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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
How ON EARTH do I stop one of the local cats using my back garden as it's personal toilet????????

It doesn't bury it, just leaves it on the lawn. Cutting the grass I've disturbed one lot and trodden in two others. it's fukcing disgusting, stinks to high heaven, my trainers have had to be washed.

Before I do something lots of you won't like, any advice?

Because I WILL stop it..........

And please..........no stuff about lion ****..........
I'm genuinely interested too as there is one, maybe two cats who have marked their territory in my back garden and are leaving their poopensteins every day. Apart from scooping it up I'm not too bothered but my 4 year old regularly plays in there now and if anything happens to him because of one I've missed, I'll strangle the little ******* when I get them
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by lozgti1
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Its a living thing
And your point is? There are many living things that we control with a little pain. Can't see how what I'm doing is any different to a farmer using a electric fence to stop pigs/cows/horses/sheep/etc. from escaping from their field. Few shocks and they soon learn not to do it again. Just an adjustment in behaviour
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
I can feel history about to repeat itself....

... do you think this is a good example to set to your kids? How do you think it will affect their personalities in the future?
I don't actively involve my kids in discouraging the cats but when they're old enough to understand we'll discuss it with them. When we were growing up we had a dog to keep them out. If one were stupid enough to venture into the garden my brother and I were always keen to shout "cat" to the dog and open the back door so it could chase it off (assuming it was already trying to claw down the back door to get it anyway).

They'll also undoubtedly be curious about guns and stuff as they get older, I know I was, and I'll happily supervise them with air rifles and the likes to do some target practice as well as reducing the local wild rabbit population. Never did me any harm

I'd have a dog but as both the wife and I work 20 miles from home and away for 10 hours during the day it would not be fair to have one (see I do care about animals).
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Vodkaa
I love the bb gun idea, the real problem is the cat owners who just let the little ****s roam free, if a cat come into my garden there is a good chance it would be skinned alive.

Stupid owners need to learn to keep the damn things indoors, or get a lead and walk them when they need to ****e.
As soon as I saw this topic posted I knew we'd get an idiot posting and here you are!
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Graz
I don't actively involve my kids in discouraging the cats but when they're old enough to understand we'll discuss it with them. When we were growing up we had a dog to keep them out. If one were stupid enough to venture into the garden my brother and I were always keen to shout "cat" to the dog and open the back door so it could chase it off (assuming it was already trying to claw down the back door to get it anyway).

They'll also undoubtedly be curious about guns and stuff as they get older, I know I was, and I'll happily supervise them with air rifles and the likes to do some target practice as well as reducing the local wild rabbit population. Never did me any harm

I'd have a dog but as both the wife and I work 20 miles from home and away for 10 hours during the day it would not be fair to have one (see I do care about animals).
It never did you any harm? Yet you deem to derive pleasure out of killing animals... are you sure about the harm thing?
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
The law relating to the trespass of domestic animals is contained in the Animals Act 1971. However, cats enjoy a unique position as the Animals Act 1971 does not apply to them. A cat cannot, therefore, in law trespass. As a cat cannot trespass its owner cannot be legally responsible for what their cat does outside of their property.

You can try and sue your neighbour on the basis of a public nuisance, but there has been no recorded successful case of a public nuisance charge sticking when brought about a cat fouling a private garden.

So.... end of argument
That is a real legal oddity that one. Both are quadrupedal predatory carnivorous mammals and yet legally are given different status based upon their species.
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 12:53 PM
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I don't really want to do it any harm.

But I have to do SOMETHING...my trainers STANK yesterday.
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 01:05 PM
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I had this one cat that kept going in my garden, which was cool with me till one day it decided to rip my bbq cover up, well that has now changed things!! so the next time I saw the little s**t I threw a glass of water at it and that was the end of that as it never came back!
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Ste333
As someone said above, cats dislike strong smelling things......
Try squirting a bit of lemon juice around the garden and see if that works. Our cat kept clawing my new sofas, but ive given them a light spraying of lemon juice and it doesn't touch them now. Obviously you might need a bit more for a whole garden! but worth a shot....

