I hate Cat Shit : (mykp.co.uk)

What, why do you hate cats mike?
Those lovable fluffy bundles of fluffyness?
Tame vermin more like!

Well, firstly I have a severe allergy to cats, especially fluffy cats, the fluffier the cat the worse my allergy. This allergy makes me itch, then, my eyes water and then I start to sneeze my head off. This continues for several hours after I´ve moved away from the cats or the house which they where in.

However an even bigger reason I hate them is nothing to do with my allergy but more to do with what the little bastards do and leave in my garden.

“CAT SHIT!”

If you have a cat, let me ask you a question. If I came into your garden night after night and let my dog leave little piles of shit scattered around your lawn and bedding plants, how would you feel. You´d report me to the police wouldn´t you, or what would you say if I bought a cat and let it shit in your back garden every night?

So all you cat lovers will be saying, “Well its nature isn´t it” or “There wild animals what can you do?” or even "My cats are so nice they dont do that"

Both of my neighbours have more than one cat and some of my others neighbours have one cat so we are in somewhat of a cat hotspot, and I am sick of cleaning cat shit out of my garden everyday.

Now what really annoys me even more is that if this was dog doing this I could take legal action against the owner of the dog, but because there is no legislation for cats I have to put up with it. Theres nothing worse than doing a bit of gardening and finding you´ve either put your hand in “Cat shit” or you´ve nearly put your hand in “Cat shit”

I´ve taken to some drastic measure to stop the bastards shitting in my garden, I´ve bought cat scarers, they work to a fashion but I´d need loads to cover all of the garden and there £35 each!. I´ve tried putting scent down in the garden which is supposed to scare cats away, but when it rains it washes this away. I´ve even put little pointy sticks in the garden to discourage them from squatting down but they just shit elsewhere.

The most effective method I have found is water. A good soaking with the hose pipe usually stops a cat in its tracks but this involves sitting watching the garden all day!

Failing the above what can I do to stop cats coming into my garden? If I even say I´ll harm a cat I´ll have the Cat Protection League beating a path to my door, threatening me with Legal or physical pressure.

Talking to my neighbours about their cats, gets me the typical cat owner responses, see above, so their as likely to do anything about it as they are to clean up the shit their cats leave behind.

Its about time cat owners where made responsible for their pets as dog owners have been made to be. After all if you are responsible enough to buy a pet then you should be responsible enough to look after it and be responsible for your pets actions. What ever they maybe!

It has come to my attention by others who have had the same problem, and there are lots of people if the number of emails I get about this page alone are anything to go by. That your council wont do anything about this situation. Indeed if the amount of Cat shit in your garden becomes a problem and you dont deal with it, YOU, not the cat owners are liable for Prosecution on Health Grounds!

Its about time the law was changed to make cat owners more liable for their pets actions as dog owners have made to be..

Heres a typical Council response. The names have been removed to protect the innocent.

Thank you for your Letter, addressed to *********, dated 3 May 2004, which has been forwarded to me for action.

Unfortunately, there are no laws or bye-laws under which we can take action against the owners of cats fouling in your garden. In fact, if it became a health issue, action would be taken against yourself to keep your garden clear of such faeces. Cats are considered to be "free spirits" and are unable to be restrained. They are excluded from the definitions of "livestock" under the Animals Act 1971 and cannot be held guilty of trespass under civil laws and their owners, therefore, cannot be liable for any damage caused. In any event, it would be extremely difficult to prove that a specific cat had produced any specific faeces.

The only exception where the local authority may take action would be if a single household kept a large number of cats (more than 12) whereby the premises could be considered to be a cattery or sanctuary or breeding establishment and would require planning consent. Under these circumstances, certain conditions may be applied in order to reduce the risk of the cats straying.

The only advice that we can offer is that cat repellant crystals may be bought from local hardware shops. A cheap deterrant is to place lemonade (or similar) bottles half filled with water (lying on their sides) at various places around your garden as the reflection from the water appears to act as a deterrant to cats.

I am sorry we are unable to assist you further with your problem.

Yours Some Council Person!

If you have something to say on this subject or if you think my views on cat are wrong then let me know by adding you comments at the bottom of the page. If there appropriate then they will be approved for other to see.

I get quite a few emails from people with suggestions about how to stop cats leaving sh!t in your garden, unfortunately most are unprintable but a few are helpful and I have included them below.

CDs in the garden From Vince
"this is actually the only thing that worked for me, get a cd or a few (any type but must be the reflective side facing towards) place on the ground in a few places facing the beasts (trial n error but i placed inline with my rosebeds adjusting the angles) they really do not like it,hope this helps let me know if this does...v man"

Wooden Meat Skewers from Maria
In the areas of garden you dont want cat scat put wodden meat skewers or sticks sticking upwards our of the ground. These are the type which are used for kebabs.

Update:
There are a few things I would like to add to this page as its been a while since it was last updated.

As this page is receiving a large number of hits, over 250,000 since March of 2008, it would seem that I am not the only one with this problem, it would also seem that there are a few cat lovers out there who deem it their mission in life to write abusive, even threatening emails to me. I will not tolerate this type of email or message on my message board and will report any offenders to the police who have already received and acted on two such emails. I have not made any threats of violence against cats on here, and if you, the people who have send threatening emails said the same thing in the street then would you not expect a reaction of some sort?

I have also had a few emails saying, "You own dogs, your dogs shit all over the place" not so! I always carry doggie bags and clean up after my dogs as I dont want my neighbourhood, town or countryside to be covered in dog shit, so I clean up after them. Plus I dont want a £1000 fine, something cat owners dont factor into the equation.

Since I originally wrote this one of my neighbours have moved "Yes the scum next door have gone and taken their four cats with them" My other next door neighbour now only has one cat, as one of them was sadly run over outside the house. So the amount of car shit in our garden has dramatically reduced and since we bought a dog its reduced to zero in the back garden, we get some occassionally in the front garden but its rare now.

I keep this page going as it helps others with the same problems and the comments below is a place for those to vent their anger. For those with cats who let them outside have some respect for your neighbours, I had somebody say "My cat doesnt go in my garden" well I dont know of any cats which spend their entire life not shitting at some point, so ask yourself where are they going to take a dump?

A few people have also mentioned to me the Petition which is running on the Downing street website and if you want to sign it then go ahead: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BanRoamingPets/

Looks great but I personally think that after the farce that was the congestion charge petition which Mr Blair effectively said "Thanks for signing" and then stuck two fingers up to everyone, I dont think anything on the downing street website will have any effect on any new policy. Sign it by all means but dont expect anything to happen.

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Calling all cat owners
Okay firstly like most of the people on here I consider myself to be a normal rational, law abiding citizen who has no interested in hurting any living creature. In saying that I have not been a fan of cats since I saw what one did to it s owners face when she tried to cuddle it and it didn t fancy it (50 stiches and permanently disfigured)

CAT OWNERS UNDERSTAND THIS we will not put up with your cats making a mess of our gardens putting our toddlers health at risk and destroying the wildlife.

You have made it quite clear that you will not listen to reason when it comes to litter trays and keeping your cat indoors (for the most part) and having bells on collars. If you want to treat your cat like a wild animal and let it be a ""free spirit"" then soon you and your cat shall be parted.

If your cat really is your pet then I advise you to stop leaving it to it s own devices 24/7 and start looking after it. Otherwise WE FED UP NEIGHBOURS WILL TAKE CARE OF YOUR CAT.

Posted by: The on 23 July 2010

CAT SHITE
Hello,

Have you tried lemons?

I had the same issue and all i did was get some lemons, slice them and put them all over my garden. Never had cat sh!t again.

Saying that though i do have a cat now but a house cat and i make sure i clean every ounce of her crap up because theres nowt worse then cat sh!t.

Or you could go to your local zoo and ask them for some lion or tiger poo and scatter that around your garden (its good fertiliser too). Because the cats will smell the lion/tiger poo they will think ""oh sh!t that fella has a bloody big cat and if we turd on his garden were going to get batterd"". Although it sounds wacky it works as my friend has done this in his garden.

Posted by: Tom A on 23 July 2010

@Angela Ridiculous Comment and we need some coyotes over here!
I have just read your ridiculous comment. The stupid cat owners always come out with these excuses `id see it as a natural instinct` and other pathetic excuses like that. So you are basically saying that its okay for these vermin b*stards to go and spread theyre toxic crap in someones garden and do what they please? Cats are horrible, nasty sly animals. Im fed up of seeing a cat in our garden trying to catch innocent birds, it will be sorry if i get my hands on it! And im getting VERY fed up of seeing these nasty vermin in my garden. I love birds and im fed up of banging on the window every time i see this cat trying to catch birds. I think you cat owners are the ones who are ignorant and selfish. I wish we had coyotes in this country. I would get a few just so they could kill them all!

After reading all these comments i think the best solutions are using traps or air guns.

