Cats … Fence spikes/nails/drawing pins

meer53

Cats, unlike dogs, are very clever. If they want to get in your garden, they will. They will find a way, whatever you do to stop them.

Elsewhere

We got rid of neighbours cats using "Get off my Garden" crystals.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Off-Repellent-Scatter-Crystals/dp/B000LS57O0

You need to use them for a month or so, by which time the cats will be using someone else's garden for their loo. It was over a year before we had to dose the garden again (they smell sort of soapy - like washing up liquid, so not too horrid when you are sitting outside)

If you prefer a more hands-on approach, a friend used to shoot at cats in his garden with a catapault, using pellets made from Penguin wrappers (in the days when the wrappers were silvery paper on one side and ordinary on the reverse - maybe use the wrapping from a slab of butter?). The cats get a nasty shock, but are not harmed and learn to avoid your garden.

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we had the same problem, neighbourhood cats poo-ing in my flower beds, night after night and scratching and making a mess of soil. A product called roar didn`t work but moth balls are definitely working, I got the 96% ones from ebay and I also put cut pieces of wire mesh under the soil surface, nice for my ground cover plants to get a grip on, you understand

I am glad chrissie72 does not live in my village, she is very selfish and inconsiderate

monty-doggy

Can I just say on a serious note, I have 2 cats who do go out. But I provide, and they use a litter tray. Mine has a lid on it so its like their own personal loo.

Takecareofthepennies

Chrissie72 wrote: »

Stuart sounds like a right charmer! Glad he's not MY neighbour. I have FIVE cats. ... :mad:

I bet the feeling is mutual ...

molerat

I have had some success with french marigolds and if you have roses or anything thorny cut the prunings into small bits and sprinkle on the beds.

sillygoose

I find cats quite smart at learning where they are not welcome, I have plenty of fine gravel to hand in the garden and a well aimed handful in a cats direction does the trick, they are too quick to be hit by any of it but it makes a hell of a noise on the fence as its backside scoots over it. Keeps them away a long time or permanently in my experience.

Most of those ultrasonic scarers are rubbish, had several over the years, not loud enough (but they know you can't tell how loud it is/isn't!) and they are made for about 20p in china. The electronics are so crude that the frequency they emit drifts widely with the temperature so often not scary at all. To be most effective it needs to switch on when a cat crosses it so as to startle it. However a small animal in a well insulated coat isn't very good for setting off a PIR (heat sensor) at any distance.

I think the best one I have seen is a PIR based hose valve, when something passed by in front it fires off a hose jet at it.

You can get prika strips places like Toolstation

ineed

monty-doggy wrote: »

Can I just say on a serious note, I have 2 cats who do go out. But I provide, and they use a litter tray. Mine has a lid on it so its like their own personal loo.

I do this as well, my two cats have their own tray and use them. They don't actually go into anyone else's gardens though as they are a bit nervous of other humans. They stay at home defending their territory .

Don't glue drawing pins or anything down, the RSPB has some tips on keeping cats away, http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/gardening/unwantedvisitors/cats/catdeterrents.aspx. As I'm also keen on feeding wildlife, I use things like wire feeders suspended where the cats can't get them. My cats also both wear a bell on their collars.

NowRetired

I had a lot of carpet gripper strips left over when I had carpets fitted, somebody miscalculated, and nailed them to the top of my fence, the cat still walked along the top of the fence, albeit on tiptoe.

Someone said try fine fishing line along the top of the fence, the cat walked along that like a tightrope walker, using a cane to balance itself.

The only thing that will stop a cat !!!!!!!! in your garden is covering it in concrete.

The garden, not the cat, though that will do it as well

mad_dr

967stuart wrote: »

(why is the word pr*ck banned on here .... jaysus ..)

I agree - it appears to sum you up nicely...