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I think this thread is more to do with quite a few cat haters on here that would like to see more kittens drowned at an early age.
Get a grip.
I think this thread is more to do with quite a few cat haters on here that would like to see more kittens drowned at an early age.
Here come the drama (cat) Queens.
No @Mattoutandabout - you just want to rage about cats. Evidence:
and yet so many owners could choose to do the ‘right’ thing and have their litter tray in the lounge…yet they don’t
I already said to you that I do. And it never gets used. Having a litter tray does not mean a cat would use it. If we locked the cat inside (cruel) then it'd have no choice, but like I said, cruel.
You'd like that. Fair enough. But unfortunately, the answer is "tough titties".
Surely there's something more important you could be angry about - something you can actually do something about? No point in getting het up over something you're never ever going to have control over.
Plenty of folk on here go wild camping,and its a rare thing to find a lone toilet out in the middle of nowhere, so for the most part you lot crap all across the landscape 😆
Has anyone tried growing cucumbers to deter cats from their gardens?
Plenty of folk on here go wild camping,and its a rare thing to find a lone toilet out in the middle of nowhere, so for the most part you lot crap all across the landscape 😆
Ah, but wild campers always bury their poo.
We looked after a moggy on a regular basis. She only used to use the litter tray (yes it does stink)
Litter trays only stink if they're using cheap litter and / or not cleaned out regularly. Neither of which is the cat's fault, and both of which would encourage them to evacuate outdoors because they don't want to use a Trainspotting toilet any more than we would.
We have three indoors-only cats. Solids get removed from trays on sight. All the litterboxes get emptied, Miltoned and refilled around weekly. The only time they smell is if they're overdue being cleaned.
The only time they smell is if they’re overdue being cleaned.
Nah, it smells when it comes out of their arses.
What about all the turds lying not decomposing on the high mountains, what punishment can we give the climbers ?
Well if they are high enough they won't be decomposing and will remain there for future generations.
It is a conscious DILLIGAF from the owner.
This.
We have three indoors-only cats. Solids get removed from trays on sight. All the litterboxes get emptied, Miltoned and refilled around weekly. The only time they smell is if they’re overdue being cleaned.
Cat shit stinks. Fresh litter or not. I guess you'd used to the smell with 3 cats and weekly cleaning. 😉
My cat would like you all to meet his family.He wants me to point out that while he's considerably smaller he's not to be fuqqed with.
Also he does kill some birds but mostly rats and mice
https://youtube.com/shorts/9-B5IM3pGe8?feature=share
Nah, it smells when it comes out of their arses.
Cat shit stinks. Fresh litter or not. I guess you’d used to the smell with 3 cats and weekly cleaning. 😉
It does. One of our three turns out biohazard levels of stink and the girth is astonishing, it's like King Kong's finger. But if you'd actually read what I wrote, "solids get removed from trays on sight." It's hard for poo to continue to smell for any length of time after it's been scooped and deposited in the outside bin.
You suppose your own toilet habits smell of lavender? Have you never come out of the throne room going "I'd give that five minutes if I were you"? Everyone's shit stinks, it's only a problem if you leave it sitting there.
Everyone’s shit stinks,
That's not true. Budgerigar and hamster shit doesn't stink.
Who has ever had to put a cage outside because the budgerigar, or hamster, has just had a shit?
The clue is in the name.
The name is quite misleading, some male slow worms have blue patches on their flanks which look a bit like Sloes (the berries you put in gin) and so they were named after that, over the years the spellings diverged. Slow worms can actually move quite quickly.....
They are however, quite slow lovers, mating between slow worms can last up to 12 hours!!
Given the number of people willing to flout the law in respect of stuff like poisons, if I had a cat I cared about, I’d not be letting it run free unsupervised. Since once of our friends’ dogs was killed eating poison in a public park in Glasgow’s south side, I’m reluctant to even walk our dogs on lead in built up areas.
Same goes for cars; I’m paranoid about our dogs getting near the road off lead, but a fair proportion of cat owners around here seem quite happy to risk their cats being hit by cars, not to mention the local foxes - I was woken up a couple of months ago to the sound, and sight, of someone’s cat being predated by the big dog fox that hangs around our area.
