Cat deterrent

helcat26

"Get off my lawn" green gel like crystals work well. Smell of citronella. You can buy them at home or cheaper on ebay. An application last about 2 weeks dependant on rain or mowing

Spendless

I read an article about deterring cats recently. It said no one thing worked for everyone but suggested making the garden somewhere that cats consider unsafe to them. I can't remember all the suggestions, but things like planting shrubs etc at likely entry points that cats dislike, water sprinklers that come on every so often. I can't remember all of the suggestions.

GwylimT

toffeentom wrote: »

Sorry lawned garden.

Why can't the suggestions be used on grass?

cats2012

I have the high pitched cat scarers and they work great. Guessing it depends on that cat but we used to have muliple cats visiting per day and now have a deposit maybe once every 2 months

Andrew_Ryan_89

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5463704

m1kjm

For me the solution was to weed around the base of a tree outside my house and liberally apply woodchip creating a moggy public convenience so my garden is now completely cat poo free. My suggestion would be to identify an area you could sacrifice to create a cat loo, preferably not even on your own property, like I have!

TBagpuss

I've found that prodicts such as 'get of my garden' are fiarly effecitve but they take a little time - ideally, you would remove all the deposits you can find, then use the product liberally.

Some are citrus scented, and others garlicky - as it sounds as though you've got more than one visiting cat I'd suggest using a combination of the two.

Making one area more appealing may well reduce the mess elsewhere - is there somewhere at the bottom of the garden you could sacrifice?

Finally - how certain are you that it is cats? Foxes can also make a lot of mess, and they don't bury it.

A sprinkler (or a pump-action water pistol, if you have a good aim and a free afternoon) will also be discouraging for them.

Silvertabby

Rob - I'm not going to copy your last comment in the hope that it gets deleted and that's the end of it. Rest assured that I've reported your sick comment.

You may feel that poisoning cats and condemning them to die a horrible painful death is just punishment for soiling your garden - but what if one of your children or their friends also ate the poisoned food? Remember that toddlers can and do eat odd things!

snowscreamer

Rob - that is horrendous. You do know that your suggestion wouldn't deter cats but would kill them? Shame on you. Nothing wrong with deterring unwanted visitors - everything wrong with deliberately killing a neighbour's much-loved pet.

baby_lemonade

I see the professional offence takers are onto Rob now, lol.