[Closed] Cats crapping all over my lawn!

A pack of frozen sausages and a mallet

My mate jack can fix this for you.
Jack Russell.

There is no solution. You just have to live with it, and slowly grow resentment towards your cat owning neighbours. Or get your own cat. Or dog.

Panther shit.

£5 a bag plus postage.

Bum them, obviously. watch the claws though.

Sure it's cats. Grass not normally their choice. They tend to prefer beds or somewhere they can cover the crap. Fox or hedgehog perhaps? Our cat favours the veg beds 🙄 as she can dig. Get a fair amount of hedgehog poo though on the lawn.

I bought an ultrasonic repellent after a previous thread on here and that seems to have done the trick, and there's loads of cats around here. No longer do I have to tiptoe in the yard looking like I've lost a ring.

I can strongly recommend planning some landscaping requiring a metre cube of gravel or sand. They'll quite happily bury their shite in that and all you have to do is procrastinate doing the work itself for as long as possible while you chill out on the lawn.

Are you even sure its cats?
Cats are usually very prudish and will usually try and bury it.
Foxes on the other hand don't. I blamed the cats for ages (convinced myself) but they don't eat berries.

@nixie I put a camera trap up and caught them at it, as I wasn't sure at first. I do have a hedgehog that roams the garden at night but never seen any foxes round my way.

@kelvin I'd love a dog but unfortunately don't have the time due to work commitments.

See if you can get hold of a second hand SportKA?

We found a solution that works:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00R3XZCV4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Used exactly as described in a flower bed that our lazy-ass cat likes to use.   A few days of removing the odd "habitual" poo, and its been clear for a week now used as per the instructions.

Us too. Absolutely plagued by it.

Would gladly shove all of the shit back through the letterbox of the owner if I knew who it was.

Bought one of these - it works and is fun to use

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01DACLHT2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Cats are usually very prudish and will usually try and bury it.

Maybe your traditional, Mail-reading cats. Younger cats of today just go where they please, then stroll off whistling.

This stuff usually deters the neighbours cats crapping in our veg beds.
Cheap to try.
https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/defenders-cat-scatter-granules-500g/p/0489250

I favour..

I think having a cat and not permanently using indoor litter tray is antisocial. Can you imagine the outcry if every dog owner just let thier animals wander the neighbours gardens shitting twice daily?

Used exactly as described in a flower bed that our lazy-ass cat likes to use. A few days of removing the odd “habitual” poo, and its been clear for a week now used as per the instructions.

And now it goes and shits in your neighbours garden instead?

Why is it considered acceptable to let cats roam and crap where they like but I can’t let my dog do it on my cat owning neighbour’s lawn?

To answer the op’s question, getting a dog sorted our cat problem out.

Ha, just beaten by Matt!

No lawn here but do have an issue with cats crapping in our vegetable/flower beds. We've been putting left over lemon and limes halves in the beds and also putting down sprigs of holly. Seems to be working for us, probably not so great for a lawn though...

My old man used to keep a catapult and a jar of marbles at the back door for such circumstances. Not sure he’d get away with it now but certainly kept the local mogs away.

After years of various pepper/garlic/Holly leaves and and Ultrasonic gizmo (the most effective, but not perfect) we had great success with the Green gel stuff (similar to posted by Kryton57 above).

The key seems to be to break their habit, so initially you want it everywhere (after clearing up after them first). It has to be everywhere (pretty much) as they will happily move off of one spot and start going a few feet away.

After a while they will start going elsewhere habitually and you only need to get the stuff out occasionally to break the habit of new cat - This second session can be targeted rather than everywhere.

And as for the people saying cats don't go on grass and always bury it.... very wrong in our experience

Pee in your garden. Seriously! We had a cat visit us repeatedly at night to leave deposits, and we read somewhere that human urine puts them off.

Dug out an old drinks bottle, "topped it up", squirted around the cat's favourite dumping spots and - voila - no more cat visits. No more anyone within about 5 metres either 😉

@matt_outandabout I own a BSA R-10 pcp rifle which would defiantly do the job, but I don't want to make a mess of my fence as the round would pass straight through the moggy.

I think having a cat and not permanently using indoor litter tray is antisocial

Having a litter tray doesn't necessarily stop them crapping outside.

Sure it’s cats. Grass not normally their choice.

I often see cat owners saying this. It's not true.

