I keep finding piles of poo on my front lawn. Too far from the path  to be a passing dog walker if the dog was on lead and there are not usually any off lead dogs around here. Looks like a small dog or possibly a cat but I thought cats used flowerbeds and buried them and did not leave them in the middle of a lawn? any suggestions as to what the culprit might be?

I learnt recently that cats in fact do poo in the middle of a lawn to declare territorial rights. It was mentioned in the 'problem page' in Your Cat magazine recently. :-)

A fox perhaps? 

The blooming cats round here poo in the middle of my lawn. Its a real pain. My front garden is closed off to the dogs and has no passing pedestrians as we are the last house on a footpath (With high hedges) that leads only to my garden. Nothing passes by and the fence to the footpath outside (Over the fence is a green space with footpaths) is 5 ft high and has a 8 ft border with thick shrubs inside it. I know it is cats as I have seen them and usually bang on the window to scare them off. But they are constantly pooing on my lawn. They never cover it up either !
If anyone has any suggestions to stop them I would be grateful as nothing seems to deter them. I am seriously thinking of borrowing a lion from the zoo !!!
There is nothing worse than flying cat poo when I mow the lawn.. Or of dogs who (Only if supervised) are allowed out the front and snatch a mouthful before I can stop them ! Yuck.
Aileen

Our field is full of mole hills and on every hill a pile of cat poo - I thought cats buried it, they certainly do in the veg patch, but in the field they place it at just the right hight to make it impossible for the dogs to ignore

> A fox perhaps?

Well, you'll be able to tell if it's fox or cat - see whether the dogs roll in it, or eat it! (yuck)

Disgruntled neighbour? LOL

If anyone has any suggestions to stop them I would be grateful as nothing seems to deter them.

Feed them. :) Cats don't poo where they eat. The recent TV programme "The secret life of cats" proved that as well. Residents in a retirement park had a lot of ferals appear, and some wanted rid of them, others liked them. Those who liked them fed them and had no problems, those who wanted the cats gone got poo on their lawns. :)

>Disgruntled neighbour? LOL

Not big enough for Human!!!

>Well, you'll be able to tell if it's fox or cat - see whether the dogs roll in it, or eat it! (yuck)

I know the small of fox only too well but havent had a sniff and dont intend to. I know one neighbour has several cats. I think I will move them to her lawn in the hope the cats will take a hint!

I found the back copy of the magazine at work. :-) It's called 'middening', where a cat who feels its territory is under threat leaves a very clear marker to announce its presence to other cats. If you don't have a cat then your garden will have been annexed by one of the locals.

What I've discovered about fox poo very recently is that it doesn't really smell until it's been rolled in!  I've had foxes coming in for weeks, I kept finding small black poos and wondering what on earth they were from as there was no smell... until one of the dogs flattened one.  Aha!

Since then I've actually seen one of the foxes as Rai chased it out of the garden when it stayed a little too late in the morning.  No harm done though, she only enjoys the chase itself!

Cats will happily poo in the middle of a lawn. Where I used to live the front gardens were open and one neighbour kept complaining that dogs were messing on hers, hinting at myself and another dog owner. She kept quiet when mobile phone pics of her own cat doing it were shown to her lol!

Ah yes, black sloppy poo is what a fox is leaving me in piles near all the outside doors. The poo is riddled with what looks like cherry stones cheeky beggar.

ugh! Both of those are gross!

oh thats odd,our local rec has loads of mole hills-jess loves to dig in them,apart from the ones with poo on-i always assumed it was dogs!