Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

salome2001 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:47:12 GMT

[quote user="Mark Holmes"]

Here's a question to all the cat owners on this forum, ..... would you object to the local dogs using your garden as a latrine? (I will keep it to cat sized dogs in the interests of fairness)

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Ask me to answer this when the local Staffy owners desist from letting their dog sh*t on the footpath outside my house

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Hannah Wynne Richards — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:14:43 GMT

That's better than a dog that cleans up after seagulls. Human pollution gives seagulls campylobacter-gives dog campylobacter-gives owners campylobacter................... and on it goes

Wynne

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Richard Carter — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:28:57 GMT

or have a labrador that cleans up after the cat....any bright ideas on stopping that one?

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Julian Earl — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:47:34 GMT

[quote user="Mark Holmes"]

Lion shit is the definative way of keeping cat shit out of the garden, but I have always wondered why replacing one cat's turd with a bigger cat's bigger turd is gains anything?

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Thanks for the idea, but personally I think I'd rather have cats than lions wandering round the garden.

Mind you, I suppose someone could use elephant poo to keep the lions out...

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Mark Holmes — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:37:41 GMT

[quote user="Hannah Wynne Richards"]

Anyway what's a little bit of cat mess when we consider the river and sea pollution caused by human mess?

Wynne

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A bit of cats shit is a big problem when its amongst your strawberries.

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Cat Henstridge — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:17:37 GMT

I get asked this one a surprising amount!

I advise trying various things; Water pistols are a good one; CDs hung on string around the garden or full 2l bottles of water placed in the flowerbeds, apparently cats don't like the flashes and how they refract the light or lion poo, which you can get from some garden centres!

Another one, which I have been told works for urban foxes, but you do have to pick who you tell it to, is to get the man of the house to go into the garden (probably in the dark!) and mark his territory!

Cat

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:01:36 GMT

Anyway what's a little bit of cat mess when we consider the river and sea pollution caused by human mess?

Wynne

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:00:14 GMT

Malcolm That's not funny

Wynne

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Malcolm Ness — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:39:19 GMT

Contact the man who rewired the parade ring at Newbury Racecourse.

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Mark Holmes — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:46:11 GMT

Lion shit is the definative way of keeping cat shit out of the garden, but I have always wondered why replacing one cat's turd with a bigger cat's bigger turd is gains anything?

Here's a question to all the cat owners on this forum, ..... would you object to the local dogs using your garden as a latrine? (I will keep it to cat sized dogs in the interests of fairness)

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Thomas Johnson — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:43:49 GMT

My dad has a motion triggered subsonic device to deter cats from coming in to his garden, I think he bought it from the RSPB. He says it works very well. His neighbour's cat obviously set it off a couple of times as it got part way up the garden, then ran away, it now avoids his garden.

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Andre Escudeiro-Vieites — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:20:58 GMT

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"]OOOh no, that's "aversive training" and it's terribly wicked nowadays. [/quote]

Ohh sh...ame on me!! I have just realise I´ll soon be 40

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Michael Woodhouse — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:32:54 GMT

You need a Supersoaker water pistol. Effective and cracking sport.

The hours I spent as a child keeping cats out of my granddads garden. Keeps herons off the fish pond too.

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:19:18 GMT

[quote user="Andre Escudeiro-Vieites"]noise with a pile of cans by pulling a string while hidden in the kitchen came to my mind[/quote]

OOOh no, that's "aversive training" and it's terribly wicked nowadays.

Re: Cr*p, a cat in the garden

Stephen Ashman — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:00:20 GMT

"Horizon: Predators in your backyard", is just about to start on BBC2!