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

daleyd

We had a friend & neighbour who was putting down the gel stuff to stop cats doing their business in her gravel, (I'm not proud to admit that our cat was probably one of the offenders).

Started chatting to her, we agreed yes it's not nice, etc etc nothing personal about our cat etc etc.

Oh how we laughed when our cat sauntered along and sat right next to where she was spreading it. :rotfl: (Never did have much of a sense of smell!)

Steel_2

I have three cats and a newly planted perrenial bed with bark chip mulch, not a great combination. Lost three of the small plants already from a cat thoughtfully peeing over the plants. It appears that the areas where I have pulled back the mulch so the small plants don't get suffocated creates a natural cat bum sized dip.

I tried Growing Success garlic and lemon oil granules. That didn't work.
Tried the pepper. That didn't work.
Tried scaring them with arm waving and water pistols. That didn't work
Tried orange peel. Caught one of the cats on the path next to the bed playing with the long rind.

Finally, have scattered chicken manure pellets over the whole area. Fingers crossed it seems to have worked. I got a huge bucket of the stuff from the garden centre. The plants have also taken off like a rocket with the added injection of nutrients.

AMH999

In response to the person who said you should be responsible for your animals poo I agree to a point. I have a German Shepherd and I ALWAYS clean up wherever I go. However, I also used to have a cat....you CANNOT follow your cat around - by their very nature they go their own way. However, now I don't have a cat and the new neighbours do, I find it very frustrating that it comes into my yard (despite having a GSD) and digs up ALL of my pots.

I HAVE CONQUERED IT!!! My partner has found some chicken wire in the shed and covered the tops of all the pots, just cutting around the shrubs or plants and the cat is no longer able to dig up the soil! Genius! Obviously you can't apply it to a garden, but you could apply to small areas using tent pegs.

Hope it helps!

Belper25

Hey Guys,
A few folk have mentioned this one, so I thought I would share my experiences!
It's an environmentally friendly option as well - which I don't think the Jeye's Fluid is.
All you need is a tea drinker, some Olbas Oil and a spare jam jar.
When you finish your cup of tea, squeeze excess water out of the tea bag (or leaves if you use them), then empty the leaves into the jam jar.
When the jar is about half full, add about 10 drops of Olbas Oil and put the lid on the jar.
Keep adding the tea leaves.
Add more Olbas Oil when your jar is full.

Now you just sprinkle the leaves over the areas where:
the cats come in to your garden
the cats poo in your garden

And you can keep going with your next jar of leaves!

This also works for foxes and dogs.

I have a cat myself and this works on wooden furniture in the house. Best way to test if your own cat is susceptible to the oil is to open a bottle of the oil in the same room and see whether it scats!

The silent roar often works - but the oil and tea leaves is a cheaper option!

(And you can also use Olbas Oil to get paint of your hands and clean paint brushes - more bangs for your buck!)

All the best,

Matthew

emmaroids

percyplant wrote: »

I've had advised only this morning that the best way to get rid of male cats in your garden is to get your husband or another grown up man to pee in a bottle. you then have to sprinkle it over your paths and places where the cats like to go (dont pour it over your flowers) personally, I think this sounds disgusting but the person who told me this is adamant that this works.

just dont leave it lieing around cos someone may think its apple juice :rotfl:

helen_l_winter

Hi, you could try a product called Roar Off - it is pelleted lion dung. The cats smell it and avoid the area thinking there is a much bigger feline in the area. Works with my little darling, as he has a habit of going right in the middle of my seed beds. Can also be effective against deer and rabbits to a lesser degree.

I found the motion sensors didn't work. Cats are intelligent creatures they soon learn what the sensor does and what it looks like. SO even if you move it around the garden they will walk round the back of it to avoid getting wet.

charkai

I have a small gravelled area outside my front door that the neighbours cat was using as a litter tray. I tried three different things:
Lemon peel - no effect

Carpet Gripper hidden under the gravel... I know it's naughty but if it parked it's bottom down it would of got a spike where it hurt!! - this just made the cat move further down the gravel!

Diluted Jeyes Fluid - this actually did the trick! Almost a year later and no more 'lovely' presents outside my door every morning.

lynedoch

White vinegar is more expensive than ordinary brown vinegar but dribble it around and cats will sniff once and leave. Use it in dry weather every second day and then every five days.
Not hard and fast rules just watch the cats!

Little_Weeble

fizzystutter wrote: »

A bucket of water used to work for my parents, but at our house we have a black whippet who just loves to spook cats. When I say spook I mean scare, and when I say scare I mean......... you get the picture.

Needless to say we don't have any of the feline variety in our garden.

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This made me laugh....I guess there are some people who want to keep their parents away and I guess a bucket of water would do the trick, lol .

I know what this says really, but I couldn't resist :rotfl:

Lakeballs

Does anyone have any reliable remedies for deterring squirrels from your garden. In particular from regularly attacking my bird feeders (nuts and seed). I have a so-called "squirrel-resistant" feeder, but they have managed to bite through the metal weld and now scare the birds away.

Any suggestions?