How do I keep cats out of my Garden.

frea

Hi

Over the last while cats have been visiting my garden and leaving uwanted and unwelcome deposits, ie. sh1te.

I was told that bottles half filled with water might do the trick (Dont know how or why it works), or placing stones around the base of plants so that there is no dirt for them to do their thing.

Do these methods work or does anybody know of other non-lethal methods of keeping them out?

I dont think that neighbours would be in favour of me shooting the cats with an AK47.

Repli

Get a pellet gun... or a big dog :P

Batbat

I dont think that neighbours would be in favour of me shooting the cats with an AK47

Just shoot them and tell the world they had WMD,

Victor

Tie a large dog to a stake with a long chain. Of course theis may create secondary problems.

Shrimp

Here are some suggestions of what you can do:

1. Plant mines in your garden.

2. Put up carboard cut-outs of Jay Leno...(They will be scared of The Chin)

3. Move away and never come back.

4. Ignore the cats, they will get very very annoyed.


Crap they spotted me, there on to our plan... get out of here while you still can, save yourself.........

KdjaCL

Water bottles and theres a spray you can buy in B and Q spray it on all the walls and wherever they come in by. they never come back again.

If that fails call me i have an Ak47 thats used when you absolutley positivley have to execute every single cat in the garden.


it wont fail but call me anyway i fukkin hate cats

kdjac

bug

build a huge fence around your garden and fit a retractable roof and rename yourself mrs bucket.

cats ****...thats life really, and they do cover it up..so I really cant see what your problem is...unless you have very small children, but we've always had cats and was very fond of digging in the garden as a kid never caught anything from them.

my cat got shot with a pellet gun and if I ever found the person who did it I'd do the same to him/her.

get a dog but then again the dogs faeces might offend you too.:rolleyes:

Shrimp

The cats there all around us, quick, we must hide, hide i say...

mad m

i got anti climb paint and put it on top of walls so after a while they got message but i had to paint walls again and paw prints everywhere.....seen one cat in garden one day,said SHOO and he ran down to where i put the most of the anti-climb paint he jumped up and all i could see was the cat fall over as he had no grip...haha was good,so i looked over our wall and see the cat doing a trot trying to get paint off paws......cat 10----human 1

Shrimp

The cats say "we are all dead, all of us".......


Good they will leave us alone, they think we are all zombies.

Capt'n Midnight

Get a cat of your own - cats tend to do damage at the boundaries of territiores - ie in your neighbours garder.

it has been said (though not necessarily with all the words in the same order/sentence) that a piece of hose pipe half hidden under vegatition will scare them away - racial fear of water or something or was it serpants ?

pepper

put a large pond in the back with piranah..

delly

Don't bother with the little pellets from DIY stores called scent buds or something like that, cause they don't work.

My nieghbours cats are always calling in to say hello. If it wasn't for the security light, I wouldn't even know. But when that light goes on, its counter strike time people, super soaker at the ready.

Interceptor

The two methods that work are....

Rig up your garden hose with a decent nozzle and spray the cats whenever they come into your garden (it does them no harm and its good fun - charge the local kids to do it for you ;-)

The alternative which has been tried and tested is to rig a metal wire between two plastic forks, string meat on the wire and connect it to a power outlet. The 220v shock will tighten their little cat sphincters and the ELCB will trip and prevent them being killed. Enlist the help of a cat-hating electrician for this one.....

'ceptr

KdjaCL

Originally posted by interceptor
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The alternative which has been tried and tested is to rig a metal wire between two plastic forks, string meat on the wire and connect it to a power outlet. The 220v shock will tighten their little cat sphincters and the ELCB will trip and prevent them being killed. Enlist the help of a cat-hating electrician for this one.....

'ceptr

Oh im gonna try that , thats awesome. and there wont be no tripswitch on mine

kdjac

daveg

I have to say this drives me up the fúcking wall. Our neighbours have a kingcharles dog. Stupidist fúcking animal I've ever seen. Used to come into our garden and shít all over the place. We have a 5 year old so I had to go around picking it up with a shoval each evening. I hate that dog so much I used to dream about killing the fúcker in the most saddistic way. Finally the neighbour put up a netting fence.