@kryton57 thanks i'll give that a try.

I think having a cat and not permanently using indoor litter tray is antisocial. Can you imagine the outcry if every dog owner just let thier animals wander the neighbours gardens shitting twice daily?

This, very much this. Don't forget the fact that cats are also murdering machines who decimate wildlife.

Why are cats not regarded as more of a social menace?

Owners should have a picture of their cat in their front room window so you know which house the offending turd-layer belongs to.

I'd love to know who is responsible for the big ginger bastard that craps all over my garden.

Bought some of that gel.

If that doesn't work it'll be an air rifle and my kids will get new Davey Crocket hats for Christmas.

Why is are cats not regarded as more of a social menace?

It's because you've never seen a plastic bag of cat shit hanging in a tree.

Dogs are perceived as a menace because their human owners, who should absolutely know better, are seen to actively collaborate in the occasional shitcrime.

Cats give the owners plausible deniability.

"Not my cat, mate. He buries his in my compost heap when I'm not looking. He's got a little spade and everything. He's also probably not a bird murderer either. Must have been a fox"

I’d love to know who is responsible for the big ginger bastard that craps all over my garden.

I hope it's Binners.

I'd pay top dollar to watch that conversation unfold.

Why is it considered acceptable to let cats roam and crap where they like but I can’t let my dog do it on my cat owning neighbour’s lawn?

They are animals, they have to go somewhere.  And Cats don't involve single use plastic so are much more environmentally friendly.

I hope it’s Binners.

I’d pay top dollar to watch that conversation unfold.

Unlikely, unless his cats can drive.

Unlikely, unless his cats can drive.

You know he'd drive them over himself and sit in the car, eating a sausage roll and chuckling the whole time, yeah?

Hmmm.... Sounds plausible.

They are animals, they have to go somewhere. And Cats don’t involve single use plastic so are much more environmentally friendly

So they should go in your house or garden, in a litter tray.

As for being environmentally friendly, they are a furry killing machine of all garden birds, mice etc. My BiL cat even had found a way into the bat roost and was bringing them home. Yes less plastic, no not environmentally friendly.

whyter
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Pee in your garden. Seriously! We had a cat visit us repeatedly at night to leave deposits, and we read somewhere that human urine puts them off.

We had other cats, and an aggressive badger crapping all over the place, so we did this and also scattered chopped frozen chillis (you can buy big bags of these from supermarket freezers) over the area, and that stopped it.

So they should go in your house or garden, in a litter tray.

As above, they can't be confined to a litter tray.   Also, its 29 degrees outside and the bed is outside of our backdoor - trust me you wouldn't put up with it either.   FWIW our cat is old an rarely goes outside the boundaries of our residence, so good luck proving the cat shit in a niehgbour garden belongs to our cat.

As for being environmentally friendly, they are a furry killing machine of all garden birds, mice etc. My BiL cat even had found a way into the bat roost and was bringing them home. Yes less plastic, no not environmentally friendly.

You do know this is called "nature" and applies to most forms of life, right?

an aggressive badger

Aggressive Badger?

Has he been shitting in my garden too?

you do know this is called “nature” and applies to most forms of life, right?

Introducing a invasive species in an uncontrolled manner to the local ecosystem is not nature.

It's probably one particular car (or other animal) crapping on your lawn. Loads of cats round me (we've got 5 house cats) and don't have crap on the lawns, but do get it in the raised veg patch in particular - nice and easily moved soil.

Our old cat can't get out of our garden, but despite arthritis and being partially blind, will still either crap in a particular boarder, or even climb into a raised planter we have (can't at the moment as it's full of plants). Otherwise it's her tray. The other 4 cats crap in the tray or in a stone and soil area in their outside cat run.

A water sprayer or even a super soaker works - they get the message.

I found something that stops cats going on my garden. There's a bit of border right under my front room window that they decided was their shitting area. Couldn't open the window cos of the waft. Neighbours have those ultra-sonic things, they hurt my son's ears and the cats still go in their flower beds, so couldn't get those. So I bought a couple of rolls of, what could be described as, cat stingers. You know, like the stingers the traffic cops use. They shat on it once just to show their belidgerence, and then decided it was too painful and have taken their disgusting arses to a garden elsewhere.
Can't link to ebay, but that's where I got it from search "prickle strip".
Not sure about putting it on a whole lawn though 😂

You can get motion-controlled water guns which you can connect to a hose pipe - cats hate getting wet (and it scares them).

