark and traipse it halfway through the kitchen before you realise... So now the lawn is covered in brash too. They're habitual animals so hopefully if I break it's cycle and get it shitting in someone else's garden I can then tidy up again
So when a dog poos on the pavement outside my house do I use the air rifle on the dog or the idiot holding the lead who doesn’t pick up the poo?
IF you don't kill either cleanly you'll possibly need a proctologist to remove the weapon. Then some weeks on a ring cushion!
Which is about right for scumbag animal abusers IMO
I'm wondering what the penalty for scumbag cat owners who know thier cat will shit all over the neighborhood is.
chevychase
Full MemberSuch a daft thing to get angry over tbh. It rots away quick/gets pounded into the soil by the rain – plus, if you give a monkeys about nature you’re not mowing all your lawn anyway. Got a “wildflower meadow?” How can you even see it?!
If you give a monkies about nature, you won't be adding an extra unnatural predator because you like cute fluffy things.
Op, I had similar issues with an animal leaving presents in the gravel around my work van. Very unpleasant at 530am when stood on. I purchased some stupidly strong chillies and made a very watery chilli sauce. Spread around the area of fouling regularly, the turds, cat or otherwise stopped
the poster(or a reply) claimed they actually were looking out the window at the time and saw the cat doing it.
I've seen it happen, more than once.
Cats have a legal right to roam under the Animals Act 1971, they cannot trespass.
They are also considered to be the legal property of their owners. No other domestic animal has the legal right to roam under UK law. Which I think is well cool.
You may legally deter them from entering your property but only by using legal methods, you are not allowed to harm them, even if they are on your property.
Such a daft thing to get angry over tbh. It rots away quick/gets pounded into the soil by the rain – plus, if you give a monkeys about nature you’re not mowing all your lawn anyway.
Having stood in it today, and had to move three more from the flowerbed next to our seat, yes I'm unhappy.
I purchased some stupidly strong chillies and made a very watery chilli sauce. Spread around the area of fouling regularly, the turds, cat or otherwise stopped
That is brilliant! This won’t negatively affect hedgehogs will it?
That is brilliant! This won’t negatively affect hedgehogs will it?
Maybe. I only used it on, what had become the local cat toilet.
I'd imagine the hedgehogs would stay away too.
hat is brilliant! This won’t negatively affect hedgehogs will it?
I gather from this you dont care where the hedgehog poo's ?
Hiya,
In the distant past and in another house we lived in our neighbours cat did this. I ahem mixed chilli oil and put it along the top of the fence. Owner wasn't impressed 😉 never saw the cat again. Well we did get a dog anyway and she's rather good at chasing cats.
JeZ
My neighbour put carpet grippers on the fence - not a good idea as he could be sued if someone hurt themselves (people had been known to jump his fence as a short cut). Anyway, he soon gave up when he saw the cats still on the fence, paws each side of the carpet grippers as it shimmied along.
As a cat owner, we had a Tom that kept coming and leaving scent everywhere, and terrorising our cats. A couple of blasts from a super soaker, and it never returned.
Which is about right for scumbag animal abusers IMO
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I’m wondering what the penalty for scumbag cat owners who know thier cat will shit all over the neighborhood is.
I honestly don't know. By quoting me are you suggesting they deserve the same penalty? The two things somehow equate? One justifies the other?
I have no issue with people taking practical steps to deter cats from their gardens. I also accept owners have some responsibility. I draw the line when people* <span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">suggest killing and maiming domestic pets.</span>
*no<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">t the OP who has clarified he only jokes about about animal abuse rather than doing it.</span>
Identify as a cat and relieve yourself in the owner's garden
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I just wanted to say that I too have seen a cat have a shit live, both whist looking out of a window and whilst outside in the garden!</span>
You'd think people would get sick of arguing with the same people all the time though....i'm waiting for someone claims that it's either brexshit on the lawn or it was put there by russians/chinese/Iranians/Sir Keir Starmar or King Charles....
RSPCA ...
Cats are protected by law and are free to roam meaning they might go into other people's gardens or
allotments. It is understood that some may wish to deter other people's cats from those areas.
In attempting to prevent cats from entering a garden or an allotment it is important to make sure
that any deterrent methods used are nonharmful and don't cause pain, suffering, injury or distress.
Causing unnecessary suffering to a cat is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (AWA). It
may also be an offence to put down snares, poison or an unlicensed deterrent. The AWA also prohibits
poisoning protected animals. The maximum penalty for anyone found guilty of an offence under the AWA
is up to 6 months imprisonment and/or a £20,000 fine.
Some suggestions which could help you are:
I honestly don’t know. By quoting me are you suggesting they deserve the same penalty? The two things somehow equate? One justifies the other?
