On 07/03/2024 18:19, JNugent wrote:
> On 07/03/2024 05:50 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 07/03/2024 16:20, JNugent wrote:
>>> On 07/03/2024 12:34 pm, alan_m wrote:
>>>> On 07/03/2024 12:23, David Paste wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 23:51:47 +0000, alan_m wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Again, you are advocating that the person on the receiving end of cat
>>>>>> shit has to spend time and money to minimise the problem rather than
>>>>>> tackling the problem from the other end and make the cat owners
>>>>>> responsible for cleaning up the mess their pets make. A cat kept
>>>>>> indoors
>>>>>> all the time is not going to shit on my property.
>>>>>
>>>>> BY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT! ANY ANIMAL CRAPPING ON MY PROPERTY WILL FROM
>>>>> HERE-ON-
>>>>> IN BE PARCELLED UP AND SENT BACK TO THEIR SO-CALLED OWNER WITH A STERN
>>>>> LETTER ATTACHED!
>>>>>
>>>>> Now can you tell me where to send hedgehogs and birds? I shall get
>>>>> round
>>>>> to the cats eventually, but their colonic output pales into
>>>>> insignificance
>>>>> compared to pigeons alone.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'll bet you would soon change your mind if I delivered to your
>>>> property a weeks worth  of cat shit I find in my relatively small
>>>> front garden flower beds.  This is an urban area overrun with
>>>> fucking cats with irresponsible owners who don't care a damn about
>>>> their pets and just chuck them to defecate where they please.
>>>
>>> You say )to the PP):
>>>
>>> "...if I delivered to your property a weeks worth  of cat shit I find
>>> in my relatively small front garden flower beds".
>>>
>>> But why would you do that?
>>
>> I'd be happy to take it. First rate fertiliser
>
> It's his shovelling (or scooping it) up and bringing it round in a bag
> that sounds... amusing.

When I first laid out a section of front lawn, it was nothing but sandy
topsoil and grass seed. One of our cats crapped there and made a little
pile of earth over it. That had grass double the height of anywhere else
inside 6 weeks...

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(or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans,
about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and
the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a
'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,'
a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for
rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet
things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that
you live neither in Joseph Stalin’s Communist era, nor in the Orwellian
utopia of 1984.”

Vaclav Klaus

On 6 Mar 2024 at 10:44:08 GMT, "alan_m" <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> On 06/03/2024 10:01, wasbit wrote:
>> A neighbour (non cat owner) has a problem with cats defecating in his
>> front garden which is covered with white chippings.
>> The perimeter is too long & has too many access points to prevent them
>> entering.
>> He is currently contemplating covering the chippings with wire mesh.
>> Can anyone suggest a better or more cost effective deterrent?
>>
>
> What doesn't work is those ultrasonic cat/dog/mouse sounders. It will
> scare the cat off a few times but after a couple of days they take no
> notice.
>
> Probably the only way is to apply for an ASBO for the irresponsible cat
> owners who let their pets roam and shit in other peoples gardens. :(

As you probably know, cat owners have no legal responsibility for the
behaviour of their animals. ASBOs are admittedly framed so widely that they
can forbid perfectly legal behaviour, but the suburban cat owner is not the
intended targe of said orders.

--
Roger Hayter

On 06/03/2024 10:01, wasbit wrote:
> A neighbour (non cat owner) has a problem with cats defecating in his
> front garden which is covered with white chippings.
> The perimeter is too long & has too many access points to prevent them
> entering.
> He is currently contemplating covering the chippings with wire mesh.
> Can anyone suggest a better or more cost effective deterrent?
>

Update.
The neighbour has now covered the garden with wire mesh.
Ironically there was a pile of cat poo on top of the mesh the morning
after it was laid but none since.

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wasbit

In message <ushd2u$291j4$1@dont-email.me>, wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.com>
writes
>On 06/03/2024 10:01, wasbit wrote:
>> A neighbour (non cat owner) has a problem with cats defecating in his
>>front garden which is covered with white chippings.
>> The perimeter is too long & has too many access points to prevent
>>them entering.
>> He is currently contemplating covering the chippings with wire mesh.
>> Can anyone suggest a better or more cost effective deterrent?
>>
>
>Update.
>The neighbour has now covered the garden with wire mesh.
>Ironically there was a pile of cat poo on top of the mesh the morning
>after it was laid but none since.

Topping with a larger stone might have the same effect.
>

--
Tim Lamb

On 07-Mar-24 8:30, charles wrote:
> In article <fv0iui97f7d0re10gf5kr4dbvbaqpsfrlj@4ax.com>, Cursitor Doom
> <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
>> On 6 Mar 2024 22:54:23 GMT, Tim Streater <tim@streater.me.uk> wrote:
>
>>> On 6 Mar 2024 at 21:04:15 GMT, "Chris Green" <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> On 06/03/2024 18:18, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The solution that should have been adopted by those who are obsessed
>>>>>> about cat shit is to not have a front yard that is a gigantic litter
>>>>>> tray that all the neighbour cats will choose to use.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here in the uk if dogs shit anywhere they want and it is not cleaned
>>>>> up by their owners it is considered to be anti-social.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why is acceptable for cat owners not to be held to the same standards?
>>>>>
>>>> However we seem not to worry about all the urban (or other) foxes,
>>>> squirrels, deer, etc., not to mention all the birds around the place.
>>>>
>>>> Why pick on domestic animals?
>>>
>>> And the Bodgers, too, who shit all over our lawn and dig holes.
>
>> Badgers will totally trash a lawn. They're bad news for well-manicured
>> gardens.
>
> They also dig up tulips
>
In order to sell them by the roadside. Terrible lot, Badgers.

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Sam Plusnet

On 06/03/2024 10:37, Colin Bignell wrote:
> On 06/03/2024 10:01, wasbit wrote:
>> A neighbour (non cat owner) has a problem with cats defecating in his
>> front garden which is covered with white chippings.
>> The perimeter is too long & has too many access points to prevent them
>> entering.
>> He is currently contemplating covering the chippings with wire mesh.
>> Can anyone suggest a better or more cost effective deterrent?
>>
>
> Replace the chippings with large pebbles.
> Spray the area with lion urine
> Scatter lemon or orange peel around the area
> Grow lavender in the garden
>

Forgot to say thanks for the suggestions.

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wasbit