I think this thread is more to do with quite a few cat haters on here that would like to see more kittens drowned at an early age. All this killing birds etc causing major problems , they may kill the odd one or two but sparrowhawk’s probably are more skillful at killing a blackbird so do we need them poisoned, look at the amount of sheep damaged by dogs or foxes
Tell me you have enough of a grasp of basic ecology to realise what bollocks this is...
Tell me you have enough of a grasp of basic ecology to realise what bollocks this is…
The content of that sentence you quoted suggests a lack of ability to coherently form and connect ideas, never mind ecology.
Fun fact - I’d heard that you’re not legally required to report hitting a cat with your car, and a quick google indicates that’s true. I guess if the OP wants a legal way of dealing with his cat problem, then chasing them round the garden in his car is the answer…
Everyone’s shit stinks, it’s only a problem if you leave it sitting there
Well obviously, I didn't say it didn't.
I believe it's the whole reason for the ops post.
Slow worms can actually move quite quickly…..
Well even I have managed to catch one** so not a serious problem for a cat. Natrix natrix on the other hand is a different kettle of fish - I have never managed to catch one.
And judging by their terror of cucumbers I wouldn't expect a cat to catch one.
** They can be slow in the mornings when first sunning themselves.
How the blinking flip is a cat owner meant to pick up after their cat?
Step one. Understand they should* take some responsibility for their animal before getting a cat.
Step two. Create an appropriate space in their garden for an outdoor can run/catio/whatever
Step three. Pick up the poo from either the litter tray or the outdoor run.
People who get a cat and let it roam are making a concious choice to do so, knowing full well it will probably crap in other peoples gardens.
Without reading all the cat expertise on the thread (first page was laughable enough), I've got some of this under my front room window. Couldn't open the window in the summer for the stink, so put some of this down, now they shit over the other side, on the grass. I'm pretty sure they couldn't bury it (jeez there are some weird people on here!) without a spade. It smells bad if I sit on the doorstep in summer, but I just throw it over the nearest cat owner's fence.
Anyway, this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/MUSEDAY-Repellent-Deterrent-Anti-Cat-Prickle/dp/B094JF4J3C/
@seriousrikk I hope you are personally cleaning up all the crap your vehicle generates when you drive it around, you wouldn’t make the conscious decision to pollute but then irresponsibly let others breathe in the fumes would you 🤔
It’s as if the internet is shiny and new, and no one’s coined the term ‘whataboutery’ yet…
This thread need never have got so far if someone had just given the obvious answer on page 1:
Just go round to your neighbour and hammer frozen mice into his lawn.
That’s not true. Budgerigar and hamster shit doesn’t stink.
Who has ever had to put a cage outside because the budgerigar, or hamster, has just had a shit?
I had dwarf hamsters for a while. "Stink" might be hyperbolic, but they certainly smelled if the cages were overdue mucking out.
I don't know the first thing about birds so I'll take your word about budgies. Don't they excrete guano rather than faeces?
@cougar most likely the urine? We used to end up with the OH nieces hamsters when they went on holiday and it was the pee.
We don't look after them anymore due to having a Greyhound. But that's also why I don't have a cat shit problem in the garden.
To the OP she is available for hire.
I had dwarf hamsters for a while. “Stink” might be hyperbolic, but they certainly smelled if the cages were overdue mucking out.
Yeah but was there ever a case of "quick, open the windows, the hamster has just had a shit again"?
Which can certainly be the case when sharing your home with a cat.
Since once of our friends’ dogs was killed eating poison in a public park in Glasgow’s south side,
I think I came across one of these incidents riding home from the supermarket. Someone had left several bourbon creams scattered on the pavement and this was in the heart of Newlaands, so i would think that unusual enough. I kicked them into the gutter, crushed them under foot and spread it about so it was pretty much inedible(ok, maybe lickable)
I maybe should have reported it but i think what i did was enough.
most likely the urine? We used to end up with the OH nieces hamsters when they went on holiday and it was the pee.
🤷♂️ Could be. I'll be honest, I didn't perform a forensic analysis of the cage contents beyond noticing that occasionally ponged a bit.
