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Neighborhood cats shit right in the middle of my lawn. It stinks and the robot lawn mover makes it even worse.

I do NOT like cats, and this is not helping.

What works to keep them from shitting on my lawn?


The votes have spoken. Some people are cat lovers; thanks for the great advice from the rest of you! I will not go out of my way to accommodate other people's pets that aren't welcome on my property. My first weapon of choice will be chili because it's simple and cheap. Other ideas have been noted.

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[–] iquanyin@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@PlutoniumAcid i’m 64, i’ve lived in over a hundred different places, including rural and suburbs with lawns. literally never ever had this problem. not even when i owned cat! so it seems you’re cursed. you need to find the witch or wizard you offended and make amends.

i’m really amazed this would even happen, as cat prefer to bury their waste so they like places they can dig miles more than lawns. i wonder: did your u maybe see one cat, once, poop and now you think all poop is cat poop? because dogs are a lot more likely to be doing this regularly than cats.

[–] Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah, cats bury their shit. they don't shit on grass and leave it exposed.

only time cats shit in the open is to prove a point. OP probably pissed off this cat

[–] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elderly cats don't bury their shit. A neighbour's cat used to bury stealth bombs in my garden until he got too old and decrepit to bother. The pinnacle was a gross runny shit on top of a creeping thyme. I was thrilled when he died, but then she got a young feisty cat that slaughters birds. Sigh.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

In general, many feral cats do not bury their shit. I have no idea why people keep saying this like it's a fact - I have dealt with this exact same, well, shit at several places I've lived. Most of the time it is cats shitting in the raised beds, but I have also seen some who like a certain plot of grass or weeds.

[–] downpunxx@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust anyone whose lived in a hundred different places about anything at all

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you explain this a bit? I am having a hard time understanding how living in different places would make someone less informed. I would assume the opposite by default, but I'm interested in your thought process.

[–] Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's the narrow thought process of one who has always lived in the she spot, I would imagine.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing that their thought process is something akin to, if they have had to hop THAT much, their judgement can't be good since if it were, they would have settled before reaching the high number of 100. I don't agree, but that's my guess