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Deterrent for Cats in the garden

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AMLinington

AMLinington

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Horse poo works an absolute treat :cool:

 

And it's good for the garden too!

 

I've heard that Cats hate citrus peel but my cat doesn't seem to be bothered by it at all. That being said, I have some baby Lemon trees struggling to survive in our climate and I can't say that I've ever seen him anywhere near them... He does like to mutilate the garlic we have growing in the veg patch though... He's a smelly little turd!

Sunnyknight

Sunnyknight

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I hope this was a joke - giving poison to someone's beloved pet and letting it die in agony is a horrible thing to do. Far better to scare it than to hurt it surely?

 

As a Cat lover and owner of a cat, I no longer have the issue of cats using my garden as a toilet (when we bought the house it was disgusting) although my OWN cat likes to turd on the lawn...

 

There are plenty of ways to discourage this - spraying with water is a totally fine and harmless deterrent but you might not always be there. Short of buying motion activated sprinkler systems plenty of garden centres sell cat and dog repellents that won't cause the offending animal to die in agony! Someone joked about Lion Poo but there is in fact a product our local garden centre sells that is impregnated with the scent of Lion dung. Take a trip to a proper garden centre and take your pick from a wide range of repellents.

 

I had an issue where dogs would poo on my driveway - the problem with this is that dogs smelled the leavings of other dogs and used the area accordingly - the only way to fix this was to eradicate the scent markers which I did with a healthy dose of Jeyes fluid and bleach. Funnily enough I've not had any poo on the driveway since.

 

You'd call someones partner a pet?! :eek: Now that's horrible. Not even horrible, that's wrong.

 

As for a joke, of course it was. I would NEVER mean it honestly, honestly i wouldn't. I wouldn't... ​or would i?

6Foot2

6Foot2

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I know someone who advocates pepper or chilli powder as their solution but that seems a little harsh/cruel [this from someone who is not a particular fan of cats]

 

Also I think that its effectiveness would be lost after rain?

TronXP

TronXP

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I know someone who advocates pepper or chilli powder as their solution but that seems a little harsh/cruel [this from someone who is not a particular fan of cats]

 

Also I think that its effectiveness would be lost after rain?

 

You mix chilli powder with water and put it into a super soaker, then you spray the cat, it runs off. When its safe it decides to clean itself and then it gets the suprise.....

witch

witch

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NOTICE:- @witch is urging me on.

 

Anything said / done / seen / heard from this point on, is her fault. lol

 

Actually, I was pointing out that your efforts at trolling have been largely pathetic - but you believe whatever you want to....:)

AMLinington

AMLinington

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I know someone who advocates pepper or chilli powder as their solution but that seems a little harsh/cruel [this from someone who is not a particular fan of cats]

 

Also I think that its effectiveness would be lost after rain?

 

I don't think it's harsh or cruel to use a naturally occurring deterrent on a cat - if the pepper or chilli irritates their nose then they learn to keep away. I don't think that's a bad thing tbh. Just like it's not harsh or cruel to soak a cat that is turding on your lawn (as long as it's not the middle of winter as they could end up with hypothermia).

 

I don't think nerf gunning them is a bad either either - as long as its not close range. The only drawback to this is that the projectiles are likely to end up as cat toys - they do in our house: When LeBoyfriend and our Nephew start a Nerf fight Enzo is always the winner with the most chewed and shredded Nerf darts... BB and air guns are a no no though.

 

Or if you have a stupid cat like mine who seems to enjoy chilli.... It's not just the Garlic plants he has a fetish for - he chews the budlea, my Acer, the Chilli plant in the kitchen, the grass... I've caught him with his head in our Chilli con carne before now.

