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Get a cat, that will stop the other ones coming in your garden, & cats never poo in their own garden. (I have 2 cats, this does not stop nextdoors cats almost living in my garden, but they never poo in my garden).I guess this thread is more for cat lovers to discuss their lovelyverminpets but cats and I are now officially at war.
Defcon 1 was officially reached recently when:
1. I netted the vegetable patch to stop the blighters crapping in there and they subsequently crapped on top of the netting.... WTF!
2. My littl girl picked up some cat crap left on our lawn.
3. I managed to step in some cat crap on the lawn and subsequently tread it into the house.
All of that is on top of finding regular parcels of crap in my flower beds, veg beds and lawn for months/years one end.
If anyone has any tips that may save my sanity / low scale discomfort to a cat then please speak up. Although I have to say - I am very much of the mind that I shouldn't need to shell out lots of cash just to keep the gits off my garden....
Hmm sounds a good suggestion, but I would be worried that they then couldnt get in if they were in dangerYou can't stop the killing but you can reduce the impact on your floor by setting the cat flap to exit only.
It is possible that this may even bring down the morbidity count as your cat realises that he can't deliver his deathly gifts to his esteemed human companions.
I did this after my cat brought me half a rabbit. For a while he used to leave a trail of dead mice leading all the way to the door of my Morris Minor. Then he tried scaling the outer wall of the house to appear, silhouetted in the window at my bedside, dead thing hanging from his jaws.
Eventually, he gave up.
Same here.We keep our cats inside as house cats to lessen the risk of them going missing, save all of the local wildlife, prevent them from using places other than their litter boxes. Peace of mind all round and no cross neighbours.
They get plenty of exercise either playing with the kids/us or with each other or tormenting the dog. We have plenty of ''toys'' too, things to bat around, cardboard boxes to sleep in/scratch up/use as ambush stations, catnip mice to hunt and kill.
Works for us.
No, I'm afraid not.
I duno , he never eats them. Much prefers to stash them somewhere and cuddle up to them . Cute , but not when he brings live mice and stuff in ! He eats moths and spiders though , which is a big bonus. I'm terrified of spiders so I just send the cat in.Oh dear poor birdys. I wonder why the cat didnt eat them?
Our tom cat has brought home some weird stuff, cheeseburgers (from the car boot sale), sausage roll (god knows), raw sausages (dunno), a bag of wrapped chips (we live near a chippy) & once I woke up to find 6 slices of toast by the back door!
I had an 8 week old kitten which was found on the worktop trying to drag the Christmas turkey away.
Need them here, we have 1, who, if he could open the fridge, would feed the ham to the other 2.I know two people who have child-locks on their fridges, but no children in the house any more....
Need them here, we have 1, who, if he could open the fridge, would feed the ham to the other 2.
You can't open our fridge door without 1 of them trying to get inside.
Yep same here - all three of ours are indoor cats.We keep our cats inside as house cats to lessen the risk of them going missing, save all of the local wildlife, prevent them from using places other than their litter boxes. Peace of mind all round and no cross neighbours.
They get plenty of exercise either playing with the kids/us or with each other or tormenting the dog. We have plenty of ''toys'' too, things to bat around, cardboard boxes to sleep in/scratch up/use as ambush stations, catnip mice to hunt and kill.
Works for us.