Exactly,justaboutenough. Try to put yourself in the shoes of a person who has no one to talk to for weeks on end and is kept sane by the affection of their pet cat or dog. We have all seen old peoples' faces in a home light up when a friendly dog is brought in to visit. When I open my garden to an old peoples' group I am very pleased to allow a pet dog access as well as it is preferable to having its owner worry about it being left at home. All life is precious.
Please don't get the wrong idea. I do not criticise people who love dogs and cats.. but please keep them in your own property. Those of us who are not so keen on other people's pets using our property as a toilet are forced to protect their expensive lawns and flower borders, vegetable patch etc against the creatures whose owners seem only too glad to let them stray to annoy other people and do their business somewhere else!
Well justaboutenough not sad just annoyed to think that people that own cats don't seem to take responsibility for them like people with dogs. you obviously don't get cats craping in your garden, it's not nice and it stinks
You can't look after cats the way you look after dogs for heaven's sake - a cat is a CAT not a dog, they are not the same species! You might as well be anoyed hat cat onwers don't have their cats "swimming around in little glass bowls full of water like goldfish, where you can keep an eye on them?" Er, because they're not fish? It's not about some wanton act of owner irresponsibility being the cause of a cat climbing up a fence or hiding in the undergrowth, or covering its crap up (instead of proudly displaying it in the middle of the pavement I might add) it's aout BIOLOGY!
Yes,it is biology, but also a financial problem. Really poor people cannot afford to keep a pet of any kind. Really rich people have acres of grounds of their own so the cat has a large garden to roam in and a paid gardener to shew it off prized parts of the garden. The so called squeezed middle has a small garden and has to go out to work for long hours so the cat has free rein of the neighbourhood. You seldom see a Siamese or pure bred Persian cat roaming usually just moggies. Tolerance on both sides helps and being thankful that we only have the domesticated cat to contend with in GB nowadays. You should see the stuffed Scottish wildcat in Dunfermline museum! And some villagers abroad have to keep their children safe from tigers! The sight of a lioness tearing apart a wildebeast carcase in the Masai Mara has stayed vividly in my memory for 25 years. Be thankful we only have pet cats and the odd feral one.
still...cats are a problem and what makes it worse is the fact that certain owners of cats know and allow there cat to poo in other peoples garden while they just look on...so no its not on,i have a dog if i wasnt to pick his poo up after hes done it i would soon have someone moaning at me. happymarion i am aware of people being on there own and the fact animals are good company etc for them,but really thats not the issue,the issue is a bit more consideration from cat owners. i have 3yr old twins and they often come indoors with cat poo on there hands and shoes and yet i dont have a cat my next door neighbour has a cat and she watches her cat come into my garden and uses it as a toilet ...thats what i think is wrong,im fed up with it so now im picking it up and putting it over her fence... if she cant be considerate well nor will i.
Just read the most recent blogs and I have to agree with you justaboutenough. Maybe the only solution is to dump the cat mess right back at the cat owners doorstep. A little bit of their own medicine may do them some good. If non cat owners do not have any other means of retalliation then its down to being nasty and thoughtless like the cat owners who should be more responsible for their cats!!!!
This was always going to be a slightly risky subject matter really, since there are so many cat lovers about... But at risk of offending them all, I do wish they would be a little more responsible and provide their cats with somewhere on their own property to use as their loo... It's never nice when, having spent hours tending the borders and keeping the lawn looking good, you go out into your lovingly tended garden to find that next doors kitty has had a party overnight at your expense. I have had several cats of my own by the way, and always provided them with adequate facilities to make sure they never bothered the neighbours! It just would be nice if others could do the same... I wonder how the owners would feel if we were to start going into their gardens at night and digging up their plants, crapping in the borders and killing all the wildlife? The excuse "That's what cats do" just doesn't wash I'm afraid... Your pet, your problem. Why should we have to put up with it? Given the right facilities and training there's no reason why a moggy should ever bother anyone else! I never had any complaints about my cats, its called responsibility! If you don't want the hassle, don't own a cat.
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happymarion i am aware of people being on there own and the fact animals are good company etc for them,but really thats not the issue,the issue is a bit more consideration from cat owners.
i have 3yr old twins and they often come indoors with cat poo on there hands and shoes and yet i dont have a cat my next door neighbour has a cat and she watches her cat come into my garden and uses it as a toilet ...thats what i think is wrong,im fed up with it so now im picking it up and putting it over her fence...
if she cant be considerate well nor will i.