Posted by: Cat_Hater on 22 July 2010

Shit in your own gardens!
There does seem to be a typical mentality that cat owners have... that it is acceptable for their pets to sh!t in other peoples gardens. People that have cats are the type of people that like part-time pets and I question why they feel the need to have such a pet in the first place? We are constantly reminded that cats are free spirits and should be allowed to roam (and sh!t) where ever they like. GET OVER YOURSELVES! It is NOT acceptable to let your so called pets FOUL in other peoples gardens, exactly the same as if a dog fouled in gardens other than the owners... It is about time that the law is CHANGED and the responsibility is held on the owner of cats... And if you don t like it, maybe think about owning some other sort of pet that does not cause so much anger in todays society. Don t even get me started on the number of our diminishing bird population that cats kill each year... Cat owners are SELFISH and have NO RESPECT for anyone but them selves. Change the law and give homeowners the right to defend their private property against pig headed cat owners and their cats...

My neighbor has just got a cat ONLY to stop other cats fouling in their garden. It is shut out all day and all night and probably sh!ts in my garden now... Not only do I think its CRUEL have a pet that you shut outside, my neighbors CLEARLY intend for it to sh!t elsewhere!

I am just waiting for the time when some child gets some awful disease from cat sh!t (if they already haven t!)... Only then will something probably be done... in the meantime, I guess us cat sh!t haters will just have to put up with SHIT!

Neal

Posted by: Neal on 21 July 2010

Surely This Infriges On Yor Human Rights!
I can t believe the moronic attitude displayed in some of the Pro Cat comments above. Cat Shit is dangerous end of! If some child were to be playing in the garden and accidentaly put there fingers in it where does that finger usually go? Yep in the mouth! As cautious a parent as you might be you cannot guarantee you are going to spot this in time. There s a law for dogs and so there should be for cats. Not to mention the swathes of wildlife these animals kill in a lifetime. Free Spirits my arse! They are domesticated pets period. You own one you are responsible for it. I commend the owner who said they were willing to pay for deterent items for their neighbours. This has been aproblem for years and it s about time it was addressed legally. I counted 6 cats pass through our garden in the space of 2 minutes! It should be 1 per household and even then they should be visibly tagged so that they re owners can be made to come and clean up after them. Let me know if you re getting a petition together and I will sign up!

Posted by: David Cowen on 16 July 2010

Its time things changed in law. Cats either need the same status as dogs in which case the owners are responsible for the mess and destruction they cause or they are wild animals/vermin which can be dealt with by professional pest controllers. I have at least 20 cats living directly around me owned by just 3 households and they all do their business in my garden. I m so sick of tidying up after these selfish lazy irresponsible people and their Satan spawn animals. If you can t/dont want to look after an animal dont get it.

mykp says:
exactly. have you been and talked to the neighbours I bet they all say its not their cat!

Posted by: Splat the cat on 14 July 2010

****ing cats
dogs are the solution. you may not like them but they can be easily trained to crap in only a small part of the garden i know i have done this and it keeps cats out of the back garden.

also my dog is a whippet so it is very fast and because of this i have started to train it to hunt :) so far it is very good it catches bunnies and pigeons, now i know you will probably hate me for this but the amount of pigeon sh!t on our trampoline is imense so..... and the bunnies was an accident but as the dog was wearing a muzzle and a noisy collar what else could i do?

at this point you would ask how did it kill the rabbit well it jumped on it till it died, not nice i know but what can i do anyway back to the cat issue once your dog can stalk cats wont be a problem a few narow escapes and the wont want to come back or you will just have to remove what is left of little puddy tat ;).

origonally i game on this site looking for solution about our front garden and found this web page a wealth of knowledge thanks guys!

last resort in the dead of night sh!t in the offenders letter box se how they feel the ignorant owners.

anyway thanks for letting me get that of my chest and i hope you all find a solution.

Posted by: Robert.s UK on 13 July 2010

Ignorance is not a virtue but compassion and understanding is
I would like to reply to the majority of people on this forum who says they hate cats due to them leaving poops in their garden or because they re allergic to them(!)

I first of all have had the same problem with our neighbour s cats who used to poop in our garden. Our own cat always comes in and does his crap in his litter box every day so not all cats crap outside. Even if our cat did, I d see it as a natural instinct and I d try to SOLVE the problem in a respectful and kind manner.

You have a choice. You can either go and speak to the neighbour and ask them to keep a litter box accessible for their pets which they can empty on a daily basis or if they re not responsible owners (as so many dog owners and parents aren t because it is the owners/parents fault and not the pets/kids...) and if they re stray cats then do the research and find a good and kind solution to your problems. Because most of you have obviously not tried everything... So simply read up about this issue first before you start complaining.

I think it is foolish to think that the cats themselves can t wonder into someone s garden and follow their natural instinct to have a dump on some soil on on the ground.

I find most of your comments selfish and ignorant. Remember that WE are the biggest polluters and the number of times that I get my other neighbour s cigarettes ends flying over to mine and kids throwing sweet wraps into our front garden... These are people you can reason with... but they re still just ignorant, what can I say?

Who hasn t walked into dog poop in the parks and on the streets...

Just get a bit of perspective really and find a humane (funny word that since so many humans aren t) and respectful solution to your problems.

@ June Staples: Human s kill for pleasure, we re the biggest and most cruel inhumane animals in the world so it s better to think before making ill judgements.

Also, just a little note to the person who said they hate cats because they re allergic to them. It sounds like your hate is pretty misguided... which is a shame for you really. A therapist should be able to help you overcome it.

All the best!

Posted by: Angela on 11 July 2010

I hate cats too!
I hate cats too. I think it is bang out of order that we have to clean up after them. Not only am I cleaning up their crap, I also have to dispose of the dead birds they leave lying around. It is really distressing. Why are we the ones that have to deal with this. All it takes is a bell the birds can hear and they are safe. I m sure my neighbours think I m mad because I throw water at them and stuff to keep them out hoping they will become trained like Pavlov s dogs and understand that my garden is not a good place to be. It borders on racism! I haven t read everything but has anyone came up with a good idea to keep them out of the garden?

Mel

Posted by: Mel on 08 July 2010

Unbelievable!
For a long time, next door s cat has been using our garden as a toilet and killing ground. I grew sick of it. I tried talking to them about it, but they wouldn t accept it was their cat. I ve tried everything... cds, water bottles, pepper and repellants, plastic spikes on the walls and even a fake cat! Recently, I lost it when I saw their repulsive creature fouling up my vegetable patch that I had spent a lot of time, money and effort on. More than that, I love gardening and why should I not be able to garden in MY OWN GARDEN because of irresponsible neighbours? So I bought one of those motion sensitive sprinklers. Completely humane, although I must admit I had a good laugh when I saw the cat set it off and run off like a crazed animal. But my neighbour s have now taken issue with it. They came around this morning to complain about it upsetting their cat and about their cat coming home soaking wet! I told them that if they were willing to keep their cat in then sure, I d remove the sprinkler. I told them that I have just as much RIGHT to enjoy my garden as they do to own a cat and that I ll take whatever humane steps needed to stop their cat fouling my garden. Unbelievable! And so rude!

mykp says:
typical cat owner response in my experience, I am sure some cat owners think their cats crap nothing more noxious than "essence of digested cat food"

Posted by: Ryan on 02 July 2010

Too Stupid to own a cat ????
I confronted a neighbour about their cat messing on my lawn. First she gets on about it s not her cat. She didn t like it that I have managed to get photographic evidence. So next she said what can I do about it. This is where it gets interesting. I asked if she put a litter box down for it either indoors or outside ? Her reply ""we don t need to"". No i suppose as it craps in my garden she doesn t as I clear it up for her.

What does she thinks happens to her cats crap, she must realise it s doing it somewhere else.

This isn t the odd occassion, it s almost daily. A few others have complained about the same cat. Someone decided to give her back her cat s mess and put a large pile near her car. Not me. She was upset and disgusted that her child could of stepped in it. So what about my kids stepping in it in their garden. It s been trod in our car and our house, clearing it up once made me physically sick.

Nothing seems to be a good deterent and anything you put down they get use to. The law doesn t work for none cat owners, and you are powerless dispite the nusance and health risks.

And her profession a ""NURSE""

Posted by: S on 17 June 2010

Grrrrrrrrrr!
My son has 4 cats in the 3 houses next door to him.1 got shut in the house and pulled down and broke ornaments etc then went upstairs and p****d and cr***ed on their duvet and ruined books.Cats are disgusting and should be kept in their owners gardens.My grandparents had a cat which was fastened to a lead that ran the length of their garden and it lived in a hutch in the garden. Last week our neighbours lost their kitten and it was under our dresser even though we have a dog. WELL,it s daddy came to get it out as it s growling terrified us and our daughter,all cat-haters anyway. He dangled a toy and enticed it with ham we d been trying to tempt it out with,saying come on Tiddles.Come on son,come to Daddy !! So very funny,almost worth the horror of having a growling cat hiding under our dresser.

