Cats & Dogs.

[zabado]

Iv'e found that expensive chemicals that are suppose to "repel" cats and dogs from using my garden as a toilet don't work. So without going to the extra expense of buying an air gun does anyone have any other remedies. Thanks.

[anneasquith]

im going to buy an air gun to kill cats and dogs that use my garden as a toilet............ I must tell my fellow abers !!!!!!!!!!!!

[AB Editor]

I think the point is Baldric: 1. Your neighbours kids are probably not using your back garden as a toilet 2. You have other methods of recourse before resorting to trying to scare them away.

The air-gun comment is clearly a joke.

[ummmm]

Stop being drama queens!! I think you can tell by the OP that they don't want to actually shoot an animal.

It's a bit like me saying to one of my kids 'if you do that I'll kill you'

My kids are all alive.

[Baldric]

'Morning Ed, my
///Should I buy an Air gun to keep his kids///
comment was obviously a joke,
'cause the neighbours kids don't use my garden, we're all far too refined to behave like that!

[1ozzy]

Why can't pet owners be responsible enough to contain their pets on their own property?
Why should someone go to the expense of building big fences, buying chemicals and/or other deterrents to keep their property free of unwanted animals?
If some one wants a pet should the rest of the neighborhood be expected to put up with it and show it as much love as the owner?
If you want a pet then it should not be inflicted on others that don't.

[ummmm]

Have you tried to contain a cat, Ozzy?

[1ozzy]

Hi Ummmm.
Are you saying if someone wants to own a cat then everyone else must be willing to put up with it?
How does this affect people who are not cat lovers?

[Canary42]

If it can't be contained then it shouldn't be kept as a pet. I am sickened by the songbird feathers left in my garden by marauding cats. It's odd how the self-styled animal-lovers who get so upset about cruelty to cats don't seem to mind wholesale slaughter by same of delightful birds (and now here comes the "natural behaviour" excuse).

[1ozzy]

The dinner bell has just rung.
Must go now.
Interesting topic, shall look in later.
Have a nice day.

[ummmm]

No, Ozzy, in an ideal world. It's not though. I could say that I'd like to go to the park without seeing scary dogs. It's not going to happen though.

[dunnitall]

Well said canary.

[ummmm]

So Canary, you think cats should be kept indoors?

[Frank97]

Cat owners could keep their cats in.
http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/image/0005/181940/cat-enclosure-fig1.jpg

[ummmm]

Why? Cats roam.

[Frank97]

So do dogs if they're not kept in.

[Svejk]

so do rats. ;-/

[ummmm]

Yeah but cats don't attack random strangers...

[ladybirder]

Dogs shouldn't be in your garden zab so you need to sort that out wit the owner. Regarding cats, they are classed as wild so not a lot you can so about that.
Canary, not all of us (ex, she died last year) cat owners are immune to the predatory behaviour of our cats. I for one had a big bell round my cat's neck to warn the birds, plus I kept her in between dusk and dawn when birds are at their most vulnerable, especially in the Spring when the babies are about.

[Baldric]

Did you ^^^ find keeping her in overnight worked LB?

[mccfluff]

cats do attack random strangers....

you shouldn't have dogs coming into your garden? as for cats, i give murph a litter tray which she uses and when she did go out she had as many bells as i could get round her neck, she couldn't move without clanking

she doesn't really go out now, just lies in the sun on the back doorstep