Help!cats using my garden as a loo (merged threads)

calleyw

I have just moved here 8 weeks ago.

Anyway to my delight I discovered that the local cats use my grass as there personal toilet.

Hubby goes out a couple of times a week to clear it up.

Please don't tell me cats don't use grass as there loo. As I use to live in garden with a 6ft fence around it and they used that grass a toilet as well.

I have tried the gels and the pepper dust. Any ideas.

And no I don't want a cat or a dog.


Many thanks in advance.

Yours

Calley

queensway_boy

I believe leaving large bottles of water round the garden helps

calleyw

I have heard that.

But does it really work.


Yours

Calley

Sofa_Sogood

Doesn't orange peel deter cats? Or is that something else?

queensway_boy

calleyw wrote:

I have heard that.

But does it really work.


Yours

Calley

some i know swear by it

roger56

Lots of ideas here at the RSPB:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/gardens/advice/deterrents/cat_deterrents.asp

You can buy electronic scarers. Basically they operate at ultrasonic frequencies that annoy the cats (and other animals so check use first if you have a dog).

queensway_boy

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Doesn't orange peel deter cats? Or is that something else?

yey,i've heard that to.And i've heard moth balls broke up around the garden might help.

Sofa_Sogood

queensway_boy wrote:

yey,i've heard that to.And i've heard moth balls broke up around the garden might help.

Just had a Google and it recommends lemon peel and orange peel.

It also recommends water pistols :eek:

Personally I find having a dog helps

trafalgar_2

I did a google too and it was scary but as for the cats .............they also don't like rustling noises,bits of tinfoil flapping in the breeze scares them,those kids windmills too.

Jacster_2

My old cat (now gone to cat-heaven) used to run a mile from rustling poly bags. Not very tidy in the garden though....

Thanks for this thread. I have just created a gravel patio and KNOW cats are going to start using it, so I will be borrowing all advice - and hoping to avoid rather messy flapping poly bags.....

Can I be foolish and ask....what do you do with the large bottles of water???

Cheers:beer:

calleyw

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Doesn't orange peel deter cats? Or is that something else?

I don't eat citrus fruit very often.

So not able to use that tip at the moment.


But thanks for that.


Yours

Calley