Posted by: Susie on 06 June 2010

Shoot Them
I hate cats. They are disgusting. We dug a vegetable patch and one of our neighbours vermin crapped in it. They also did it for a second time on the vegetable patch. Also one of them crapped in one of our plant pots, and did it again after. They also did it in our front garden several times. Seems you cant have anything nice in your gardens because of cats. I hate them so much. We have tried putting pepper down and using silent roar pellets but they only work for a very short amount of time. I think the best way is to get an airgun and shoot them. Why should we have to clear up someone elses cat mess? They are sly, nasty animals and they all need to be wiped out.

Posted by: Cat-Hater on 23 May 2010

Change the Law
It s Proven that cats can be trained to use littler trays so why cant the law be changed and stop people letting them roam around and crap everywhere. One took a swipe of my dog and left him blind... if he had killed the cat it would have been a different story but no the owners have no responsibility over the cat.... this would be the equivelant of me getting a small wild cat and letting it roam around... if a cat is wandering around free spirited then it is wild and not domesticated and therefor should not be classified as a pet. I know people who have house cats so why cant all cat owners be expected to keep them as house cats. You wouldnt be able to have a load of dogs and let

Posted by: Goatboy Uk on 11 May 2010

NOTHING WORKS SO FAR
Hi,

i have been trying to tackle the problem of cats sh!tting in the garden for the past 4 years now and some ideas work to a certain degree but the little bastards still manage to crap in the garden.

i have three boys quite young and everytime they want to go into the garden i have to clear it off sh!t before they are allowed . this makes me see red mist everytime and it is getting to the point where im even losing the plot when i see a cat wether it be in my garden or out in the front street . if i see one i suddenly start chasing and spitting and its become quite embarassing if im spotted in the street lol.

my neighbour has six my neighbour next door but one has four and in total i would say there is at least 40 cats in the street .

firstly i tried the cat repellent pellets no joy then i tried lion dung no joy then i bought a scarecrow which has a sensor which shoots water but my garden gets waterlogged and the cats seem to be clever enough to dodge carefully . then i put cds dangling on fishing line around the perimeter no joy then i bought plants which cats are supposed to avoid but didnt work after finding several sh!ts next to them .then ive tried water bottles half filled which are crap no joy then i bought a bb gun for 100 quid which the cats obviously dont like but i cannot man the garden 24hrs a day so the cats just creep in around things so i cannot see them . ive also purchased the fence spikes and put them all around the garden fence but they still jump on it .im now purchasing carpet grippers as that will peirce there skin so hopefully will work if not i am looking at the idea of getting a cattle fence which will be supplied with a 24 volt electric wire but these cost over 200 quid which i cannot afford really . i have already spent over 200 quid which i havent got but i am trying every idea before i collar the little tw*ts and kill them with my bare hands which is the cheapest and easiest option im trying to avoid ,i will up;date you off the outcome

Posted by: adhaswell on 17 April 2010

Why are non cat owners expected to pay
For cat owners to have a pet?

I have two children - one is less than 2, so will make a bee line for anything that looks interesting, so despite having a patch of grass the size of a pocket hankerchief, I have to worry about cat faeces. Cats are thrown out at night here, to yowl and fight, they poo in everyone s gardens - cat owners state the ""it s nature"" thing.

Should I buy a large, aggressive dog, which kills their cats, I am sure I would be up on some sort of charge. Why should they get away with it?

Why on earth should people think they can have a pet and not have to look after it, in some other countries, it is legislation that if you allow your cat to go on the property of others, they are entitled to trap or kill your pet. I take it the idiots in charge here are cat owners, hence our weak wristed ruling. It s a shame they are not mothers of toddlers blind through toxiplasmosis, due to lazy, ignorant cat owners.

PLEASE start that petition up again, I ve only just been made aware it was there, I shall spread it around so that many others can vote that real legislation to stop cat owners shirking their responsibility is put in place.

Posted by: Angela Hunter on 09 April 2010

Dont tar us all with the same brush
I wouldnt say im a cat lover, yes, we have a cat, but im a lover of all animals not just cats.

I heard the nieghbours talking about cat sh!t in their lawn yesterday, we recently moved in and it does nt take alot to work out its our cat who is responsible.

We are finding the whole situation highly embarrasing and plan to go round and discuss the situation next time they are around(they are renovating the house and living elsewhere)Im thinking of buying them one of the sound emitting devices, i will also mention a good soaking with water wouldn t go a miss

What im trying to say is not all ""Cat Lovers"" are care-free and ignorant to their pets actions, after all i wouldnt want other peoples pets sh!tting on my doorstep, on the contrary i would rather our cat sh!t in our garden than theirs.

But what can a cat owner do to stop this happening, i would be happy to know. We have a cat litter tray but we cant keep the cat in so the tray stays unused.

Posted by: Grant on 28 March 2010

Please don´t drop off cats in the country!
They make their way to our barn... and turn into feral cats with lots of kittens, year after year. It is impossible to get rid of them, as soon as some disappear, more new ones show up. Barns need two or three well-behaved mousers, not 18 homeless town cats. Take the cats to the animal shelter, pay the $20, and let the animal shelter take care of them some way. Once a cat becomes feral, it is almost impossible to catch. Humane cat traps are a joke and cats hide their litters. I sympathize with all of you with the disgusting disease ridden scat covering your yards but it is not responsible to drop cats off in the country either. We grow most of our own food, so we have a huge garden, too large for most of these solutions .... .

Posted by: Suzanne Price on 24 March 2010

I ve tried many options myself. Tried chemical repellants that didn t seem to work at all. Cleaned up the lawn and washed it completely. Then sprinkled loads of ground pepper all over as well as plenty of vicks vaporub all round the fences. This worked for a few days until it was all washed away. Got myself an ultrasonic repellant off amazon for £15 and that worked for a couple of weeks but it seems that they are now used to it and are back with a vengeance.

I spoke to the neighbour and mentioned that I am planning to install some plastic spikes on the fences. Her response was the typical my cats poo in my garden and also how will my cats get out of the garden with the spikes to which I said any of the other 2 sides as long as it is not my garden. She said she will speak to her husband and get back which she never did. I haven t chased up on this as it was winter and I plan to do it when it is a bit warmer. The neighbour on the other side is happy to let me put the spikes and even offered to share the cost even though it was only on my side and he wouldn t gain anything from it, which was very kind of him.

Now my wife is pregnant and I don t let her go in the garden because it is full of cat crap. The garden stinks now and they have ruined the lawn and the plants.

Time I have a chat with the neighbours about the spikes and take action. Other options I am looking at are water repellants and as a last resort an electric shock repellant. I am tempted to use poison and an air gun though. I don t want my baby to be unable to use MY garden because the neighbours cats think it belongs to them!!

mykp says:
have a word with karen above, she think its her cats right to shit in your garden!

Posted by: MVP on 22 March 2010

Owners should train their cats
I have recently bought a property and have been amazed at the amount of cat sh!t deposited on my grounds. Owners should take responsibility for their animals and litter train them. I am trying out a motion detecting sprinkler and seems to be promising. I do like the idea of trapping the cats and transporting them hundreds of miles away. Maybe a better idea would be if local authorities gave people traps and emptied them when cat was caught, desexed the vermin and then charge a large fee to be released or be destroyed within a few weeks. I bet it would weed out the irresponsible lazy owners who have no concern for the property or well being of others.

Posted by: Marc on 10 March 2010

Cat Owner
I am expecting from my title to get quite a few responses! I have 2 cats which stay in of a night and are allowed out of a day. One neighbour complained about the cat poo whilst the other neighbour put carpet grippers all around their fence and seen as they have not came and spoken to us about ongoing probs I can only assume this has prevented our cats from pooing in their garden! When the first neighbour complained we went round and picked up all the cat poo from her garden and bought repellent which we put down for her and told her if you see them spray with a hose, advised her that they dont like citrus and if there are any more problems let us know! two weeks later after hearing nothing I asked her if the problem was solved, she said no so we bought 2 litter trays and kept our cats locked in for over a week, within this time we saw how many poos they were doing we again assumed the problem should be solved as if it was only our cats they would be no poos! However when I saw my neighbour and asked her how it had been going she informed me that she had not been in the garden to check but dont worry we ll sort it out! This annoyed me as I was concerned over this as obviously you dont want to fall out with neighbours and at this point we had done everything we could bar get rid of the cats to resolve the problem -do you agree? It also annoyed me that she had been saying about her children and the poo, but obviously she was not that concerned as she had not been out and cleaned her garden in weeks - assume she thought we should go round on a daily basis and do it for her?? Anyway thought all sorted as cats still use litter trays (we collect the same number of poos and they dont eat extra food since we counted them in our experiment!) also they still dont go out in the night only in the day so no probs until 2 bags of cat poo came flying over our garden wall this afternoon! Husband went round and asked why this was explained our situation and we were told it had to be our cats anyway! we also tried to explain that the other cats in the area are tom cats and so could be marking their territory to our two female cats and unfortunately the area they re marking is their garden! It was also the fact that they hadn t had time to clean their garden so this poo had been there since january! so couldn t establish whether there were new poos or whatever which would of proved if our cats were or were not doing it and if they still were we could have moved onto the next step of sorting it? The thing that really gets me is that we asked them to speak to us and they havent we ve been the ones checking if things were improving or not and the first thing they ve done is this!

