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

Jonjulie

Only cure for cats in your garden.....a Big Dog.

lynseydee

My husband used to run out as soon as he saw them come into the garden but then he bought some of those devizes that let of a high piercing sound that scares them away. Trouble is he insists on having the pitch full blast but it has worked :j

amyandoli

plant 'Coleus Canina' where they like to go. grrr cats. It's small, got blue flowers and is quite pretty. Touch it and youre fingers will stink!

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, Mark, no probs! We all have to start somewhere.

A previous thread is here - Help needed - stop cats weeing in my yard.


Another interesting one here - ROAR cat repellent.

Penny. x

Kay_Peel

The Pee-Off Plant for a Cat Free Garden.

That's the title of a 'Reader Offer' in todays Independent.

'Coleus Canina, or the pee-off plant, is an attractive foliage plant which also has a smell abhorrent to cats.'

3 plants - 6.95 including p&p
9 for 15.85
18 for 29.70


www.independentoffers.co.uk it says, but I can't find the product there.

Kay

tattooedhoney

When I moved into my house I went away on holiday and my parents had removed the grass ( to make it easier to look after for me) and replaced it with lots of white gravel! Not so bad but I was sure I had mentioned the lady next door (in my row of terraced cottages) owned 10 cats ( and a new litter of kittens)!
They were in heaven - a huge outdoor litter tray :mad:
As other have mentioned the lady next door said I should shoot them with a water pistol. I tried the get off green gel thing ( but it dries out in the summer) The water bottles ( empty coke bottles half full of water ) seem to have worked.
Also holly twigs placed on flower/vegetables beds keeps them off freshly raked soil.
I kept the water bottles on for some time them have slowly got rid of them and I think they remember and stay away :j ... and over the years the cats have died.... ( of natural causes )
Good luck

nodwah

someone mentioned olbas oil, and I found this worked: I soaked tea bags in olbas oil and then buried them just underneath the surface of the favourite cat toilet and it really seemed to keep the cats away - useful for when you've just sowed seeds.

taplady

We have the same probem with our front garden lawn, its covered in cat poo:mad: they dont dare go round the back as we've got 3 dogs but we cant let them in the front gardenas its not secure. I will try having the hose ready for them but I dont often see them in the garden, just the horrible results!

stamford

Mark_petty wrote: »

Hi

I am getting well and truely annoyed with cats pooping in my garden. I wouldn't be so annoyed but my little boy likes digging in the garden and its not nice for him to be scooping up cat sh*t.
I have to keep going out there and picking it up. I must have got 2 carrier bags full in the last month.

Does anyone have any idea's about stopping it? apart from getting my own cat or dog.

Many thanks

Mark

One of these would solve the problem

Lord_Gardener

amyandoli wrote: »

plant 'Coleus Canina' where they like to go. grrr cats. It's small, got blue flowers and is quite pretty. Touch it and youre fingers will stink!

Ah yes, the Scardy Cat Plant! It does deter a lot of cats plant on their normal runs into your garden and it should help along with a water pistol! NB These plants are not hardy and need protection from the frost/winter.