Does anyone know how to stop cats crapping in the garden soil?

We have a small patch of earth with some small bushes outside the patio doors and almost every sodding morning a cat has crapped in the earth!!

Although I am forever clearing it away, today has been unbearable with the doors open all day, the smell of the cat crap won't go away.

We have tried all the cat powders, etc that you can buy in the garden centres including those perfumed sticks that you stick in the soil, as well as even sprinkling the area with Jeyes Fluid and Vinegar (suggested by friends!!).

Any ideas? (apart from lying in wait and strangling the cat!!)

Get a dog

Properly brought up cats go where they are told and to dig and bury.

There must be a lot of cats being badly socialised as they should bury it if their mothers have taught them correctly.

Why not make them a lavatory like I do for my Impossible Princess?

Get some lion shit from a zoo or circus and put is around your flower beds

It's not our cat!! The one in question belongs, I believe, to a woman who lives nearby. I see her ushering her cats out as soon as she gets home from work and I think one of them is the culprit.

I think it does attempt to bury it's crap - in my garden, though!!!

Those things you tried usually work! That must be a persistent little bugger! Other waiting with a bucket of ice cold water to throw at it when you see it, I can't think.

Mine used to attempt to bury, I just told her to cover it up more and she has done so ever since. Cats are intelligent enough to understand human language.

The owner obviously does not care which is not a good thing as it teaches cats bad habits which are easily sorted without them having to use other people's gardens as a lavatory.

Put some used Teabags around the area of the garden they use. It was suggested to us and it worked!

Or their owners are as daft as their cats - same difference

Seriously?!!

Just ordinary used teabags? I didn't think they gave off any sort of smell at all?

Curry powder.

We were having problems with cats crapping on our lawn. Since I've put curry powder in the places where it was, we haven't had a problem.

Supposedly it is the texture they don't like underfoot or paw!

Thanks, teabags and curry powder it is then!!

If I see a cat with it's head in the bird-bath trying to drink the contents and steam coming out of it's ears, I'll know the curry powder worked!!!

Some cats love curry. My old one had a thing for sag aloo.

See, I've never been sure whether it works because they don't like the smell, or whether they love it and so don't want to crap in the same place that there was food

Either way, it's worked for us, thank god

Yep, make your cup of tea. Keep the teabag and stick it outside later.

Powdered Chilli Pepper is another thing to try.

Or try putting prickly brances (rose/bramble) across where it turds, should put it off a bit

Lol, that tickled me! Animals are great!

Our two cats go indoors in their litter tray, but love going out.

I know what you mean tho, before we had cats, the feral pains in the backsides used to come along and crap in our garden until it was so unbelievable! It stinks so bad and hubby got a cat scarer to keep them out wih a high pitched noise! It worked for a while and then they got used to it... we tried lemon and orange peel, lemon floor cleaner poured onto the soil, until we were nearly in tears. It's not fair that any cat, feral or domestic should come along and shite in your garden, it's soul destroying...as soon as ours poops or wees, we're behing them cleaning it out of their littler tray so that our outhouse doesn't stink the rest of the house out!

I wish people with domestic cats weren't so selfish and nonchalant!

hahahahaha "i just told her too cover it up more" thanks for that i nearly split my sides when i read that.
they dont understand human language at all just like dogs dont understand it either its just a load of commands and people who think that they do are just mental.
you be telling me dogs wag there tail only when there happy next.