Our cat used to use our raised beds as a toilet but I found that soaking a few barbecue charcoal pieces with citronella oil and dotting them round the edge of the beds stopped her. In fact whenever I want the cat to stay out of patches in the garden I use the oil. One sniff of it stops her in her tracks and it lasts for a few weeks.
hick, I should think that if you went out with your megaphone every time your neighbours s**t in your flower beds, they wouldn't really have much basis for complaint.
They will defecate on grass, concrete and on top of tightly spread netting. Unfortunately, it is something we all have to put up with until some form of licensing is introduced and enforced.
This is what I cannot understand, how come dog owners get fined for their dog's pooing, but cat owners do not? Cats are worse because they will come into your garden and do it, but dogs generally do it out in the open.
Just because its easier to manage a dog because they are not out unsupervised does not mean the same hygiene issue should be ignored just because cats have more freedom of movement...???
No offence intended but that is quite ridiculous, you can't legislate against a free animal. It's like trying to legislate against a fox or a hedgehog!!!
How am I going to keep my three cats from doing what they want? They were all feral rescues originally and are unsuitable as house cats, keeping them locked inside would be equivalent to locking you in the cellar for the rest of your life. I tend to keep them in at night to protect wildlife.
Also you have to prove without a shadow of a doubt as to which cats are defecating in your garden and that could be really difficult if like our street there are around 100 cats.
There are also feral cats that don't belong to anyone.
All you can do as a responsible cat owner is take precautions to prevent your cats from going to the toilet elsewhere.
We have three clean litter trays in our house and a large expanse of front and back garden with "cat friendly" toileting areas behind large plants, consisting of freshly dug earth, which they all use as it's convenient and close to the house. I go out there every morning and clear it up with a baby nappy bag then bin it.
Moving on from that, it is quite outrageous that a responsible citizen of the UK would threaten his neighbours with an air rifle, if someone did that to me I'd ring the police immediately.
My old neighbours when I lived alone one time used to gather all the cat poo they found and hurl it at my front door and smear it all over the front step, which quite honestly had me in tear, I was quite vulnerable at the time having had a major operation and living alone with a small child.
Quite frankly they were bullies. I kept my cats locked in for two months to see if this continued becasue quite honestly I didn't have the strength to clear up the mess after my op and they kept doing it for the whole of that 2 months.
So quite clearly it wasn't my cats doing it!
I then took photos and went to the police and they were charged with damaging my property and after that they left me alone. They said they "didn't realise" it wasn't my cats. And that's their excuse for persecuting somebody?
If any of my neighbours have a problem with my cats then all they need to do is approach me in person and I will work with them to sort the problem out.
In the UK, with dog fouling, there is no need to prove beyond doubt which dog was responsible, all it takes is a witness testimony and a fine can be issued. I know it sounds unworkable, but that is exactly what happens. Maybe cats are next?!
Sorry to hear about your previous experience with neighbours, sounds awful
those scardy cat repellent plants sound a good idea. But I would wonder if cats will eventually get inured to them.
I am lucky in that there seem to be many more dogs than cats around where I live. I have labradors either side (one a young three legged rescue dog) and a small yappy dog in the houses at the bottom of our garden.
The rescue dog seems to have had a bad time and is very nervous so I think he would run at the sight of a cat .
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Our cat used to use our raised beds as a toilet but I found that soaking a few barbecue charcoal pieces with citronella oil and dotting them round the edge of the beds stopped her. In fact whenever I want the cat to stay out of patches in the garden I use the oil. One sniff of it stops her in her tracks and it lasts for a few weeks.
hick, I should think that if you went out with your megaphone every time your neighbours s**t in your flower beds, they wouldn't really have much basis for complaint.
This is what I cannot understand, how come dog owners get fined for their dog's pooing, but cat owners do not? Cats are worse because they will come into your garden and do it, but dogs generally do it out in the open.
Just because its easier to manage a dog because they are not out unsupervised does not mean the same hygiene issue should be ignored just because cats have more freedom of movement...???
I just did a quick search on the legal aspect of cat poo and found someone almost went to prison because of an incident in his home! http://catrepellentguide.com/get-ultrasonic-cat-protection-dont-go-to-jail/
There really needs to be some legal protection from cat defecating in other people property....
No offence intended but that is quite ridiculous, you can't legislate against a free animal. It's like trying to legislate against a fox or a hedgehog!!!
How am I going to keep my three cats from doing what they want? They were all feral rescues originally and are unsuitable as house cats, keeping them locked inside would be equivalent to locking you in the cellar for the rest of your life. I tend to keep them in at night to protect wildlife.
Also you have to prove without a shadow of a doubt as to which cats are defecating in your garden and that could be really difficult if like our street there are around 100 cats.
There are also feral cats that don't belong to anyone.
All you can do as a responsible cat owner is take precautions to prevent your cats from going to the toilet elsewhere.
We have three clean litter trays in our house and a large expanse of front and back garden with "cat friendly" toileting areas behind large plants, consisting of freshly dug earth, which they all use as it's convenient and close to the house. I go out there every morning and clear it up with a baby nappy bag then bin it.
I have no way of telling which cat did it!!!
Moving on from that, it is quite outrageous that a responsible citizen of the UK would threaten his neighbours with an air rifle, if someone did that to me I'd ring the police immediately.
My old neighbours when I lived alone one time used to gather all the cat poo they found and hurl it at my front door and smear it all over the front step, which quite honestly had me in tear, I was quite vulnerable at the time having had a major operation and living alone with a small child.
Quite frankly they were bullies. I kept my cats locked in for two months to see if this continued becasue quite honestly I didn't have the strength to clear up the mess after my op and they kept doing it for the whole of that 2 months.
So quite clearly it wasn't my cats doing it!
I then took photos and went to the police and they were charged with damaging my property and after that they left me alone. They said they "didn't realise" it wasn't my cats. And that's their excuse for persecuting somebody?
If any of my neighbours have a problem with my cats then all they need to do is approach me in person and I will work with them to sort the problem out.
Hi Lou
In the UK, with dog fouling, there is no need to prove beyond doubt which dog was responsible, all it takes is a witness testimony and a fine can be issued. I know it sounds unworkable, but that is exactly what happens. Maybe cats are next?!
Sorry to hear about your previous experience with neighbours, sounds awful
Fed up of cats in your garden , try onions , works for me.
those scardy cat repellent plants sound a good idea. But I would wonder if cats will eventually get inured to them.
I am lucky in that there seem to be many more dogs than cats around where I live. I have labradors either side (one a young three legged rescue dog) and a small yappy dog in the houses at the bottom of our garden.
The rescue dog seems to have had a bad time and is very nervous so I think he would run at the sight of a cat .
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
mbwhite.
But its the onion bed they are pooing in! Covered it with green metting and the dig and poo through it.