Well. we're toilet trained from a young age and yet sometimes pee elsewhere! Cats go hunting. They treat any open ground (ie, not covered in plants) as an outdoor litter tray. If owners want to keep a housecat where they can live with the crap and pee and stench and damage, good for them. It's obnoxious for anyone else to claim they "own" a cat but take no responsibility for the misery and damage they cause beyond their own property. If a neighbour's dog came into your garden, crapped everywhere, peed on everything and tore your plants apart, wouldn't you expect some recompense from the owner?
I don't know much about cats but if it is trained to use a litter tray from young surely that is where it will go? Is it the lazy owners who are to blame?
Yes - feckless, irresponsible and inconsiderate. Mine used a tray and continued to do so, even if they were outside. They never used the garden.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Glad to hear you have well behaved cats, Fairygirl Can I be your neighbour? Mine also have a dog that barks endlessly but their attitude to that seems to be pretty consistent with the cat...
Long time ago. Wouldn't have them now in a gift. Too much harm to wildlife. Yapping dogs are every bit as bad. A neighbour two doors down got one of those ghastly, endlessly yapping creatures a few years ago. I assumed they were out one day as it had been barking non stop for at least five hours. No - they were in. How they could stand that hour after hour I'll never understand. I eventually had to go inside because of it.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yeah, I used to enjoy my garden but my neighbour's untrained dog has meant all of us have gone three years now without a single quiet day. Ever. I did speak to them about it, kindly, patiently (what an effort!) but they made it quite clear it's my problem not theirs.
Sign of the times @Tanty2. The attitude of many dog owners is astonishing. I had another one go for me a couple of days ago. Apparently - it's all my fault that their pets aren't under control...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sorry to hear that. If the pandemic has proved anything, it's that a staggering number of people are depressingly empathy-challenged (let's start with the town's who think masks are for keeping chins warm...) Enjoy the rest of your evening, everyone!
I have a cat, just under 3 years who is an outside cat. Luckily she doesn't destroy my garden. Up until 4 months ago she always came back into the house to do her business and then be off again, but she no longer does that. No amount of encouragement from me to use the litter tray works. So while a cat can be well trained initially they can change their mind. I have no idea where she does her business now . I have asked my neighbour if she has seen evidence but she says no. It was always a relief to me that she came home to relieve herself and not be leaving presents in someone else's garden because I can understand the destruction that it can cause.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yapping dogs are every bit as bad. A neighbour two doors down got one of those ghastly, endlessly yapping creatures a few years ago. I assumed they were out one day as it had been barking non stop for at least five hours. No - they were in.
How they could stand that hour after hour I'll never understand. I eventually had to go inside because of it.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I had another one go for me a couple of days ago. Apparently - it's all my fault that their pets aren't under control...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Humans never fail to disappoint me.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...