Cats

[chouchin66]

My wife is the cat person in our house, I can walk past "our" cat on a daily basis and not even look at him, yet I feed him more than she does, it's my first job in the morning before I feed myself, He's part of my life now.

My next door neighbour who I detest has a yapping pocket dog, it barks if a leaf blows pat the window, it has barked today for 4 hours constantly whilst I was fixing the shed roof in the garden. It barks for hours on end constantly whilst locked in alone. I've never actually seen it being taken for a walk.

Give me a silent cat shit in my garden every minute of every day over a horrible yapping mutt that is actually spoiling my quality of life at the moment, which I blame on it's owner for negligence.

Pickin' up what yer layin' down, Ian...
There needs to be a strict licensing policy on the yappin' li'l fekkers...like handguns.

 

[chouchin66]

I'm bored !!!, show me to your garden...

 

[karl66]

My wife is the cat person in our house, I can walk past "our" cat on a daily basis and not even look at him, yet I feed him more than she does, it's my first job in the morning before I feed myself, He's part of my life now.

My next door neighbour who I detest has a yapping pocket dog, it barks if a leaf blows pat the window, it has barked today for 4 hours constantly whilst I was fixing the shed roof in the garden. It barks for hours on end constantly whilst locked in alone. I've never actually seen it being taken for a walk.

Give me a silent cat shit in my garden every minute of every day over a horrible yapping mutt that is actually spoiling my quality of life at the moment, which I blame on it's owner for negligence.

Ian...I can feel the anger & frustration in your post, I know this post isn't about barking dogs but there also the bain of my life at present & what you've written regarding the barking rat dog is almost word for word what I'm having to endure here .

So frustrating at times...I could jump the fence & do something I'd end up regretting for a long time...such is the pent up anger it creates when none stop for hours..

 

[Dudd I]

Working hard

 

[moodsy74]

I planted my veg and herbs garden and my own cat likes to take a dump and digs it up the little bleeder!! I've resolved this by keeping the beds covered over night to deter him and the other local cats. One love Ali

 

[22tempest]

I'm bored !!!, show me to your garden...View attachment 963450

I can see why he's the sunshine of your love

 

[OldStock]

Cats, by their nature, are vagabonds & hunters, thus, when caught short, will need to answer nature's call, wherever they may be.. People get too bent out of shape over penny ante things. There's bigger problems to get flustered over than the odd feline " care package" or grabbing a meal in one's garden.

I don't often comment on your posts as I assume they are well intentioned, but for heavens sake remember most of this forum's contributors live in a small island, with a lot higher population density (human), many millions of cats, these are domesticated animals, kept by personal choice, in a way that often negatively impacts neighbours and neighbourhoods.

They don't crap in their own gardens as that would be nasty, they crap in ours, and I'll retain the ability to "bent out of shape" about mind altering parasite carrying faeces, on my tiny bit of ground, and them pissing up every upright thing, as a territory marker.

That is the long version of what I wanted to say, in a more concise guttural form.

I tolerate my neighbours cats as she has been very unwell, but I'm f'd if I am going to have to dance around turds in the garden, and everything smell of cat pee, for every other b'strds pet.

 

[PartTimeLegend]

I’ve never seen anything she’s left behind outside. Though she has a litter box she comes home to use most of the time. Though there are the odd weeks where she’s not touched it so I expect she’s been delivering the goods elsewhere.

 

[burtucantbeserious]

It's the most non shackled animal we call a pet and its beligerant at the best of times.
Apart from my grandparents when i was a small kid no cats until my folks moved to a semi rural place, not interested before but saw they did it another way without a pellet.
My Mums neighbour used to vent to me sometimes about her cats habits, i tried very nicely to explian it has a collar but there is no matching lead. Or pink fragraced hand warmer bags !

 

[Birchy]

I think it says a lot about these creatures that they have contributed ( in no small part ) to the extinction of over 60 species worldwide —- yet still no control whatever on them !

