[Maudi]

here we go again...i spend the day planting flowers n bulbs n veg with the kid ...kindling an interest in the outdoors away from television..watering the seedlings watching them grow...and a cat comes along in the night and defecates and digs holes in my little kids project...really annoyed..

[r3nu4l]

Buy a miniature plastic poly tunnel to protect them from frost and cats. It also helps plants grow faster. Not ideal but better than most of the anti-cat measures out there and actually helps the plants too. As the plants mature you can remove the tunnel and they can fend for themselves.

[PMan]

Yeah, I had the same issue except the fecker was ****ting in the lettuce. Nobody likes gritty lettuce.

A cheaper, more MacGyver solution than a poly-tunnel is simply to put a few pegs (or cut up coat hangers) along the bed and criss cross some twine across the top. Worked for me anyway.

[Eggle]

Two other possible solutions: One is to dab some Olbas Oil or Tea Tree oil on some old tea bags and put them around the garden, cats don't like the smell and will stay away. Another is to stick lots of twigs in the ground so that there is no room for the cat, as the plants grow the twigs can be removed. Or a water pistol is quite effective ...

[ciaran67]

Originally Posted by Eggle

Two other possible solutions: One is to dab some Olbas Oil or Tea Tree oil on some old tea bags and put them around the garden, cats don't like the smell and will stay away. Another is to stick lots of twigs in the ground so that there is no room for the cat, as the plants grow the twigs can be removed. Or a water pistol is quite effective ...

Tried the t-bags... went into the garden to find several cats sipping tea and passing around freshly baked scones with Cornish clotted cream and fruit preserves!

or did I dream that?

[tinyjiney]

If a cat goes around digging and crapping in peoples gardens it seems to be acceptable.......but if a dog does it.......... I gather it up and put it in my neighbours bin....its her cats..

[boardie100]

i dont know if this works but someone told me that if you fill a transparent bottle with water and leave it on its side near the flowers the cats wont go near them..... something to do with them not liking their reflection

[ciaran67]

Originally Posted by boardie100

i dont know if this works but someone told me that if you fill a transparent bottle with water and leave it on its side near the flowers the cats wont go near them..... something to do with them not liking their reflection

Also sausages. They're not keen on sausages lying around the garden either.

[big_heart_on]

Originally Posted by boardie100

i dont know if this works but someone told me that if you fill a transparent bottle with water and leave it on its side near the flowers the cats wont go near them..... something to do with them not liking their reflection

That definitely works for dogs, our front garden used to be a turdfield until we started with the transparent bottles.

I found lobbing potatoes in the general direction of trespassing cats will encourage them to crap elsewhere

[Jimjay]

Originally Posted by ciaran67

Also sausages. They're not keen on sausages lying around the garden either.

but then i guess you get all the local dogs sat in your garden!

[Maudi]

Originally Posted by Jimjay

but then i guess you get all the local dogs sat in your garden!

ugh once again those little divils of neighbourhood cats have use our gsrden as a toilet...the little one walked it thru the kitchen on her shoes...did a bit of research into it and appears if one traps the little divils in a humane trap (the type rentokil use for mink etc)you can release them to a pound or santuary or somewhere...there seems to be a big increase in stray ones around lately...

[IanL]

Maudi

Would you ever grow up and stop threatening to trap people's cats and give them away to pounds. We live in an estate where we are on top of each other and I am certainly not going to lock my cat indoors for fear of what you might do to my cat, there are cat repellents you can buy on web. The bulk of the cats round the estate aren't strays so please if you've no constructive criticism stop posting that crap.

Ian

[darter]

Originally Posted by IanL

Maudi

Would you ever grow up and stop threatening to trap people's cats and give them away to pounds. We live in an estate where we are on top of each other and I am certainly not going to lock my cat indoors for fear of what you might do to my cat, there are cat repellents you can buy on web. The bulk of the cats round the estate aren't strays so please if you've no constructive criticism stop posting that crap.

Ian

That's really quite arrogant of you IanL. If you own cats, then you own the responsibility to ensure they do not inconvenience others. THAT is what a community is about. Caring for each other and not assuming your rights supercede those of others.

Maudi is fully in his (her?) rights to demand that his garden be free of pests owned by others, and to take appropriate precautions and actions.

It is you who needs to mature into a responsible adult.

[IanL]

Darter, I understand she is frustrated but trapping pets and giving them away is not the answer. you can't keep a cat indoors, they are outdoor animals and can't exactly tell them not to go in to other people's gardens, listen to people's suggestions how to deter them but don't resort to those measures.

[IanL]

I can also fully understand it is distressing for a childs project to be damaged but imagine how distressing it is for a child to have their pet destroyed which happens in pounds which is hardly community spirited. Also kids will walk dog or cat dirt into houses for most of their childhood like all kids do.
There are sonar devices available to buy on the web which deter cats and I know people who have used them and they are successful.
Is this the response of an immature person? I don't think so but I was extremely annoyed to think someone would trap our cat and give it away same as Maudi was when her garden got damaged.