Who's Responsible For Cats?

[corydoras]

Tip for gardeners with cat crap issues...

Tip #1. Get a life.

[Cranfield]

If you have cat crap problems in your garden, get a Jack Russell.

My Aunt had one that ate cat crap.....and cow crap..........and sheep crap........and other dogs crap.........you get the idea.

[Ken L]

Or just get an airgun.

Mind you, I find that a few strategically placed rocks will ensure that there is always a cat repellent handy and the plod get a little less prissy about rocks.

[Steve Walker]

Tip #1. Get a life.

 

 

They can be a problem if they dig up freshly planted seedbeds. I've also got my potato patch covered, because I don't want any nasty surprises when scrubbing "potatoes"... I've netted the freshly planted sweetcorn seedlings, just until they're robust enough not to need it, and I've evicted my own fat moggy from the asparagus patch, where he had discovered that the recent mulching with grass clippings makes a nice soft bed...

[Emma two]

I find it difficult, when using only the English language, to express how much I dislike them (cats). While owners of feline vermin may escape legal responsibility, I do wish they would consider 'why' they feel the need to keep one, and similiarly why do people keep breeding the awful things. They wantonly destry more wildlife, game and other domestic animals then any of our wild creatures. The concentration of them in given residential areas is way above that which would be found in the 'wild' so excusing their wanton destruction as 'natural' is simply wrong.

[Steve Walker]

I didn't want any, my wife wanted them, but I've got very attached to them now. I like having them around, for much the same reasons I liked having dogs around. It's not like you to have such a failure of empathy, or to be so deliberately provocative.

[Emma two]

I didn't want any, my wife wanted them, but I've got very attached to them now. I like having them around, for much the same reasons I liked having dogs around. It's not like you to have such a failure of empathy, or to be so deliberately provocative.

 

 

It's true Steve that on the subject of felines, I fail to have much empathy, however my venom, is purely vocal. When I had dogs I 'broke' them to cats (along with other livestock), recognising that while I detest the things, that others do not, and that what to me is a foul pest is to someone else a loved companion. On the shoots I have been involved with cats were way up on the vermin list, yet I wouln't shoot those ones which looked to be domesticated (collars etc) for fear of causing anguish to their owners.

 

So empathy, no, but I do have compassion and decency towards people, if not their felines. I just wish that those people would stop and think about why they need a cat. We have collared doves, backbirds and sparrows nesting in the garden, non will raise a chick because the cats will kill (and mutilate not eat) the fledglings as they leave the nest. I will collect dozens of frogs from around the pond, vampire like teeth wounds at the back of their heads.

[corydoras]

If you have cat crap problems in your garden, get a Jack Russell.

My Aunt had one that ate cat crap.....and cow crap..........and sheep crap........and other dogs crap.........you get the idea.

Yeah he was cheap to feed, but his breath must have stunk.

[chesters1]

the good thing about cats is when your a bit tight on money you can throw them out to eat the birds youve been fattening all winter ,throw out a dog and it will take your paint off the back door whining to get back in to raid your bin

Edited April 29, 2011 by chesters1

[Now there's a right un.]

Cats on the Grass is a code word in my house for boilie pult practise session..

 

No!!! wait it could mean boilies on the Cat...or in the Cat??

 

There are some repellent blue crystals you can buy but they fail after any sort of rain.