need sure fire way to stop cats pooing in my garden

LipstickPink

Along the same lines as the colored straws perhaps but I saw a video some time ago which suggested stick tooth picks half way into the soil around seeds/plants. This deters cats from squatting over your vegetation from fear of a pricked bum. He claimed in the video that after a few weeks the cats will associate where the tooth picks are as painful and wont return so you can then remove them.

I have two cats so my patch is fairly safe but my neighbour is planting raised beds so I gave her the above tip, our road is filled with cats so I hope they dont ruin her crop.

Zeusiblue

i had the same problem last year. i broke up a bamboo cane into six inch lengths and placed them around. this seemed to do the trick, no more cat poop the flower bed

cannyClaire

I don't get many feline visitors in my garden, maybe less than one per month (usually a new cat to the area) despite being very urban and with a neighbour who feeds strays.

I have a 6 foot panelled fence with some of that green plastic coated wire edging on top (the stuff is 15 inches high and you are supposed to stick it around your borders) which comes in 30 foot rolls for around £16. The birds can land on it and walk through it but cats can't. It isn't stable when they try and climb over so they don't (It also deters 2 legged nocturnal visitors;)). However, at the bottom of the garden I have a shed which cats are allowed on to so they can pass to my neighbours on either side. Cats who do get into my garden generally find that getting out is just as awkward, so they don't bother coming back.

Thank goodness they are smart:rotfl:

Megansmum

cannyClaire wrote: »

I don't get many feline visitors in my garden, maybe less than one per month (usually a new cat to the area) despite being very urban and with a neighbour who feeds strays.

I have a 6 foot panelled fence with some of that green plastic coated wire edging on top (the stuff is 15 inches high and you are supposed to stick it around your borders) which comes in 30 foot rolls for around £16. The birds can land on it and walk through it but cats can't. It isn't stable when they try and climb over so they don't (It also deters 2 legged nocturnal visitors;)). However, at the bottom of the garden I have a shed which cats are allowed on to so they can pass to my neighbours on either side. Cats who do get into my garden generally find that getting out is just as awkward, so they don't bother coming back.

Thank goodness they are smart:rotfl:

do you have any pictures please? I am struggling to understand what you mean, but i am desperate to get some if it stops the little blighters!

Davesnave

Megansmum wrote: »

do you have any pictures please? I am struggling to understand what you mean, but i am desperate to get some if it stops the little blighters!

http://www.tjwiremesh.com/wire_mesh/lawn_garden/garden_fence.htm

Wanton

BudgetBlonde wrote: »

I'm a cat owner and if one of my neighbours put something harmful in their garden that injured my cat, I would be sending them the vet bill. I know someone who put crushed glass in their flowerbeds!
Try planting citronella that cats don't like. Or you can buy something called silent roar which is made of lion poo - cats won't go in the garden if they think a very big cat lives there. Other neighbourhood cats are always in my garden which is dangerous as I'm pregnant so have to be very careful when gardening and it's very annoying, but it's unbelievably cruel to harm a cat who is not acting deliberately.
Or a super soaker would work if you can catch the blighters!:rotfl:

You say you would send your neighbours the vets bill, would you be happy for your neighbours to send you their bills for the cat repellants they have to buy? Its your cat you should take some responsibilty for it and not let it ruin other peoples property by soiling everywhere, your neighbours haven't chosen to have cats so why should they have to clean up your !!!! and spend a fortune getting rid of the pests? If you can't take responsibility then you shouldn't be allowed to own a cat.

Rant over.

gabyjane

Ha wasn't going to reply to this but it made me laugh..seems you can't win being a cat owner and you can't win being the poor s*d who gets the poo everywhere eah! I posted a long while ago about our kitten scratching our door badly and was advised to use tea tree oil amongst other things..i got toally slated and as for the water well..!
I love cats as we have 2 and up until recently they have started pooing in our garden which is odd but can't be helped..the thought of putting nails, wire, glass etc in gardens shocks me tbh.
Not many things work as far as im aware..our old neighbbour hated cats and installed one of those alarm things..didnt work one bit, the water doesnt work with ours either to deter them from doing things they shouldn't. Good luck though!

peachespeaches

onejontwo wrote: »

I tried those carpet grippers laid in the beds and it seemed to work for me. (A bit harsh I know, but I tried most other ideas)

Prikka strips which are 62p online from Primrose suppliers are good for on your fence and gate and keep the cats away. Orange peel is also good, my childminder swears by half grapefruits though!

peachespeaches

onejontwo wrote: »

I tried those carpet grippers laid in the beds and it seemed to work for me. (A bit harsh I know, but I tried most other ideas)

Prikka strips which are 62p online from Primrose suppliers are good for on your fence and gate and keep the cats away. Orange peel is also good, my childminder swears by half grapefruits though!

http://www.prikka-strip.com/

http://www.primrose.co.uk/fence-and-wall-spikes-strip-p-365.html?cPath=102?source=googleads&gclid=CM7d8_bCsKACFVcB4wodrQrHTg

these guys also sell other cat repellants.

tenuissent

I have used clippings from hawthorn hedges and other thorny things scattered in particular places which cats have chosen to use. They are easily cleared away again, and the cat seems to learn fairly quickly.

When we first moved here, the nuisance cat was an obese lazy creature who squeezed through our trellis to use the garden (a small backyard), so I had to put bamboo in between each trellis upright. I didn't realise at first that it could be quite short, cheap bamboo, as the cat couldn't jump. It worked, and eventually its owners moved, and I could take out the bamboo.

The current newish cat is more agile, and has chosen a very conspicious place where I want to plant a rosemary bush, so I am about to fall back on hawthorn clippings again. I also spray with water, shout, and throw pebbles, and generally make it feel unwelcome.

It is particularly annoying to shout at it from an upstairs window, and have it glance up, then ignore me.....