Ruddy inconsiderate cat owners...

All of those points are valid VIRII, but step back for a moment and consider all of these solutions, do you not think they're over the top for such a small issue?

If garden owners have a serious issue with cats crapping in their garden, they simply need to employ several ethical methods already available.

Killing all feral cats, locking up domestic ones, increased costs in pest and animal control, all seems ridiculous because a few people don't like a bit of poo outside.
 
wow, how many pages of crap? lol.

you dont want cats crapping in your garden do something about it like buy a deterrent.

trying to stop a cat from doing what nature intended is like trying to stop a lion hunting.
 
Reasons to hate cats.

1. Cats sometimes randomly crap in strange locations.
2. Cats constantly shed.
3. Cats sometimes randomly pee in strange locations.
4. Cats sometimes cough up hairballs.
5. Cats sometimes throw up.
6. Cats scratch things.
7. Cats get into and on top of everything.
8. Cats do not listen to you.
9. Cats scatter litter everwhere.
10. Cats ruin blinds and rub snot all over house windows.
11. Cats knock things off counters.
12. Most the time cats are independent and non-cuddly.
13. Cats meow.
14. Cats sometimes sneeze snot all over things.
15. Cats wake you up begging for food way to early in the morning.
16. Cats attack each other making a terrible scream that wakes you up with a semi-cardiac arrest.
17. Cats constantly sleep.
 
Well, it seems that the-void has got what he wants; the adulation derived from 6 pages of discussion about faeces, continued by some who are prepared to endlessly debate the semantics of the 'ideal' of social harmony and pet ownership. :p
Must be a slow day at work :D
 
My mum's neighbour used to leave her dog in all day while she went to work, you could here it howling all day long, that is inconsiderate.

I'm 41 now, my family have had cats since before I was born, neighbours have had cats etc, I can't remember one time when cat poop has caused more than momentary offence.

In the same period I can list neighbours who were abusive for no reason, excessively loud at all hours, left a dog indoors barking etc, that is inconsiderate.
 
iCraig said:
All of those points are valid VIRII, but step back for a moment and consider all of these solutions, do you not think they're over the top for such a small issue?

If garden owners have a serious issue with cats crapping in their garden, they simply need to employ several ethical methods already available.

Killing all feral cats, locking up domestic ones, increased costs in pest and animal control, all seems ridiculous because a few people don't like a bit of poo outside.
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The measures are not the point. The OP claimed that cat owners are inconsiderate to their neighbours. The OP is correct. What makes it worse is the very weak arguments that cat owners are bringing up to somehow try and justify owning a creature that craps in other peoples gardens as though it is the other people who are being inconsiderate.

As I said on page one of the thread, post 13 .....

VIRII said:
http://www.livesafe.co.uk/Prikka-Strip_webpage.htm?gclid=COfDtvm2_owCFR6AWAodxDungg

Stick that on the fences, problem solved.
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I have a cat, I love my cat, I don't like finding cat crap in my garden. How selfish and inconsiderate does that make me? Very. At least I am prepared to be objective about it, be honest about it and admit the simple truth that I, like many cat owners, gave no thought to how my cat owning would affect others.

What seems ridiculous is many people having to put up with cats crapping all over their gardens just so a few people who like cats can be owned by one....
 
helpimcrap said:
trying to stop a cat from doing what nature intended is like trying to stop a lion hunting.
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So don't have a cat or let it out if you do have one. Why should your neighbours put up with it just because you fancy having a cat?
 
VIRII said:
At least I am prepared to be objective about it, be honest about it and admit the simple truth that I, like many cat owners, gave no thought to how my cat owning would affect others.
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Why is that the correct thing to do though?

Cat owners are fully aware that their pet will drop poo out it's ass, but the effect they have on others' lives is minimal. So they won't give it another thought.

