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

bonsibabe

egg shells do NOT work! tried it and all they did was poop on it!! i'm gona buy one of those repellers too!

loulou41

Please where did you buy the moth balls and ultrasonic repeller. How does the repeller work? Thanks

nimbo

i got moth balls from the 99p shop whre i work, but they are toxic so be careful if ou have kids etc. also they didn't seem to have much of an effect for me...

davethorp

Got our repeller from catalogue but homebase/wilko and the like sell similar devices. It has a motion sensor on it which emits a loud ultra sonic sound when motion is detected. It is outside of the hearing frequency range of humans but does affect cats and other pests

Dave101t

i got a suprise for the 1st time when i was repotting plants into the seed bed.
just grab some compost from over there...ooo thats a hard bit, squeeze it to crumble it, whats that smell....uugghhh!
im going to put up netting as i only found it in my small seed bed.

jinger_2

I've seen people use empty pop bottles (the 2ltr variety) 3/4 filled with water and laid on their sides in the garden - cats don't usually like their own reflections and the bottles act like mirrors. Just remember to remove the labels!

Cats don't usually like anything with a citrus smell - try scattering lemon or orange peel around your flower beds. I have cats and any rubbish bags that I can't fit in my wheelie bin get a spray of Stardrops and it stops them from tearing them open.

Putting anything down like woodchip or bark, gravel and even the decorative slate will *not* deter a cat from doing their business there (as a neighbour found out!)

I have also heard that if you live near a zoo or anywhere similar that has big cats (tigers, lions etc), ask them if you can have a carrier bag of big cat manure and scatter it in your garden. This also acts as a deterrent as the domestic cats will think "Oh no, a big cat lives here - I'm off!". Apparently, anyway!

bluedog

I use chopped up garlic as they apparently don't like the smell. One of the neighbouring cats used my ground cover plants as a toilet and putting chopped garlic around there did the trick. (I'm attempting to grow loads this year simply for this purpose!!)

Another one thats worked for me was a few drops of olbas oil on a used teabags placed in the area the cat is using. I've just re-vamped my herb bed and lo and behold, a neighbouring cat saw it as a litter tray. Since putting out olbas oiled teabags, so far so good.

I've also read that if you know where the cat is coming in, spreading something sticky or greasy is supposed to put them off entering as they don't like to get their paws messy. I'm thinking of spreading some vaseline on the top edges of my fences to see if that works.

Shambler

Chopped garlic worked for me too. :T

phil_51

Load up the water pistol with pure comfrey liquid feed and squirt the cat.

The cat will not come back! Not sure what the owners will do with the cat when they smell it in the house!

Slim4Summer

I have 4 cats and 3 raised beds and lots of pots. I covered one bed in fleece and it kept them off- then today I replaced it with net bought from poundland at £1 for 4m by 5m. I put wire in a half hoop shape to keep it from crushing the seedlings and tent pegs to keep it firmly anchored.
I have my peas growing up vicious hawthorn twigs (sharp thorns!) but they were still managing to pick they way in between, delicately, and pee in among my peas! I have therefore covered all that in net too.
The other bed is covered in chicken wire - again kept off the ground by metal hoops. Mine came with some useless polytunnels I bought from poundland but I think you could make them from wire coathangers.
They dont seem to bother with the pots.
They are probably all off in YOUR gardens now, pooing and peeing merrily away!
I doubt the water gun would work - you would have to stand vigil and squirt them every time for it to work. I dont think citrus peelings would work unless the whole area was covered.
Lion dung (the real stuff) does indeed work - but in my experience it freaks dogs out too.... something to bear in mind.