Deterring cats

[Rollin]

Neighbour has got a new cat. We were just getting used to the returning bird life and lack of st and puke in our garden after the sad passing of their previous one last year. Garden is silent again now.

I am allergic to them and gardening where they have been hanging around, pissing, stting and puking up triggers my asthma. It will also just wander in any open door in the house.

I've tried those noise emitting deterrents before without much success.
Has anyone had any success with other methods recently?

[Warhavernet]

Jeez, is it International Be Miserable Day ?

Cats are cool.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Big FO dog
Netting round the garden
Motion activated squirter
Buy one of these.

[Simon_GH]

Strong smells - I know some9ne who was very successful with a big tub of curry powder.

[Philvrs]

Motion activated sprinkler worked for my mums garden, pointed at the fence where they enter/exit.
I need to borrow it again too

[p4cks]

Lidl are selling pet repellant things that push into the ground. Get two of these, they’re great and it’ll train the cat/s to not walk across that area

[SlimJim16v]

Lion st

[Murph7355]

Get a bigger cat.

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

We have a cat that spends a lot of time in our garden. And until the sad passing of one of our cats, we had two who both patrolled our garden constantly.

The garden has always been teeming with birds, hedgehogs, foxes, bats, dragonflies, damselflies, newts, frogs and probably loads of other things I m not aware of.

One cat isn t the reason for wildlife not being attracted to your garden.

When did your neighbour get their new cat? If it s in the last couple of months or so, then the reduction in birdsong has nothing to do with the cat. The most vocal of songbirds (in particular blackbirds, robins and wrens) all dramatically reduce their song after the initial surge in early to mid spring. Summer is much quieter, because many species have finished competing for territory and finding a mate.

Edited by Dr Mike Oxgreen on Thursday 31st July 21:04

[Simpo Two]

Rollin said:

Neighbour has got a new cat. We were just getting used to the returning bird life and lack of st and puke in our garden after the sad passing of their previous one last year. Garden is silent again now.

I am allergic to them and gardening where they have been hanging around, pissing, stting and puking up triggers my asthma. It will also just wander in any open door in the house.

I've tried those noise emitting deterrents before without much success.
Has anyone had any success with other methods recently?

A few rational facts...

I have a cat and there's no shortage of birdlife, in fact the bloody magpies wake me up every morning at stupid o'clock.

A few bits of grass in 1cc of saliva is hardly armageddon. Pigeons sit in my trees and make a pile of st 8" across.

You are not going to have an asthma attack if there's a cat in your garden.

Wandering in... well you'll just have to shoo it out. Worse things happen at sea and nobody's died.

[ChocolateFrog]

I flick the st back over the fence.

Haven't found anything humane that works as a deterrent.

A GSD certainly doesn't work despite his best efforts.

[Lefty]

[hidetheelephants]

Philvrs said:

Motion activated sprinkler worked for my mums garden, pointed at the fence where they enter/exit.
I need to borrow it again too

Water pistols/supersoakers too if you can live with looking like a wally. Cats don't like getting wet.

[Oberheim]

Rollin said:

…after the sad passing of their previous one last year

[Oberheim]

Warhavernet said:

Cats are cool.

Nah, they’re a PITA. I prefer garden birds and pussy patty-free gardens.

[Countdown]

Simon_GH said:

Strong smells - I know some9ne who was very successful with a big tub of curry powder.

We did that - it worked.

Just to clarify we used chilli powder mixed with black pepper

[Wilco500]

Our new neighbour bought a bottle of champagne round to say thanks that our two cats had cleared up his eternal mice issue! He’s allergic too but they don’t go anywhere near him.

[TX1]

My brother just been through this, bought a new place which has a terrace, cat was jumping from next door into his terrace and crapping in his big garden planters daily which are at the moment are empty apart from the soil, bought a couple of the Ultrasonic Cat Deterrent's, put them down on Monday, cat came back the day after but not since so cat/crap free for three days.
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0F83JB3ZW?ref=ppx_yo2ov_...

[hidetheelephants]

buffmoto said:

Motion-activated sprinklers. They re not cheap, but way more effective than the ultrasonic things. Cats hate getting wet. Also, scatter citrus peels in your garden beds (lemon/orange). Most cats won t go near the smell

£30 seems pretty cheap to me, I thought they were much more than that.

[PurpleFox]

OK I know I am going to get totally flamed for this but I tried some of the usual stuff (lemon peel, lions piss etc), neighbour backing onto next door had 9 cats, nothing worked so got an electric fence from screwfix. A stake mounted one with associated insulators etc.

Powered from a leisure battery which I charged every couple of weeks. Discreetly ran the boundary wire against the walls on my side so if the cats jumped down, they would brush past it. They could safely walk along the walls but dropping down into the garden got 4000 volts.

I tried it a few times, not pleasant but certainly not harmful. Did the job and we were cat st free within weeks. Decommissioned it after 6 months or so as I rarely saw cats after that.