Cat poo

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sell green and variegated 'Cat Shoo' (coleus canina) plants in their catalogue- I'd say well worth a try. 24 plants, 12 of each, for £17.98 (smaller amounts also available but that seems best value). Cats hate them.
You could also plant wormwood.

We used to get hedgehog poo, but sadly they seem to have gone (probably been killed by the badgers we get round here). You can tell the difference though between cat, hedgehog and fox poo.

I have poo on my lawn. It looks like cat poo but is actually from the Tiggywinkles
I also get CP from 2 beastly Persian monsters from next door - a bucket of water strategically placed does the trick more often than not.

Actually cats DO poo where they live! Mine certainly do and I've got the dug up plants to prove it. The only up side is that they do keep other people's cats away otherwise we would be knee deep in the stuff. We have litter trays,but the better the weather the less they use them.

If just bought some Lion Poo pellets in an effort to keep the little beggars off our lawn and veggie patch. Will post results anon.

I have seen the blighters at it in broad daylight and they'll even continue until the point that I'm like a screaming banshee almost on top of them. I usually hammer on the window and they tend to jump and look my way, but it's only when I open the porch door and they see me (AND hear me) in the flesh that they tend to run off. None of my cat owning friends has this problem because cats don't poo where they live or where there's another cat in residence!!!!!! And I can't even get a cat of my own to keep them at bay because I'm allergic to the beasties.
In addition to the lawn problem I also have a raised bed just outside my dining room window and I can guarantee that when I prepare it for planting the local moggies will use it as a lavatory. I do genuinely get fed up of clearing cat poo; it smells so awful.

It's purrfectly disgraceful.

I don't like celeb culture, cat or otherwise!

It's a catastrophe!

That must be it, nightowl! Exhibitionists and attention-seekers...

Well I never. Obviously a new breed of completely shameless cats is developing. Is this celeb cat culture?

Cats don't have owners. They have servants.

I blame the parents owners!

They obviously have a very bad cattitude!

Cats round here poo anywhere and don't bury it.

I agree it's strange about the 'lawn poo' though. We get it on our front lawn (we have no cats at the moment) and it is a nuisance having to dispose of it before mowing, or GC visiting.

I have only ever seen cats doing their business out of the way and usually on soil, where they can bury it. What sort of cats are these that will walk into the middle of your lawn and perform willy-nilly?

Ana, our Mia`s litter tray gets an awful lot of use, she tends to go out for ages, come inside to use her litter tray, then off out again. I have been known (sorry all you gardeners) to wish that she`d "perform" outside so I wouldn`t have to keep cleaning it! There aren`t a lot of gardens around here actually, most folk just have a yard and front doors opening straight onto the street or road.

I thought we had cat poo in the garden but the culprits were foxes! Silly me not knowing the difference

Am I being thick or is it unusual for cats to poo in open space? I have always had cats but as well as having a litter tray my cats have always chosen a very sheltered spot (in my garden) and take great pains to bury it. I thought they liked to be private?

Our cats have always used litter trays, too - but who knows what they get up to when they're out and about, having a good stalk? I bet they don't think "Ooh, better get back inside to use my litter tray!"

My cat uses a litter tray, and they`re not difficult to clean out if litter tray liners are used, or, as I often do, two carrier bags, one at each end, instead.

My front garden is cat poo free since I bought two cat scarers. I know some people find they don't work but I think it's cats that are put put at night that were using our front. These ones flash as well as emit a high frequency sound and I think it's the flash at night that's doing the job.

My sister had a problem with cats using her yard as a toilet and no matter how many times she poured buckets of disinfectant/bleach over the area the cats still came back. The local environmental health officer suggested empty fizzy drink bottles half filled with water lying on their side..... and being a hard yard they roll around easily and the sun bounces off them. Unbelievably it seems to work.

Although you might break your neck walking to the bottom of her yard you certainly won't tread in cat sh*t !

We had this problem in our old house, the cat lived in the house across from us, but always came and did it's business under my kitchen window, we asked our local vet for advice and he told us that cats tend to do this, use other peoples gardens rather than their own, we tried everything, nothing worked. It was still doing it when we eventually moved.