Not the kind in the exhaust.

How do we stop cats crapping in the garden?

Not the usual reason for asking this question, I have no problem in my garden. We do however have 4 cats and 1 annoyed neighbour (presumably I have no problem as my cats are using his garden)

Now, as he's just out of prison for ABH, I'd quite like to keep him on side so would like to offer him a solution!

Thanks

David

Make an area of long grass or soft soil at the end of your garden maybe?

Tell him to throw it back over your fence where it belongs.

I have a cat and I am a cat lover but you may have to think again about the cost of your cats!

If he s just got out of prison he will be on probation so I doubut you will get any trouble. If you do he will end up back inside very quickly

[Edited on 13/4/2014 by ashg]

We don't tend to get many cats in our garden , the Westie is earning his keep ! Also I've seen a fox outside of my driveway chasing a cat , probably why there are loads of missing cat posters in the area.

Keep the cats in the house
My mate has in house cats
O and why do cats always crap in my garden ?

quote:

---

Originally posted by ashg
If he s just got out of prison he will be on probation so I doubut you will get any trouble. If you do he will end up back inside very quickly
[Edited on 13/4/2014 by ashg]

---

Best way to stop cats going in the garden is to get a cat, it's just the way they work that they crap in other gardens and stop cats crapping in yours (Unless they're stupid then your own cats crap in your garden).

Cat scares are the best option, as the cat basically thinks the garden is occupied. I know alot of people who have told me they work and aren't exactly exspensive so worth a try.

Another option, cats have an aversion to citrus and I'm told putting citrus peel in the garden works, but I'm not so sure on that one.

quote:

---

Originally posted by morcus
Best way to stop cats going in the garden is to get a cat, it's just the way they work that they crap in other gardens and stop cats crapping in yours (Unless they're stupid then your own cats crap in your garden).

Cat scares are the best option, as the cat basically thinks the garden is occupied. I know alot of people who have told me they work and aren't exactly exspensive so worth a try.

Another option, cats have an aversion to citrus and I'm told putting citrus peel in the garden works, but I'm not so sure on that one.

---

quote:

---

Originally posted by jacko

quote:

---

Originally posted by morcus
Best way to stop cats going in the garden is to get a cat, it's just the way they work that they crap in other gardens and stop cats crapping in yours (Unless they're stupid then your own cats crap in your garden).

Cat scares are the best option, as the cat basically thinks the garden is occupied. I know alot of people who have told me they work and aren't exactly exspensive so worth a try.

Another option, cats have an aversion to citrus and I'm told putting citrus peel in the garden works, but I'm not so sure on that one.

---

Or get a big dog

---

Coming from Ashington, the global centre of prize leek growing there's a lot of my family trained their ferrets to deter cats from straying near their trenches and tampering with their prize flags.



[Edited on 13/4/14 by T66]

trust me, 'house cats' aren't the correct solution to any problem....... we used to have 8 of the little sods

- explain the problem to the neighbour and offer to clear up avery few days?
- or build raised beds for growing vegetables that inevitably become one big cat toilet

Go out and buy your neighbour a supersoaker water pistol. Bigger the better. What self respecting man doesn't love a water pistol and a cat to shoot. I have the same problem with a neighbours big ginger tom beating my cat up. Me and the tom had a quiet word together one day which ended in him having a cold bucket of water thrown over him. He's not been in my garden since. He just sits on the fence glaring at me.



Citrus??? Can't wait to read what happens when you tell your neighbour to chuck orange peel on his begonias.

[Edited on 13/4/14 by Irony]

Cat poo is good for gardens, tell him to get over it.

My local Zoo will give you a sack of Lion poo, local cats think there is a very big cat occupying your garden and don't use it
As a good will gesture you could lob a sack of that over his fence one night, I'm sure he will take it in good spirit

If it's a lawn problem:

Take a 2-litre clear plastic pop bottle.
Remove the label. [stick with me, I'm serious]
Half- or 2/3-fill it with water.
Lie it down in the middle of the lawn.

An IR security light and a water solenoid from an old washing machine can be cobbled together to make an automatic cat squirter. Instead of movement switching on a light, it opens the solenoid and squirts wherever you aim it, for however long you set it.

Fun until you forget about it and get wet yourself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8

Thanks everybody

We've tried to create an area in our garden to encourage them to use.
And provided next door with a proprietary cat repellent and water pistol

Fingers crossed

D