Basically after a long winded story I want ppl s opinions over whether they feel we have been responsible cat owners as now feel our only option is to keep our s in but seen as neighbours wont come and see litter trays etc they will still keep throwing the poo over whether it is our cats or not! I appreciate that a lot of ppl from the comments on here dont like cats and I would be annoyed if as my neighbour pointed out her child pooed in our garden but I would go and speak to her about it rather than throw it back over the fence as a solution!

p.s also initially cleared part of our own garden before we got the trays so they would go there!

Posted by: Cat Owner on 07 March 2010

catshit
I am in total agreement with all the comments ,the owners don""t give a sh!t,its their cats that do,all in our back garden,some of the comments have made me smile,i love the idea of flinging it back in their garden,pity the neighbours was""nt in it at the time.we was thinking of buying a sprinkler,see if that works,they are constantly sh!tting in our back garden,the lawn has yellow patches all over it now,it has spoilt what lawn we had,we are also contemplating to slab it.its unfair that we have to go to these measures,and cannot have our gardens the way we like it,the owners have no thought,for other people,they want the pests,but we are the ones who have to clean up after them,i must add to this my daughter has a cat and she always burys hers,to my knowledge thats what i thought all cats did,till we moved here,where the neighbours on both sides own cats,we went to the expense of buying a six foot fence,but they still clamber over it,we also put this fence up for privacy,and now the neighbours on both sides are not speaking to us,just shows how pathetic they are,to all cat lovers you should have some consideration and respect for your neighbours,why should we have to tolerate sh!t from your loving pests

Posted by: marilyn on 21 February 2010

Sweet Revenge
My neighbor allows her cat to sh!t all over my garden, she knows it does and complains when I chase it away mid poo.

I heard that cats hate the smell of curry powder so I bought a huge bag of HOT curry powder and used a flour shaker to dust it all over the garden. It works very well, and a day or so ago I was asked by my neighbor to change a lightbulb for her. When I went in, I noticed a distinct whiff of curry. Making a curry I asked , no she said I hate the stuff, where do you think that smell is coming from? I have no idea I chirped do you think it might be the cat? She looked at me strangely as if to say do you know something I don t?

Now thats sweet revenge!

Posted by: Mr Curry on 12 February 2010

CAT ASBOS
The two plonkers who have moved in next door have now bought two cats, that constantly sh!t in out garden. We have very little space and have fence off a small patch so our daughters can have a trampoline. BOB AND MARLEY( can you comprehend anyone calling a animal that) aswell as sh!tting everywhere my husband picked up half a carrier bag full of cat sh!t, they have destroyed the netting on the trampoline so they cannot use that now. The reaction from the owner it is my right to have a cat and yes it is my daughters right to be able to play without going blind or getting sick not to mention £40 for a new net. The owners should br fined like dog owners after all they are fouf legged pets !!! We are seriously talking about getting a dog. its just the sheer disregard for anyone else cat owner who own more than one cat are selfish. What a world when cats take priority over children.

Posted by: julie hartshorn on 08 February 2010

Defending Against Cats

I couldn’t possibly agree with you more. I am beyond fed up with cats and their owners. They’ll try to tell you that it’s “natural” for their foul beasts to murder sweet song birds, but can’t comprehend that it’s also “natural” for my dog to defend his territory against their nasty cats. A cat hating dog is a pretty good defense, although the nasty things usually wait until he’s in the house so they can come into the yard and excrete all over everything.

I did get the better of some cats where I used to live. The place was overrun with the things. The only way they could make it in to that yard was by jumping up and walking along the top of the privacy fence. I lined the top of the fence with snap type mouse traps. It wasn’t long before I heard lots of snapping and lots of yowling as a cat kept trying to jump out of the way of the traps and landing on more. Then there was a clunk, which must have been Old Filthbag hitting the ground. The next morning, I reset the traps and put them back up for the next cat. For a while there, I was resetting and replacing the traps at least once a day. Occasionally they ran off with the traps, but mouse traps are cheap and I just replaced them. The down side of this is that all that snapping and yowling interfered with my being able to sleep, since the nasty things usually run around fouling yards at night.

I also have a cat trap, and have found that salmon flavored cat food seems to work best. Of course, the trap has to be kept out of sight of the owners, who will trespass on to your property to rescue “pwecious puddytat” from the big, bad cat hater who doesn’t like the little “pwesents” he leaves in her garden. Of course, they lack the brains to understand that.

Oh, and telling one cat owner that her little snookums would make a lovely fur collar for my dog worked for nearly a week.

Posted by: Christine on 05 February 2010

Insult to injury
I live in a block of four flats for independent living. We are all ill to some degree. We have a shared garden, in which I have a shed. My neighbor s cat recently decided to start using the area at the front of my shed and directly opposite my kitchen window, as it s own private toilet.

Yesterday, I needed to get some items from my shed and I stepped into a pile of putrid faeces, as I tried to stop myself (too late) I inadvertently trod in another with my other foot. When I washed the stuff off my boots, I wanted to HEAVE and have been gagging all last night and could not sleep.

What really galls me is that I often get a few items of shopping for that neighbour and what do you think is on the list every time? You guessed it BLOODY CAT FOOD!

Posted by: MIster Blister on 03 February 2010

Chasing my chickens
My neighbours bought a cat after I got 3 chickens to free range in my garden, and now the cat comes and chases them. As it is the next door neighbour, I cannot deal with their cat in the way I dealt with a previous threat. I sat waiting in the garden as soon as I had let the chickens out, caught the cat by the tail, and tried to smash its head against a concrete post. Unfortunately I dropped it, but it stayed away for weeks, and is now a rare visitor. Judging by comments on your site, my action was illegal. Time for another petition.

The lady who built a huge cage in her garden has the right idea. Cat owners who have valuable breeding stock do not let them roam.

Posted by: Diane Gledhill(adressees wife) on 28 January 2010

Cat Prevention League
The problem is cat owners not cats. It s the same with dogs - owners letting dogs sh!t everywhere gives dog owners a bad name and who hasn t been unlucky enough to tread in a load of dog sh!t at some point? Isn t it about time a national pet licence was introduced? Say, £100 per animal? The licence fee could be used to help recoup the cost of cleaning up all the sh!t their owners leave behind in public areas and to educate cat & dog owners on the significant health risks posed by letting their animals crap everywhere. This might make owners think twice about letting their cats sh!t all over the place. It would also deter those who aren t responsible or not that interested in pets from buying cats or dogs in the first place. And it fits the ""polluter pays"" principle. Just a thought.

Good cat deterrents:

CDs - these can work, but need to be positioned very carefully so that glare etc doesn t bother neighbours. Also they do look a bit odd scattered all over the garden.

Bayer Catapult spray - effective if you remove all previous fouling BUT it dissolves in water (a bit of a problem given how much it rains in the UK) and has to be continually re-applied, so works out to be expensive in my experience.

Chilli flakes - sprinkle these round the base of favoutite plants and in flower beds - cats won t foul there and if they try to they ll get a shock. Again, frequent re-application is needed after rain.

Water/hoses/high-power water pistols - all work, but you ve really got to soak the cat(s) and you ve also got to watch the garden all day and all night - not feasible for most people unless you want to start living outside like Ray Mears.

Lillies - these may work but I guess you would need to put them all the way around the garden - there were quite a few in my garden when I moved in and they don t seem to bother the local cats one bit.

In 90% of cases a combination of sprays, chilli flakes and water should work - but if you are overrun you might need to be a lot more inventive, as cats are devious animals. And no, a dog won t work as the cats will just find a fence post or shed roof to sit on while they torment the dog, which will result in your neighbours complaining about the noise (I know because it happened to me when I had a dog).

At all costs avoid putting fine gravel or tree bark down in your garden - the cats love it, and by putting it down you are turning your garden into a cat sh!tting heaven.

Good luck people.

mykp says:
cheers for that kris

Posted by: kristofferson on 27 January 2010

chinese takeaway
great web site.im just an ordinary bloke.work hard and have a nice house.i did have a nice garden until it was turned into a sh!thouse.i have lost some expensive plants due to cat piss.my front garden stinks of piss.my fat neighbours cat(who also is fat)sh!ts all over the place.there are two other cats that are having sh!tting contests in my garden but so far havent tracked down their homes.

my air rifle isnt powerfull enough to despatch them so befriending them is the best way and then going for a drive.

i love animals.i work on a farm, so animal welfare is top of the list. but when normal people cant go into their gardens or let their kids play without going on a cat sh!t recce first.we are forced to take action.the other night i was awoke by some demonic noise coming from the front garden,only to find out it was woody taking a sh!t on some other cats patch.they had a good old punch up and left after sh!tting and pissing everwhere.

cat owners can lick my spuds....

ps.woody will shortly be going awol.

