Cat poop or wild animal droppings? Warning; pile picture!

I am not aware that a cat owner would have to prevent their outdoor cat from entering other people's properties. How should that even work? I don't think you can enforce that. I would also immediately ask my cats not to go to the neighbor. But they simply don't listen. The best protection against foreign cats is, by the way, your own cat or a dog. The children will definitely love that too!

Hi,

quick feedback before this gets out of hand:

I left a camera running last night and had to keep one of the wall lamps on the house on for lighting. Right away, our little Bigfoot/Yeti/Nessi didn’t show up last night.

If the problem could actually be solved that easily, that would be perfect!

I’ll observe this for a few days.

Best regards,

Andreas

Ps: Although I didn’t have Bigfoot in the garden today, the marten did p*** on my car… Help…!

No. It doesn't work. You can't control the range of movement unless the cat is not allowed outside. That is not acceptable for most cat owners. And with any other cat producer, you have to live with it too: wild animals from martens to shrews, from pigeons to geese.

Hello,

I am not aware that a cat owner has to prevent their outdoor cat from entering other people's properties. How would that even work? I don't think you can enforce that.

I would also immediately ask my cats not to go to the neighbor. But they just don't comply.

You haven't understood the problem. The cat is welcome to walk across my property, no problem at all. But it must not use my garden as a litter box. I also don't let my son go into other people's gardens. And a one-year-old child is just as unlikely to follow rules you impose on them as a cat.

Sure, you can explain/teach a cat that it must refrain from certain things. If you can’t do that, then you just have to accept that the garden owner will.

Best regards,

Andreas

Hi,

You can't control the range of motion,

Yes, you can. Come over and take a look at the neighbor's cat! However, the owners also belong to the top 1% of dog owners (they have a dog and a cat) who understand how an animal works and have trained it very, very, very well.

Best regards,

Andreas

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But I certainly must not and will not accept a massive health hazard to my children!

How the owner handles that is nmfp (=Not my f**** problem). But if he doesn't get the problem under control, he then must not complain if others solve the problem in their own way.

The owner can also offer to clean the fully sh*** garden every (!) day. Then the problem would be solved. If the owner is too lazy for that, okay, then other measures must be taken.


Andreas

Then here comes a cat hater who still has a neutral view:

You won't get through any court that ever deals with this. Massive health hazard, the term is not proportionate. If you let a child into nature, whether garden or public playground – you must always expect that, for example, the child gets stung by something, there is a shard of glass lying around somewhere, or an object of desire could be put into the mouth. I bet there are far more "dangers" lurking in your garden than from this sh*** pile. For example, dangerous worms or poisonous plants. Thorns on branches... And if it's wild animals, you can't do anything anyway. Nature was here before us idiots, so you just have to tolerate it as it is. Just because you are listed in the land register and have a fence around your property, you cannot keep out external influences, or do you put up warning signs for bees and hornets? Show the child what it is and that it's yucky. You do that with other things too, right?

If a person has no problems, they make some for themselves.... just be calm and merciful! It’s not hard.