cats in my garden grrrrrrr

dandelionclock30

My cats could crap for Britain, but they do it in their own garden, in the nice soil at the front. I just dig a hole and bury it in the beds. It seems to degrade quickly and theres no problems with the flowers etc.They are all doing well.
OP if you dont want to do this, all you need is a trowel and just flush it down the loo or bag it up and put it in a bin. Lifes too short to get upset about it.Try the orange peel and the spikes from canes as well.

paulofessex

Life may be too short, however it is extremely annoying when a garden you have spent both time and money on is ruined by cats.

dandelionclock30

Yeah I know its really horrible, but a person can remove it really easily and a garden isnt ruined by a bit of poo.

Its cats I'm afraid.

vroombroom

so shall I apply that logic when my dogs crap in the street and I don't pick it up?

dandelionclock30

Its a bit different though isnt it?, cats do their own thing,their still a bit wild, its their nature. You dont take them out a lead do you like with a dog or have the same control over them.
If people really cant cope with a cat in their garden then the answer is simple.Get a high totally enclosed fence where the top is cat proofed.

charliemonkeyface

FatVonD wrote: »

I do hope you can specify the range with those things so that it doesn't overlap onto the cat owner's garden too. I would be not best pleased if my neighbours got one of those and made it unbearable for my cats to be in their own garden. In fact I'd put the bass amp up against their wall to see how they liked it :rotfl:

If i knew for a fact they do overlap into the cat owners garden i would buy several.
Why shouldn't i take a poop in your garden where your kids play and see how you liked it :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Barbed wire? Depends on how much you value your face, bank account and clean police record. #1 would be once the owner has finished with you - or if somebody's small child runs into the garden and falls over - #2 would be for being sued if the postman, a child or an animal gets injured on it - including wildlife - or getting your windows put through; and #3, because you could get into a lot of trouble for endangering or wounding animals or children.


The more plant cover you have, the less likely it is that a cat will use a flower bed for defecating. That is, of course, that it is purely cats and not foxes leaving packages for you.




And yes, you have just saturated the soil with 'essence of female cat on heat - please p*ss here'. It'll take a few weeks to degrade.

BlondeHeadOn

Cocoa shells as a mulch works for us. It's a bit hard to find at garden centres, but it looks nice as a mulch and smells nice too (a bit chocolately!). Cats don't like the smell - we have loads of cats round here and cocoa shells are the only thing I've found that works well and make sthe garden look nicer (not worse!)

The cocoa shells kind of bind together when it rains, and they slowly break down into the soil and enrich the soil, so all round they are good for gardeners.

A bit expensive though - but one application last for about 6 months, so worth it in my book.

HTH

DayDreamBeliever_2

We had this problem too, the people next door have 5 cats and she also feels the need to feed all other cats in the local area so we were being over run with them and as there is a pond with fish in our garden they were always in ours, p!ssing and sh!tying wherever they felt like, thankfully the fence we 'share' is ours so I put the spiky plastic sheets along the top of the fence and then did the same on the otherside with permission from those neighbours - now they can't get in and I can hang out washing/cut the grass without dodging it all the time!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

BlondeHeadOn wrote: »

Cocoa shells as a mulch works for us. It's a bit hard to find at garden centres, but it looks nice as a mulch and smells nice too (a bit chocolately!). Cats don't like the smell - we have loads of cats round here and cocoa shells are the only thing I've found that works well and make sthe garden look nicer (not worse!)

The cocoa shells kind of bind together when it rains, and they slowly break down into the soil and enrich the soil, so all round they are good for gardeners.

A bit expensive though - but one application last for about 6 months, so worth it in my book.

HTH

And extremely poisonous to both cats AND dogs.