Stop a cat crapping in my garden

We used to throw it back into neighbours garden as she had the cats. She knew we threw it back. They used to poo everywhere! Even the runny poos went back next door!!! Hit her window once by accident! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

Those motion detecting water spray thingys look good. Or, place loads of mouse traps on the lawn?
 
Keep your grass short. Firstly, cats like cover when doing their business, so if it thinks there's none it will do it somewhere else. Secondly, kittens are a bit thick - it probably thinks "covering" it with a grass comb-over is the right thing.

We had a phase of this last year when neighbours got kittens but now they've grown up we don't get it any more.

Just wish our kitten would do it outside - she's wedded to the litter tray still :(
 
How do you know it is cat Crap?

Cats prefer to bury their business. Fox crap looks similar but tends not to be buried.

You could try accommodating the cat by digging a hole in a remote corner and filling it with peat (they like that)

Or you could try planting Rue, however, it is phytotoxic so you need to keep it away from areas where Children are likely to play and be careful not to get sap on your skin.
 
Dooksy said:
Yeah it's the Amazon one that what I have. Do you have them in a mesh around the garden? Any idea what sort of distance they 'work' over? I don't mind getting 2 or 3 more and using rechargeable batteries. Might get 4 in total and have them in each corner pointing inwards.
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I just have one for my little garden, it activates the whole width of the garden (at least when I walking around it). About 8m maybe.
 
Orionaut said:
How do you know it is cat Crap?

Cats prefer to bury their business. Fox crap looks similar but tends not to be buried.

You could try accommodating the cat by digging a hole in a remote corner and filling it with peat (they like that)

Or you could try planting Rue, however, it is phytotoxic so you need to keep it away from areas where Children are likely to play and be careful not to get sap on your skin.
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LOL. Dig a hole and fill it with mouse traps! Primed!
 
We had a fox crapping on our neighbour's front lawn and he kept throwing it on ours assuming it was our (/my wife's) cat. Without going into too much detail there was no way it came out of our cat. Threw it back on his lawn one day after getting sick of it, we had a massive row and haven't spoken since. This worked a treat as the guy was a dick anyway but YMMV.

One of our other neighbours lets their cat crap in our garden with impunity (they supervise it every time it goes out, the idiots) which is enraging. I love animals but cats don't count.
 
Humane trap (cat sized)?

Once caught take said cat crap that cat has just crapped and smear it over cat before letting it go.

Do that a few times and either the cat will stop coming into the garden or the owner will ban it from leaving the house, after one to many smears all over their house when the cat returns.

Win win - Stops the cat coming into your garden and extracts revenge on the thoughtless cat owner. :D
 
Orionaut said:
How do you know it is cat Crap?

Cats prefer to bury their business. Fox crap looks similar but tends not to be buried.
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Valid point, I just image searched it and it looks familiar. I don't know how a fox could get in my garden, the fence is 6ft and there's next to no gap under the gate. Plus, in the summer at least I constantly saw another cat walk along the top of the fence at the end of the garden.

acake said:
Try this a heron scarer . Its a motion activated water sprinkler/jet attached to a hose pipe.
this is first link i found but gives you the ideal.
https://www.primrose.co.uk/-p-99060...showPLA=true&gclid=CIT2w5fp9s8CFdAW0wod6CcBSA
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That's what I've bought off Amazon. I hope it helps.

hyperseven said:
Get a dog, my mutt takes out squirrels for fun, a cat shouldn't pose much of a threat.
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I'd love to have a dog but sadly no time at the moment. I'm out of the house by 6.30 in the morning and don't return home till a similar time in the evening. Plus most weekends I'm away. Maybe when I've settled down with a chick and when I start working closer to home but at the moment it's not feasible.
 
If you know someone who works in a zoo, ask for some Lion 'droppings', put it around the edge of your garden.

I'm so glad that we have a patio and not a garden, so I don't have to deal with crap like this :D
 
Dooksy said:
Valid point, I just image searched it and it looks familiar. I don't know how a fox could get in my garden, the fence is 6ft and there's next to no gap under the gate. Plus, in the summer at least I constantly saw another cat walk along the top of the fence at the end of the garden.



That's what I've bought off Amazon. I hope it helps.



I'd love to have a dog but sadly no time at the moment. I'm out of the house by 6.30 in the morning and don't return home till a similar time in the evening. Plus most weekends I'm away. Maybe when I've settled down with a chick and when I start working closer to home but at the moment it's not feasible.
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Foxes climb climb much better than dogs do, if your 6ft fence has any horizontal bracing, it'll be taking a run-up and using that branching for purchase. Have seen one scramble over a 6ft fence with a 1ft trellis panel on top using this technique.

Cat crap is like smaller, drier dog crap.

Fox crap, due to their being scavengers is usually less solid and greenish. It also stinks way, way worse.
 
This stuff is black, some of it is like pebble droppings and looks a bit like dark mud I guess. The only way for a fox to get in my garden would be to go in via a neighbours garden as they all back onto each other.
 
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