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

arkonite_babe

Gertie, the following threads have been discussed here so you may find some more useful information about a cat deterant

Help! Cats using my grass as a loo

Help stop cats weeing in my yard

Help stop cats going in my garden

Cats!!

Hope these help you. If you want to search for more, when in this forum, just type the word cats into the search bar at the top of the board

gertie

Sofa_Sogood wrote: »

I tried a different way of Googling to traf but we seem to have ended up at the same site somehow

Orange scented essential oils and candles work too apparently

thank you for this will try it and advise

regards
gertie

jasmineswhiskers

Mrs_Optimist wrote: »

Our young cat keeps using our infdoor cheeseplant plant pot as a toilet, he comes in from outside to do it and by god it stinks! How can we deter him without harming him.. Having house viewings regularly at the mo and am terrified that they will be welcomed by an extremely smelly poo in the plant pot when they arrive - most offputting. he has only just strated it, has been pooing on our lawn before that - could it be the cold weather?

My cat did this and I found that putting tin foil over the soil and taping it in place did the trick.

SpudGunner

I am sick of them using my garden as a toilet and dont want my little boy touching it.

Have got a cat deterant alarm thing but still doesnt seem to do the trick.

Am at the end of my tether and cat food spiced with an added ingredient may be the next option. Stop em once and for all.

I dont see why the heck cats are allowed to roam about and poo everywhere, yet dogs dont.

janey_uk

If you feed them you'll definately encourage them to return. If you intentionally give them anything that makes them ill, it's plain cruelty.

You could try speaking to the owner? maybe if they have a paved garden and aren't offering anywhere for it to go then you could ask them to provide a litter tray.

Big_Bird_4

I used to have a terrible problem with cats on my allotment -- they used to poo on my asparagus! :eek: :eek:

Then I started using Silent Roar -- a product based on lion dung. The cats quickly decided it would be safer to move elsewhere.

Dragon_Lady_3

kimevans wrote: »

I have a cat & HE goes in the same spot in OUR garden, its his spot. Mind you hes clever & clean.
It even annoys me when I see neighbours cats pooing in our garden, I've trained mine to go in one spot why should I have their cats going everywhere!! So I can imagine how much in annoys non cat owners.

If mines in the garden he chases them off (see picture - hes big!!). If I catch them I squirt them with the hose or jug of water. Most cats hate water & will hopefully stop coming in.

If I leave doors open now with the warm weather coming I have two local cats that try to sneek in my house, if mine catches them he starts hissing & chasing them, but often hes upstairs fast asleep:rotfl: .
So I'm constantly throwing the water in the hope I can get the message through before summer.

Don't know if the citrus thing is an old wives tale, my boy loves yogurts & he loves the orange & manderine ones best:rolleyes: .

Try a nice cold hose pipe:eek:

How have you managed to train your cat to go in 'his spot' in your garden? We have 2 sixteen week old kittens. Now the weather is warmer I have moved their litter tray outside, hoping they would continue to use it, but they seem to have taken a liking to my neighbours veggie patch :eek:. My neighbour is a lovely elderly man and I don't want to upset him. They also poop in my flower pots, but they are my cats so that's my problem.

Do you think if I tried the Jeyes fluid on top of the fence it would help keep them in my garden?

milkydrink

Dragon_Lady wrote: »

How have you managed to train your cat to go in 'his spot' in your garden? We have 2 sixteen week old kittens. Now the weather is warmer I have moved their litter tray outside, hoping they would continue to use it, but they seem to have taken a liking to my neighbours veggie patch :eek:. My neighbour is a lovely elderly man and I don't want to upset him. They also poop in my flower pots, but they are my cats so that's my problem.

Do you think if I tried the Jeyes fluid on top of the fence it would help keep them in my garden?

He's always used a litter tray & is the cleanest boy in the world.
When we moved here (village) it seemed OK to let him out a little, now as hes always been an indoor cat, he doesn't want to be out all the time or to go far from our garden (mostly he stays in our garden). When he started going out I still provided him with a litter tray, but as he was used to a covered litter tray he liked privacy. He started to spend more time outside so I put his tray out on that spot (sheltered by the trees). Then he started going there himself, he seemed to really like going outside instead of inside & quickly cottoned onto his spot. We've since had the trees removed (lelandi - too big too close to the house), but he knows to go in that spot.

If you tried putting the tray in the spot you want them to use, or take a bit of their poo & put it in that space. I think you got to pick a nice spot, sheltered & with a bit of privacy. I think that's the secret, find somewhere you & THE CATS can agree on.

I'm just lucky with mine, hes clean & clever & seems to know what you want him to do.

sistersis

Hi just wanted to add that last summer I smeared honey on my back gate to stop the cats sqeezing through the gap.
Have to say it made me giggle at the thought of the smelly thing trying to get in to do his twice daily pooh in my garden.
I too have children and my little one is just walking so it is really annoying that these smelly things just come in and do their business when they want.
I think the funny thing was when my neighbout mentioned that it was becoming really hard to brush her little tiddles coat recently. I am sure that I turned purple.............
Just a thought but I think lemon is supposed to work too and will be trying this as I have two bottles of lemon left over from pancake day it was on bogof!

Dragon_Lady_3

Thanks Kimevans,

I think I will put their tray under the Buddlia [sp?] tree at the back of the garden in the corner. That's the path they seem to take to get next door. Up the tree, jump to the fence, then over the top.

Might be that they find it a bit conspicuous using it outside by the back door, in full view. Little darlings :mad: