Cats using garden as a toilet

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!

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

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

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!

nanna8
very curious to know which council that is!

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.

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?

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.

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.

Spray him with a hose!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

: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.

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

Gwyllt He's obviously not house trained.

Iam64 I love cats and have two beautiful long haired rescue cats, brother and sister, tabby and white and ginger and white and have had them since February. I love dogs too, but am more of a cat person. They are 15 months now. They poo in my garden and it's horrible, but what can you do?! They have to go somewhere. A lot of the so-called remedies don't work, like the plant someone mentioned, and the lion poo. Also the sonic thingy, I've heard that cats sit next to them. Also some people can hear them, especially children, so not always possible to use them. Maine Coon cats are beautiful, I expect they have to be house cats as they would probably get stolen. I bet they cost a fortune.

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 🌞

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

Yes the battery operated sonic deterrent worked for us. Also a hose when they are spotted. This problem infuriates me, I can't stand cats.