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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?


The votes have spoken. Some people are cat lovers; thanks for the great advice from the rest of you! I will not go out of my way to accommodate other people's pets that aren't welcome on my property. My first weapon of choice will be chili because it's simple and cheap. Other ideas have been noted.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's like an outdoor Roomba. Very common in Europe, nothing special at all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"nothing special at all" he says...

I grew up using a push mower.

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So did I. Now I am old, and will enjoy the modern world.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Until the robot hits a cat turd you could have seen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, good for you and your good luck in finances. This isn't something we can all afford, though. A lot of my neighbors used rusty reel mowers growing up. Even the gas variants were out of reach.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My daughter has two reel mowers. (She had one, and I gave her mine.)

They don't get used much though, it's more for nostalgia along with my scythe.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm imagining that you have a grim reaper outfit to go along with that scythe. And that you do your lawns at night.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Where are you from? Gas and electric mowers are the standard everywhere I've lived here in Canada.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Special if it works, the damn wire needs to be redone completely each spring because it somehow breaks somewhere.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"used to" is past tense, good job

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like this can't possibly be true... The cheapest one I can find is $650. Like, these are not affordable for most folks.

[โ€“] a_statistician 1 points 1 year ago

Calculate out how much time you spend mowing. Even at a pathetic minimum wage like 7.50/h, it's still pretty easy to make the calculation make sense.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You say that like Europe isn't comprised of like 50 countries and near a billion people

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™m from the UK and Iโ€™ve never seen an automatic lawnmower unless it was on tv

[โ€“] BitsOfBeard 5 points 1 year ago

But all the EU countries got one for christm... Oh....

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago