I'm still seriously considering building a cat toilet for my neighbour's cats. If it would stop them crapping on my food it would be worth it. I still rely on my contech scarecrows to protect the wildlife garden but you can't cover every inch of a vegetable garden with them.
It just shows really the lengths we have to go to due to other peoples pets. I do wonder if the owners really know what it is like to have to put up with it all the time. I think my neighbour's just put the cat out before they go out to work. If they watched it hunting all day (and they do hunt in the day, not just at night), perhaps it would be different as I know they like wildlife themselves.
It would be a lot cheaper and simpler to change the antiquated law regarding the right of cats to free roam. As the law stands the owners have no legal obligation over their cats actions and the cats are protected. It is so outmoded and simply wrong in this day in age.
If my neighbour routinely let a toddler come and poop in my garden I'm sure there would be universal condemnation of the act. Their cat though, oh that's OK, that's just what cats do.
I used to have a problem with one particular cat using a 60cm high planter as a launching and landing pad (which led to broken plant and bulb stems) to climb over the fence between front and back garden. Since planting a (spiney) Japanese Quince in the planter, the problem has gone away. Cats clearly "don't like it up 'em"!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Dovefromabove, did you start the thread because you actually wanting help, tips and suggestions or did you just want somewhere to let off steam? I can tell it's upsetting you.
Dovefromabove, did you start the thread because you actually wanting help, tips and suggestions or did you just want somewhere to let off steam? I can tell it's upsetting you.
This thread was started by JDVS back in 2012! Like all similar threads, it occasionally resurfaces when someone does a site search and replies to it.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Gillian - I didn't start the thread, I was responding to your post. Your post was the first one on this thread for a while.
Me - upset??? Most people here know I'm the most phlegmatic of characters. I've not let off any steam - just stated my case as you've stated yours
I have a dream that one day cat owners will take proper responsiblility for their pets and care for them safely so that they don't get run over in the road or foul my garden ........ but dreams seldom come true ......... meanwhile we chase our neighbours' cats out of our back garden and save their lives when their distraught owners bring them to our front door as they're choking on a chicken bone
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I'm still seriously considering building a cat toilet for my neighbour's cats. If it would stop them crapping on my food it would be worth it. I still rely on my contech scarecrows to protect the wildlife garden but you can't cover every inch of a vegetable garden with them.
It just shows really the lengths we have to go to due to other peoples pets. I do wonder if the owners really know what it is like to have to put up with it all the time. I think my neighbour's just put the cat out before they go out to work. If they watched it hunting all day (and they do hunt in the day, not just at night), perhaps it would be different as I know they like wildlife themselves.
It would be a lot cheaper and simpler to change the antiquated law regarding the right of cats to free roam. As the law stands the owners have no legal obligation over their cats actions and the cats are protected. It is so outmoded and simply wrong in this day in age.
If my neighbour routinely let a toddler come and poop in my garden I'm sure there would be universal condemnation of the act. Their cat though, oh that's OK, that's just what cats do.
I used to have a problem with one particular cat using a 60cm high planter as a launching and landing pad (which led to broken plant and bulb stems) to climb over the fence between front and back garden. Since planting a (spiney) Japanese Quince in the planter, the problem has gone away. Cats clearly "don't like it up 'em"!
Dovefromabove, did you start the thread because you actually wanting help, tips and suggestions or did you just want somewhere to let off steam? I can tell it's upsetting you.
This thread was started by JDVS back in 2012! Like all similar threads, it occasionally resurfaces when someone does a site search and replies to it.
Gillian - I didn't start the thread, I was responding to your post. Your post was the first one on this thread for a while.
Me - upset??? Most people here know I'm the most phlegmatic of characters. I've not let off any steam - just stated my case as you've stated yours
I have a dream that one day cat owners will take proper responsiblility for their pets and care for them safely so that they don't get run over in the road or foul my garden ........ but dreams seldom come true ......... meanwhile we chase our neighbours' cats out of our back garden and save their lives when their distraught owners bring them to our front door as they're choking on a chicken bone
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can't we agree to stick this subject in with politics and religion? All it serves to do is upset people on both sides.
I'm not upset
Polite and reasoned debate is fine
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've always thought Dove was the voice of reason in these debates.