I have no issue with people taking practical steps to deter cats from their gardens. I also accept owners have some responsibility.
It was meant as a snippy reply, sorry it probably isn't the best reply I could have made. But I am fed up of cat poop in my garden and the fact that I have to cover every square cm of soil with twigs due to the multiple cats in the neighbourhood.
But it does lead me to ask - why if cat owners know there is an issue they do not have an indoor litter tray permanently? It seems 'normal' that the vast majority of cat owners assume that their cat peeing and pooing all around the neighbourhood is fine - and I don't think it is. Same with a dog owner.
I also am of the opinion that most cats are a huge impact on the biodiversity we see in our gardens - rodents, birds, frogs, insects etc.
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10073
I'm of the opinion if you can go out and physically maim an animal especially a domestic animal you could probably do the same to any human that annoys you. Birds shit on my car that I just fed the day before, fat pigeons and seagulls I'm not wanting to be their friend but don't wish any harm on them and wasps give them a donor cake to eat and they will stay away from you
the cats which decimate the bird population every spring
Except they don't. see the RSPB who state:
Despite the large numbers of birds killed by cats in gardens, there is no clear scientific evidence that such mortality is causing bird populations to decline. This may be surprising, but many millions of birds die naturally every year, mainly through starvation, disease or other forms of predation. There is evidence that cats tend to take weak or sickly birds.
Removal of habitat is the biggy... and that's on all of us, not just the cat owners out there. Still... stick a bell on your moggy if you know it's fond of chasing birds.
the poster(or a reply) claimed they actually were looking out the window at the time and saw the cat doing it
Seen it on a regular basis... low windows. Doesn't hugely bother me... BUT... I don't have small kids... it can be a real nuisance (you could argue a real danger) for young families.
The old "Cat's don't shit on your grass" or "You'll never see a cat shitting" is clearly utter bobbins and I presume uttered by cat owners who are in either complete denial about how their cherished cat could possibly be a nuisance to your neighbourhood or do know, but don't give a ****.
The local cats seem to be claiming our garden as their patch since our dog died in December. Shit on a wee wind collected pile of leaves just behind the car boot on the drive way. Shit on the grass in the back garden, shit in the flower beds. Shit ****ing everywhere. I've trailed it into the house multiple times now of the last couple of months.
It really grinds my gears as a recently ex dog owner - I always, without fail picked up dog dirt as I had respect for my neighbours and the community where I live. cat owners on the other hand - clearly don't give a ficking damn about anyone else.
Im tempted to pick the shit up in a poo bag and gaffer tape it to the collar of the wee bastards. Scumbags the lot of them.
Except they don’t. see the RSPB who state:
It's not quite that simple as this more detailed article which takes into account that RSPB comment points out:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors
My sister had a pair of siberians which regularly killed slow worms, I had no idea that they were even established where my sister lived until they started bringing in dead or half dead ones. Eventually they stopped but I don't know whether it was because there weren't any left to kill - reptiles are fairly rare in the UK and not least slow worms.
One of those motion-activated water sprinklers definitely works.
After about a month you can withdraw the water supply, the cats will have broken their habit and found somewhere else to do their business. They will associate the sprinkler-head with being sprayed on.
Causes no harm to the animals, you will quickly learn to switch it off when you want to tend your garden.
Limitations: Unlikely to work in the winter when the hose freezes, and the ice splits the valve within the sprinkler.
On this @mattoutandabout:
It seems ‘normal’ that the vast majority of cat owners assume that their cat peeing and pooing all around the neighbourhood is fine – and I don’t think it is
You might think it's not fine, but UK law says it is. Unfortunately, unless the government legislates to remove the ability of people to have cats as pets (which is fair game) then the answer you need to face up to is "tough titties".
There's bugger all you can realistically do without being cruel and breaking the law - and, unfortunately, there's bugger all owners can do - because they're cats...
We have a permanent litter tray in our house for the cat that won't leave us, btw. He's never used it. Likes to shit outside.
Super-soaker / sprinkler. Knock yourself out tbh. And chill. No point in getting angry about stuff you can't do anything about.
reptiles are fairly rare in the UK and not least slow worms.
The impact of cats on reptiles in the UK is minimal, the main threat (as with birds) are global warming, intensive agriculture and habitat loss from expanding urban areas.
Incidentally, pheasants probably take more slow worms than cats in the UK.
natrix Free Member
The impact of cats on reptiles in the UK is minimal
Well it's easy for you to say that. Cats might not be a problem for natrix natrix but my sister's cats were definitely a problem for the local slow worm population.
The clue is in the name.