Cats pooing on my lawn!

[Welshbeef]

The last 3 months I've been seeing more and more cat poo on my lawn - oddly not on the edge /dug over earth no in the lawn.

I cut he grass short usually twice a week throughout the summer.

How can I stop them as we have two young kids and we don't want any poo accidents with them plus it's really not very nice.

We have two cats of our own and yes I've caught one of them doing it too.


So help we want a poo free lawn (no issue about flower beds). What can I do?

[Evanivitch]

Cat sprinkler?

[jjones]

Remove some plants in an area on the border, rake the soil so it is relatively fine. Your cat(s) will soon start stting here, probably as you are putting the rake away. Contrary to popular belief our cat sts in our garden (female if that makes a difference) and no neighbouring cats visit, despite our cat being totally no confrontational when faced with another cat.

[anonymous-user]

I have heard that getting lion dung from a zoo and putting it down can help. Not sure how putting more cat dung down really solves your root problem though.

I'd suggest buying an agile dog with hunting pedigree

[Welshbeef]

jjones said:

Remove some plants in an area on the border, rake the soil so it is relatively fine. Your cat(s) will soon start stting here, probably as you are putting the rake away. Contrary to popular belief our cat sts in our garden (female if that makes a difference) and no neighbouring cats visit, despite our cat being totally no confrontational when faced with another cat.

Veg patch was totally dug over 7 weeks ago not used once, flower beds too are reasonably well dig over.

[Sir Bagalot]

Clean it up on a daily basis. Put down chilli powder

[ctdctd]

Welshbeef said:

Veg patch was totally dug over 7 weeks ago not used once, flower beds too are reasonably well dig over.

Are you sure it's a cat and not the local fox?

[Welshbeef]

anonymous said:

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Certainly is cat poo.

[condor]

You could put a litter tray in place and see if they use that instead

[5potTurbo]

[Grumpy Old Men]
"Who said you can't train a cat?!"
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[Matt_N]

We had an issue with it at our old house, tried everything and the only thing that worked was the ultrasonic scarers.

We were inbetween patches and they'd often use our garden to fight in too, normally at 3am in the morning

[BristolRich]

We had cats pooing on our rear lawn one in particular was continually dropping its guts under the washing line.

I bought two of these - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Selections-GFA805-Operate... and no more poo.

The scarer has numerous settings for rodents, birds, dogs, cats, foxes, squirells, birds and even human (its an uncomfortable "squeal-pip" noise). Battery operated, rechargable via mains and solar with strobe to scare. It does work as I'll be ashamed to say with a cat in the garden I pointed it directly at one of the cats, switched it on and it legged it...not seen since. Bird visitors have increased as a result.

Worth a go.

Edited by BristolRich on Wednesday 29th June 07:51

Edited by BristolRich on Wednesday 29th June 07:51

[mikeiow]

We had some success with one of the water sprinkler things a while back: like https://www.primrose.co.uk/-p-1907.html?adtype=pla...

Mind you, since we had fares fitted that has less space to crawl under, the neighbourhood cats here seem to have moved on now......

Bit tricky if your own are guilty....training! http://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/1891/how-t...

[motco]

Not cats but badgers dig and crap in mine.

[V8mate]

motco said:

Not cats but badgers dig and crap in mine.

You can shoot badgers though, can't you?

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[LordHaveMurci]

How's he going to use cat scarers if they have their own cat?

Try soaking the offending cat/s with a supersoaker, does them no harm but they really don't like it. Worth trying some citrus type thing, they don't like that either apparently?

[littlebasher]

bmw535i said:

I have heard that getting lion dung from a zoo and putting it down can help.

Or, go one further and get a Lion. Bet that keeps the cats away

[Dave_ST220]

Buy some plastic snakes from a toy shop! Leave a couple on the lawn. Seems to work or cucumbers.....


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou...

[kuro]

Matt_N said:

We had an issue with it at our old house, tried everything and the only thing that worked was the ultrasonic scarers.

We were inbetween patches and they'd often use our garden to fight in too, normally at 3am in the morning

I have a number of these scarers setup around the house and they do seem to work although it takes a while for cats to learn to keep away from them.