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The Dead Forest - Deployed to deter pooping cats

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  • twopenny
    twopenny Posts: 7,701 Forumite
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    edited 10 April 2021 at 5:48PM
    Just bought 2 from Lidls @ 9.99 after recommendations from neighbours. They said the Lidl one was working better than the others.
    Neighbours cat gave me a look of respect today after first encountering it at my door.
    The other is going on the top of my car so I can park it off the slope (to stop the cat getting on the roof) or in the garage when the door is open.
    You may find that a little high depending on the range of the motion sensor.
    Game show idea could be a goer. People watch mostly cats on YouTube. Start your own channel to pay for the gadgets :)

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  • Oh, I have been there! Our neighbors had two cats who constantly used our garden as a latrine and we would run them out of the garden if we caught them. They got a dog and one cat, in particular, went a bit mad so I had to start being nice to it and it lived under our bushes for several years being called to get fed still using our garden as its litter tray.
    They both died so did the dog and they got a rabbit, huge sigh of releif I start growing crops in the areas that have not been contaminated, then they get two more cats and bunny dies :'(they have already soiled my crop growing area so I don't know whether to try for another year. It's so sad I am an animal lover but to have your garden used daily as a latrine, not be able to use your garden in the way that you want because of other people, and to have to put up with the stench of excrement whilst sitting out there is just not right. If I got a pet eagle owl and exercised it regularly in our garden (they will kill cats and small dogs) I bet I would soon get complaints but it is socially acceptable for next doors cats to render our garden unusable!
  • shykins
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    we had a particular area of our garden being used as a cats toilet.   we put a load of garden hoops around, still they managed to use it, bamboo canes... no difference,  wood, tree branches etc etc .   I  tried everything but somehow they managed to still get round it.  grrr

    so when i trimmed my pyracantha I  laid big pieces of it down on the area and voila........ no more cats mess !!!  yaaay

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  • quirkydeptless
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    edited 8 May 2021 at 9:31AM
    I am pleased to report that the defences have held up, and so I can enjoy the visits of the local cats without having to clear up their mess.
    I spied this little beauty in mid poop a while back, but she soils there no more.
    Likes:
    1. Sitting on the wall watching the world go by. And by world, that means the birds
    2. Getting an occassional blast of warmth from the central heating vent
    3. Meowing until someone lets her in for food. I have so far resisted. My neighbours cracked some months ago. They are her servants now
    4. Pooping in my flower bed

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  • twopenny
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    Oh that's a face to enchant into getting what she wants!
    Just to report, those deterent ones seem to be working. Said cat did walk past when first put there and showed no signs of being discomforted but when let out again did not go past. About to buy a third as I found cat poop in my back garden. I'm guessing it was when I left the gate open while I went elsewhere. So one for there.
    I turn them off when the cats aren't out and at night because I don't want them detering my hedgehogs.

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  • quirkydeptless
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    edited 16 May 2021 at 8:02AM
    Under the protection of  WALL·E, the green chaos rises!



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  • Farway
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    It would be lovely if WALL.E was real, a quick laser zap on cat bums would deter I'm sure >:)
    Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens
  • quirkydeptless
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    Farway said:
    It would be lovely if WALL.E was real, a quick laser zap on cat bums would deter I'm sure >:)
    Oh WALL·E is armed, with flashing and sonic weapons B)


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  • cymruchris
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    I use a PIR activated water sprayer connected to my hose pipe - worked a treat - no harm done - but they don't half jump when they get squirted with cold water, and they soon get the message to avoid the garden completely. They're about £30 on that big website beginning with A. 
  • quirkydeptless
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    edited 8 June 2021 at 9:44AM
    Well the dead forest wasn't the complete solution. After WALL·E was installed, there wasn't a poop in sight, so he was a success!

    The green chaos rewilding is in force. No use of plantist terms like w**d in my garden, they are all wild flowers to me  :)

    I still see cats visit but they just sit there and give me that look.


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