Posted by: dave on 14 December 2009

nooooooooooooooo more cat poo in my carport and adjoining outbuilding
I stumbled on your site whilst looking for a cat deterant

im going out of my mind ,i have a glass what suppose to be a sun room at the end of my carport so it has no door

i keep my sewing machines in there

i put some carpet down and made it cosy but now when i go out there i just want to vomit

the carpets covered in piles of poo must pluck up courage and go and move it yuk

i think the 5 cats from next door are just laughing at me

they started using my porch so i covered the floor in holly ha ha that kept them out but now they are punishing me and doing it every where else

every day we have to clear the mess up we throw it back but i suppose we will get in trouble for fouling the stupid cat lovers path

Posted by: julie on 08 December 2009

...and I thought the cat shit was bad enough...
I now have one of the many, and I do mean many, local cats killing and dismembering will animals: birds, rats, voles, etc, in my front garden. Is there no end to the madness, or is it laziness, that grips the country s cat owners? They are selfish beyond reason and clearly give not a jot as long as little pussy-wussums is allowed to just as it damn well pleases. This is a highly-populated country and our cities, towns and villages are no longer places for free-roaming domestic animals. And for all you ""cat-lovers"", and I use the term very loosely, out there I want it to be very clear that despite your irresponsible behaviour I would still not harm one of your pesky pets. I, unlike you, take my civic responsibility seriously. The current domestic cat situation is complete and utter nonsense and the law should be changed NOW!

Posted by: Valerie on 19 November 2009

Verminous Creatures AKA Cats.
I stumbled on this site while looking round the net to see if there is any protection under UK law for householders subjected to this horrible problem of cat crap all over their gardens.

It appears there is none,

It literaly makes me vomit every time I have to clear up after them from the terrible smell , which gets worse as it is disturbed in order to clear it up.

Never yet heard any suggestion from cat owners to help resolve this problem other than their hapless victims spending their time and money to prevent a problem that is of the cat owners making , not the victims.

I read somewhere that if a sand pit is dug in the cat owners gareden and filled with soft sand , then the cats being such lazy useless animals will take the easiest option and crap there , but again , I have yet to see a cat owner ever do this.

I really am in despair over this ruining my enjoyment of my garden , that I have paid for .

If the law does not change then in my view it is reasonable to take whatever steps are required to keep the vermin out , all at my own expense of course.

Posted by: P Vanrod on 02 November 2009

Lilies, lilies, lilies!
We have a huge problem with cat sh!t too, because of neighbours who keep a dozen of the feckers. They stink up the entire neighbourhood, and they fight, yowl, sh!t, and stink up everything!

Well, I thought that the person who suggested lilies was onto something good! Especially for those dumbass bleeding-heart cat lovers who keep whinging about how the cats are doing only what s natural.

Well, let s run with the ""natural"" theme. I m going to plant be an entire freaking garden full of lilies! Lilies, lilies, lilies and more lilies Of all kinds, types and I m going to put them EVERYWHERE in my yard. You won t be able to swing a dead cat (oops! Did I say that? hehehe) without hitting a lily plant! Some dafodils and deadly nightshade too -- just for a change. And it s going to look beautiful! We ll have the prettiest, but deadliest yard in the city! Let the cats do what s natural...

Just do a google search for toxic plants for cats and you can get a comprehensive list of them. Then it s off to the garden supply to see how many from the list I can put in my yard.

Now I can t wait till Spring. It s going to be a glorious gardening season next year!

Posted by: Jim on 29 October 2009

Cats & Cars
We have 6 cats in the space of 4 houses, none are mine. Our 2 cars are covered every morning with cat paw marks and scratches where they have scrambled up onto the car. Every day my front garden has more sh!t in it, sometimes on the lawn, sometimes on the soil usually not burried.

I am now at the point where I will do anything I can to get rid of these dirty stinking vermin. I am not prepared to put out any more of my cash to keep someone elses filth off my property.

All cat owners have the same attitude, their cats don t do that. Because their cats don t do that in their garden. I can t catch the cats because they run as soon as I open the door, so now I will try more subtle means.

I hope to be taking orders for Davy Crockett hats in the near future.

Posted by: mick on 26 October 2009

More inconsistencies of the legal system :/
Not only do I have problems with cats (which seems to be in the hundreds in my street) sh!tting in my garden and on my drive .... their piss also makes the concrete stink ... AND they are playing naughts and crosses on my cars! now this is criminal damage, they sit on bonnets for heat from the engine, but scratch the living sh!t out of it getting up there and back down! this is criminal damage, and if it was my dog, Id be liable .... but nooooooo not with cats! coz they have a natural tendancy to roam? now ... i believe dogs also have a natural tendancy to roam? but u dont let them, u keep them in, coz u have to, and its the whole point of having a pet? Its a joke! and the only advice i can give, is when cats start dissapearing, if they are nowhere to be found, nothing gets said, nothing can be prooven. (if ur careful about it) ;). More people are getting cats because they know they can just set them out and let them do what they want. If the laws were changed, people wouldnt be getting hundreds, maybe 1 or 2. Something needs to be done. :(

Posted by: Fran Curtis on 22 October 2009

Loathsome cats
I am sick to the back teeth of cats crapping in my recently dug boarders. More than this, I have had to stop feeding the birds over the summer because of the annihilation of young black birds whose parents have nested in my garden. I love the local birds and now want to start feeding them again, but after seeing a pigeon wing and not much else in my front garden this morning I don’t see how I can. Why should I be prevented from doing what I want because of the cretins who have these revolting creatures; I am so tempted to let my dogs into the offenders gardens & let them crap to their harts content. No doubt I would be prosecuted.

Posted by: Liona James on 21 October 2009

Cats are PESTS!
I am not a cat love or even liker for that matter and, unfortunately, I live in a mobile home park where stray cats run rampant and it is common-place to see baby kittens stray and out in the cold. Mind you, I do have a heart and I feel bad for the cats that are born without homes and their owners don t have enough sense to spay or neuter them to keep them from mulitplying. I have also set out food for a stray pregnant cat that was severely malnourished and diseased looking. It is very sad to see how irresponsible cat owners are!

HOWEVER, I am getting sooooo fed up with cat crap in my flower beds every time I go outside. I ve tried EVERTHING! I ve put rocks in the garden, forks, knives, moth balls, orange peel, critter ridder from the hardware store, just about anything imaginable, but they STILL crap in my flowers.

Does anyone have a fool-proof method of deterring cats from our precious gardens? I really don t care if it harms the cats or not --- I think that if they got hurt a bit then it would be a great deterrant for them! Not severely hurt them or kill them but just give them a good scare.

Thanks alot!!

Posted by: Melissa on 03 October 2009

Crapfactories
Neighbour s two ignore their own 180ft garden and the one the other side to come over and use mine, digging up flowerbeds and hiding to catch wildlife. Over £200 worth of cat deterrents ineffective. The poetic justice solution I read somewhere online was to leave out some food dosed with cat laxative which the greedy vermin consumes, goes home to sleep it off and then whoops can t make the catflap in time and the best shagpile cops it. I haven t tried it but it does appeal. Sorry neighbour I put the food out for the birds, if you can t control where your cat craps how can I control what he eats?

Posted by: Rufusgrey on 27 September 2009

SHITTY KITTY
Absolutly sick of it! Have two children & friends who can t play safely in their own garden because of cat sh!t! Many cats in the area. New neighbour has two cats & two dogs and I tossed cat poo back into his garden; he filmed me and threatended me with the police! Think I ll accidently spray them with liquid manure for my garden and see how their owner likes the smell!

mykp says:
let him threaten you with the police. they might come round and slap your wrists but there is nothing they can do. As for your neighbour this is just about typical of the response from cat owners.

Posted by: Agnes O´neil on 23 September 2009

Please can we have a petition?
if you havnt already done so, can you please set up a petition ... ask visitors to donate £1 towards your costs - i reckon youd get 10 s of thousands. cat owners simply cant be allowed to export their problem on other people. Its called ""The Polluter Pays Principal"" and is well established in environmental law. BTW if you know who owns the cat - if they live in a rented property you could contact the landlord & see if theyr in breach of the lease. Some local authority housing depts. put a limit on the no. of cats & dogs tenants may keep ... so you could call housing dept ... they may have a copy of the lease to view online. good luck - A petition please, apart from all the mess, domestic cats have decimated the domestic sparrow & other bird populations severly affecting migration of plant and animal species between habitats. In the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area, some planning authorities impose planning conditions restricting the keeping of cats to protect threatened bird populations. Roll-on - lets have a petition.

mykp says:
As far as I am aware, theres a link on the page, there is already a petition for 10 Downing Street. But I wouldnt hold out much hope as nearly if not all of these petitions have been ignored by the powers that be. With regards to leased housing and restrictions, the number most limit is quite high and is usually inline with the number allowed before a cattery license is required. Which if I remember rightly is in the high teens.

