Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Oct 10, 2010 10:06 pm hi all, we have a neighbour who owns 3 + moggies. These felines use our our grassed backyard as a convienient toilet. we have 3 small children. our yard is their play area. What can I do and are there good cat deterents we can employ? cheers Peter Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 3Oct 10, 2010 10:11 pm How about getting a dog?? best cat detterent ever and the kids will love it Cats are not keen on the smell of citrus either. So you could try using orange or lemon peel in your yard as a deterrent. Similarly some folks advocate coffee grounds, blood meal, cayenne pepper, lavender oil, lemon grass oil, citronella oil, peppermint oil and eucalyptus oil. I went outside once. The graphics were alright, but the gameplay sucked! Settlement:22nd June Slab:27th August Frame:16th Sept Bricked:21st Oct Roof:24th Nov Linings HANDOVER23rd March! Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 4Oct 12, 2010 9:04 pm E1109 Pepper works, so does trapping and "relocation" of the cats-contact your local council to help you with this. Please don't do this, these are your neighbour's beloved pets. If deterents don't work, talk to your neighbour, it is their responsibility to fix the problem, I am sure given the choice they would rather keep them inside than risk them being harmed. Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 5Oct 12, 2010 9:11 pm mishb E1109 Pepper works, so does trapping and "relocation" of the cats-contact your local council to help you with this. Please don't do this, these are your neighbour's beloved pets. Beloved enough to potentially kill wildlife and deficate on others property There are laws for cats that are "roaming" Contact your council they can collect them and ensure their owners will love to keep them inside. Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 6Oct 12, 2010 9:13 pm Eve Dweller mishb E1109 Pepper works, so does trapping and "relocation" of the cats-contact your local council to help you with this. Please don't do this, these are your neighbour's beloved pets. Beloved enough to potentially kill wildlife and deficate on others property There are laws for cats that are "roaming" Contact your council they can collect them and ensure their owners will love to keep them inside. Sure, just ignore the last line of my post if you want to be inflammatory. Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 7Oct 12, 2010 9:28 pm It's not intended to be inflammatory. Just realistic. Cats are a huge problem. Resonsible owners keep them in check. It's not a beloved pet that is allowed to roam at will to cause grief. Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 8Oct 12, 2010 9:29 pm I would talk to your neighbours first and tell them your concerns. It is breeding season at the moment and the cats may not be desexed - they do tend to roam whilst finding a mate Another thing u can buy but I dont know how effective it is - is "Get off My Garden" - its a spray to deter dogs/cats from pooing in your yard. Another thing I would do is spray water close to them and not on them(just to scare them - not like a hose but just spray from a water spray bottle thingo) and do this if I see them come over the fence. Good luck Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 9Oct 12, 2010 9:41 pm Thirsty. The issue is territory and you are spot on about breeding season. In our current area we have many cats that roamed. No one interested in accountability and would find dead birds and neigbours guinea pigs mauled. Sprays and the like ineffective. The council was great. Traps that collected the animals and those that were chipped got returned with a fine. Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 10Oct 12, 2010 10:03 pm Well, if it was me.....calling the council to take away my neighbours cats would be the very last thing I would do......I would talk to the neighbours about the problem first. BTW, if the cats let you near them, you can tell if they r desexed if they have a tattoo in their left ear (a circle with a line through it). Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 12Oct 13, 2010 1:06 am Put gloves on, get the kids gloves on and make a game where you shove pipe cleaners in the ends of the turds so they look like little fuses. Then get the kids to lob them back over the fence like poo bombs and hopefully they hit the washing. After all their cat left them behind and you guys were returning them Other than that rubbish feedback, Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 13Oct 14, 2010 8:34 am mecha-wombat,mishb, eve dweller thirsty, thanks for the response, unfortunately a dog is not an option at the moment. also i would like to explore options beyond creating a smelly toxic wasteland of my back/front/ side yard...these bloody amimals go anywhere. the neigbhour is a has a mini zoo that stinks and i am not looking forward to this coming summer, geese, rabbits chickens, cats birds.these have been attracting rats and mice. the place stinks already. My father in law who lives on the house on the other side of neighbours place already gets the garden spade and tosses them back over the fence.. i do this already when i find them in time. however we have had several instances where our little ones step in some fresh ones unbeknowingly and then walk back into our house i will be in touch with council and let you all know the outcome shortly.. stay posted Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 14Oct 14, 2010 12:53 pm There is also strict limits on the am out and types of animals too I went outside once. The graphics were alright, but the gameplay sucked! Settlement:22nd June Slab:27th August Frame:16th Sept Bricked:21st Oct Roof:24th Nov Linings HANDOVER23rd March! Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 15Oct 18, 2010 6:02 pm I would catch them and take them to the pound, and lie about where you found them. In qld we have to register our cats. Do it on the quiet and don't tell your neighbours. Cheers Lou http://take2-customdesigndownslope.blogspot.com 07-10-09 omg they have cut the block 14-05-10 we finally have the keys Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 16Oct 18, 2010 9:03 pm take2 I would catch them and take them to the pound, and lie about where you found them. In qld we have to register our cats. Do it on the quiet and don't tell your neighbours. Cheers Lou ...or do as you said, but put their collars around a packet of dim sims and leave it on the neighbours door step. Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 17Oct 20, 2010 10:08 pm cat poo in our yard from the neighbour is my only real concern here. i can hire a cat trap for a week for about $80 deposit. Now being involved in the medical industry i just cannot abide cat poo or dog poo. ok the animal dumps on your yard. you clean it up. this stuff carries traces of parasites and other bugs. these are really dangerous, i am not kidding. even if you clean it up there is always some residue. you can get sick from this stuff. I want my back yard to eventually be a green lawn carpet that you can walk on safetly. Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 18Oct 21, 2010 7:57 am peterjt cat poo in our yard from the neighbour is my only real concern here. i can hire a cat trap for a week for about $80 deposit. Now being involved in the medical industry i just cannot abide cat poo or dog poo. ok the animal dumps on your yard. you clean it up. this stuff carries traces of parasites and other bugs. these are really dangerous, i am not kidding. even if you clean it up there is always some residue. you can get sick from this stuff. I want my back yard to eventually be a green lawn carpet that you can walk on safetly. Not to ignore your problem but cats usually bury their poo. Are these cats pooing on a lawn? That seems quite unusual. I know our cat (which cannot get out of our yard) will only ever defecate in a hole it digs in a garden bed and then covers over. Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 19Oct 21, 2010 11:19 am I had a similar problem and was looking for a humane way of simply deterring cats from going through a certain area. I found this excellent design: http://www.contech-inc.com/products/scarecrow/ I bought one and am amazed by the simplicity of the idea - it works superbly and after a while now I don't even need to use it much unless a new cat moves into the area; they learn pretty quickly. They also do a specialist "cat-stop" but I have never been completely convinced by ultrasonics as a deterrent to all cats - the scarecrow definitely works. Also effective for keeping away door to door marketroids. Cheers, Earl Re: dealing with neighbours cat poo in our yard 3 + moggies 20Oct 21, 2010 3:10 pm Just thought I would put in my two bobs worth. As I previously owned a cat until he died, I thought that cats dug up gardens to poo, not do it in the open on a lawn. Are you sure that your neighbour isn't tossing it over into your yard. If it is the cats then they haven't been trained properly, they obviously don't have a litter tray for them. I would definitely speak to them first and if it continues I would speak to the council. Carolyn Carolyn can someone with more experience give me their insight? land is pretty much flat its pretty much at the top of a hill. left and right neighbours are flat in line with my… 0 7466 2 4385 there should be ss cable so you can pull up bore pump for service 1 3154 |