Oh dear - this thread has made me alternately laugh, disgust me and confirm I never want a dog! Sorry honeybun! I sympathise with the illness and vet bill though.
Being a cat person - yes they are free to roam - we can have no jurisdiction over what they do or not do elsewhere, unpleasant though that may be. Mind you our cats poohed everywhere too (on our land), including the grass, especially when old and we spent our time shovelling it up....
This is the end of Rudyard Kipling's "The Cat Who Walks By Himself" . I love the piece. It really sums up cats....
He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard..... but when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes,
He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
Then he goes into the Wet Wild Woods
Or up the Wet Wild Trees
Or on the Wet Wilds Roofs
Waving his wild tail
And walking by his wild lone.
Hope the lemon works!!
Hurdity x