Posted by: matt the hat on 22 September 2009

Newly constructed front garden - Next day, 4 presents
How do you know its a CAT doing the business???

We finally finished off out front garden yesterday and spent alot of time/money and effort creating our prefect terrace garden.

This morning we left the house eager to admire our efforts only to be fronted with 4 peices of crap.   As you'd expect we were most angry which lead me to goggle vermin crap and see how/what other people use to stop it.

I like most of the ideas but didn't want to immediately assume our vistor was a CAT.   So, to be fair I am going to attempt to catch our friend red handed this evening.

Its prefered sh!tting spot is right up against the front door.    We've done a big property refurb and have lots of conrete slabs in the back.   I will rig these up (Arine - Preditor style) so that any movement in the area will cause the slab (2ft sq) to release, thus capturing the animal (assumed a fox).

This seems the most logical method to see what animal were up against and once captured/crushed we can then decide the best deterant.

Need to run the plan past the wife first but will keep you updated.

Mother reckons crushed moth balls does the trick, but without identifying the culprit first.........

Posted by: Lee Richards on 03 September 2009

What to Do?
My neighbour has actually paved his back garden so his cats dont crap there and off course he doesnt have a litter tray either :-( Fecker!

I do own - sorry, no, I provide a home for a cat which uses the litter tray I provide, so get quite irate with my neighbours when their cats crap on my lawn.

When I think about getting a dog to keep the cats away, the kids song ""There was an old lady who swallowed a fly"" goes through my head and I quickly reject that Idea.

Hmm What next?

Lilies, lilies, lilies ;-) Tough if my cat gets it too, its natural - if the free ranging, free spirited, free to eat my garden little Fecker Gets it! Thats its problem (and my neighbours off course :-).

Poison, hmm - What a kno* I am, I actually like the rest of my neighbours family so would be sad for the cat and them :-(

RR - Roadside Relocation (more specifically, the middle of the M4 between the two highways). If it makes it across either highway I hope it has read ""The Incredible journey"" ........ Dam! - same problem as the poison idea.

SR - Strategic relocation - half the karma - hmmm, take the cat to a cat sanctuary too far away for the neighbors to get it back. This idea sucks too as far as I am concerned as I can just see myself distributing a continual stream of the neighbourhood cats around my county and I m sure the cat sanctuary owners will soon wonder - WTF, him again, where does he get them all from???

MSR - More Strategic Relocation. Unfortunately, I have been unable to find a restaurant that will take them all :-(

HTD - High Technology Deterrents. I personally don t like the high frequency devices as I can hear them. I think that a movement sensor linked to a small computerised watering system that sprays water all over my garden whenever something moves in it sounds like the most sensible idea in all ways except for the cost. I have seen a single sprinkler-head that will cover my whole garden so I don t even need an elaborate set-up
:-)

*ollocks - Movement sensors and computerised watering systems - how elaborate can one get. Bah Humbug!

Hmm - I DO LIKE THIS ONE :-) You can now get small, High Power, pistol compound cross bows with laser sight and a couple of hunting bolts for less than £100. After the years of cat crap cleaning this idea REALLY appeals to me! But again I feel sorry for the rest of the family and would be in a spot of bother if any of them happened to look out of the window and notice their cat trying to get away limply dragging a crossbow bolt across my garden howling and frothing at the moth :-(

And So; after much deliberation I will take no action personally, directly against anyone or anything but will happily provide the means for nature to do her own thing and will actually warn my neighbour about the dangers that lilies pose to cats next time he mentions his cats crapping in my garden.

And I Do Love Lilies! Easter lilies, Tiger lilies, Rubrum lilies, Japanese show lilies and Day lilies to name a FEW!!!!!!! of my new favourite garden plants. With a row of Blue Flag along the back, like a little fence all the way along and several rows of shorter ones in front :-) No animal will be able to access my lawn without passing through a beautifully formidable bed of lilies. Feel free to have a nibble or rub against them as you pass through; Little Feckers :-)

Well - That s my Rant Over - I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

PS: I love your site - Nicely done.

Posted by: Grant on 22 August 2009

we have a large number of cats next door as neighbors we no longer speak as our garden is their toilet my husband throws the cat sh!t back over the fence now at last count the neighbor admitted to 40 cats last year but i can,t find any laws on dealing with that ammount in one house!

mykp says:
I think the quote on the page says it all as far as the law is concerned

"The only exception where the local authority may take action would be if a single household kept a large number of cats (more than 12) whereby the premises could be considered to be a cattery or sanctuary or breeding establishment and would require planning consent. Under these circumstances, certain conditions may be applied in order to reduce the risk of the cats straying. "

Posted by: janet on 23 July 2009

Cats are evil and they are killing my quail - let alone pooping in my garden!
I would like to join the rest of the population who are sick and tired of cat poo in their gardens! I would also like to rant and rave about the fact that a new cat to the neighbourhood is killing my quail - one by one they are being taken. Recently the murdering bastard killed my hen who was sitting on 14 eggs - 13 of them - due to hatch only 2 days after she was murdered were fertile and just waiting to hatch! I have had quail in my garden for nearly 2 years - they roam free during the day and they get put away at night. This new bastard cat has been coming in during the day - lucky I didn`t catch the damn thing as I am sooo cross about the sh!t in my garden and now the death of 4 of my quail to date!

Cat owners wouldn`t like it if dogs came into their gardens and took a sh!t on their lawns and killed their bloody ginea pigs or such family pets! I have put thin wire now along the top of the fence to try and keep them out as I cannot put any chemicals in my garden as I have young children - only a matter of time before they bring some delightful cat sh!t into the house on their shoes. Cats should be kept indoors or be made to stay in their own gardens so they can take a crap in the cat owners gardens and not mine or my immediate neighbours - who do not have the hateful creatures either. I choose not to have a cat because they are crap machines who are full of fleas mostly - cat hair gets on everything and up peoples nose which makes them sneeze and eventually wheeze.

There should be a new law that states if you have a cat you should be responsible for its poop - even better keep them indoors and in your own gardens and give the rest of the population who love their gardens - free from sh!te!

Don`t get me wrong I wouldn`t want to murder all the cats in my neighbourhood but I would like them to go away and leave my garden and its contents alone.

Posted by: Lunaboona on 23 July 2009

I so totally agree with you ! If had wanted to clear up cat sh!t I would have my own cat. It stinks! Cat owners are lazy dog owners they want an animal but not the responsiblility of looking after them. It should be made law that they are taken for walks on leads like dogs and their owners must clean up after them too. However did you know that Lillies (eg Tiger) kill cats if they brush against or ingest them! Yes I know brilliant isnt it. I think we should all plant more lillies!!

failing that leave out milk laced with anti freeze that does the job! And if the cat owners dont like. Dont bloody let them out to sh!t in everyones gardens Thanks have a great cat sh!t free day!

Posted by: Tina Parkings on 03 July 2009

Flagged Yard
I´ve got exactly the same problem as Emma and it´s driving me mad. Some local cat(s) seem to think it´s amusing to shit outside my back door. I´m beyond disgusted with them and just want it to stop. The bottle of water seemed to work for a while as did mothballs. The only problem with mothballs is the smell. I actually like to sit out in my back yard when it´s sunny so don´t want it smelling like my great aunt´s wardrobe! I´d LOVE to catch a cat in the act. It wouldn´t be coming back to shit in my yard in a hurry! Thanks for writing about this mykp. Much appreciated! All tips most welcome!

Posted by: Michael Fryer on 01 March 2009

aaaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhh. We have just moved to a lovely little neighbourhood in our lovely little house with our (mostly) lovely little toddler. Now, this lovely little place is making my blood boil with the not so little, and f**king ginormous amount of cat shit I (well my partner) has to clean from our not so lovely little back garden.

I´ve chased the little feckers away whenever they come near my garden but obviously this is´nt as effective as taking shifts by the back door with a shotgun. (I havn´t tried this by the way).

I´ve since declared war on the cats of my neighbourhood after my 18 month old daughter landed face first in a stinking pile of cat mess that had been missed by our recent clean of the garden. Now this is completely unnacceptable. I´m all for owners taking complete responsibilty for this, it is utterly disgusting. If cats are so called "free spirits" then why are they kept as pets? I´m a free spirit but I would´nt shit in my neighbours garden (unless of course it was called for). Thats because from a young age my mother taught me that the toilet was the only acceptable place to relieve myself. She got off her arse and decided ""hey, better train this little mite that shitting in public places and leaving it behind is not a social skill she should learn"" And because she was a good mum and and knew it was her responsibilty to do so, she potty trained me. And besides, if it was the case that she was a lazy, selfish mother then i´m sure she´d have the police and angry neighbours banging on her door. But what could they do? I am a free spirit after all.

