Cats using garden as a toilet

EssexGirl I don't think I could stand the smell of a garden reeking of curry powder either.

:13Gwyllt

Cats peeing or whatever in the garden is one thing
Anyone got any solution for husband peeing wherever he fancies by the carport on his way out behind the shed. In the stables where there is a toilet close by so no need to take shoes off. Wouldn’t mind but cottage visitors use washing machines in wash shed in stables.

Afraid not but consider yourself lucky. Mine does it in the shed which now stinks like a public lav. Goodness knows why. It's not as if it's a long traipse to the house. Absolutely infuriating. I'm now thinking of locking the shed and throwing the key away - preferably while he's I side doing one.

Ziplock - I've used a hose pipe with success.

Peaseblossom obviously not but I have tried for a long time. I am wondering if the bucket of water technique would work. Trouble is I only see him at a distance. Or the wet patch.

Yes that’s my fear, that my fantasy Maine Coon would be a house cat, or I’d get some kind of net over my back garden 🤣

I let my dogs out at about 7 am, both immediately toilet, I water the lawn in an attempt to prevent burn patches. I pick up excrement in degradable bags which go in the bin. If my dogs toilet on walks, that’s picked up as well. I suppose that’s the big complaint from others. That cats wander abd select their own toilets, in places they weren’t invited to

Iam64

I’m a dog person and that deters cats. I honestly can’t imagine being so irritated I’d throw water on a cat 😻😻. I rather like their independence and need to hunt and wander - if ever I wasn’t fit enough to have dogs I’ve always liked Maine Coon Cats, huge beauties, bigger than my spaniel. Have a happy day all 🌞

I can't imagine being so irritated that I'd throw water on a cat although the little blighters poo in my garden because I have no dog at present.
There are lots of benign ways to discourage cats aren't there and several have been posted here.

J52

I have had success with a mixture of spent coffee grounds mixed with a teaspoon of Vicks ( the cheaper Superdrug version) vapour rub and citrus fruit peel. Once spread we humans don’t smell it, but the cat does and is deterred.

We find that the cats stay away for a week or 2 when DS dog has been in the garden.

You would love it here because cats aren’t supposed to be out at all except in an owner’s garden ( someone tell me how to keep a cat enclosed. Ours can climb more or less anything) . We have very zealous and unpleasant local councils.

nanna the house we live in now once had netting all around the back garden. It was the plastic covered wire type. It was fixed on tall stakes with the top edge angled inwards for about a foot or so. The previous family had cats and one of them was a climber.

I have no idea how well it worked.

I brought the bin in yesterday to find cat poo lying on the slabs at the corner of the house. Suffice to say, it was duly 'wheeched' back over next door's wall from when said cat came. Their cat - their problem. And I have nothing against cats in general. They usually give our garden a wide berth though because they know they'll get chased out by our Lab.

Spray him with a hose!

ViceVersa - even if I knew it was their cat I don't think I would do that.
You had the bin after all.
I'd wheech it in there.

NotSpaghetti

ViceVersa - even if I knew it was their cat I don't think I would do that.
You had the bin after all.
I'd wheech it in there.

It wasn't that type of bin, NotSpaghetti, it was the cardboard recycling one which had just been emptied. And sorry, but I'm not putting someone else's cat poo in my clean bin anyway.

We have just had to cat proof our garden as our two house cats were having a nervous
breakdown, pacing, screaming and spraying everywhere, brought on by neighbour's cats coming into the garden. Chicken wire on inward leaning brackets on top of the fence has worked, the climber cat reaches the top of the fence, is unable to get over the chicken wire and drops back, to his disgust. You could try putting that along the separating fence?

We always have cats. In our last house there was a visiting cat who used to toilet on the stones at the front of the house, OH poured his urine over the stones and the cat never returned.

nanna8
very curious to know which council that is!

Second anything that smells of citrus, cats hate it! Try citronella oil and water in a pump action water pistol. Incidentally I once had a lovely ginger cat who hated dogs from being a kitten, happily chased dogs including Alsatians and Afghans!

I've had reasonable success with scattering coffee grounds over the area

I would like to chuck water over you when your pooing
You nasty sods

Other people’s animals are such a nuisance aren’t they?
Cats mess in neighbour’s gardens and dogs bark.

My worst experience with a cat is when, many years ago I found one on my baby’s pram, despite there being a cat net on it.
I was furious, and obviously really scared about what could have happened to my baby, as anyone would be.

Suffice to say it never came back.
I’d better not say any more especially after a recent post!