Linky

nice and easily moved soil

Nice and easy if it is your own cat crapping in your own garden.

I don't care if is "nice and easy" it is still the noxious shit of somebody else's pets that I have to clear up, or if I'm extra lucky have to wash off the kids shoes and scrub out of the carpet.

Borrow a hungry python and leave it sunning in a quiet spot.

New thread how to get rid of python poo!

Introducing a invasive species in an uncontrolled manner (with feeding through the lean season) to the local ecosystem is not nature.

FTFY.

A cat really is not an environmentally friendly thing.

Horses shit all over the roads and pavements where I live.

While I think an assault rifle is over the top, maybe a paint ball gun, with frozen paint balls.

A cat really is not an environmentally friendly thing.

Neither is a dog, cow, pig, child etc

Horses shit all over the roads and pavements where I live.

Me too. Not had one do it on the turf next to my bin or on the front doorstep though.

Aggressive badger leaves unpleasant mess in garden.

Wish I could get my cat to crap on the neighbours lawn. If she’s out she’ll howl and scratch at the window to come in. She’ll take a dump inside then f back off. For reference, left unchecked, her toleys stink the entire house out. That’s even with the best poo tray technology that the internet offers.

As above just get one of those motion sensor water sprayers, the cat gets wet once and never comes in again, we had an ex neighbour who got two cats and they crapped on our lawn remorselessly until we got one of those, they never came in the garden again, tbh you nly have to have it turned on for a week and that's enough to stop them dead.

Horses shit all over the roads and pavements where I live.

The difference is horse poop is pretty much compost.

Dog/cat poo is full of all sorts of stuff that will do you anything ranging from "a bit of an upset tummy" to "dear god, picolax would have been nicer", Campylobacter, Salmonella, Yersinia, E. coli, Cryptosporidium.

Also, no horses in my garden.

Harry_the_Spider
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Aggressive Badger?

Has he been shitting in my garden too?

Dunno, but 'ours' is an absolute unit - there's a gap under the fence where it's on a slope, and to stop whatever had been enlarging the gap we propped a large stone slab against it - no problem, bosh, it's flat on its face and old Brock unimpeded. Next, knocked a bit of rebar in to hold the slab against the gap - bosh again, rebar proved no object. Frankly now I'm considering just offering a ritual sacrifice to it every now and again to keep it sweet...

One assumes, this being STW, that you have a coffee machine? Take the used grounds from that, spread around the garden beds and edges. Cats, foxes and the like do not have the same penchant for single-origin it seems. I used to get loads, now they merely saunter through the garden and go crap elsewhere. The hedgehog though is another matter.

The difference is horse poop is pretty much compost.

As long as the producing horse has been wormed regularly. There's some nasties that pop through a horse unscathed (like cows) that you don't want in or on your person. Have a look at liver fluke or maybe not!

Update.

Been using "GET OFF" gel, as recommended in this thread, for the last couple of weeks. Initially in the area that was getting crapped in the most and then, following the genius logic of one of my kids, on the wall tops and holes in the hedge where they get in to the garden. I wouldn't put it directly on your lawn though as an accidental splash on a leaf did leave discolouration.

Not seen one of the hairy little shit machines in over a week! Result.

Offered to cut an elderly neighbour's lawn at the weekend. It was a minefield of turds. Probably from the the cats that we have evicted. 🙁

hairy little shit machines - I loved their first album

I'm pretty sure lilies are poisonous to cats, you should grow them.

UPDATE

I bought some "Get Off" as suggested and it seems to have worked. I also painted the top of my fence with anti vandal paint so at least I can find out where the little buggers come from.

I bought some “Get Off” as suggested and it seems to have worked.

We've had 2 poops in 6 weeks now - shovelling those away and apply a little more Get Off seems to work.

Thanks to this thread it reminded me to get the drive sorted. Ended up removing half a shovel full of crap. Now got a full bottle of get off down there and will be ordering a sprayer. The proximity of other houses prevents me from getting a shotgun

I like the look of motion activated sprinklers. Not tried them yet though.

Litter tray works well here. Cats use it and its nice and convenient to hoy the lot over the fence next door.

Wet and soiled catsan is a bit clumpy but the Flymo the neighbours have soon sorts that out.