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[Closed] neighbours cat using my garden as a toilet

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it's favourite area is just outside my shed - any real world, non weeing in neighbours shoes advice to stop it?

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Posted : 07/02/2010 11:11 am
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I have the same problem. No end of times I go out to my shed and stand in cat faeces! If I see them in the garden then I have a low powered plastic bb gun that I use. Terrible shot though but frightens them off for a little while!


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:28 am
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Catch it in the act and give it a soaking with a waterpistol/ old washing up bottle is probably the most humane way.
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Otherwise get your own cat, and let it scare the neighbours off its territory.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:29 am
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Cats don't like citrus. Orange peel should deter them.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:30 am
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We even put sticks in the flower beds they still crap there! Only answer speed up when you see one crossing the road 😈 sorry no real answers


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:30 am
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You can buy pepper dust cheap for this purpose, and various other chemical deterrents, I've had variable results with these in the past. Alternatively, if you are around to see it doing it's dirty business a regular squirting with a Super Soaker will do the trick reasonably quickly.

A less practical but very effective way to remove all cat activity from your, (has to be secure) garden is to get a decent size male pet rabbit and let it roam the garden in the day.
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Posted : 07/02/2010 11:31 am
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We used to get next doors lowering their bowels en-route home. I found the water soaking worked a treat. You need to really drench it though.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:33 am
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They are cats, they shit in gardens. Mine struggles to flush the duo button in my bathroom. She has tried though.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:34 am
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Air rifle then get it a Phd.....>


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:37 am
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they shit in gardens.

But never their own, which is why people understandably get hacked off with dealing with other people's pet crap.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:38 am
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it's what cats do innit.

that said It must be annoying. Supersoaker option sounds like the most fun!


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:39 am
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Only answer speed up when you see one crossing the road

I really hope that was a bad joke? 😯


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:51 am
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Good point tthew. We've got two female rabbits that roam the garden all the time. They will attack a cat if it loiters too long.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:55 am
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They don't all do that. When ours is outside he comes back and crys to be let back inside to use the litter tray. But then he is a stupid cat, and about as far from the traditional feral hunter cat as possible.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:56 am
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I really hope that was a bad joke?

I don't drive so no danger from me, but i do sympathise with people putting up with cat crap.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 11:56 am
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we get one of the 'orrible vermin in our garden ripping open the bin bags. One day it's going to be concentrating so hard on the contents of the bin the dog is going to catch it!


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 12:00 pm
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Try all the cat repellent stuff from the garden centre or pet shop. I was told that a lemonade bottle half-filled with water also helps for some reason.

My cat doesn't go outside to do his business either, he comes back in to use a litter tray. 🙂


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 12:03 pm
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Lion Shit, available online or from your local zoo.
Cat smells lion shit, goes whoooa thats a big cat i'm off.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 12:06 pm
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You need to "clean" the affected area. It's a grim job(bie) but you need to remove all the old sh!t.

Then slice some lemons and scatter them about, and add Colemans English Mustard powder to the area too.

Make sure you keep this topped up for about two weeks and they should start crapping somewhere else (creatures of habit).

OR - get a cat. They don't mess on their own turf and will stop other cats from doing so.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 12:22 pm
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Lion Shit, available online or from your local zoo.
Cat smells lion shit, goes whoooa thats a big cat i'm off.

I can make some for you if you like...........


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 12:40 pm
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Yup, suffer from the same issue myself.

Short of sitting in wait with the hose ready I'm not sure.

Might be worth trying the lemon/mustard powder...


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 12:44 pm
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I've tried various cat repellents, but with no luck. I've never actually seen the kitties responsible, so super soaking isn't an option. I've been told that ea bags soaked in Olbas Oil is a good deterrent, but our neighbours look down on our garden enough as it is - I don't think littering the flour beds with tea bags will improve their opinion of us...

Next step, I'm trying cayenne pepper!


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 1:40 pm
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cats are ace...

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hose pipe or water pistol should do the job...

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unless you have a strange cat like mine who likes water 😆


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 1:51 pm
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Ditto on the rabbit suggestion. If the rabbit is good at his job, he'll actually catch the cat and give it a good rogering. Ours got lucky on a number of occasions.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 1:58 pm
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Wait for the warm weather and borrow a large boa constrictor?


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 2:17 pm
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Buy a goose. Or a wolf.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 2:18 pm
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Eco friendly and works-
Find a thorney bush ours used to be a Berberis (of the family; nastyspikeybastardiie) use the clippings and spread them randomley around your flower bed.
They don't like it up em!


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 2:26 pm
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rig up a security light which is also wired up to a low voltage electric fence. Place fence over area where cat does his/her dodo.

Wire everything to a timer, so you can still use the shed.

Flash and shock treatment!

Well that's what or neighbour did & he said it only took a week or so to stop the problem ;-).


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 2:36 pm
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+1 on the Lion shit.

our cat was getting bullied by the local Tom - i got it confused and trapped in a corner one day with a very long and accurate soaking from the pressure hose - hasnt been back since!


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 2:37 pm
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Spookily I logged on to post the same question.
New neighbours, who in themselves are very pleasant, have two of the vile creatures who have adopted the border by our garage door as their toilet.
Currently it's dropped back over their fence.
To those that suggest it's what cats do and we should accept it - no. I will not accept animal excrement being deposited in our back garden which my young son plays in.
I'll try the lemon/mustard powder idea and failing that I may have to buy a Toyota.


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 2:56 pm
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I tend to let my dogs out of the house if i see a cat in our back garden. We never see the same cat twice in the back garden and its good sport for the dogs, although they wouldn't know what to do with a cat if they ever got near one.

Mrs Toast - Why do you care what your neighbours think of your garden, its none of there business unless you live next to Hyacinth Bucket 😉


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 3:06 pm
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i used to find it in my borders but put a lot of pepper down after cleaning it up and after a couple of days it stopped 🙂


 
Posted : 07/02/2010 3:12 pm