I went out into my garden this morning only to be greeted by a stinking pile of cat crap on my lawn. This is a very common occurrence unfortunately as all my neighbors have one or more cats.
I am at my whits end with this problem as I'd love to enjoy sitting/lying on the lawn. I have tried the cat laser repellent but with no success and also used citrus spray around the border of the garden but that also doesn't seem to work.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can try keep the neighbors cat's from crapping all over my lawn? Otherwise I'm about to go mad and get the air rifle out.
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.
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.
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
SubscriberPee 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 😂
