I'll bet you would soon change your mind if I delivered to your property a weeks worth of cat s*it I find in my relatively small front garden flower beds. This is an urban area overrun with f****ng cats with irresponsible owners who don't care a damn about their pets and just chuck them to defecate where they please.
Could I suggest that you move to somewhere less congested? And demolish your house beind you as you go so that your present urban area spaces out a bit.
The monarch? Or is that just Swans?
Thy parsnips will be dried out.
No, I'd do something about it because I'm not helpless.
If you went away for a few days and left your windows open, would you complain if your house had been burgled? No, of course not, you'd chastise yourself for doing something stupid which is entirely under your control.
What if the cats crappng in your garden are feral? Have no human custodials? Who do you complain to then? Or do you, as is rational, assume that a small amount of effort on your behalf could sort out a problem quite effectively, regardless of who may or may not "own" the crapping cat?
That your initial idea of complaining to the owner relies implicitly on assuming that EVERY visiting cat HAS an owner is the flaw in your hypothesis.
Also, how do you know it's not an urban fox?
The UK, as you might expect. Most of the nine were livestock, cows, horses etc.
Wouldn't the cat have to be ordered by a court to provide a sample?
Yes... we get some of that outside here now and then (not so much in the winter).
You say )to the PP):
"...if I delivered to your property a weeks worth of cat s*it I find in my relatively small front garden flower beds".
But why would you do that?
When we first had motion-sensing security lights fitted (front, rear and side alley), we were constantly puzzled as to why they seemed to switch themselves on during the hours of darkness.
Then one night, as I pulled into the drive, a fox broke cover from the hedge and ran to the back of the house - switching on the alleyway lights as he went.
I'd be happy to take it. First rate fertiliser
It's his shovelling (or scooping it) up and bringing it round in a bag that sounds... amusing.
When I first laid out a section of front lawn, it was nothing but sandy topsoil and grass seed. One of our cats crapped there and made a little pile of earth over it. That had grass double the height of anywhere else inside 6 weeks...
In order to sell them by the roadside. Terrible lot, Badgers.
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