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Cats … Fence spikes/nails/drawing pins

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  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    I am with you all on the disgusting mess animals leave around.

    The amount of times I see dog owners leaving dog poop in the park.......:mad:

    I don't like cats, i much prefer a dog but got to agree with you there. It's hardly possible to walk down some roads.
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  • Mista_C
    Mista_C Posts: 2,202 Forumite
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    Tomorrow morning...

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  • monty-doggy
    monty-doggy Posts: 2,134 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Thanks, I didn't know how to post a pic!
  • Arachne wrote: »
    Guess my mog must be posh too, he used to do the same before he became an indoor puss :rotfl:

    Mind you, even when he did go outside, I'm fairly sure he only crapped on my lawn. He never strayed from my garden, always curled up out there.

    BTW, lovely mog in your avatar :)

    I think they must be related lol.
    Yeh ours just tend to curl up in the garden & don't move half the time. Some days they don't even go out as they just sleep all day. Lazy bums!!!!

    Thanks, my avatar is one of them, Mylo!

    So you see OP, and all the other cat haters, not all owners are the same. If you read one of my responses to a subject in another thread, I cannot have kids so my cats are my babies. (Yeh bonkers maybe but thats me, hey-ho)
    And I treat them well & look after them extremely well. Not like SOME owners who don't give a fig & just chuck 'em out to do their business in everyones garden.
    Oh yeh, and even though we are having some nice weather at the moment, they still come in the house to use the litter tray, then toddle off back out!!!!
  • Chickabiddybex
    Chickabiddybex Posts: 1,346 Forumite
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    Isn't the solution obvious?

    Get a dog!
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  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    Isn't the solution obvious?

    Get a dog!

    The OP has already said he has one.
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • broonbear
    broonbear Posts: 195 Forumite
    carpet gripper on top of the fence does nicely:j:j
  • crazy_crow
    crazy_crow Posts: 48 Forumite
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    Sorry if its already been suggested but the 'scarecrow' motion activated water jet shooting device is the way to go. It works brilliantly and it's quite amusing to watch. I originally bought one to get rid of a crazy crow (hence my nick name) but it keeps cats out the garden extremely well too.
    You can't use it if there is a risk of frost though.
    Also, I noticed its price fluctuates on Amazon. They have recently been around £35 , which is OK.
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    At last, a sensible idea to keep a cat out of your garden. Well done that bird!
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  • what about diluted jeyes fluid sprayed on the fence.
    I have dogs peeing on a small hedge which was dying so I started spraying a six inch strip along the pavement just in front and they now walk on by and the hedge lives another day.

    To quote the post from a cat owner about "moaning neighbours" who should be taken seriously, there were reports last year of cats being poisoned, this neighbour obviously got fed up of moaning and took very serious action instead.
    :cool: Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
    Sometimes age just shows up all by itself ;)

    In the end, it's not the years in your life
    that count....it's the life in your years :D
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