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

BB78

cjb02 wrote: »

I have just bought 6 Coleus canina - "Pee-Off" plants from ebay in a bid to deter cats using my garden.

this is the first time I have bought such plants so I dont know if they will work or not.

I bought about 10 of these plants last year... didn't do a damn thing!! Also they aren't hardy so don't plant them in the garden or you'll lose them all in the first frost. They do produce a nice looking purple flower though. If you got them plant them in containers & move them at the end of the summer or they are really easy to take cuttings from to re-grow new plants in the next season.

BB78

6046stuart wrote: »

While were on the subject of pests in the garden does anyone really know how to stop squirrels digging up all your bulbs and plants? Weve tried the wet tea bag thing, albasol, windchimes and have all pebbles round all our plants that are potted but they still seem to love our garden.:eek:

There aren't many ways of stopping squirrals getting your bulbs, you could try planting them & placing chicken wire over the top; the bulbs should grow through but my squirrals seem to be pretty clever at digging past & around the wire! My other suggestion is either feed them nuts so they aren't interested in your bulbs, but then you have the problem of them burying the nuts everywhere! Lol! or buy bulbs from the Poundshop & plant LOADS, hopefully some will start growing before the squirrals get them!!

aceades

some unhygienic women in my close has at least 7 cats / kittens that keep multiplying ( and she keeps them all), they are getting on everyone’s nerves in the close, there are a couple of other cat owners in the close too so its hard to tell exactly whose cats are doing the damage, they don’t go in the back as my 2 staffs would make sure they never left again but the front is a nightmare, usually about 3 cats sat on my car and scratching it as they move, and the front grass is covered in crap, every time I mow the lawn I get a patch of !!!!!! every 5 or so paces that stinks, I even puked on the lawn with the foul waft of one yesterday and they have dug up and crapped all in the newly laid flower bed and pots my partner has just put in, one was so disgusting right in a new pot on the path outside our front door its was runny and dripped off the side of the pot into a puddle on my path, lovely. I cant imagine what the disgusting women’s house is like but I feel sorry for the neighbours who have small children and cant use their gardens at all, it is a nightmare and with the summer coming people want to use their gardens so some thing will have to give.

I am going to try lion manure and shooting the little pests with a water pistol, though I have been told using human urine is more effective, I just don’t want my garden to smell of that, I think I should report the women to the rspca really and she just keeps letting the cats breed and they are not fed well you can tell due to the multiple neon coloured excretion that they produce. Yesterday when I was stood about 2 yards from my door, a cat walked into my door way and started climbing my stairs! , I should have locked it in and let it out the back with my dogs to teach it a lesson, I can’t believe it entered my house.

The neighbours have even offered to pay to have all her cats neutered but she didn’t want them to , every time she opens her front door about 3 cats run in and another 5 run out, they dig up the neighbours lawns completely, she has about 20 black bags of crap in her garden stinking, the neighbours garden furniture was covered in crap and cat hair with 3 days of buying it to the point it was unusable and the other neighbours can only use about ½ their garden due to the amount of !!!!!! and they even have a dog !

I think we should collate the crap from all 20 houses that these cats are causing trouble for in a big wheelie bin and deliver it to her, people like this should be banned from having animals

Sorry for the rant but this is a particularly bad situation and I have been angered this morning by they dug out plants I bought yesterday and the green turd in the centre of my flowerbed on the head of one of the new ornate fairies I put in and the fact there are yellow streaks which stink so badly even scattered across my front lawn, if I was any more angry I would throttle the cat my self, I am seriously considering fencing of my front garden and letting the dogs patrol the whole house.

and to the idiotic person on the thread that said it fine for cats to crap in other peoples garden, i hope your neighbours dump all your cats crap on your garden and path and i hope they smear it to release the full smell and that it is done so regularly that the unpleasent toxins affect your healtha dn you finally realise what a disgusting creature the cat is when not domesticated properly and teh same for the owner !

I will let you know how the lion manure goes !

Geoffo_M

aceades wrote: »

I am going to try lion manure and shooting the little pests with a water pistol

I've tried the lion manure - didn't work at all so don't waste your money. There would be a certain satisfaction in using the water pistol, but mine always appears before I get up in the morning. I share your anger.

ali117

Please help as my husband is fed up with my cat wetting and pooing on the grass and flowerbeds. There are big round dead grass patches were the cat is keeping wetting and then on stoned areas is were the cat likes to go and poo! Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Jack's_mummy

If you see it going to do it then chuck some water at it. It's the only thing that really helps and I've tried pretty much everything else

sandraroffey

jeyes fluid is pretty good. cats hate it and it does say on the tin not to clean out cat houses with it cos t keeps them away. i use the containers from chinese take outs, the foil ones, and leave it in strategic places all over the garden. works for me.xx

failing that, the water method afore mentioned is very satisfying xx

as an after thought, my mum and my nan used to put pepper down.

dirtyflannel

Shoot it lmao someone told me oranges and clear pop bottles filled with water keep cats away but looks a bit naff.

Jack's_mummy

dirtyflannel wrote: »

Shoot it lmao someone told me oranges and clear pop bottles filled with water keep cats away but looks a bit naff.

And has no effect on the moggies round here

arkonite_babe

We have a thread similar to this already, I'll add your query to it so all the replies are together. Posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to catch up