The problem with most of these animals imo is if they start using your garden as a toilet they will continue to do so. We have a zero tolerence policy now. If I see an animal defacing my garden and putting my childs eye sight in danger I'll kill the fúcker.

And I used to be such an animal lover.

TBH If people kept their dogs/cats to themselves this wouldn't be a problem :mad:

daveg

Originally posted by frea
I dont think that neighbours would be in favour of me shooting the cats with an AK47.

Have you spoken to the nieghbours about the problem? Maybe start off by asking if they would ensure there cats don't shít in your garden. If that doesn't work tell them you will be laying down poison.

MisterAnarchy

Do what I did.
Next door neighbours dog kept on dumping on my lawn.
Became a serious problem as I had to remove the waste with a shovel and spade before I cut the lawn.
I soon tired of this so I decided that I would sneak into their lawn at night and redeposit the waste.
Eventually,after 3 expeditions they copped on and tied their dog up.
Problem solved.

Farls

Ask the neighbours to stop the cats from entering your property. If they don't bother then experiment...hehe

I quite like the electric wire one, if it don't work fill the meat with arsnick.

Neighbours cat used to sit on my bonnet and scrape the fuk out of it, one hard kick to the head sorted it out. I don't mind them but when they start damaging property or just being pests no mercy.

Farlz

The Real B-man

Originally posted by Farls
Ask the neighbours to stop the cats from entering your property. If they don't bother then experiment...hehe

I quite like the electric wire one, if it don't work fill the meat with arsnick.

Neighbours cat used to sit on my bonnet and scrape the fuk out of it, one hard kick to the head sorted it out. I don't mind them but when they start damaging property or just being pests no mercy.

Farlz

kick to head a bit much my cat got hit in the head with a tennis ball broke some face bone cats are to fragile for that hose them!!!

Paddy20

Jeez, If thats all you have to worry about. Try getting a life :rolleyes:

Kristok

Have you spoken to the nieghbours about the problem? Maybe start off by asking if they would ensure there cats don't shít in your garden. If that doesn't work tell them you will be laying down poison.

Just incase your not kidding, a cat owner cant stop the animal going where it wants its not like a dog you cant tie them up so theres no point saying somehting to your neighbour youll just cause conflict and be the first to be blamed if something happens to it. Best thing to do is put chicken wire or something simular over any loose soil they always go in the muck so they can cover it up (but you always get the odd cat who sh!ts anywhre) they dont generally go unless it can be covered so wire will stop them getting at the soil and after a week or so they will find somewhere else to go its just a habit you have to get them to brake its not their fault they just dont want to go in their owners garden its a whole leaving their scent around thingy they do. Our neighbours had the same prob and just covered up their soil this way and they dont even go into their garden anymore (the cats not the neighbours)

Please dont kill/poisen them its not nice :-)

senordingdong

daveg wrote: »

Have you spoken to the nieghbours about the problem? Maybe start off by asking if they would ensure there cats don't shít in your garden. If that doesn't work tell them you will be laying down poison.

Thread resurrection.
Getting the garden ready for summer again and I have noticed that a neighbourhood cat has taken to my garden for this.

I'm not interested in hurting the cat but rather keeping it out.

I was told to put bleach around the perimeter. Can anyone confirm that this or any of the 'keep away' sprays work?

Thanks

WilyCoyote

I've adapted one of these to fire moistened dog food pellets. Very effective and when Buster from No. 42 picks up the scent ...... you should see that cat leg it

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red sean

Try Jeyes Fluid around the perimeter, but be careful if you have a hedge.

jack of all

I'm plagued with cats around my garden and I've had a serious problem with one urinating on my front door and porch for years now (I know its a cat and not a neighbours dog).They're an awful nuisance although I'm led to believe that if the male cats are neutered/ spayed (whichever is the correct term) that they're less likely to mark their territory, although I don't know if this is the case. The cats are in season around now and the racket at night is unreal! I expect there to be an explosion in the local population this summer, Lord help us.

Back to the OPs question, I've tried those deterrent sprays, I've tried spraying bleach and Jeyes fluid- none of them work although they do help get rid of the dreadful smell. If anyone can suggest a legal way to sort the problem I'd love to hear!