 

[Legend289]

So my sister has a problem with cats crapping in her back garden….

My aunt, who clearly isn’t too bright, says that the way to stop cats crapping in your garden is to put poo from bigger cats in the garden. She actually suggested that my sister buys Lion poo(from Amazon!!) to spread around the garden to stop the cats crapping in there! As if cat crap wasn’t bad enough….

 

[PartTimeLegend]

How many species has man contributed to the extinction of?

 

[OldStock]

Mobile signal bad, it's like the buses !

so just delete the duplicates

 

[burtucantbeserious]

So my sister has a problem with cats crapping in her back garden….

My aunt, who clearly isn’t too bright, says that the way to stop cats crapping in your garden is to put poo from bigger cats in the garden. She actually suggested that my sister buys Lion poo(from Amazon!!) to spread around the garden to stop the cats crapping in there! As if cat crap wasn’t bad enough….

Bezos every angle.
We think relative to the part in life we are experiencing and base our facts on that, maybe your aunt aint as dippy as you think
and old pupils big pile steer clear.

 

[Colesy]

Hi all. Im not a cat fan personally, as above, I wouldn't want one hurt but...there are absolutely no controls or obligations on cats or their owners. If someone's dog was out at night, unsupervised roaming unchecked, killing whatever it fancied, im sure there would be some potential legal repercussions on the owner along with accusations of neglect and cruelty. I have read that after Corvidae, domestic cats are the biggest killers of wildlife. It just doesn't add up to me sorry. Also, some cat owners think its fine for their pet to use someone's garden as a toilet but would be completely unaccepting of a neighbours dog crapping in theirs. A local woman to me, who loves her cats asked me last summer if she could borrow my chainsaw as one of her cats was "stuck" in the bottom of a local manorhouse hedge and she needed to cut the hedge away to "rescue" her precious before it starved.."its been there for hours now and must be stuck because it wont come when i call it". My reply was along the following. Firstly, im not lending you a chainsaw full stop, secondly you would need the owners permission...(national trust i believe).. to enter the property with tools and cut the hedge and thirdly, the cat can get out if it wants.. She actually asked me to come and cut the hedge for her if i wouldnt lend her the chainsaw....unbelievable, no considerstion for anything, ..people, property,.. other than her cat. No offence meant to cat lovers, just my two bobs worth.
Cheers
Chris.

 

[burtucantbeserious]

I don't often comment on your posts as I assume they are well intentioned, but for heavens sake remember most of this forum's contributors live in a small island, with a lot higher population density (human), many millions of cats, these are domesticated animals, kept by personal choice, in a way that often negatively impacts neighbours and neighbourhoods.

They don't crap in their own gardens as that would be nasty, they crap in ours, and I'll retain the ability to "bent out of shape" about mind altering parasite carrying faeces, on my tiny bit of ground, and them pissing up every upright thing, as a territory marker.

That is the long version of what I wanted to say, in a more concise guttural form.

I tolerate my neighbours cats as she has been very unwell, but I'm f'd if I am going to have to dance around turds in the garden, and everything smell of cat pee, for every other b'strds pet.

Is she alone ?

 

[OldStock]

Is she alone ?

No, she is a bit of a blue haired trooper, who actually looks after other people, as soon as she has the strength, but she had to have some serious emergency surgery a while back, and I felt that while under that sort of stress, knowing at least two people are looking out for your pets while in hospital might aid recovery.

