How to stop a cat pooing in our flower border
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Turning to this section of PH for some serious advice please as neither my Mum nor I are remotely animal people, so we don't have a clue.
A neighbourhood cat has taken to crapping on the border right next to Mum's front door, making no attempt to bury the offering which, to put it frankly, stinks.
Mum's tried the usual stuff... garlic tablets from B&Q, orange peel etc etc but to no avail.... it's as if the cat has no sense of smell.
Now before I nuke it from orbit, is there a time honoured way of dealing with this?
A neighbourhood cat has taken to crapping on the border right next to Mum's front door, making no attempt to bury the offering which, to put it frankly, stinks.
Mum's tried the usual stuff... garlic tablets from B&Q, orange peel etc etc but to no avail.... it's as if the cat has no sense of smell.
Now before I nuke it from orbit, is there a time honoured way of dealing with this?
various plants from the garden centre (cant remember the names at mo)
gel from garden centres and DIY shops
garden centres and DIY shops occasionally sell lion or tiger poop,
this is supposed to have an effect also (bigger cat)
2 litre pop bottle full of water in verge, image is meant to scare them
single cut out cat shapes on string
how can you tell we are having issues with four of the little darlings
i have tried all the above with varying effect
one of the visitors would make a lovely pair of gloves - nice markings
debating whether to pay £15 to £20 for an electric gizmo to ward them off
with a built in sensor (ebay & amazon)
Ho Hum
gel from garden centres and DIY shops
garden centres and DIY shops occasionally sell lion or tiger poop,
this is supposed to have an effect also (bigger cat)
2 litre pop bottle full of water in verge, image is meant to scare them
single cut out cat shapes on string
how can you tell we are having issues with four of the little darlings
i have tried all the above with varying effect
one of the visitors would make a lovely pair of gloves - nice markings
debating whether to pay £15 to £20 for an electric gizmo to ward them off
with a built in sensor (ebay & amazon)
Ho Hum
There's an ultrasonic pest repeller which is battery powered with a movement sensor but if it's by the front door, will be going every time someone passes by so the battery will run down quicker. Humans can't hear it (obviously) but cats, dogs and even foxes don't like it. Robert Dyas sell them.
Recently, we used chicken wire over the flower bed whilst the plants were establishing.
HTH
Recently, we used chicken wire over the flower bed whilst the plants were establishing.
HTH
chalky123 said:
Shoot it.
Willingly... can't stand the creatures and the weird people that live with them.However shooting it would probably infringe on its feline rights or something and I've got better things to do than jailtime lol
Worringly we've tried all the suggestions so far and they've not worked... the cat seems to have no sense of smell and appears to relish the thought of having its back doors kicked in by a lion lol
S1_RS said:
Lion pooh.
Whilst I understand the mechanism I've always found this idea slightly amusing - the cure for cat s
t is to cover the area you want to keep cat st free in large amounts of big cat st! (yeah I know, but you see what I mean 
)K50 - if the cat really is impervious to all other means then the above mentioned water pistol will work eventually. If you can manage to squirt it whilst it's doing it's business then all the better, in fact I would be surprised if it persists more than a few times if this was the case.
I had this same problem - neighbour's cats kept pooing in my flowerbed.
I tried Silent Roar, but it only seemed to work until the first time it rains, and also you have to completely get rid of the smell of the existing cat poo first otherwise they'll smell it and keep coming back.
I put green chicken wire down to stop them digging down, they went a few times on top of it but then started digging holes in my lawn and pooing there.
Last Autumn after I pruned my roses (and this February too) I put the rose clippings down all over the lawn, this seemed to deter them long enough for the residual smell to go away and they've learnt not to tread on the lawn!
I tried Silent Roar, but it only seemed to work until the first time it rains, and also you have to completely get rid of the smell of the existing cat poo first otherwise they'll smell it and keep coming back.
I put green chicken wire down to stop them digging down, they went a few times on top of it but then started digging holes in my lawn and pooing there.
Last Autumn after I pruned my roses (and this February too) I put the rose clippings down all over the lawn, this seemed to deter them long enough for the residual smell to go away and they've learnt not to tread on the lawn!
I'm a cat lover and had the same trouble, tried everything you mentioned and a bit more, all I managed to do was move it's crapping around, very annoying.
Someone else took care of it though, must have been pissing other people off too, can't say how as it's very wrong.
Best way is to make it think of your garden as not it's toilet, is to feed the bugger and hope it associates your garden as home and goes elsewhere to crap.
Someone else took care of it though, must have been pissing other people off too, can't say how as it's very wrong.
Best way is to make it think of your garden as not it's toilet, is to feed the bugger and hope it associates your garden as home and goes elsewhere to crap.
BuzzLightyear said:
Recently, we used chicken wire over the flower bed whilst the plants were establishing.
HTH
I've put chicken wire over all of our flower beds now, as we had two cats piling them up with crap. The very next day, having nowhere else to go, one of them laid a massive crap right on our doorstep! Since then there's been nothing though.HTH
Now if I can figure out a way to stop them sleeping on top of my convertible, the war will be won.
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