Etiquette over cat sh*t

[fossyant]

At least cats dont shat all over the pavement and the local park.

 

[pplpilot]

0.22

 

[captain nemo1701]

Cat poop is vile - a curious mixture of nuclear waste and superglue. I'm trying to build up some beds at the moment and the little beggars in the neighbourhood think my garden is a litter tray. Yeah, I've tried that garlic whiffy gel stuff, half a ton of pepper etc.

Am experimenting at the moment with wooden cocktail sticks. Buy a couple of hundred for about £2 and spend half an hour or so sticking them in the soil about 3-4 inches apart and about 3" above the ground. Then, when the little feckers sniff about and try and get their rear ends in a position to cr*p, they get a cocktail stick up it. I watched a cat from my bathroom window yesterday try and dump on my newly tilled flower bed. It eventually gave up. Also, lightly water the soil. I think cats hate getting their paws dirty.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Wait until Pat hears that

I've heard!

 

[jazzkat]

I've had some success from putting orange peel on the flower beds. The cats didn't like the smell.

 

[Glow worm]

That looks interesting - keep the mess away without causing any harm to the cats. Win - win.

I bought a similar device a couple of summers ago after a b*****d cat climbed into the rafters of a barn near the house and took all 5 newly hatched swallows, which was just heartbreaking. (It didn't even eat them, just left their tiny broken bodies dotted around the street). It does seem to have worked too, as last year the swallows raised their brood successfully, I have made sure the device is working again, now the swallows have returned, to ensure the damn thing stays away.

The wretched cats really don't seem to like these things although they're a lot kinder than what I'd like to do to them!

 

[Saluki]

Sounds like a polite & clean cat to me, what's the problem?



No that's animal I was glad to see die. My mother had one and asked me to look after it when she went on holiday. The first time I let it off the leash, it shot off and rubbed it's hairy, snouty head, then body, in every pile of s*** it could find.

My Saluki is a model of decorum. He has never rolled in anything unspeakable since I have owned him. I have had him nearly 5 years and he is nearly 14. He is very posh and knows it, sometimes he will deign to be fussed by a stranger but mostly not. Very aloof. I have never known Salukis roll in poo, your Mum must have had an odd one.
Gabriel, the Saluki doesn't like cats though, or rather he does but is not fussed which meal he has one for.

 

[Fnaar]

Actually, there IS no etiquette over cat shoot. Chuck it back. Kill the cat. Do whatever you have to. But never pass port to the right. Or is it the left?

 

[ayceejay]

Sorry, 'etiquette' regarding 'cat shoot' is a question that could only exist in Mrs Bouquet country, here in rural Quebec cats are seen in their true light as road kill just like skunks. Over here I have the dogs as the first line of defense, there is machine gun turret on the roof but she hardly ever goes up there (the woman loves cats) then there is me shouting and carrying on kicking and chucking stuff (as I said the woman loves cats).

 

[MarkF]

My Saluki is a model of decorum. He has never rolled in anything unspeakable since I have owned him. I have never known Salukis roll in poo, your Mum must have had an odd one.

The bloody thing did it all the time, I just didn't know about it. The vet reckoned, as Salukis were age old hunting dogs, it did it to mask it's own smell. I would not have a Saluki............tho' I suppose the OP could get one to clean up the cat poo.

 

[dellzeqq]

if it's a serious question....you can buy cat repellent. And it works.

 

[Noodley]

Get a house without a garden if you don't want cats shitting in it.

 

[tadpole]

Rule #5. get over it. Cats cr*p everywhere so don't take it personally. clean it up and move on.

 

[MarkF]

I've got 3 cats, but no cat poo in my garden.

 

[snapper_37]

<--------------------------- she can be hired out at a very reasonable rate.