So mad and fed up! Advice please!

Mankysteve

While a cat lover I can understand you pain. Ignore sonic devices, lion wee, Citrus fruit. Can't are not dim wited creatures they soon get used to them and will ignore them. Best bet is the old water pistol trick doesn't harm the cat. You can even get ones that get set off by motion detectors and attach to your garden hose.

elsien

Keep the grass short as well - I find the cats use it more as a loo when I let it get a bit overgrown. There's a plant you can get which cats don't like the smell of (coleus canina) which worked on my mother's raised beds, but I don't think it's very hardy so may need replacing every year. I'd also second the waterpistol, (which is very therapeutic when you manage to get the little !!!!!!s) and a few sharp sticks or sprigs of holly sticking up in the places they really like.

Robinred

I have had success with the sonic things, they do need their batteries replacing sometimes have you had a go? My dad puts chicken wire on the ground that leads round to his garden and this works for him. It sounds like the water pistol idea works though, I love that you can get motion sensing ones!

Mokeyjen

Thanks for all your advice guys! Having had no success with the sonic device, I am going to invest in a water pistol and keep watch day and night! Hehe! Just hope I manage to catch the little !!!!s occasionally!

lagaaa

This sounds a bit disgusting so I apologise but apparently men's wee does the job. A friend of mine got her husband to wee outside and it did work.

rockin_plumber

lagaaa wrote: »

This sounds a bit disgusting so I apologise but apparently men's wee does the job. A friend of mine got her husband to wee outside and it did work.

On the cats :T

pledgeX

lagaaa wrote: »

This sounds a bit disgusting so I apologise but apparently men's wee does the job. A friend of mine got her husband to wee outside and it did work.

Is that really true?? I think it more likely the husband happened to come up with a witty excuse after getting caught short after staggering home from the pub one night

jockettuk

my mate tied some old cd'd dvds mostle the ones that come free around her garden and it worked as it twinkled in the sun and moonlight and scared them off

also water in clear plastic bottles does the same thing

googler

jockettuk wrote: »

also water in clear plastic bottles does the same thing

Oh, so THAT'S why people do that......

Which sonic device are you using, OP? I've been using the hand-held one with a megaphone from B&Q, cost around £10 or so, and that's been very effective - has a laser pointer, aim at cat and squeeze trigger.

Sent them off like a shot in my case, and they don't seem to come back after a few blasts.....

brig001

We tried CDs, bottles of water, lion poo, curry powder, but the only thing we found that works is a cat. Small, cute and best of all, poos in other peoples gardens :rotfl: