Cats & Coffee Grounds

lormac

Having terrible trouble with the neighbours cats using my garden as a litter tray, I have read/heard that coffee grounds as well as being good for your garden also deter cats.
Anybody heard of this working? Any ideas to ridd my garden of this disgusting menace of cat poo.

rabidbun

Many suggestions on previous posts but water pistols, sonic repellers, orange peel, mothballs, olbas oil, human pee and sharp bramble cuttings are just a few; knack seems to be what works for the cat in question. I am having to resort to building aluminium fruit cages and netting all three of my beds, as none of these have worked. Should have done this to start with - spent a fortune on things that don't work.

Good luck with it though!

Lotus-eater

Coffee grounds doesn't work for me!

Chicken wire does and that's the only thing.

foxgloves

My method is to save used teabags & put a few drops of Olbas oil on each one before dotting them around where the problem is. Have never known a cat that didn't recoil instantly at the smell of Olbas.

Piggo_2

We have lots of cats in our area and I've tried pepper around though obviously this easily gets washed away. Some smelly green stuff in a bottle can't remember what it's called. This works well again till it wears off or gets washed away by the rain, but so far has been the most effective. Got it from the gardening section. Have currently taking to also covering the problems areas with stones/bricks and sticking sticks in the soil to try and deter them from using the same areas!

emmahip

foxgloves wrote: »

My method is to save used teabags & put a few drops of Olbas oil on each one before dotting them around where the problem is. Have never known a cat that didn't recoil instantly at the smell of Olbas.

My cat goes nuts for Olbas oil!

I need chainmail gloves to fight her off.

:rotfl:


I find lemon/orange peel in places you dont want them to "use" works well.

zzzLazyDaisy

Not very helpful if you don't like cats.... but my next door neighbour and I were plagued by all the cats in the neighbourhood, until I acquired my cat. He is very territorial, so not only does he keep cats away from both gardens, but he never uses my neighbours garden. So even though they are not cat lovers really, they adore my cat! :-)

cootambear

we get many queries re cats fouling gardens. is it time for a sticky? ( no pun intended).

lormac

Hi folks,

thanks for all the suggestions, but as it rains here almost every other day putting anything liquid on the ground will be a waste of time. am contemplating putting gripper rods under the soil where i will be planting seedlings to see if that will stop the poo fairies.

Lotus-eater

lormac wrote: »

Hi folks,

thanks for all the suggestions, but as it rains here almost every other day putting anything liquid on the ground will be a waste of time. am contemplating putting gripper rods under the soil where i will be planting seedlings to see if that will stop the poo fairies.

I wouldn't put them under the soil, on top will do the same job and won't potentially injure a cat. I'm sure no one wants to see a wounded cat with an infected cut on their paw.

rabidbun

You can get rubber strips that are sharp but that won't shred the cat's paws. Also, if you want to invest, the scarecrow cat drencher apparently works very well (£50 though O_O ) - am debating that myself once my veggie bed netting is up.

Also going to try a super soaker water pistol with cheap orange juice in it (apparently many of them hate oranges, so...).