Neighborhood cats shit right in the middle of my lawn. It stinks and the robot lawn mover makes it even worse.

I do NOT like cats, and this is not helping.

What works to keep them from shitting on my lawn?

  • mechatux@lemmy.world
    254·
    1 year ago

    Restaurant grade/sized (big bag) red chili flakes you can get off Amazon - wear full clothing/gloves when spreading around the lawn as it burns on your skin in this quantity. You can use a grass seed spreader (the hand crank green bucket kind) to spread them, or just use your hands. Pay mind to the direction of the wind and face / work downwind so they don’t blow back on yourself while spreading.

    • flucksy_bango@lemmy.world
      71·
      1 year ago

      I’m sure a lawn mower wouldn’t turn that into a war crime. I’m sure their neighbors would have no problem with this.

      • Grass@geddit.social
        01·
        1 year ago

        I do this all the time so unknown animals leave my garden alone. To me it smells great and the one time a neighbor asked I said it was roundup then said it was a joke and it’s actually tropicals fertilizer. Nobody has ever complained about spicy air.

      • mechatux@lemmy.world
        202·
        1 year ago

        You lost me. It deters animals (cats, squirrels, dogs) from even entering your lawn - it’s non toxic and doesn’t harm the grass itself. Dissolves/disappears in water/rain/mowing so has to be reapplied, you just use enough to create a deterrent to entry. What does a lawyer have to do with this?

        • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
          32·
          1 year ago

          I know that there are certain laws against booby trapping your property, for example. As I said, I don’t know the specifics but that’s what it made me think of.

          • MNByChoice@midwest.social
            22·
            1 year ago

            I don’t think it counts as a booby trap. The intended mechanism is not burning the cat. The chillis will smell and the smell with keep the cat away.

            It is not hidden with a trigger, or another thing to throw the chillis at the cat (or small children.) That would a booby trap.