Well I've just got in from cutting the front lawn. Guess what, two more piles of cat shit since I cleaned up before cutting the hedge yesterday. Of course I didn't notice them until I'd been through them with the mower!
In my opinion, cat owners should be made to keep their little kitties inside, or at least on their property by whatever means. They should then be made to take them out for walks on leads in the pouring rain, and clean up after them like responsible dog owners are expected to do, rather than being snuggled up all nice and cozy and warm. They should also, like dog owners, be responsible for the damage that their pets do, accidents caused etc. I've had half a dozen dead Slow Worms in the back garden with their heads chewed off by little kitties for the fun of it, not to mention the newts, frogs and brids (are they not increasingly scarce and protected?)
An exterme view? Possibly, although I'm beginning to wonder, there are such things as house cats. I'm getting too old to be picking up other peoples' cat shit. As you can probably guess, I'm not a cat owner... but then I'm not a dog owner either.
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P.S. I'm the one who got an entire outraged WTF thread by tautech, in the Supporters Lounge, for very gently voicing my objection to dogs being electric shocked into attacking Wild Boar, so I don't think I can really be considered an animal hater!