Cat keeps pooing on our doormat

[Marb67]

And yet again we find another mess after thoroughly cleaning and applying "Get Off" gel (which is obviously rubbish) Looks like we are stuck with this c**p forever

[bikermike]

hosepipe. Letterbox.

Catch it once and it won't do it again...

[lottie dolly]

Just a thought,is there anything you can put under the mat during the night,like the fluff cushions,animal squeeky toy,to see if will set a noise off,when it stands on it,to scare it away,

[SarrissUK]

Or put down cat food! They don't poo where they eat

[Jimothy1275]

My Dad told me that my Great-Grandad used to have an egg-cup full of household ammonia next to where the cats used to go to the toilet as they have a sniff before the do their doings. The ammonia was heavier than air so no pong for us but it kept low to the ground.

I tried it when I had a cat problem (our own cat) using my raised beds as her toilet, two days later no more cat poo.

[lynda66]

mouse traps

another vote here for leaving food out on the mat for it, (dry food should be fine, but if it doesnt like it a few tins should do the trick) never known a cat go near it's food.

spray bottle or hose works best, but f you can't see it you can't spray it, my neighbour hated cats, so I told him to hose pipe them, he's been dead 5 years, and they still won't go into his garden.

grow a catnip plant, next to the mat, hopefully the cat should be more interested in that than crapping.

lemon juice sprayed liberally on the mat may work.

cat litter tray, put it on the mat so it will use that, then when it's got used to going in that, move it away from the mat and hopefully it'll keep going in there.

if not you're just gonna have to stay up all night and catch it at it and kick it up.the bum

[Miss Mousetrousers]

Not all cats like catnip but leaving a small dish of food at one edge of the mat is worth a try. They don't like the smell of citrus peel, so if the food doesn't solve it then some slices of lemon or orange peel underneath may work. What a strange cat! Have you got a CCTV so you can catch it on camera?

[Marb67]

Well after a long 6 month lull there seems to be another cat that has started doing this. It's absolutely exasperating as it's yet another new mat. Why oh why oh why do they do this, especially as there is no scent (like the old mat) I have scrubbed and cleaned with jeys, sprinkled with orange scented cat repellent and chopped pieces of garlic and it still craps all over it. Nothing will work!!!

[Jungle Jane]

The cats scents on it now & they’ve got a better sense of smell than us,to us it might smell clean but not to a cat. I’d use some black pepper sprinkled on the mat,the cat will smell it & not like the smell at all. If it rains,repeat application. Good luck

[mothhawk]

Well after a long 6 month lull there seems to be another cat that has started doing this. It's absolutely exasperating as it's yet another new mat. Why oh why oh why do they do this, especially as there is no scent (like the old mat) I have scrubbed and cleaned with jeys, sprinkled with orange scented cat repellent and chopped pieces of garlic and it still craps all over it. Nothing will work!!!

Ant powder. Sprinkle ant powder on your mat.

[Dynamite]

There was some useful info here.....

https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...elp_96639.html

Kind Regards.............Rob

[Nicos]

Are you absolutely sure it's a cat?
Have you seen it?
My guess is it's more likely to be a fox.
Does it look a bit twisty at one or both ends?
Fox poo is generally darker and more smelly

Have a gooogle of fox scat images and compare them to those of cat poo. See if you are still sure about if it really comes from a cat.

[Marb67]

Pepper doesnt work. Its far weaker smelling than garlic

[mothhawk]

Pepper doesnt work. Its far weaker smelling than garlic

Ant powder does.
I had some trouble with ants coming up the step onto the front porch and in through an air-brick into the kitchen. I sprinkled ant powder along the bottom of the step to discourage them, and noticed that the neighbourhood cat that sprayed up the wall of the porch almost every night stopped straight away.

[Snoop Puss]

Marb, you've tried so many things that I'm sceptical it's a cat. We used to live at rooftop level in a block of flats adjoining other blocks, where people would feed all the stray cats that lived up at that level. There were dozens of cats, and they tended to use our rooftop as their toilet because we didn't feed them. I started collecting the soapy water draining from the washing machine and used that to douse down the roof. The cats stopped using it straight away. With all the things you've tried and the fact that the poo is left exposed, it seems unlikely it's a cat. Even our macho male cat who will take on anything in a fight covers his mess up.

If you haven't actually seen it, why not try a cheap trail or wildlife camera to take a photo? Knowing what kind of creature it is might help you to choose an appropriate strategy.