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

Snapelover

I tried the sonic cat repeller but it drove my kids mad!:eek:

They could hear it every time I pressed the TEST button so I had to send it back.

nishaagar

calleyw wrote:

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

I am not sure if anybody has already mentioned it yet. I can see the discussion going quite off the topic. I have had a similar problem with cats digging my flower beds and garden.
Orange peel do not work and is unsightly
cat repellents might keep them away for the first day
Pepper- they have developed resistance to it
ultrasonic repeller- only covers a small area
I had done a internet search and came around a discussion mentioning Chicken pellet Manure, I am pleased to say that it work wonders if you have put it thoroughly all around. It does smell awful on the first day but soon it goes away and you also get manure for your grass and it is cheap ( I discussed in a nursery and eas told that it makes the grass lush green .
Hope this is of help
Sanjeev

lisa76

i haven't read any of this thread, but i had cats using the area that i've got covered in rubber bark as a toilet.

went to focus to buy pellets or something and the guy down there said the best thing to do is to put a bit of hosepipe down and cats think that it is a snake - i was very sceptical, but in the last year i would say i've only had 2 incidents of poo - so it must work - and of course it's dead cheap, i guess anything snake looking would work

Eagle_1

I cant remember if ive posted in this thread about chopping garlic and placing that round your garden but that works.
Chop the garlic into small pieces and sprinkle round the garden, it does work and its very cheap.

MORPH3US

Right, I am an animal lover but I have just re-seeded my back lawn and the cats keep s**tting on the lawn then mounding soil all over it.

I need something cheap and effective to stop the little swines now.

Was thinking, what about some tuna mixed with either black pepper or chilli's??!?

I want to keep it humane but I want the little b@**ards to be too scared to EVER come back!!!

Help!!!

M

PS, I think its at night they are doing it, either way I never see them doing it so can't do the water pistol idea!!!

MORPH3US

Snapelover wrote:

I tried the sonic cat repeller but it drove my kids mad!:eek:

Thats a good idea, if it scares cats off AND the local chavs!!!

Do the sonic noise things actually work?!?

What annoys me though is that I should have to spend good money to solve a problem like someone else's cat!!!

M

EDIT

Just seen one in Argos, suppose I could buy it and take it back if it doesn't work.

Problems:

1. Its £30!!!!

2. Says it works over an area of 200m. The house where the cats live is about 30m away - any ideas anyone???

Lord_Gardener

Water pistol really does work - you need to be persistent, night patrols, etc.

Net areas when seed has been sown!

MORPH3US

Right, camo's and balaclava on tonight.

Not got any light for the back garden but think I have a torch somewhere!!

Cheers

M

sallywl

Hi, We had this very same problem, and found that oranges help, like u im not a big citrus eater so bought some value oranges and chopped them up and scattered accross the lawn... it worked... i did it every couple of weeks and now dont need too. I hope u find a solution that suits you tho... good luck

CGG

We bought two sonic repeller thingys from B&Q. One for the front gravel and one for the back garden.
They were £30 each, but worth it.
They're battery operated, fixed on a bracket to the wall and have a decent range - the details of which escape me right now, but basically when movement is detected in it's range a high pitched noise scares the cat and it legs it, before it gets chance to do it's business.
We'd tried the orange peel route but it proved useless.