Bloody cats !

My sister's late MiL used to buy lion poo.
I think it was in pellet form. Perhaps Goole it.
I should have said that I do sympathies Gillybob not nice. Especially where there are children at risk.

I agree with Gymstagran. Why do we have to accept cats in our gardens? Imagine the outcry if children were allowed to deposit their waste in neighbours’ gardens. For a long time we were very tolerant of dog mess. Now many dog owners accept that it is their responsibility to clean it up. Time to educate cat owners! Where there ‘s a will...

It can't be done!
Although we used to have a litter tray, our cats would prefer to use the garden.
Other people's too for all we knew.The neighbours cats come into our garden now and then, it's just one of those things ( after all pigeons and hedgehogs visit too and deposit their poo.)

NanaSam that works for me too. I use clippings from roses and other thorny plants and poke them into the ground in bare spaces or round newly planted plants, leaving about 6-8" sticking out. It's stopped all the cats as they must have got frustrated looking for bare ground when their little botties and paws were not snagged by thorns and prickles ?

This works: Get Off Cat &Dog repellent crystals. Costs about £5.00

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Same here Cherrytree59 my borders were continually being dug up and mess left all over the drive and I too thought it was one of the neighbourhood cats until I spotted a cheeky blackbird!!

An unwelcome solution would be to get your own cat. It will establish ownership of your garden and should chase off any intruders and, hopefully, use a litter box itself. I can't understand why you're finding so much mess OP-unlike dogs cats bury their poo and usually disappear into corners to do it. They're quite private. I've always had cats and they've never performed on the lawn, dc and now dgc have always been able to play unhindered. Garden sprinkler can also be effective.

I totally sympathise as whilst I like cats I HATE the mess they leave in my blooming garden I bought one of those electronic cat scarers and took a photo of a cat pooing right beside it and got my money back I ve tried pepper, curry powder, water bottles prickly cuttings of roses and other prickly plants Small pea shingle thrown, water pistles .... I refused to buy poo to stop poo anyway nothing has worked and I m sick of having it on my shoes and plants people should train their cats to use a litter tray and keep it outside their own back door

I agree, they're a bloody nuisance, and that's me speaking as a cat owner. I'm wearing my halo though as our cat does all her business in the litter tray or, if the spirit moves her, on our doormat. She has a cat flap but rarely ventures out, and has never in her 13 years set foot in our garden. Which is why we get all the mess from next door's two in there - they're shut out most of the day and just leave their dollops all over our lawn. We've tried a few deterrents, but will give yours a go, Chewbacca.

Dogs do not come into my private garden and shit all over it katek and these cats are doing exactly that. Tonight I had two lots in the front to clean up (half attempted at being buried but dug all the plants up again) the smell and the gagging when you clean it ........ Just gross .

I would NEVER have a cat (or any other animal for that matter) as I work full time. I hate cats anyway. Can't see the point of them other than to go around fighting, shrieking, killing birds and shitting in other peoples gardens.

My DGC are going to be so upset when they see their little seedlings all wrecked.

I appreciate that there are some decent cat owners who have bothered to train their animals to use litter trays.

Sprinkle moth balls where the cats poo. They need replacing every few weeks as they 'melt' .

It's an old fashioned solution my mum used and I used to laugh about . But whilst my neighbours 5 cats don't come in our back garden ( thanks to Sam the dog pattolling) they regularly used our front garden as their own personal litter box.

Not any more ! The mothballs worked a treat. It's worth trying . We bought a bag of 50 on eBay for about £2.99 .

Can you still buy mothballs haven't seen any for years I can't think where you would buy them from

Whoops answered too soon and of course Gransnet doesn't trust us to edit our posts..... boo

Our problem is the large ginger tom who sees all our attempts at barricading the garden as a challenge. I once found him inside the house sitting at the top of our stairs! He poos in the garden beds and kills birds. Others come too but he's the challenge. Lion poo and all the smelly deterrents have no effect - although I haven't tried moth balls.
When we had our own cat we never had a problem as he chased all other cats out of the garden - and preferred to use his litter tray. I was going to suggest getting a boss cat yourself Gilly but just read your last post!

I remember my mother saving up used tea bags which she then soaked in Olbas Oil. These were strewn around her flower beds and seemed to keep the offending animals away.

I am going to give every suggestion a try. Moth balls, orange peel, and Olbas oil too. DH spread a large drum of pepper (not cheap) over the two areas they had dug up yesterday so hoping I get at least 1 days grace at the front.

I am also looking into the legalities of putting plastic spikes around my back fence. It's quite high so not as though anyone would lean against it. But not sue what I can do about the shed roof.

Thank you for the suggestions everyone.

gilly I'm sure it would be ok to put plastic spikes on surrounding fences. Not sure if all the fencing is yours ,so you would probably have to ask the other fence owners permission
It would also act as a security.

Every suggestion mentioned on this thread was tried by us, not one worked. We knew who the cat belonged to, we saw it leave the back door and walk along the garage roof and jump down into our garden. When I put rose clippings on the soil the cat just did it in the middle of the grass and looked at me defiantly.
We did eventually stop every cat from entering the garden but only at great expense, we erected smooth metal fencing that they could not get a claw hold in. DH was about to package up every calling card and put it through the neighbour's letterbox. In hindsight I wish he had, at least it would have been in nappy sacks which was not the courtesy we were afforded when we had to clean it up.

I have a cat problem too. I live in the middle of a row of 4 terraced houses. Two cats at one end are let out of an upstairs window onto the flat roof extensions. They then jump down onto the fence and into my small garden and relieve themselves. Sometimes the fattest one can't be bothered to jump down to the garden but leaves it's poo in the top of one of my pots on the roof which I water out of the window. There are far too many cats, and dogs for that matter, around these days! Yuck.

I wasn't suggesting for one minute that you weren't having genuine issues gillybob, just that I haven't come across this type of cat behaviour in 50 years of cat ownership and found it puzzling.

Not so Great minds must think alike harrigran as DH said that he was going to throw every pile of shit randomly over the three gardens where we know the cats come from!

I have found some "humane" spikes on the internet designed to keep cats out.... not sure how effective they will be as they don't appear to be sharp... just kind of bobbly. I don't think there is anything I can do about them coming over the shed roof as it is so close to the corner they can just jump straight onto it. Also my front garden is low metal railings so nothing at all would stop them getting in the front. DH covered it with pepper last night which will work today but we can't do that every day unless I can get a truck load of pepper at a discount price! DH was talking about paving the front over last night (as others have done) but I really don't want to as we live on a slight bank and all of the lazy idiots people who have paved theirs wonder why we get a flood at the bottom when it rains. My direct next door neighbour THE ONE WITH THE CAT hasn't even had the sense to incorporate a soak away/stones in theirs and has even covered the little drain, so the water just floods downhill when it rains heavily. Some people really don't have a lot of common sense do they?

I wasn't having a go at you katek. Sorry. I am just fed up with it.

I expect that there are a lot of cat owners who possibly just don't realise what a problem their animals are causing for other people. and then there are some like my neighbour who probably don't care

What about anti climb paint on shed roof? It's non drying and sticky, we've used it on roof of village hall boiler house to deter kids from climbing. Cats will not like this at all.

Technically cats are still classified as wild animals, you don't even have to report running them over. I have issues with bird poo-especially seagulls-on windows and cars where it eats the paint. Nothing to be done.

That's ok gilly - can understand frustration (see above re bird poo!!). Do try the vandal paint, might save some of your sanity!

Hope you can limit their access.

Me again...sorry! DH has just informed me that Aldi had the paint at very reasonable price.