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What would stop cats using the garden as a toilet?

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  • Lillibet_2
    Lillibet_2 Posts: 3,364 Forumite
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    Do you see the cat in the garden or does it happen at night/whilst you are at work? If you see the cat then a good but harmless squirt with a water pistol everytime should help;)
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  • summerday
    summerday Posts: 1,351 Forumite
    Hi Lise,

    We had this problem too on our front garden, in a spot where there was a lot of soil and not many big plants. Maybe you could plant more plants there, some evergreens that will be there year round, so the cat won't have hardly any room to toilet? What we have done now in the area that the cat fouled (quite a small area) is put a few more plants in and put those big stones that look like slates all over the area, and they can't foul there. I had also thought about grassing the area over.

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  • annie-c
    annie-c Posts: 2,542 Forumite
    You can buy a plant from garden centres, called 'Scaredy Cat' which cats don't like the smell of, apparently.
  • julesgr
    julesgr Posts: 657 Forumite
    i read somewhere that half filled bottles of water placed around the garden help keep them off
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  • troll35
    troll35 Posts: 712 Forumite
    For ages we had the problem of cats fouling on our lawn. The only solution that worked was one of those movement activated ultrasonic devices (£30) from argos. The downside was that I could hear it..right on the edge of my hearing level...very annoying after a minute or too. We had to keep switching it off when playing in the garden. In our front garden (flower beds and gravel) we were once told to use a few mothballs. They stank too much and when I thought about it they could be damaging to wildlife so I got rid of them, replaced the gravel with cobbles and added more plants to the beds.
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  • tina68
    tina68 Posts: 461 Forumite
    Do you know the cat owner? if so have a word..and tell them to put a litter tray outside in their garden..and if it keeps doing it put it in a bin liner and leave it on the doorstep haha
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  • MrsTinks
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    Orange peels DO work but you haveto have fresh ones and unless you eat a lot of oranges then that could be tricky :)

    I have cats of my own and contrary to popular belief they DO pee in their own garden, they used to do number 2's too but after a weekend session of me waiting with a water pistol then I haven't found any "evidence" in my garden :)

    I believe that THE thing to use is actually lion poo... and onceyou have stopped laughing then googl it and you'll probably find that your local zoo sells bags of it for this purpose :) The theory being that the cats thinks "Oh !!!!!! me a HUGE cat lives here!"

    Either way then good luck with it :)
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  • KizzyK_2
    KizzyK_2 Posts: 993 Forumite
    tine wrote:
    The theory being that the cats thinks "Oh !!!!!! me a HUGE cat lives here!"

    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    That really made me chuckle

    Anyway, believe it or not they sell Lion poo (also called Silent Roar :p ) on amazon:confused:
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  • tina68
    tina68 Posts: 461 Forumite
    KizzyK wrote:
    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    That really made me chuckle

    Anyway, believe it or not they sell Lion poo (also called Silent Roar :p ) on amazon:confused:
    Ha Ha i love it buy poo on amazon:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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  • smokey112
    smokey112 Posts: 541 Forumite
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    tina68 wrote:
    Do you know the cat owner? if so have a word..and tell them to put a litter tray outside in their garden..and if it keeps doing it put it in a bin liner and leave it on the doorstep haha
    Tina x

    :eek: :eek:
    Tina
    I do hope you dont mean put the cat in the bin liner -that is a bit radical is it not LOL

    I would try the water pistol - my cats will do a number 1 in the garden but not number 2.

    HTH
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