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Originally Posted by daveyrach
As do humans, how many species are we responsible for single handedly wiping out?
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Lots, we have a lot to be sorry for, but two wrongs don't make a right. YC has covered this perfectly.
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Originally Posted by stuR
I love that the subject of cats has raised such heated debate..i guess you really are a dog or cat person lol
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Really? I know loads of people that have dogs and cats together. I am not against cats...i am against cats being allowed to do what they want, when they want and the stuff the consequences attitude of so many owners.
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Originally Posted by NTECUK
creasote Your wood fences . grease the tops of them too.
put scoot or cinnamon in a perforated old ice cream or simmuler container around the base of bushes or walls .
It will avoid your boundaries
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Why? Why should anyone have to do those things? I want birds and mammals to have free run of my garden without worry of them being poisoned by trying to clean creasote off their feet or grease. I want wildlife in my garden and many people do. It isn't my responsibility to stop someone else's pet coming into my garden/house.
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Originally Posted by Messie
Zoo poo is the answer.
Colchester Zoo sells cans of zoo poo as a natural fertilizer. I got some once and put it under the roses. Didn't have a cat near my garden for weeks, even my own! Apparaently it's got lion and tiger in it so the cats smell something bigger and badder than them.
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Great idea
Again though, people just shouldn't have to do such things to protect their own gardens.
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Originally Posted by ClunkintheUK
So Win Win all round?
I actually quite like both cats and dogs, but they do need to adhere to a certain level of decorum, and it is up to the owner to make sure it does. If it doesn't then the result will always be the same, be it a pitbull that attacks a child or a cat that won't stop sh1tting on the neighbors kitchen table.
When we had cats other neighborhood cats would come into the garden and most likely get chased out by Jessica or Sylvester. (yeah he was black and white). If other cats came in through the catflap, they'd get a pint of water thrown over them, though really there were only two which ever tried, and I think my dad only managed to soak a tail once.
As for the cat in question in this thread, stuff some silly little water pistol bought for 50p at a beach shop, I'll use my old super-soaker. And as for "Any mistreatment will be reported" i would then report every single mistreatment of my pets by that cat. After soaking it of course.
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Luckily, this woman is just a friend on a forum, not someone I know well. I think she is deluded to think it is acceptable to be concerned with the welfare of her own animal when she should be concerning herself with the welfare of everyone else having to deal with the nuisance that she introduced.
The cat was apparently castrated as a one year old.
What I have learned is that if you want to, yes you can keep a cat confined to your own house and garden.
Another friend raised an interesting point about walking a cat. She said that cats should be treated like dogs in not being allowed to just roam freely. When told that walking cats on leads was laughable as they are not dogs, my friend said, "neither are ferrets, but they are walked on leads as the only safe way to exercise them and they are fine with it".
I found that very interesting.
Why are cats so precious that we just seemingly have to accept the disruption?