 

[OldStock]

Hi all. Im not a cat fan personally, as above, I wouldn't want one hurt but...there are absolutely no controls or obligations on cats or their owners. If someone's dog was out at night, unsupervised roaming unchecked, killing whatever it fancied, im sure there would be some potential legal repercussions on the owner along with accusations of neglect and cruelty. I have read that after Corvidae, domestic cats are the biggest killers of wildlife. It just doesn't add up to me sorry. Also, some cat owners think its fine for their pet to use someone's garden as a toilet but would be completely unaccepting of a neighbours dog crapping in theirs. A local woman to me, who loves her cats asked me last summer if she could borrow my chainsaw as one of her cats was "stuck" in the bottom of a local manorhouse hedge and she needed to cut the hedge away to "rescue" her precious before it starved.."its been there for hours now and must be stuck because it wont come when i call it". My reply was along the following. Firstly, im not lending you a chainsaw full stop, secondly you would need the owners permission...(national trust i believe).. to enter the property with tools and cut the hedge and thirdly, the cat can get out if it wants.. She actually asked me to come and cut the hedge for her if i wouldnt lend her the chainsaw....unbelievable, no considerstion for anything, ..people, property,.. other than her cat. No offence meant to cat lovers, just my two bobs worth.
Cheers
Chris.

Your, understandably careful, wording is indicative of a part of the problem.

Having issue with some part of cat activity, does not mean we want to do them harm, far from it, part of my concern for the numbers, is the quality of life for outside cats, together with their impact.
My sister had a cat that was being bullied by the neighbour's cat, probably a territory and numbers issue, her solution was to get another one, to help it fight.
Whoosh, like defecation, move the problem beyond the owners fence.
Feline arms race.

Here, right now we have a new one around, I've no idea if it is a pet or feral, but it is an aggressive black and white (presumed) tom cat, that fights my neighbours cat for their food.
I've checked for any lost pets locally, nothing comes up so I have to assume it may be someone's darling that "never does that at home".
So while I don't wish it any harm, what redress do I and the neighbours have against this pushy shite?
My current technique is to be noisy and push it off, but if it is feral, hunger will bring it back.
I must get a decent water pistol/rifle, the one I got for this, does not reach the fence he retreats to.

 

[Stephen@]

Hi all. Im not a cat fan personally, as above, I wouldn't want one hurt but...there are absolutely no controls or obligations on cats or their owners. If someone's dog was out at night, unsupervised roaming unchecked, killing whatever it fancied, im sure there would be some potential legal repercussions on the owner along with accusations of neglect and cruelty. I have read that after Corvidae, domestic cats are the biggest killers of wildlife. It just doesn't add up to me sorry. Also, some cat owners think its fine for their pet to use someone's garden as a toilet but would be completely unaccepting of a neighbours dog crapping in theirs. A local woman to me, who loves her cats asked me last summer if she could borrow my chainsaw as one of her cats was "stuck" in the bottom of a local manorhouse hedge and she needed to cut the hedge away to "rescue" her precious before it starved.."its been there for hours now and must be stuck because it wont come when i call it". My reply was along the following. Firstly, im not lending you a chainsaw full stop, secondly you would need the owners permission...(national trust i believe).. to enter the property with tools and cut the hedge and thirdly, the cat can get out if it wants.. She actually asked me to come and cut the hedge for her if i wouldnt lend her the chainsaw....unbelievable, no considerstion for anything, ..people, property,.. other than her cat. No offence meant to cat lovers, just my two bobs worth.
Cheers
Chris.

Any cat is not responsible for the harm or damage it does when out roaming, but fortunately the owner is responsible for what their pet cat does. If you know what cat is crapping in your garden and you have proof, speak to the owner and if they don’t remedy the situation apply to have an ASBO served against them. If you can’t enjoy your garden after saving all your hard earned cash to buy it then they are encroaching on your civil rights by not allowing you to enjoy sitting in your garden.

 

[Nitemax]

As a " Public Service Announcement" ...
A 10 second Google threw this up :
Cats are deterred by -
Lavender
Rue
Citronella
Lemon Balm
Rosemary
Oregano
Curry Herb...
Some stuff y'all can plant & potter with to cat safe & brighten your garden.

You're Welcome.

But google is biased towards 'nice' deterrents and l bet not one of them make any difference whatsoever. But.. while you are trying them you are probably not trying other deterrents that google won't condone.