Something has to be done, I cant let my daughter out to play freely. Im always wondering if there is big cat shit lying in wait for her pretty little face.

I do apologise for some of the language I have used today but need to vent my anger and frustration. We have woken up this morning to five fresh new piles lying just feckers wonderfully in our back fecking garden.

by a Cat Hater

Posted by: VICKY MCKENZIE on 28 February 2009

CAT CRAP
Cats are a lazy persons pet, they let them out all day and night then say "my cat dosent crap in anyones garden".how do they know? Friggin idiots.i think someones already said about lillies they are pretty good,also as a deterrent garden rue is good but be careful as it can bring you out in a rash.teabags sprayed with jayes fluid or deepheat are good also.but i reckon the best way to deal with cats is to outfox them.plant catnip by a canal or roadside then when they get attracted to it they meet a grisly end.the little gits will be out of it anyway so you could go pick them up yourself if your worried about an accident! They kill birds and i feed birds in my garden so i hate them.people say they dont kill that much but if a cat had been near my garden in the recent cold weather then it would have prevented the birds from feeding and they would have died.keep up the good work .

Posted by: ANTONY BARTRAM on 23 February 2009

A Desire to Kill...
I live in a terraced house with a long garden to the rear, which includes a flower patch, an area of gravel, and a grassed area.

Several neighbours are harbouring the verminous little filth we know as cats. I abhor them. I´ve never been a big fan if I´m honest. I hate their sly, nasty nature and I can´t help being put off people who like them. The wife likes them but I still love her; however, she will never, ever own such a thing whilst we live under the same roof.

Anyway, where was I? Yes, about 18 months ago I started to find absolutely disgusting evidence of these hateful little ****s in my garden, all over my flower bed. The smell of the shit is revolting, it looks grotesque, and it was killing my flowers. It is also sufficiently nasty stuff to mean we cannot allow our nieces to play in our garden. And to add insult to injury, it is I who must clean this up using a plastic bag over my hand. Every time I must get down and clean this stuff up I can only wish for the painful death of these creatures and their feckless owners.

I have tried everything. I went through a phase of throwing water at them every time they appeared in the garden, but the stupid ****ing things do not have the intelligence to learn to **** off. Lemon works for a few days until it is washed away. And why should I have to keep buying lemons and going to the trouble of putting them in the garden? I have tried chicken manure pellets, which seem to work for a time.

About 6 months ago I put spikey kebab sticks all over the flower bed at varying angles and that appears to have deterred them from crapping on there.

However, they have now simply moved on to the grassed area. I mowed the lawn today and found that in four different locations, my lawn mower had gone over piles of cat shit, spreading it everywhere and causing a ghastly smell. There was no way of cleaning this mess up and I have had to resort to putting soil over the fouled up areas. I have thrown manure pellets all over the garden in the hope of keeping them away for some time, but how long will it be?

There appear to be at least four cats passing through my garden on a daily basis. I have seen three today alone. It disgusts and enrages me to see these vile little bastards slithering all over my property, using it as a toilet. I go out to chase them off, but they will be back within two hours. Two of them are unbelievably ugly - some sort of horrid, foreign variant.

All I can think about is destroying the little ****s with poison. Believe me, were it not for the law (which is an ass) I would have no hesitation. Sometimes I think of taking them in, tempting them with food, and then throwing them in a box, ripping off their collars, and driving them out to a place far, far away. Where their witless and feckless owners will never see them again. See if I care.

I despise the people who own them, fill them with food, and then allow them to just run along to shit on MY garden. It is as though the owners are shitting on my garden by proxy. I´d love to shovel the shit through their letter boxes. But what´s the point? I´ll then be given the added insult of having to pay a fine, or having a criminal record.

I suppose I will have to try this bottled water strategy, but that means having ugly plastic bottles all over the place.

I weep for the future.

Posted by: Monty on 22 February 2009

Catch-n-Release
First, I must say most cat-lovers are responsible and can relate to neighbors/friends/etc. who don´t like cat poo on their shoes or cat hair in their food. The few cat lovers I´ve known who (like some people who commented on this site) don´t understand why a person who chooses not to own a cat wouldn´t like cat excrement on their property fall into two categories.

Group one: they live in the midst of so much foul cat nastiness, their sense of smell has been dulled and the smell of cat waste is inseparable with the joy of cat cuddling.

Group two: similar to group one, however they strongly relate to the anti-social nature of cats thus don´t get out very much to experience the various types of people who are very normal and also don´t like cats.

Regardless, if you are plagued by stray cats or cats whose owners do not care for them properly, you are doing the whole neighborhood (including the neighborhood cats) a favor by catching said cats in a live trap and calling the animal control department of your city to pick them up. They will then be relocated to a place where someone who wants a pet cat can adopt them, or worst-case scenario: they may die in captivity...however, this also happens to humans who are homeless and it is unfortunate, but the best chance for rehabilitation as well.

Posted by: chris on 20 February 2009

Cat Lover´s Solution
I love my 9 cats passionately. I deliberately bought a house on a quiet street so that they could go outside. Most of my neighbors claim to enjoy watching my cats at play, but I have a couple of neighbors who hate cats for the usual reasons - the cats poop in their garden and kill birds. Neither the cats nor the neighbors are going to change. So I had to figure out what to do, in order to keep my cats both happy and safe. I decided to build an enormous, roofed-in cat pen in my backyard, against the house. It is 30 x 23 x 10 feet. It was designed by a professional carpenter to look good, not ramshackle. It has wooden rafters and poles for climbing and a couple of other wooden structures for the cats to play in and on. They can access the pen through various windows of the house. The pen was expensive, but it´s the best money I ever spent. Most of the year I leave the windows open so the cats can go into the pen whenever they want, even at night. Yes, the cats still would like to roam the neighborhood, but they enjoy the pen very much,especially at night. And I don´t spend all day worrying about what the neighbors might do to them.

mykp says:
How I wish my neighbours where as responsible, ney sensible as you Donna.

Posted by: Donna on 17 February 2009

I Loathe Cats!!!!!!!
I live in a terrace house and i think its the next door but one house that has this cat that has just recently in the last week started using my flagged yard as a toilet,but it does it right in front of our coal bin where we need to shovel for the coal,only to find the nice little deposit its left AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!! I tried sprinkiling Vinegar on the spot after i had to clean it up(not without gagging) but it still came back,im guessing it does it at night cos ive never seen it doing the buisiness,but i have seen the cat in the yard. My Mum tells me that Moth Ball´s do work so im gona try those and get back to you all to see if it does,its a highly annoying situation and i read that there are no law´s which is appauling. Dont no what else i can do with the yard being flagged i cant stick anything in the ground,such as plastic forks or CD´s,any one else got a flagged yard?

Posted by: Emma Packer on 12 February 2009

cat shit
Well theres one other thing you can try, no, not that but similar. Befriend the cat owner to a point where you offer to look after tiddles whilst they go away on holiday preferably for a few weeks or more. Then, once sunning it in Florida you feed the cat at every opportunity. Plenty of fish, full fat milk, beef etc. Sounds stupid? Well heres the catch, you dont let the little bugger out of the house. If you are successful the cat will be so used to staying indoors and crapping everywhere it will be the norm and they will have to re train the cat to use the garden. Possibly if you are dedicated to the feeding program the cat will be so fat that leaving the house is physically impossible anyway. Leave them a note and keep a safe distance.

Posted by: gerry gallagher on 23 January 2009

Poor little kitties!
As a fellow cat hater, may I say just how much I have enjoyed reading your comments. I am a normally calm person, but on the subject of cats I can become quite incandescent with rage! I have had to clear cat shit from the garden of every house I have lived in and it bloody stinks! It´s not just cleaning up their poo I object to, but also their murderous intentions, which keep my garden quite clear of birds - which I love. I have asked cat owners why their cats can´t wear a bell and they say things like, ""Oh he doesn´t like it, it rubs his poor little neck."" and other equally pathetic reasons why the killer they harbour under their roofs should not be in anyway constrained. It makes me furious! Then they go on to tell me about dear kitty and how he killed a bird/vole etc: and how upsetting it was, or how cross they were with the pet etc: It´s all I can do, to keep from shouting ,""Well keep it inside then!"" I don´t object to people who have cats which wear collars with bells and use a litter tray, but how many do? Anything else is irresponsible pet ownership, causing a nuisance to their neighbours. There, that´s what I think! Thanks for the opportunity to have a rant!

mykp says:
a pleasure, rant away!

