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

Hi,

Yes, you can. Come by and take a look at the neighbor’s cat! However, the owners are also among the maximum 1% of all dog owners (they have a dog and a cat) who have understood how an animal works and have trained it very, very, very well.

Best regards,

Andreas

That’s luck. I had both long enough. It worked best with the litter that only knew dog and this two-legged creature with a bottle as mother. However, my cats bury their feces. It’s not always easy to teach hand-reared animals that.

The best help comes from your own four-legged animals. Dogs can even help with martens.
Cats usually don’t mess with martens.
Raccoons and cats live in peaceful coexistence, dogs are usually inside at night.
Especially, which pile do you want to assign to which animal?
Cat from neighbor a or b or stray or marten or fox or dog or raccoon.
By the way, raccoons don’t rummage through our garbage bins. They exist, but I already had nocturnal visits.

Cat feces are not that dangerous. At least, I don’t know anyone here who got sick because of it. Rat and mouse droppings are a different caliber.

Hello ypg

A cat is a thing, like a dog. Shouldn't exactly the same rights or also the same duties apply to everyone? Or do you see yourself as a cat owner privileged and for you a destructive interference with nature is okay, but not for dog owners?

Steven

Apart from the fact that I probably don't have cats if I write that I don't like them...

Animals are legally things, yes!
But you can't just lump different animal species together. What worked for Noah doesn't work here.

Dear Ypg,

I basically like cats, even though we don't have one ourselves.

But:

Where exactly am I intolerant if I don't want to clean up cat poop every day (again, it's not even clear if it's cat poop!!) ? Should I throw my son's diapers over the fence every day for you? Would you tolerate that then?

Best regards,

Andreas

If a person actively throws something into my garden, that's something else than if an animal that has an owner poops somewhere because it doesn't know private property?!

I expect different answers here than - sorry - silly comparisons.
I found your answer a few lines above quite good, that you want to wait first.
Anyway: have fun in the garden - preferably from inside
There has to be something to get upset about.. after all, it's summer lull time

Hello evoltih

Replace the word cat with dogs in your post.
Would that be okay for you as well?
So, let’s say a dog from the neighborhood soils your garden every day. The neighbor says, there’s nothing he can do about it. The dog is just incorrigible. Wouldn’t it be normal for me to take care of the matter with the soiling dog? As I said, on my property. And there are different options for me: hose with a sharp jet, slingshot with steel pellets, or even the spade. The dog is one matter and this matter harms me daily. So I solve the problem. In a way that promises a solution. Since the cause, i.e. the owner of this matter, offers no attempt at a solution.

Steven

No, unfortunately that doesn’t work. As already stated, you must not equate dogs with cats (legally and biologically).
If your neighbor lets the dog run on your property (no matter what it does), you are even allowed (depending on the severity of the case) to legally force him to prevent it.
With a cat, you don’t have this option! It is allowed to roam freely. You are NOT allowed to legally prevent this. You have to tolerate it, as long as it does not soil every square meter of your garden.
Injuring the animal with e.g. steel projectiles is punishable and counts as animal cruelty. Apart from the fact that you would be committing property damage.

Don’t get me wrong. I can understand your point of view. It would annoy me too if the neighbor’s tomcat messed in my garden. My three (cats) go well-behaved to the neighbor. He still has soft sand in the driveway, which they love. If I catch them there, I shoo them away, if I see something lying around, I remove it. That’s all I can do. And the neighbor’s boy, as well as my own, play in that sand. Mine, the older one (3 1/2), has been ordered to dispose of every turd he or the other finds. He’s been doing it well so far. I think it has happened twice so far.
In return, my three terminators kill hordes of mice and rats, which the whole neighborhood cheers.

[QUOTE="Evolith, post: 269608, member: 26764 you are not allowed to equate dogs with cats (legally speaking). With a cat, you do not have this measure! It is allowed to roam freely. You are not permitted to legally prohibit this. You have to tolerate it,.[/QUOTE]

Hello Evolith

not quite right and partially covered by law. Still no more than half-knowledge. Dogs and cats are property. If you kill a dog or a cat because only in this way damage can be averted from you, it is at most property damage. You have a reason to kill the animal. So animal cruelty is off the table. Then you are right insofar as in jurisprudence (still) cats are considered freedom-loving like dogs. It is (I believe up to 3 cats) to be tolerated that cats walk over your property. However, this must not result in any restrictions. Defecating on your property is such a restriction and (if proof can be provided) regularly leads in jurisprudence to the cat owner being ordered to prevent this. This should only be possible by no longer letting the cat roam outside freely or fencing in your property to be cat (escape) proof. If this does not happen, a fine is imposed on the offender (cat owner).

Steven

For that, my 3 Terminators kill hordes of mice and rats, which the whole neighborhood celebrates.

How many birds do your 3 Terminators kill?
Certainly comparable to the mice and rats and probably in the high triple digits annually.

Steven

How many birds do your 3 Terminators kill? Certainly comparable to the mice and rats and probably in the high three-digit range annually. Steven

I would estimate for ours, there is one bird per 300 mice. It could of course be due to clumsiness.