Sunnyknight

Sunnyknight

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Actually, I was pointing out that your efforts at trolling have been largely pathetic - but you believe whatever you want to....:)

 

Will do :D

 

Sorted:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/TM-46_AP-mine.JPEG/350px-TM-46_AP-mine.JPEG

 

+1!!

mole

mole

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Find out whos cat(s) it is, then save up a months worth of the crap and then deposit it all over their garden in one go.
featured_spectre

featured_spectre

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Do you have your own cat? If so, get the cat to use the litter tray for a week and remove the poo only...take the litter tray and spread it around the garden, it is like a concentrated form of cat spray so it will be marked as another cats territory and they will not use it.

 

If that does not work, then use an ultrasonic device, works a charm.

CAM

CAM

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I had a cat who used to eat curry. He would take a bite, flick his head and decide "Oooh I like this!" and take another bite. Repeat. :D

 

Not sure I'd recommend using it in a spray though. Water alone tends to be sufficient deterrent to cats and used in training. Chilli spray risks getting into the eyes or backside of the animal and causing it distress. Not sure if diluting your own urine might work on cats, worth a shot (no not to spray! >.< ). You dilute it enough so you cannot smell it but animals can and they stay away, my grandfather used it on his allotment for keeping foxes away by watering the boundary (though cats are domesticated so might not work as they are accustomed to human smells). Failing that, you can buy chemical mixtures that contain traces of wild animal urine to pour on your boundary to keep pests away and make them think they are walking into a wolf pack's territory or something equally nasty.

 

It's gross but a natural remedy. :)

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tmcd35

tmcd35

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I know someone who advocates pepper or chilli powder as their solution but that seems a little harsh/cruel [this from someone who is not a particular fan of cats]

 

My mum used to put pepper down the garden path when I was a nipper to ward off the neighbourhood strays...

 

A dog?

 

She now has two dogs, which seems to be working better. Me, I have a first floor flat so Cats are not a problem :D but if they were I'd go for...

 

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/TM-46_AP-mine.JPEG/350px-TM-46_AP-mine.JPEG

 

Another +1 ;)

sonofsanta

sonofsanta

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I've also heard egg shells can be useful for keeping cats out - they don't like walking over them.

 

Though I suspect that a few good months of rain (for example: summer) might bury them in the soil and diminish the effect.

forrager

forrager

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I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good deterrent for cats in the garden. My garden has become a s*****g ground for the 8 cats in the area and oh, a making love place too. Not somehting i really want to see on a monday when ive just got up.

 

I had the same problem and whilst I had thought of employing many of the earlier suggestions, I gave this a go...

 

http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~156163~Defenders-Cat-and-Dog-Repellent-Scatter-Granules

 

Whilst I may have exceeded the recommended 'scatter' (even i did not like the smell) I do not regret it.

 

Cats don't even seem to come 'through' the garden anymore. A couple of quid well spent!

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Gatt

Gatt

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We had an issue with cats for a while

We found that white pepper powder was the best deterrent

 

Then we found an better deterrent

 

We bought a cat!

 

Suddenly other cats were not quite as interested in our garden once our new deterrent started telling them to meow-off!

le4ne

le4ne

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We had an issue with cats for a while

We bought a cat!

Suddenly other cats were not quite as interested in our garden once our new deterrent started telling them to meow-off!

 

Likewise... we got a dog.

That seemed to do the trick! lol

tech_guy

tech_guy

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After considering catching all the cats that used to come and crap in our garden and then taking them to the local cat rehoming charity claiming they were strays, we settled on four of these based on the high number of positive reviews:

 

STV610 MEGA SONIC REPELLER - AMAZON

 

We no longer have cats in our garden but you do need to make sure the batteries haven't run out as they moment they do the cats return to pumping the brown stuff in to your flower beds. Gone up in price by the looks of it as we paid £14.99 each a few months back.

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alan-d

alan-d

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I have 2 (Old) cats and 2 (Young) Patterdale Terriers. It's fun to watch neighboring cats entering the garden thinking they can better our elderly cats only to find 2 Terriers bearing down on them at a rapid rate :-)

 

It's like watching a Tom and Jerry rip off! :-)

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