Detering cats from the garden

Sticks sticking up in the garden (like skewers with the pointy end up) are meant to deter them from there, but you can't do that on your paths! Sorry, no other ideas.

fine white pepper or cayenne pepper. just sprinkle on top. (most) cats hate it lol. other than that not much i can think of.... inside the house on the other hand, tin foil - they hate that aswell lol. but might look a bit funny covering your garden in tin foil

good luck!

I think a cat always goes to the place where it can smell its own urine, faeces etc... maybe if you remove and bleach the area to eliminate the smell they wont go back. 

Then, if you can bear it....put the old poos (with a shovel) in a shallow box with sand and place close to the neighbours boundary/wall/area, they will go there because it is where their smell is.

Kahlia wrote: fine white pepper or cayenne pepper. just sprinkle on top. (most) cats hate it lol.

I remember trying to find solutions for cats once and came across a lot of mention of cayenne pepper. Apparently there is controversy with using something like this because it can actually harm the cat.. it is painful for them to get it in their eyes and into their nasal passage when they inhale it .. and as much as I don't want other cats going to the toilet at my house, I don't want to be resonsible for hurting them in any way either .

Apparently cats hate citrus, so orange and lemon peel sprinkled in various areas?

Someone also told me once to get my husband to pee in all corners of the section where the cats usually enter as the smell can deter them (haven't convinced him to do that though) haha.

So far, water pistol with a bit of lemon juice was the best suggestion I was given. But yeah, you have to be quick!

You'd probably find a bullet would work quite well.... hehe

cayenne pepper is a good idea, I might try that because my two cats seem to like to use the dirt by the gate as a toilet. The dog only chases the neighbors pests so mine still do what ever they want.

oh and they must be determined cats Heidismum my parents have 3 cats that they own and since they barked the garden the cats have been using other gardens to toilet in which wasnt mums intention when they put down the bark just a bonus

Don't use bleach, as the ammonia smells like pee to them and will just encourage them to spray their own scent. Maybe get your own cat??? (not sure if that's an option)

if they are climbing on top of a fence to get on your property, put sticky tape on the top ledge of the fence (sticky side up).
They hate to get their paws stuck on the tape so they will only attempt a couple times before hopefully they don't bother doing it anymore.
I know a cat trainer who tells this to her owners of pedigree cats that they want to stay on their property so they don't get taken/lost/etc.

You might get some funny questions from any neighbours seeing you put it on the fence though!

Anyone who sees me out twisting the pepper grinder over the paths at the front of our place must think I'm mad, but it seems to work. It has stopped some filthy cat from sh*tting on our doorstep, but now it just goes in random places on the concrete - aren't cats supposed to dig and bury!