Cat dispute with neighbor

[otolith]

Bottom line - there are things it is normal, legal and culturally acceptable to do which get on some other people's tits. There is almost certainly someone who doesn't like something that each one of us does. There was some nutter on PH a while ago trolling every dog thread with his hatred of the practice of keeping dogs. There are people who whinge about their neighbours having barbecues. There are people who think car enthusiasts are selfish bds who are destroying the planet, and plenty who object to car noise. Then there are the moaners who don't like people parking legally on the public road outside their house, people who don't like the noise of children playing out, people who don't want to share the road with horses, cyclists, HGVs or motorists, people moaning about the noise of grass mowing, and so on. What these Victor Meldrews are missing is that we tolerate other people's annoying behaviour and they tolerate ours. It's an inevitable consequence of living in a community.

[Never you mind]

Disastrous said:

Your face is irrelevant rubbish.

Now THAT'S funny !

[King Herald]

Prof Prolapse said:

I thought his point was fine.

Responsibility? It's not fully domesticated and untrained, the only one responsible for the animal defecating is the animal itself, and you'd be hard pressed to explain it's social responsibilities to it.

I see most cat owners, owners of these untrained, undomesticated wild animals, seem to manage to train them NOT to crap in their own house.........but don't feel the need to stop them crapping on other peoples property.

But of course, that is acceptable.....to the owner!

otolith said:

Bottom line - there are things it is normal, legal and culturally acceptable to do which get on some other people's tits. ........

I can't think of anybody here who finds it acceptable to put your hand in a pile of cat crap when you are trimming your hyacinths.......

[elephantstone]

Is this thread actually going anywhere?

[Prof Prolapse]

King Herald said:

Prof Prolapse said:

I thought his point was fine.

Responsibility? It's not fully domesticated and untrained, the only one responsible for the animal defecating is the animal itself, and you'd be hard pressed to explain it's social responsibilities to it.

I see most cat owners, owners of these untrained, undomesticated wild animals, seem to manage to train them NOT to crap in their own house.........but don't feel the need to stop them crapping on other peoples property.

But of course, that is acceptable.....to the owner!

Again. You don't train them. They don't crap in the house instinctively. You can't train cats in this way.

[otolith]

King Herald said:

otolith said:

Bottom line - there are things it is normal, legal and culturally acceptable to do which get on some other people's tits. ........

I can't think of anybody here who finds it acceptable to put your hand in a pile of cat crap when you are trimming your hyacinths.......

I doubt anybody finds it acceptable to develop cancer from diesel emissions, but it's still normal, legal and culturally acceptable to drive a diesel.

[IainT]

King Herald said:

I see most cat owners, owners of these untrained, undomesticated wild animals, seem to manage to train them NOT to crap in their own house.........but don't feel the need to stop them crapping on other peoples property.

You don't need to train a cat to not st where it lives, they're naturally clean animals, stopping them from crapping elsewhere isn't achievable but it is possible to encourage them to crap in a specific place if you make one that's appealing... An out of the way sandbox that the owner regularly cleans will do the trick - filled with coarse sand.

Some cats will still use their indoor littler tray even when they can go outside but that's not behaviour that's easy to train.

As for cats not burying their st - that's not the norm but can be a sign of a cat claiming territory and deterring rivals. Unfortunately this is often the neutral ground of a cat-free neighbour! The instinct to bury is really hard-wired into most cats though.

[ruggedscotty]

Another cat discussion thats going no where - they cat owners that dont bother about thier pets crapping in another garden as its something they can control / that is normal for a wild animal thats not fully domesticated.....

yadda yadda yadda

You have an animal that you own, that you look after care for but yet dont give a stuff where it craps as its not your problem. There are two camps here those that like cats and there are those that simply dont want to put up with something that comes in and regularly dumps a download in their garden then hides it so that you only find the stinky sticky bundle when you are working in your garden.

I think we just have to accept that no amount of crapping on is going to change this fact and were all just going to get a long if we forget about the cat issue and let it go. I ended up with a ban from this forum for posting a few 'choice' comments in the past. didnt go down well and more this goes on the more I could end up getting into trouble again......

[IainT]

ruggedscotty said:

didnt go down well and more this goes on the more I could end up getting into trouble again......

Learn some self-control and don't go virually crapping on people's lawns? Or just don't take things so seriously, it's only a discussion after all.