Latest moan from you and me - 2016

Hi Luciusmaximus,

We had a discussion about cats on here not long ago and I can highly recommend Wilkinsons Cat Deterrent. It's totally harmless comprising of Orange extract, mint and water. You just spray it around your boundaries and it works brilliantly. Cats don't like the smell of orange or mint so they wont go anywhere near it.

 

Mine live surrounded by thousands of orange and lemon trees and they all love mint ... the current ones are Portuguese but the English ones didn't mind and the last died last October having lived here for16 years.

They like their own space and come in to use the litter boxes ... that is what they were trained to do (you have to train cats as you do dogs but cats are actually cleaner ... at least they wash themselves), even the wild ones we have taken in ...it is the owners who are the culprits ... perhaps you should target them! We have interlopers come here regularly ... my cross Siamese soon sees them off. Get yourself a cat who is territorial!

Source: Human who has had cats own her for 48 years so seriously speak from experience.

 

Thanks for the tip. I should perhaps clarify ( just to avoid any misunderstanding ) I did not and would not harm any cat. The intention was to scare it into not coming back. The water treatment was suggested to me by cat lovers who understand the problems their pets can cause to others. It was also suggested to me by a non cat lover that a catapult that hurls the cat 30 feet into the air would work quite effectively. I think he was joking.

 

We'll blow me down with a feather! (That's no really the words I want to use) the poxy ruddy bin men haven't emptied my flipping brown bin because it's compact??? Compact it's got flipping grass cuttings & chopped up garden material in it,what do they think it's going to be? Tomorrow the council are going to get a phone call off me...they have two choices, empty my bin or give me a refund! (I'm paying extra to have my bin emptied) rant over

 

@shiney, I've spoken to a lady at the council regarding my bin issue, she said she understood that I was disappointed & would speak to the operations manager to see if she could arrange for them to come out & empty my bin! I said that I couldn't see why there would be a problem as the bin men are well known for going home early as their job is infact 'job & finnish' & I was very aware that they generally finished two hours early everyday! The phone went quiet! I went on to say as a compromise I would personally tip my bin on to its side & fork the rubbish to make sure it wasn't compact (which I have now done) she said she would ring me back to let me know if she could arrange for my bin to be emptied, to which I replied, thank you, I would like the bin emptied today please, I do pay extra for this service so therefore I don't want to be let down. I'm still waiting for a phone call

 

Not only did they not collect it but I never received a phone call either, I cannot tolerate people who are rude, tomorrow I will be making a phone call & I WILL be speaking to the operations manager, may the Lord help him! .

 

@ARMANDII, our bin collection has recently changed, we have to pay for our garden waste to be collected it's £40 a year! Our general waste & recycling waste is collected on alternative weeks the cost of this service is included in our council tax rates.
If the bin was overflowing I could totally understand but it's only just over half full, I pulled it across our stone drive easily so it's not even heavy.

 

That's exactly what I have here a "jobsworth", well he's chosen the wrong person to pick on, if I thought I was wrong in anyway I would be the first person to put my hands up & admit it, but I'm not so I will be fighting this all the way .
I can't believe that so many of us have had so many problems with our bin collections, wouldn't it be nice if people could just go to work do their job properly instead of being difficult, awkward & argumentative.

 

I'm pleased to tell you that after a very heated discussion & threatening to phone up the local press the bin will be emptied! Maybe not today but they will be back to empty it. I've basically been called a liar BUT I know 110% that the bin is not compacted, I'm right & I'm dealing with a "jobsworth", lets see what happens now, hopefully for their sake normal service will take place in the future