Detering cats from the garden
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Topic: Detering cats from the garden
Posted By: BeLoved
Subject: Detering cats from the garden
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 8:39am
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Just wondering if anyone has had any success keeping cats out of their yard. My neighbour has 4 - 5 cats and they like to use our garden and garden paths (bark) as the litter box and its starting to really drive me bonkers as it attracts the flies and it just plain stinks! We have a dog but he sleeps inside at night which is when they seem to do their business.
If there is anything you have used/made/bought that has successfully kept them away I would really like to know. Oh and no I am no going to fill bottles with water and place them everywhere on the lawn LOL! TIA |
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Posted By: SquishysMum
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 9:53am
| 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. |
Posted By: Jelly
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 10:28am
You could sit out there with the hose one night... Could be quite fun. See the kitty, spray the kitty, watch the kitty run  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 10:28am
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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
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Posted By: Jaxnz1
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 10:45am
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Posted By: Shezzey
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 11:35am
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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. |
Posted By: RinTinTin
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 11:42am
A dog Um there is a product you can buy called PISS OFF. Honestly thats what it's called. Supposed to keep cats out. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 11:48am
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!
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Kahlia wrote:Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 1:11pm
Tehe, I am liking some of these ideas. We have a similiar problem with cats. The people that lived here before us must have had a few as our place reaked of catfood when we moved in and there was food splattered across the whole yard ------------- 
 
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Posted By: lisa85
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 1:20pm
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You'd probably find a bullet would work quite well.... hehe -------------  
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Posted By: RinTinTin
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 2:03pm
This is also DP's theory... ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: ?Lolly?
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 2:22pm
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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. ------------- Captain Chaos (5) & the Trouble Monsters (2!) 
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Posted By: WRXnKids
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 2:52pm
Haha hmm time to let DP have a party here i think those boys will pee anywhere after a few drinks i just wont let them leave till the whole boundry has been pee'd around
we have 2 cats that seem to hang around which wouldnt bother me expect they crap in the vege garden must be cos ive let the rest of the garden get so hard and clumpy they cant dig in the dirt anymore. -------------   
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Posted By: WRXnKids
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 2:55pm
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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 -------------
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 8:59pm
| My cats use the vege garden....grrrrrr I have elaborate nets over things now but it still irks me! |
Posted By: RBsMama
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 9:14pm
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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)
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Posted By: Richie
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 9:35pm
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Animates pet stores here in CHCH sell a range of products to keep animals off gardens. My neighbour also has several cats and I bought a deterrent spray from Animates and sprayed my garden and they haven't been back since. Can't remember what the spray was called, have used it all so don't have the bottle anymore but it would be worth trying a pet store. I think there are Animates up in Auckland?
My dog has also done a good job of scaring the cats away -------------  
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Posted By: Zaylah
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 9:47pm
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Zaylah
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 9:48pm
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Oh and I love Jelly's suggestion, the way she worded it is awesome. I told DP and he laughed too. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 9:49pm
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! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Shezzey
Date Posted: 17 February 2010 at 11:33pm
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DebsB... bleach is not the same as ammonia |
Posted By: heaf3
Date Posted: 18 February 2010 at 9:01am
not our neighbours cats! they like crapping on our lawn just like a dog......or they go in my garden but they dont bury. they soooo annoy me!!!!! have tried squirting them with water but every time i pick up the hose they are off, even before they have seen me! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: RBsMama
Date Posted: 18 February 2010 at 3:13pm
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DebsB... bleach is not the same as ammonia Whoops, of course it isn't, two completely different chemicals. I'm thinking of the smell I've always associated with bleach/chlorine etc and I've always called it ammonia smelling, so that's probably not a correct description, is it? Anyway, that scent always encouraged my cat to spray in that area I'd cleaned with it, and when I used warm water and white vinegar, he stopped. |
Posted By: Shezzey
Date Posted: 18 February 2010 at 9:07pm
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DebsB... yea I heard that white vinegar is good eliminating cat pee |
Posted By: BeLoved
Date Posted: 18 February 2010 at 9:14pm
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Thanks for all the info girls, I am going to give the pepper idea a go and then might try that spray stuff, they seem to like our path at the moment so I cannot stick stakes etc. in there...if I could I would.
Luckily the courgettes and cucumber have taken over our vege garden so they cannot get in there! |