Posted by: Nicky on 18 January 2009

Poor little kitties!
As a fellow cat hater, may I say just how much I have enjoyed reading your comments. I am a normally calm person, but on the subject of cats I can become quite incandescent with rage! I have had to clear cat shit from the garden of every house I have lived in and it bloody stinks! It´s not just cleaning up their poo I object to, but also their murderous intentions, which keep my garden quite clear of birds - which I love. I have asked cat owners why their cats can´t wear a bell and they say things like,""Oh he doesn´t like it, it rubs his poor little neck."" and other equally pathetic reasons why the killer they harbour under their rooves should not be in anyway constrained. It makes me furious! Then they go on to tell me about dear kitty and how he killed a bird/vole etc: and how upsetting it was, or how cross they were with the pet etc: It´s all I can do, to keep from shouting ,""Well keep it inside then!"" I don´t object to people who have cats which wear collars with bells and use a litter tray, but how many do? Anything else is irresponsible pet ownership, causing a nuiscance to their neighbours. There, that´s what I think! Thanks for the opportunity to have a rant!

Posted by: Nicky on 18 January 2009

a big dog helps
get a dog , make sure it doesn´t like cats!!. the other thing cat owners seem to miss is the fact that all these cat destroy the bird life in your gardens!!, before say no they don´t, THEY DO!!, you just don´t see it!!, in the wild there wouldn´t be so many in such a small area , the problem they create wouldn´t happen!. i think cat owners are lazy pet owners!! thats why they get one, theres no need to walk them or clear up behind them, i can´t see any problem with being able to destroy them on YOUR property, effectively classing them as vermen!! cats carry lots of disease , another thing cat owner should realise, !! then you go into cat owners house and dirty disease ridden pest in walking on the kitchen work top !!!!, they pull a face when you decline a brew or a biscuit, !!!! DOH baby´s and young kids in a house with vermen called cats, not a good idea!!!!

Posted by: 51st state on 16 November 2008

I am a cat owner myself, BUT
I have one cat (not by choice, we are dog people really, but animal lovers all round so she gets very well looked after). We inherited her years ago and supply her with fresh litter for her to do her business in, however we live in a cat hot spot ourselves, never seen so many cats in one area, and they all must come into my garden to take a dump (before you think it, it´s not our cat as we have kept her in overnight and still next day the garden is full and I mean FULL of cat shit, at least 5 seperate ones on the lawn in the back garden and some in the flower beds and also 4 or 5 on the front garden), so sick and tired of it, tried all the cat off and pepper dust stuff and none of it works, we had a very expensive sonic cat repeller but someone kindly jumped into our garden in the dead of night and stole it, ripped it clean from its mounting (which was nice). We have a 20 month old grandaughter and she loves to play in the garden and we have had to stop her playing on the grassed area due to cat crap, we of course clean it up on a daily basis but we are not willing to take any chances. I know for a fact that none of the cat owners around here supply there animals with litter trays, this would help alot in the reduction of cat crap in our gardens, but will they do it, I think not, even if it were made law to provide such things it would be unenforceable. I used to have 2 dogs who are sadly not with us anymore, never had this problem when they were around. My dogs were very friendly with our cat and regarded her as part of the pack, but would not tolerate any others on our propery. Time for an all night vigil with the hosepipe, Iv´e heard they are not too keen on a midnight cold shower :o) cat needs a crap, so cat jumps into our garden, dog´s see cat,,,dogs chase cat, cat norrow escapes with it´s life (or not), either way cat never comes back..... woof

Posted by: Niles on 25 October 2008

2 solutions
I´ve been down the route of lion dung, CDs, water bottles and crystals bla bla bla bla. I have found that the following works depending on your situation: cats don´t like s*****ing in enclosed spaces where they can´t see potential danger. My main problem area was a narrow gravelled path...you get the picture. High fence each side, but at each end there was an ironwork gate. By blocking off the lower part of the gates with an old sheet it enclosed the path. Not had a problem since. The other thing that has worked is creosote. Not the new weak stuff the original stinky thick stuff - you´ll probably find some in your dad´s garage. remove all cat crap first or it won´t work so well. Create a ""ring of confidence"" by daubing tops of fences with it. No fence? soak a rag and tie it to something. About half metre intervals seems to work. As soon as the smell starts to fade - reapply. Some in the bottom of an old tin can for low entry points like the gap at the bottom of a gate.

Posted by: george on 25 October 2008

Cat Shit - what else!!
I am driving my kids mad with my recent rantings about ´cat shit´ in our garden. I used to adore cats but not any more..........I don´t see why i have to constantly fork out a small fortune for various things to deter cats which do not work. I am going to pen a letter to my MP suggesting that they do something about the amount of so called cat lovers, who seem to breeding them for profit. If you look in the local newspapers and see the increase in cats/kittens for sale, i think you will agree with me. These vermin are on the increase and something needs to be done. Yes cats are cute and cuddly but not so cute when you don´t own one and find yourself regularly having to clean their shit up from your garden. I thought cats covered there shit and was shocked when i first found some on my lawn. Shocked and annoyed as it was the day i was having several kids round for a garden party the celebrate my sons 7th birthday. I´m sure i don´t need to remind anyone of the dangers posed to expectant mothers and young children who come into contact with cat shit. Anyway - that´s enough ranting from me and i do feel i lot better for it. I´m now going to rant on to my MP and suggest that you all do the same :)J

mykp says:
Jackie, Good luck with your letter to your MP. I fear after reading emails from others who have gone down the same path you will not succeed. My MP wrote me a nice letter explaining the niceties of the law and politely told me to bog off. Perhaps if cats where crapping on the pavements outside schools it might be different, however if this where to happen I would wager money on cats not being blamed but dogs. Let me know if you get any further.

Posted by: Jackie on 15 October 2008

Support
Well done for taking a brave stand against the selfishness of cat owners. It may be natural for cats to hunt but it is not natural for them to be fed out of tins and given somewhere warm to sleep. There are no thrushes (and therefore a plague of snails) in our area because of cats. When a sole pair of robins tried to nest this year a gang of cats sat under the nest until it was abandoned. Cats routinely defecate in our garden creating a serious health menace. How can anyone possibly defend this? I have posted another petition, entitled ""against cats"", on the Downing Street website. Thank you very much, Stephen

mykp says:
As much as applaud you actions in my experience any petition posted on the number 10 downing street website is a waste of time. They don’t listen to anything put up there just look at the fuel tax protest, over 1/2 million signatures and nothing.

Posted by: Stephen Moriarty on 14 October 2008

Deterrent
I have the same problems with cats in my garden and the only effective deterrent I have found is to deny the little darlings access, spikey strips on flat surfaces and fern screening to heighten the fences. I have in the past tried other methods like coating the tops of fences and walls with grease (the dark stuff used on cars and M/cycles), I did find this most satisfying knowing that there was a good chance that the offending owner was spending the same amount of time cleaning carpet as I was cleaning up cat crap. I have tried darker methods but realise that it is not really the cats fault, the responsibility for control lies with the owner and frankly I would probably prefer to shoot them than the cat. It would be a good wheeze if all dog owners trained them to jump over garden fences and crap in cat owners gardens (in the dead of night of course), additionally pooing in a bag in the comfort of your own home and then chucking it over a cat owners fence (latex gloves recommended!) would take some of the frustration away, after all its all about how you feel at the end of the day and when something frustrates and stresses you out you need to seek some balance!!

Posted by: SWats on 01 October 2008

cats mess
Hi, I must admit I quite like cats, and was thinking of getting one. But I am in two minds now! I do have a number of cats which are shitting in my garden and Im in the process of buying some equipment to deter them. I think its all about education1 For years we have just let our cats foul in other peoples gardens, and taken that couldnt care less attitude. But I think its about time the law was changed and if I do get cat I will make sure it is trained to do its business in the litter tray. Is it true that if you have a cat it will not shit in your garden, but will go off into someone esles ? Also if you have a cat, its keeps other cats from coming into your garden, so no shit all around!!! So if I buy a cat, I will not have to buy any cat repellants, because having a cat will solve all this, and then I will train my cat to do his business in the tray. The law has got to change to make cat owners more responsable. most cat owners must know that when their cat goes outside its going to shit in the neighbours garden!!! I was thinking of installing a device which takes a snapshot of the cat invaders, then posting them on the net, or local magazine to shame the owners into doing something about thier cats. Maybe a few posters on the Telegraph poles in the street, more shame. I think a name and shame of the owners sounds like a good idea, because its not the cats fault that they have not been trained to do their business at home. I am going to do a survey of all the cat owners in my area, and and try to find out what their thoughts are on this issue.

mykp says:
The law should definately change as cats can be trained to crap in a tray, thousands of owners have managed this successfully. However there is a majority of cat owners who are too stupid, too lazy or they lack the skills to train their animals therefore they just let them crap anywhere. I dont know about the, if you have a cat other cats wont come in your garden as ive never owned a cat!

Posted by: jozef on 15 September 2008