Yeah but was there ever a case of “quick, open the windows, the hamster has just had a shit again”?
Our dwarf hamsters' poos were smaller than a grain of rice, it'd have to be exceptionally nasty for that to be the case. What comes out of our cats is often larger than the hamsters themselves were.
Are you seriously pulling me up on a comment that "everyone's shit stinks" because you believe you've found an exception? Slow Argument Day today, is it? Jeez.
Are you seriously pulling me up on a comment that “everyone’s shit stinks” because you believe you’ve found an exception?
No, it's because I believe that not everyone's shit "stinks". Cows shit, which is a lot bigger than a grain of rice, doesn't "stink". Cat's shit definitely stinks though.
And mine smells of sunshine. But that's another story.
Cowshit doesn’t stink?!?! Well, that’s today’s big news and views from London sorted.
It might smell but no it doesn't "stink".
Have you actually ever smelt cat shit? Do you know what a cat is?
Cougar tried to suggest that cat shit doesn't stink.
Edit:
views from London sorted.
I live less than half an hour's bike ride from fields with cows. They are not creatures solely from the wilds of the northern hinterlands.
Do you know what a cat is?
I’ve worked with cattle, both dairy and meat, and grew up next to a field that regularly had cows in it. And, yes, we had cats and dogs ourselves (and goats, chickens … at one point geese and a lamb). It all depends on the water content… stinky wet cowshit is real. Dried out it’s fine.
I'm a gardener, cats don't bury their shit, they merely disguise it, I hate cats with a passion.
they merely disguise it
Disguise shit to look like what?
Cougar tried to suggest that cat shit doesn’t stink.
Now you're just making things up.
Disguise shit to look like what?
Kuala Lumpur!!
Disguise shit to look like what?
Hamsters. That way it doesn't smell. Apparently.
Cougar tried to suggest that cat shit doesn’t stink.
Now you’re just making things up.
This is what you said
Litter trays only stink if they’re using cheap litter and / or not cleaned out regularly.
As you attempted to argue with people that cat litter trays don't stink.
A cat litter trays stinks the moment a cat has a shit in it. The fact that it might not stink half an hour later, for whatever reason, is neither here nor there.
Edit: I speak as someone who has to clean two cat litter trays everyday btw.
Cougar tried to suggest that cat shit doesn’t stink.
I think what he actually said was:
Solids get removed from trays on sight. All the litterboxes get emptied, Miltoned and refilled around weekly. The only time they smell is if they’re overdue being cleaned.
Yeah I was aware. But that isn't the only time they smell. In fact the time they smell the most is straight after the cat has had a shit.
Whilst I don't doubt cougar's sterling work removing cat shit practically before it has come out of the cat's arse, it is somewhat disingenuous to claim that cat litter trays are not the source of unpleasant odours.
Dried out it’s fine
Which they use for fuel in fires in countries that have few trees or available timber.
And in that there might be a solution. Gather up the cat dung, dry it and burn it as fuel in the log burner, thus saving something off the fuel bills.
If the local cats came into my garden then I considered it was fair game for my Jack Russell to do with as he saw fit, sometimes he caught them, sometimes he didn't.
Jesus H TF Christ.
Cat poo smells. Clean cat litter trays are not sources of odour because they are clean. Cat litter trays with cat poo in them smell of cat poo because they have cat poo in them. If you remove the cat poo, the smell goes away after a few minutes because it's the cat poo which smells and you've just removed it. Human toilets work in a similar manner, you may be familiar with them. If you don't remove the poo then the smell will persist for longer, because the poo is still there, smelling. The reason I have a seemingly superhuman ability to "remove cat shit practically before it has come out of the cat’s arse" or more accurately shortly afterwards is because, as we may have already mentioned, cat poo smells and I therefore know that a poo has been pooed and I can go and remove it because I'm not a lazy bastard who's going to leave it there piling up for three days. Because it smells.
Is this sufficiently ****ing unambiguous for you, or are you going to look for a loophole to pick at and then carry on being deliberately obtuse in order to discuss the relative aromatic pungency of cat wee versus that of frogs for the next three pages?