Neighbours cat using or lawn as a toilet

[ReedyDS3]

Afternoon all! I am after a little help. We have recently moved into a lovely house (rented, not that it is important!) and the front lawn is being used every night as a cat loo!

The neighbours one side have 2 black cats and he has an area of soil at the bottom of his garden that his cats use for the necessary... On the other side is an elderly lady who has 3 cats and 2 dogs. I have yet to ascertain exactly which cat or cats is doing the deed and plan to set the tablet up tonight with a motion activated app.

I have cleaned the grass (as best I can when it is stinky sloppy cat ste) and liberally sprayed it with Doff cat repellant as well as, excessive amounts of spice powders and also Jeyes fluid... all to no avail...

Can anyone else shed some light on what I can do - we moved here for the larger area of outside space, but the whole of the front lawn is out of bounds for us all, including my 2.5 year old little girl due to the vast amounts of crap...

I was thinking about an ultrasonic scarer, netting the whole lawn off over winter or buying the butchest ginger Tom cat, scars and all!

Any advice is welcome!!

[kiethton]

Supersoaker and Lion dung

[onesickpuppy]

[58warren]

Sounds like fox crap if it's sloppy...

[amancalledrob]

Leave a short (~3ft) length of green garden hose on your lawn. Cats will think it's a snake and will avoid the lawn in future.

Sounds particularly unlikely I know but it's worked a treat for my neighbour.

[V8A*ndy]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contech-ScareCrow-Motion-A...

[ReedyDS3]

I have seen PIR activated water jets - That could work! A bit like this:

http://www.viovet.co.uk/STV_Pest_Repeller_Jet_Spra...

I have seen mixed reports on Lion dung but at least you can get it in pellets rather than links!

[ReedyDS3]

onesickpuppy said:

Ha!! My boss is a keen "shooter" and he did offer me a .22!! I do like cats if truth be told though!

[ReedyDS3]

58warren said:

Sounds like fox crap if it's sloppy...

There are varying consistencies! But I have been unfortunate enough to smell fox poo when our dog at the time rolled in some - this does not smell anywhere near as bad!!

I am hopeful to get a photo of the culprit tonight and will post once I know 100%...

The family consensus is cat, but we will see!

[Rick101]

There is always some cat owner blaming the foxes!

I used some smelly stuff from B&Q, was a couple of quid and worked well.

[ReedyDS3]

Rick101 said:

There is always some cat owner blaming the foxes!

I used some smelly stuff from B&Q, was a couple of quid and worked well.

Will have to see what the camera shows up later! I am a bit excited to see what it turns up!

[rehab71]

Get a cat, ours never sts in our garden, job jobbed!

[MrsThatcher]

Kill it with fire and land mines!

In interested to see what works here as the stty Mr jinx that lives 2 doors up uses our front door step as his stter. I've tried all the suggestions in the last cat thread. None have worked.

[LordLoveLength]

B&Q - buy black netting and lay it down. End of problem. Cost <£10

[spikey78]

Get a bucket, get a rope, put the rope in the bucket, take a piss on it.. allow piss to soak in, take rope and put it in the garden
DIY animal repellant (apparently..)

[surveyor]

Got to say I'm surprised that cats are using lawn. Ours always use the neighbours flower beds....

[ReedyDS3]

Rick101 said:

There is always some cat owner blaming the foxes!

I used some smelly stuff from B&Q, was a couple of quid and worked well.

Will have to see what the camera shows up later! I am a bit excited to see what it turns up!

[ReedyDS3]

LordLoveLength said:

B&Q - buy black netting and lay it down. End of problem. Cost <£10

This is what I think will solve it!

Left the Christmas lights on outside to put some light on the garden... But I think it is still too dark for the camera on the tablet...

[StevenB]

I'm told this stuff works http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Roar-Lion-Manure-Re...

[FunkyNige]

surveyor said:

Got to say I'm surprised that cats are using lawn. Ours always use the neighbours flower beds....

They started using my lawn when I put thorny rose prunings all over my flower beds that they'd previously been using, even dug little holes first.
I tried metal chicken wire (they crap on top of it), lion poo pellets (after it rains they start crapping again), some spray stuff (again, OK until it rains), in the end I bought an ultrasound scarer. That works for my back garden but I can't use it round the front, which in the past few weeks they've taken to using. I'm trying to cover the front 'garden' (it's 6' by 4'...) in ground cover plants so they can't get to any ground but the little sts keep eating the plants!