I have the same problem. I've thrown raw garlic over the grass, sprayed it with lemon, and proper pet repellent. Bloody cats still sh1tting everywhere.


I'm tempted to do the Paracetamol in Gravy trick.
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Ste333
As someone said above, cats dislike strong smelling things......
Try squirting a bit of lemon juice around the garden and see if that works. Our cat kept clawing my new sofas, but ive given them a light spraying of lemon juice and it doesn't touch them now. Obviously you might need a bit more for a whole garden! but worth a shot....
mmmmm .....lemon flavoured sofa
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
It never did you any harm? Yet you deem to derive pleasure out of killing animals... are you sure about the harm thing?
Yes and no, we eat what we kill and generally the consumption of meat comes from killing some sort of animal. We've yet to figure out a way of harvesting it If you're a plastic shoe wearing veggie then good on you but I don't have a problem with being an omnivore and I'm happy to kill and eat my own pray where it is sensible to do so. Something that a large percentage of the meat eating public would not be able to do so I therefore feel I'm better in tune with the way the food chain works than most
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
I don't really want to do it any harm.

But I have to do SOMETHING...my trainers STANK yesterday.
Stick some Odour Eaters in your trainers, then

Only one sensible thing to do:


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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by ScoobyWon't
Only one sensible thing to do:


Then once you've blown your legs off, you'll never stand in cat **** again.
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue by You
Cats are bloody awful things. People think it's fine to kick 'em out when they need a dump and they wander off where they like and leave their **** for someone else to clear up.
As said, if I allowed my dog to take a crap in someone else's garden all hell would let loose.
Next door to me has 3 cats, two doors up the other way there's another, and a further two doors up there's another three. One of them got run over a few months back and lost a leg. Sad that.
Should have been its head.
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 08:05 PM
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Prey...unless you are very religious Graz.lol

Look,its just going to the toilet!!
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 08:08 PM
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Can't be doing with unnecessary harm to animals.

Fine,do the water pistol thing,but don't harm them

Children have put a screensaver of a fox on my machine.A loathed and yet beautiful creature
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by lozgti1
Prey...unless you are very religious Graz.lol

Look,its just going to the toilet!!
Fine, just let them **** on their own doorstep.
I don't see why I should tolerate somebody else's idea of a pet dong its business in my garden. If I wanted cat crap in my garden I would have bought a ******* cat.
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by lozgti1
Can't be doing with unnecessary harm to animals.

Fine,do the water pistol thing,but don't harm them

Children have put a screensaver of a fox on my machine.A loathed and yet beautiful creature
Neither liked nor loathed cats til I bought my missis a Bengal , always had dogs (2 x American bulldogs)....6 months on the cat is mine
More of a dog personality than a cat! , she controls the dogs who just try and avoid her....if she gets in there beds they play dead
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue by You
Fine, just let them **** on their own doorstep.
I don't see why I should tolerate somebody else's idea of a pet dong its business in my garden. If I wanted cat crap in my garden I would have bought a ******* cat.

lol

chill!
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by donny andi
Neither liked nor loathed cats til I bought my missis a Bengal , always had dogs (2 x American bulldogs)....6 months on the cat is mine
More of a dog personality than a cat! , she controls the dogs who just try and avoid her....if she gets in there beds they play dead
hah!
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Old Apr 22, 2015 | 10:32 PM
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That's really funny....play dead...lol
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Old Apr 23, 2015 | 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by dpb
mmmmm .....lemon flavoured sofa
Only a light spraying mate, we couldn't smell it after a few mins, but the cat obviously can. Worked a treat, I'm not crazy
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Old Apr 25, 2015 | 12:39 PM
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I've not read the whole thread so it's maybe been mentioned before but, buy a dog .

Actually you can buy a box that gives of an ultra sonic sound that you can't hear but will annoy the crap out of the cat , hmmm maybe not a good idea
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