cats in my garden grrrrrrr

jellyhead

My neighbour uses cocktail sticks or skewers around her flowers, but ours is a strawberry bed that we need to tread on to pick the berries. I think the garlic gel from wilkos might be working though, fingers crossed!

kitrat

When I was little my Mum kept guinea pigs and they had a rectangular wooden run in the garden which she covered with some net to stop cats from attempting to get in and kill them.

One day some cat-loving fanatical neighbor popped round and lectured her on how dangerous the netting would be to a cat that tried to get into the run! Never mind the guinea pigs then?!

tankgirl1

powie69 wrote: »

I have had cats defecating in my garden recently. I put down some Jeyes Fluid Freshbin power (the lemon one) and they have stopped using my back garden as a toilet.

Hi
Not sure if it's been mentioned but Jeyes is toxic to cats

tankgirl1

vroombroom wrote: »

by having a litter tray in their garden perhaps?

Lol I am slightly amused at being told I sound threatening and that because I don't like cats then I can't be a proper animal lover. Mmmmkay.
The bum spikes will be going down tomorrow.

I actually think you sound like a nice 'cat hater'

As in tho they may irritate the bejesus out of you, you are searching for a humane solution rather than a) going mental at the cat owners or b) resorting to poisoning

I hope you find a solution that works

nettienoo70

next door cat has used the upright posts on the kids trampoline as a scratch post!

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The sad fact is that cats can't be trained very well not to stray into areas that their housemates (we don't own them the same as we can 'own' dogs') don't live in

I have a cat - but my garden is blighted by other cats pooping. I use various methods, but the best I've found is netting, metal wire grid or prunings over the soil - spiky bumsticks!

As cats like to dig in crumbly soft soil then larger gravel (over 2mm) is very good (smaller than this is akin to cat litter) as is keeping the soil firm and dry - no regular digging around plants, just pulling weeds and also treading down the earth in ornamental areas.

stebiz

I still think a cull is in order. Gingers first.:D

hcb42

charliemonkeyface wrote: »

This was exactly my point, i don't know whats worse, cats crapping where they please or their irresponsible owners thinking it's no big deal and we should all get over it.
If cat !!!! doesn't stink why is most cat litter advertised as odour neutralizing and toilet flushable.

Not all owners are irresponsible, I have just read 9 pages of this thread as my cat is going to my neighbours, in a small residential area, and I want him to stop! We've even given him (the neighbour) 'catapult' and the like, and tried to only let him out the back door in the hope he wont jump the six foot fence. Cat no 2 is too lazy, Cat no 1, less so.

I will try putting a litter box in the garden next, not something I have ever tried before, but equally never lived in this kind of estate before.

I did feel guilty, but some of the comments here have at least tried to allow me to get it in perspective (and i definitely do not want to upset my neighbours, we moved in 2 months ago)

MrSmartprice

Cats are a bloody pest as far as I'm concerned. We have several in the area that prowl around, but there were two in particular that have been coming into our garden. I always shoo them off if I see them, and their escape route is behind the shed where there are brambles and chicken wire which gives them a problem.

I have tried soaking them when they are lying asleep in the sun, and they don't like that. I have used chopped orange peel around where they like to go, and that is quite effective. And I have a few windfall apples on the patio to throw at them, especially as I'm not a bad shot at that range.;)

What I really object to is the typical loony cat owner who thinks that everyone else should just accept that their pet is entitled to cr*p on someone else's property. Cats enter my garden entirely at their own risk.

System

My neighbour and school friend moved in two doors away from me a few months ago and i'm plagued by her cats (shes got 3). They spend more time in my garden they they do their own. I actually found one of the cats and a 'friend' bonking at the bottem of my garden on Friday.

Bin bags are ritualistically ripped open most nights. I bought a dustbin for any food waste which they cant get into but they shred the bin bags with the non food waste in too. They have started to leave piles of poo in amongst the bin bags which is now making me even more irate. I don't want to buy more black bins as we are supposed to be having wheely bins sometime next year and its a waste of money.

The stink down the side of my house is blasted awful and it isn't my dogs! What topped it off was when I took my bin bags up for my bin men who come early on Monday morning.... My bags were double and triple bagged and they were still slightly ripped by her cats. Her bin bags were intact without a mark on them.

I quite like the idea of getting some lion poo. Though my nearest zoo is only a few short miles away, I don't think I can persuade hubby to go and fetch some and I don't want cat or lion poo in my garden.

Bum spikes are not really an option as one of my dogs is only a little bit bigger than a cat herself.

Do you think an ultrasonic scarer would affect my dogs?