Bloody Cat crap

[flip_flop]

I've posted about this problem before and tried all of the helpful advice given, but alas nothing has worked and next door's bloody vermin is still crapping on my gravel drive.

I know its petty, but I've taken to delivering the crap back to the cat owner's drive (which is also gravel) which, as you can imagine, is causing an issue. I couldn't really give a monkey's but Mrs Flop would rather live harmoniously with the old woman next door, despite her being a sour faced old harridan who is disliked by pretty much everybody else.

I'm rambling - does anybody have any other ideas please? I've tried the lion poo, special plants which are supposed to repel them, electronic gadgets all to no avail.

I'd kick the little vermin bastard, but I understand this is frowned upon - and I can't let my dog out because he is such a big pansy the cat will bully him.

Thanks - just sick of clearing up animal crap that hasn't come out of my animal.

[jomifl]

It is legal to shoot feral cats as they are listed as vermin.

[daffy654]

How can you tell the difference between a feral cat and a pet cat jomifl?

There is little to no difference in my experience.

[rsvp]

Can really sympathise f_f - I have lots of anims but don't like faeces about the place, on the bottom of my shoes or on my carpets etc - how big is your gravel drive ? If it's only the drive that's being used then it's obviously the surface that is the attraction - can you either spray it with a (safe) deterrent and/or park your car in the road for a while and lay down very thick thorn branches backed up with a sensor spray of water. Alternatively, can't your neighbour (or you) provide a gravel latrine in the cat's own garden!

[Duncer]

No ummmm, you're expected to train your little love to crap in the box so as to be the responsibility of the owner and not to inconvenience others.
A bit like training dogs and children.
Cats aren't "special".

Cats are special if you own one, as are dogs and all other pets. Nobody expects any animal to come home for a poo. If we could train animals to poo where we wanted mine would fly to Belfast and poo on Glentoran's ground every day.

However, mine do poo in a box in the house, and they also poo in the garden where we taught them to poo. They also wander quite a bit so I'm sure they poo elsewhere too. I live with that in the knowledge that it is reciprocation for the many ignorant dog owners who do not clean up after their animals. I often tramp in dog sh1t when I am running but I have yet to encounter a cat jobbie.

[Purple_Popple]

How do you know its actual cat poo? Have you witnessed said feline defecating ?
It could be fox or badger poo maybe ?

[craft1948]

I always pick up my dog's poo and people who don't should be fined. I did ask the chap across the road if it was okay for my dog to crap on his lawn as his 2 cats were using mine as a lavatory. Funnily enough I haven't seen them since............

[Purple_Popple]

Cats love gravel, its like a huge litter tray to them, have you thought about paving the area instead if its grieving you this much ? If that is out of the question try a light spray of Jeyes fluid all over the gravel, the smell should put your visitors off using it as their loo.

[jomifl]

Daffy, first of all I would like to make it clear that I would not deliberately wound any animal wild or otherwise. We have had pet dogs and cats which have never been a nuisance to neighbours as well as a crows , a magpie and a starling. We have several feral cats living near our property, they inhabit our neighbours barn when our neighbours are away (most of the time). We know them by sight, they are bloody nuisance. The winter before last the mother cat brought her 2 starving kittens to our door when it was freezing cold. Foolishly we fed them, big mistake . Now they hang around the house, steal food from our table when we are eating outside and even sneak into the kitchen if we leave the door open. The kittens produced hide in the engine bay of my car so that I have to check that before I accidentally kill another one. Fortunately natural selection takes it's toll as one got taken by the buzzard that also roosts in the barn and they regularly disappear without any help from me. There is a semi feral tom cat who is a real gent, never come into the house, turns up morning and evening for a bite to eat and leaves straight afterwards. He has been in some terrible fights with several square inches of skin ripped off and has lots of scars. Cats are a lot tougher than people think and a plastic BB pellet on the body is a lot less than what other cats do to them. The local farmers just shoot them when they are a nuisance, I don't, I just discourage them.

[Duncer]

jomif I like the majority of your post, but you say that "a plastic BB pellet on the body is a lot less than what other cats do to them". Factually true, but idiots could read that as an excuse to abuse a small animal.

[wildwood]

It is amazing how some cat owners excuse their cat's behaviour as "it's what cats do" and take no responsibility for the damage to neighbour's property. iT is not so much the 'presents' they leave as the damage they do to bulbs, seedlings, and indeed sown seeds. Mrs WW is a keen gardener and as we have 1/4 acre it is not possible net it off.

I wonder how these cat lovers would feel if their neighbour would keep pigeons and let them out and crap all over their washing, cause that's what pigeons do.

[boxtops]

I live with seagull poo over my washing and all over our cars, but we can't do anything about that, it's a fact of live.

[LoftyLottie]

Well, we have loads of wood pigeons and not much I can do about that seeing how rural we are.

Must admit I am not bothered by what animals might poo in my garden, unless its an escaped lion!!

[askyourgran]

We have just got rid of the nuisance cat from doing it our my back garden, now the bl**dy thing is in the front garden. Always miss seeing it in action but I have a small bucket of water on one side especially for it.

[jomifl]

Duncer, the kind of people that want to abuse a small animal go a lot further than a plastic BB round and don't need excuses. If someone knows an effective way of deterring the little buggers then let me know. I can't cover my garden in orange peel and Jeyes fluid. The cats are still alive and unwounded and stay out of the garden when they know we are at home.

[owdhamer]

The woman over the road who had 15 cats has done a runner, this so called cat lover has abandoned her lovies, who now run unfed through every ones garden looking for scraps.A cull might be the answer.

[friedgreentomato]

Firstly I suggest calling your local cat protection league - they will trap the ferrals and spay/neuter them and then try and rehome them on sympathetic land.

Hitting a cat with a BB pellet will do some damage - you risk hitting a domestic cat that won't have the scar tissue and protection of ferrals.

I hate animal cruelty and to see someone on a public forum suggesting firing BB pellets at them disgusts me!

[owdhamer]

I invite any other"cat lovers" to come and rescue thes animals, and clean up runny, stinkihg cat shyte.

[LoftyLottie]

I also hate animals being referred to as vermin just because someone doesn't like them. I feel like you do friedgreen

[LoftyLottie]

I have done exactly that owdhamer! Rescued and cleared up after cats - no problem whatsoever!

[friedgreentomato]

Ta LL by the way tis I RH. Was in your neck of the woods last month ;)