Anonymous wrote:Training a cat? That’s hilarious

Clearly you are no Jack Burns.

Whether it’s easy or not, just know: some of us have a visceral hatred for these rodents. As Richie Aprile said to Chris Moltisanti: just give me a reason.

My neighbors have this annoying outdoor repellent. It does not deter dogs (mine walk past undeterred, and pee and poo on the public verge next to their property), but my child says the high-pitched noise really disturbs her when she walks past! I don't know if it works on cats...

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And, unlike you other pps, we know they are cats because we were them on our trail cam we put up to find out what was making such a big freaking mess in our flower beds.

Sure, we have foxes and raccoons, but the cats owners were letting run wild seem to be getting into fights with the feral cats around. This is in a suburban neighborhood with 1/2 acre lots.

So if you want to make sure OP, get a cheap trail cam that will work at night or in the day, got ours from Amazon and it's motion sensitive.

1. Sprinkler, with annoying motion-activated whine.

2. I'm sure it's the cats, but it can also be foxes and raccoons - they're very good at climbing fences. Poo looks the same.

3. More resources: https://www.alleycat.org/community-cat-care/humane-deterrents/

4. Check laws in your county to see if it's legal to trap and surrender cats before you do anything rash.

Anonymous wrote:Love all the cat people rushing to tell everyone cat shit doesn’t smell. Yeah it does. I’ve smelled it. I smell it every time I walk into one of your disgusting houses. I’ve also seen cats shit and not bury it. Let’s not deflect.

This. It can smell awful, and some cats dont make much of an effort to bury it.

I would get those barriers for your flower beds, and a "yard guardian" that sprays water when it sense movement.

If these don't help, then I would trap to cats and take them to the county shelter, maybe wait until they've cleared out all the kittens from this summer.

Like you, I am tired of our neighbors cats in our yard, and these are cats wandering from several streets over, not just adjacent neighbors. If they aren't deterrent, I'm borrowing a trap from my other neighbor and taking them to the county for readoption or for the neighbors to bail them out.

Wait until you get rabbits. They are such a pain in the neck.

Training a cat? That’s hilarious

Anonymous wrote:Love all the cat people rushing to tell everyone cat shit doesn’t smell. Yeah it does. I’ve smelled it. I smell it every time I walk into one of your disgusting houses. I’ve also seen cats shit and not bury it. Let’s not deflect.

Of course it smells but op claims to have a fenced in yard. Foxes and raccoons would be more likely to climb it than a cat.

Just go ahead and put out your trap and post video of you finding a skunk, raccoon, or fox. Priceless

Love all the cat people rushing to tell everyone cat shit doesn’t smell. Yeah it does. I’ve smelled it. I smell it every time I walk into one of your disgusting houses. I’ve also seen cats shit and not bury it. Let’s not deflect.

They have these spiky rolls of mesh you can put in your flower beds and cover with a little soil or mulch.

But if the poop is visible and you can smell it - it isn’t from a cat.

Probably a raccoon they climb fences

Anonymous wrote:Cats usually bury their poop. Fox poop is about the same size, and they do not bury. Foxes can scale fences like a cat and there are so many more of them than people think.

Unless you see your neighbor’s cat actively taking a dump, there’s a very good chance it’s not a cat.

Raccoon poop too. We could not figure out how poop kept ending up on our fenced lawn until one night when we caught him in the act.

That’s not a cat if you see poop on top the ground

We also have foxes all over … that poop everywhere. Fox and cat poop are pretty similar. Get a noisy deterrent, plants that are offensive to cats/fox or set up sprinklers.

I will say that cats spook easily so if you scare a few times it may not return