If there's one thing that turns my stomach, it's cat poo on the lawn before mowing

MM · 2016-04-17T09:43:19+00:00

Every time I mow the lawn there's cat poo to be removed. I hate it. It's never solid, always messy, slimy, stinky, totally revolting. The only way I've found to remove it is by scraping with a dutch hoe on to a shovel. Has no one got any other ideas? I read once a long time ago that the Parisian clean-up squad rode around the city on motorbikes with a nitrogen wand that froze dog poo solid. It was then much easier to deal with. Have we nothing like that in Britain? I've tried jets of water from the garden hose, but that isn't effective. The summer months are a little better, because it's warmer and the poo dries out and crumbles. Later today I will have to steel myself to go "out there" for the first time with the mower this year, but first I'll have to attack the cat mess. I'm desperate for a better solution! (By the way, no point suggesting stopping cats messing on my lawn. I've tried everything in that department already, short of having automatic scatterguns like on the former East German border fence.) MM

Apr 17, 2016 100 Replies

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MM 10 years ago

Well, it's only 15 quid, so if it turns out not to work long term, it ain't exactly a fortune.

Maybe for those gardeners who say it doesn't work, moving it to a new position every week might "refresh" the neighbourhood so to speak, so that the cats are totally confused.

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