Similar to how much thought you would probably give when you buy a mobile phone. "Should I buy one? The ring tones are bound to annoy a few people."
 
to be honest I agree with the op


if inconsiderate cat owners had the cats use litter trays in their own homes then I wouldnt be clearing up so much crap..instead they just dump them out the door and let them roam free to crap on other peoples lawns

pure laziness

they fight in my back garden int he early hours and they crap in my front garden....if I could catch the buggers to give them a sound boot up the arse I would...as it is its the super soaker from the bedroom window

I have used different sprays/powders as deterrants and they still come back

...its only a matter of time before I drop my drawers and curl one off onto their bloody lawn and see how they like it
 
iCraig said:
Cat owners are fully aware that their pet will drop poo out it's ass, but the effect they have on others' lives is minimal. So they won't give it another thought.
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Clearly the effect on other peoples lives is not minimal or there would not be a thriving and expensive industry in products designed to stop cats pooping in your garden.
Or maybe you just like having crap in your garden :confused:

Perhaps owners are more concerned with cutesy, fluffy, ikkle kittens when they get a cat than the mechanics of scooping poop out of other peoples gardens. I know I was.
 
VIRII said:
So don't have a cat or let it out if you do have one. Why should your neighbours put up with it just because you fancy having a cat?
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So, if your neighbours fed the birds, the birds pooped incessently on your car, you would expect the neighbours to stop feeding the birds?
 
Weird - no cat I've ever had has crapped on the lawn.

You're a grumpy old man :D

Honestly if you don't want the cats coming around get a big high powered water pistol and squirt the living daylights out of them - they won't soon come back. Either that or get some large animal traps like for rabbits or something and trap them, squirt the living daylights out of them and then let them go.

Water is not a cats friend!
 
WoZZeR said:
So, if your neighbours fed the birds, the birds pooped incessently on your car, you would expect the neighbours to stop feeding the birds?
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Are these birds that the neighbour has purchased, brought home and then allowed to fly around pooping on peoples cars? If not then I'd shoot them :)
 
VIRII said:
I bought prikkastrip. It is spiky plastic fence topping, it won't cause any injury but is very uncomfortable to walk on. Hopefully it'll keep them out of my garden.
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You said you had a cat?

If so, you shouldn't get that many cats in your garden, as your cat will keep them away.....
 
If we followed this ultimate consideration policy, I fear nobody will do anything, in case somehow whatever they do, annoys Mr Jones at number 42.
 
Baz said:
You said you had a cat?

If so, you shouldn't get that many cats in your garden, as your cat will keep them away.....
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Yup I have a cat, she's a small female about 12 years old now. Next door have 3 cats. 2 doors up have 2 cats. 4 doors up have 2 cats. I think my cat is the weediest of them all poor thing.
 
VIRII said:
Are these birds that the neighbour has purchased, brought home and then allowed to fly around pooping on peoples cars? If not then I'd shoot them :)
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Feral cats? Gonna shoot all the unowned cats because they have a crap?

Good idea, end the lives of animals because they take a dump.
 
iCraig said:
If we followed this ultimate consideration policy, I fear nobody will do anything, in case somehow whatever they do, annoys Mr Jones at number 42.
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LOL. Roll out the strawman arguments.
Crapping on a lawn is not the same as "anything at all".

Not that long ago smokers just assumed they could smoke anywhere, cinema, buses, london underground (might be 22 years ago technically) and so on.
The fact that non smokers had to put up with the smoke and smell was simply ignored.
Attitudes have changed.
Why should your neighbour have to spend money to protect his garden from your cat, why should you assume that he should find it no more than a minor inconvenience to scoop poop from your cat from his lawn? Why should the pleasure you derive from catownership inconvenience someone else in any way at all? You don't *have* to have a cat. You'll be fine without one. You certainly do not have the right to let your pet treat someone elses lawn as its toilet.
If you can't provide enough space for your cat to roam without inconveniencing other people then maybe you should not have a cat.
 
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