Cat Repellent

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  • Silvertabby
    Silvertabby Posts: 9,023 Forumite
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    Try used tea bags soaked with olbas oil on bare soil - cats hate the smell and the teabags blend in with the earth.

    Have a plant sprayer filled with water ready to go - a few good squirts should divert their interests elsewhere (only works if you are at home, of course!)
  • Slinky
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    For future reference if anybody else is reading this and wanting to lay shingle, we found that when we had pea shingle put down the cats made a beeline for it. We had it covered with some half inch grade shingle and that sorted the problem, they don't like digging in the bigger stones.
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  • goodwithsaving
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    Slinky wrote: »
    For future reference if anybody else is reading this and wanting to lay shingle, we found that when we had pea shingle put down the cats made a beeline for it. We had it covered with some half inch grade shingle and that sorted the problem, they don't like digging in the bigger stones.


    Mines big shingle. They don't dig, they just go on top and leave it!
  • kerri_gt
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    southcoastrgi wrote: »
    That is poisonous to cats :mad:

    As is anti freeze and many other things, although granted she doesn't put that on her garden.
    goodwithsaving wrote: »
    Mines big shingle. They don't dig, they just go on top and leave it!

    Oh I get a nice combo of both....the number of suspicious looking piles I have toe poked doesn't bear thinking about
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  • adandem
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    Are you certain that it's cats? They are usually very clean animals and rarely leave their poo uncovered.
  • Silvertabby
    Silvertabby Posts: 9,023 Forumite
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    goodwithsaving wrote: »
    Mines big shingle. They don't dig, they just go on top and leave it!


    Are you sure the culprits are cats? They usually like something more diggable, so they can bury their doings.
  • gardner1
    gardner1 Posts: 3,154 Forumite
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    adandem wrote: »
    Are you certain that it's cats? They are usually very clean animals and rarely leave their poo uncovered.

    Well they certainly leave it in my garden......although i have had some success with a pump action supersoaker gun filled with water & white vinegar on a particular tabby cat twice:D
  • goodwithsaving
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    Silvertabby wrote: »
    Are you sure the culprits are cats? They usually like something more diggable, so they can bury their doings.


    Yep, I have seen them do it right in front of me and they don't scare easily either!
  • Slinky
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    goodwithsaving wrote: »
    Mines big shingle. They don't dig, they just go on top and leave it!


    We obviously have a better class of cat in our area.....:rotfl::rotfl:
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  • Silvertabby
    Silvertabby Posts: 9,023 Forumite
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    I can't think what it's called, it but it looks like little blobs of nuclear green jelly and garden centres sell it. A good sniff certainly clears the sinuses - and cats (and dogs) hate the smell.
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