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

Eagle_1

Just a tip if you suffer from unwanted cats in your garden using your pots as a litter tray.
All you need is garlic, cut it up into small bits and place around your pots/lawn/bedding plants etc.
This DOES work, its cheap and gets rid of cats for a long period of time.
I once was plagued by cats in my garden, I used to buy the stuff you buy over the counter and it worked for a few days but the cats always came back, with garlic they dont come back for many months and when they do start coming back I just do the garlic treatment again.

Hope thats a helpful tip for someone, also I hope im in the right forum :eek:

boogiemaster

Would be ok if it did work? I've tried every wife's tale in the book and they dont work.
Garlic is just a strong smell thats all, I've tried it before and it dont work.
Lion crap is another one, cats are scared of bigger cats? and they wont come near a bigger cat, ive nver had any crap to test it out.

EveryPennyCounts_3

You used to be able to buy that from Chester Zoo! Not sure if it was from a lion, but it smelt, er, authentic!

EPC

bella123

Fill up about five empty 2l pop bottles with water leave them on the lawn,the cats think they are other animals, therefore they don't go on the lawn. :rotfl:

Hunnymonster

EveryPennyCounts wrote:

You used to be able to buy that from Chester Zoo! Not sure if it was from a lion, but it smelt, er, authentic!

EPC

Sadly since Foot & Mouth they've been unable to sell any carnivore poo - eiher lion or tiger.... they can still flog the elephant 'buns' though as "Zoo Poo"

Mr_Warren_2

Just has some nice "beach shingles" spread on front garden. Cats starting tothink its bst thing since proper litter. Have read somewhere that powdered mustard does the trick. Will report back, failing that, a couple of rat traps should do the trick. Cant stand cats doing their business on my patch of ground !

Dee123_2

Wish this thread was a few months ago :mad: . Bleedin' cats just killed my conifer tree by spraying on it. I had no idea what it was till someone at work suggested what it was. By then it had turned a nasty shade of brown.

Grumble, grumble...

BWZN93

Cats dont seem to mind garlic plants though, my cat has chewed the leaves of my plant and successfully made it raggly - but she doesnt seem to hate it!

Jo xx

Eagle_1

boogiemaster wrote:

Would be ok if it did work? I've tried every wife's tale in the book and they dont work.
Garlic is just a strong smell thats all,

I challenge you to try it, im that confident that if you buy cloves of garlic and chop it in small pieces you will get rid of cats.
I thought exactly what you did, but tried it anyhow and its the best thing I ever did.

You are right garlic is a strong smell, exactly why the cats wont use your pots/borders as a litter tray, thats the fresh garlic anyhow.

Please let me know if you try it cos I cant wait to say:
" Told you so"

boogiemaster

The reason i know becouse i have two cats!!!!! And they eat the bloody stuff.
Look, i love my garden and i've put down garlic before orange peel and all sorts of wives tales mixes.
It dosent work, and you cannot say i told you so becouse I've tried them all.

Lion Crap has a strong smell, and cats know its a bigge annimal? so they wont come near.

The cats near you dont like it becouse they are probley vampire cats?