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Be careful and always wear gloves when gardening. I got toxamasplosis from cats pooing in my garden . I didn't actually know until I had a blood test .

A water pistol.

ultrasonic device

Shotgun?
Seriously it’s a real problem. At DD1’s last house, despite all efforts - ultrasound gadgets, throwing potatoes at the offender, firing water pistol and banging on the windows - nothing would deter her neighbour’s cat, who would ‘go’ in her bark mulch.
DD1 moved recently, so the problem is no more. It was awful when DD2 wanted to be in the garden digging around, as toddlers do.

We have tried pretty much everything ever suggested here.
No use.

Spotted a cat squatting in a potted plant the other day.
By the time I'd got downstairs it had finished (of course!).

I don't want to get a dog or cat which might well stop it.

A water spray bottle whenever you see it in the garden.

Depending on the size of your garden, why not put those plastic spikes along the top of the fence or wall. Then no cat could enter the garden. They come in different thicknesses.

short sharp sticks in the favourite areas do help, as did wire mesh. Moth balls work if you can get them, the smell deters cats

There is a plant:- Scaredy Cat - Coleus Canina
Silent Roar - Lion poo.

Never tried either of them but they might work.

Our little rescue cat uses her indoor litter tray and chases other cats away from “her” garden. Problem solved.

I’ve had cats rolling in that Scaredy Cat plant , and rubbing against the sonar cats scare thing ,

Georgesgran

Shotgun?
Seriously it’s a real problem. At DD1’s last house, despite all efforts - ultrasound gadgets, throwing potatoes at the offender, firing water pistol and banging on the windows - nothing would deter her neighbour’s cat, who would ‘go’ in her bark mulch.
DD1 moved recently, so the problem is no more. It was awful when DD2 wanted to be in the garden digging around, as toddlers do.

I'm sure many will find your suggestion as offensive as I do Georgesgran.
There are far too many people out there who think it acceptable to harm animals. I'm frankly shocked that you feel its okay to post this.

I don’t think anyone has suggested harming animals , water pistols don’t harm , thrown spuds rarely hit the miscreant
The horrible disease caught from the sh.t is not a worry to you Calipso ?

When alive, my cat used "her" garden all the time. I do not know if others used it when she was indoors.

No Aggie it doesn't in the slightest because I practise good hygiene and use gloves when gardening. I've had cats all my life.

Can you suggest what else the shotgun referred to might be used for other than to maim or kill?

My next door neighbour's cat had a favourite spot in my garden where he used to 'perform'. There is plenty of holly where I live so I cut some twigs and covered said spot with prickly holly. The cat now prefers to wander into another neighbour's garden.

Calipso, I've read Georgesgran's post over and over, and can't see any mention of a shotgun, nor are there any references to shotguns in anyone else's posts. I think you may have misread something somewhere...?

I like cats, have been a doting cat-owner myself over the years but I do acknowledge that cat poo in the garden is not the most pleasant thing to have to deal with, particularly when your own garden becomes a target for several other cats to use as their "convenience", as mine is now. Not sure what the answer is apart from shooing them off when you see them or those spikey things on top of the borders. I'm thinking of installing those as they may also deter the wood pigeons and magpies from perching on my fences and pooping down them!

As an aside, tortoise poo smells absolutely horrible and I have to clear this up every day as well! My tortoise insists on doing her business close to the house on the patio rather than in a far-flung, inaccessible place!

Georgesgran

Shotgun?
Seriously it’s a real problem. At DD1’s last house, despite all efforts - ultrasound gadgets, throwing potatoes at the offender, firing water pistol and banging on the windows - nothing would deter her neighbour’s cat, who would ‘go’ in her bark mulch.
DD1 moved recently, so the problem is no more. It was awful when DD2 wanted to be in the garden digging around, as toddlers do.

This one says shotgun, I think she was joking though.

Oh, sorry...I missed that! Many apologies. I also think she was joking. Surely no-one would take that seriously?

@Theexwife In poor taste though, rather like racist jokes which some find funny.

It's worth taking a moment to think about all the other birds and animals that visit our gardens. In recent days we have had the usual songbirds, a pair of magpies, a woodpecker, a cock pheasant with his two hens, several squirrels, a rabbit, a fox and we have a family of badgers who visit at night.

They all poop at some point.

In my previous house, one of my neighbours came to my door in a seriorealus strop complaining that I had been out of order when I shooed her cat off my daughter's sandpit where it was about to wee/poo (it was showing all the usual signs, pawing, digging etc!) This was in the middle of the afternoon and said daugher (aged about 2) had climbed out of the sandpit to collect a nearby toy to play with- obviously daughter's fault for not guarding her territory properly!

Should read real strop!