How to resolve a cat problem

[cat-hater]

Hello!

For a while now, i've had an increasing amount of cat excrement in my garden. This evening, when leaving my house, i noticed that my immediate neighbour had put a plate of food out to encourage the cats around for a feed, yet because they don't have a garden (just parking spaces), the cats are obviously crapping in my garden.
How would you suggest I deal with this? My neighbours are wimps, but I don't want to get into a shouting match in the street, but the practice of feeding every cat in the area needs to stop.
Should I write to them, or wait until they are both in and have a heated row about it?

[H. Franklin Layne]

Isn't there an animal control unit in your municipal government? Call the city, tell them there are a lot of stray cats around, you don't see any tags or collars, and they are disrupting your garden with their waste. Around here, the animals get picked up, examined, and medicated if needed. If the owners can be located, they are notified. If they take no action, the animals are put up for adoption. If no one takes them, they are euthanized.

[EmmyBee]

Talk to them first!! No need for a heated row just talk to them....

[Symon K]

Hi, had a problem with cats coming into our garden trying to catch the wild birds we like to feed every day. Very often I would be out the door and chasing the "Feline Devils" away,...Now problems with cats are very difficult indeed... However, I found one "weapon" I read about on a gardening forum!!....LEMON, that's right, they do not like lemon or any citrus scent at all! There is a plant called Lemon Verbena and we've been trying this out on our boarders this year, grated lemon peel is good though you'd have to clear this off now and again.
We are also considering the old fashion Pepper dust approach, but this needs to be applied repeatedly.

Next step, is to get a good rat/rabbit catching dog like a Jack Russell (trained to poop in a prepared corner of the garden)

Hope this helps (even just a little)

[cat-hater]

Well i'm a lot more calm about it today, and even came home from work to see the offending feline sat on my mat and didn't immediately want to decapitate it. I approached it and i'm pretty sure it could easily be caught and taken away and dealt with, if talking to my neighbours doesn't come to anything. I remember the time when stray dogs and cats always found their way into the freezer of your local Chinese take-away, didn't seem to have as many problems with other peoples pets then.

[sophie cat]

It wasn't me, so please don't chop me up and put me in your freezer.

[sleepy]

buy an air gun ................and shot the little basket's ...

ding 10 point's

[cat-hater]

:shock:

It wasn't me, so please don't chop me up and put me in your freezer.

There would have to be sufficient meat on you to warrant going to all that effort!

[cat-hater]

buy an air gun ................and shot the little basket's ...

ding 10 point's

I wanted to get a crossbow to put an end to it, but my current girlfriend is one of those cat-friendly types!

[H. Franklin Layne]

buy an air gun ................and shot the little basket's ...

ding 10 point's

I wanted to get a crossbow to put an end to it, but my current girlfriend is one of those cat-friendly types!

A simple formula to solve the problem:

Live traps + Chinatown= Problem solved!

[Guest]

Hello!

For a while now, i've had an increasing amount of cat excrement in my garden. This evening, when leaving my house, i noticed that my immediate neighbour had put a plate of food out to encourage the cats around for a feed, yet because they don't have a garden (just parking spaces), the cats are obviously crapping in my garden.
How would you suggest I deal with this? My neighbours are wimps, but I don't want to get into a shouting match in the street, but the practice of feeding every cat in the area needs to stop.
Should I write to them, or wait until they are both in and have a heated row about it?

Or how about a clearheaded, respectable confrontation ?

[Guest]

This is such an easy thing to sort out. Get your own cat. It will mark its territory and deter others.

Cats don't always bury their crap, its left on top for others to know whose dominant in that area. If you don't want your own cat, then you'll have to 'mark' your own territory yourself the same way they do.

..sorted!

[Guest]

This is such an easy thing to sort out. Get your own cat. It will mark its territory and deter others.

Cats don't always bury their crap, its left on top for others to know whose dominant in that area. If you don't want your own cat, then you'll have to 'mark' your own territory yourself the same way they do.

..sorted!

Yep!


Get crackpping !!

[penguin104]

at least that's just in the garden... not as bad as what i have to put up with.
my neigbour's cat started running straight into my house every time i open the front door, and then i need to chase it around the house for 10 mins each time!

[KiltyCol]

Keeping the borders well planted helps. Bare soil is an open invitation to any cat.
The name "Colin" means "young dog", so perhaps I should bark at any errant cat, to send them away.