cats in my garden grrrrrrr

naomijj

Holly leaves in amongst the plants works really well and its free. I never have a problem anymore :-)

LisaLou1982

The only thing that i have seen that works - and i have actually seen this with my own eyes, is dried tea bags with a few drops of olbas oil on them. You scatter them around the garden.

My neighbour did this to deter the cats, and i watched in amazement as the cat came, looked to where it usually did its business and then walked all the way over to the other side of the garden where he had forgotten to put a tea bag! Definately give that a try!

BlondeHeadOn

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

And extremely poisonous to both cats AND dogs.

Cocoa shells that is ...

Well, I don't have a dog (or any visiting dogs), and the local cats will not go anywhere near the cocoa shells, so it's hardly a problem in my garden if cocoa shells are poisonous to cats and dogs.

I've heard that it is poisonous to dogs until the shell mulch has been watered in, but can't find anything about it being poisonous to cats. As I say cats hate the stuff anyway so will not go near it. Which is kind of a result!

tesuhoha

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

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.

I thought it was chicken wire that was being discussed, not barbed wire. Aren't they a bit different?

sweaty_betty

OP you have my sympathy. Cats have used my garden as a toilet as long as I've lived here (7 years) and apparently many years before this (according to the neighbours).

They don't just crap in the grass (whatever the length) but also on the gravel and simply in the middle of the drive/patio - someone needs to tell them that they're supposed to bury their poo!

I don't like it as we have to do a poo patrol before we let our LO out into the garden - it's all the inconvenience of having a cat without actually having one (and I don't want one).

We've tried all sorts to keep them out, including lion poo, orange peel, sharp shrubbery, even in the current building works where there's hardly a spare piece of ground without building stuff on it, they're still coming!

Please let us know what you try and whether it works or not

tesuhoha

Well, I know I joke about making friends with the cat next door but actually, earlier this year some cat did a massive !!!!!! on my back door mat. When I went outside I stood in it and had trod it all over the kitchen before I noticed it. I had to throw away my slippers and the back door mat. Then I had to set up a contraption so that the cat could not access the back door step. I think at the time if I had had a water pistol I would have used it.

It was very distressing, so I can really sympathise.

delain

victory wrote: »

The Sonic Cat Repeller will help protect your garden habitat and encourage wildlife and birds back into it. The Sonic Cat Repeller incorporates a sophisticated PIR (Passive Infra Red) detection system, which constantly monitors a fan shaped area of a 98 degrees arc up to a distance of 12 metres. The protected area is over 120sq. meters of unobstructed space. The Sonic Cat Repeller detects animals moving into this area and triggers a burst of continuously variable ultrasound, which sweeps a frequency range of 18,000Hz, 24,000 Hz to repel them. Simultaneously the LED indicator on the front of unit signals that it is now activated.

If my next door neighbours had one of those it would cover my entire garden as well as theirs and probably my other cat owning neighbour too!

kizkiz

delain wrote: »

If my next door neighbours had one of those it would cover my entire garden as well as theirs and probably my other cat owning neighbour too!

Except that there are fences in between all those gardens and it cannot "see" through the fence.
It will only be activated when an animal enters the garden it is situated in

alias*alibi

victory wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/STV-International-STV610-Mega-Sonic-Repeller/dp/B000NR8Q1U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373554049&sr=8-1&keywords=cat+repeller

This is what we have and it really does work, Aldi's had some powder stuff never worked, Wilkinson had some liquid stuff, never worked, this does work, the kids hate it say they can hear the screeching noise but I can't, the cats can as we no longer have any poo in our back garden:D

I also have this outside the front of my house as my neighbours 2 cats cr&p on the stone chippings right outside my front room window which stinks god awful in the heat. This works a treat and I can tell when the batteries need replacing as the cats start to cr&p on the stones again.

mgdavid

charliemonkeyface wrote: »

When we see dog mess in the street we are annoyed or angered and even more so if we tread in it. Society does not accept it and rightly so, it is even a criminal offense that is punishable with a £1000 fine.
So why is it acceptable for a strangers cat to mess on private land...........

because cats and dogs are different - and are recognised as such in law.