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Getting really sick of this now. Lots of cats in the area and they seem to be running out of soil so have decided to use my front lawn. Have tried coffee granules, white pepper, chilly powder etc. A few have tried sonic cat deterrents but they were a waste of time.Any useful suggestions please.
Lion s&#t from your local zoo?
A big cat to scare away the little cats? 🙀🐱🐈🤔
F'in vermin - at my old house we used to have lots of nesting birds, then neighbours decided to get cats and all they did was kill the birds and crap in the garden.
Panther shite.
£5 a bag plus postage
Jack will stop em, with relish.
The most effective way is to sit permanently on a deckchair in the middle of your lawn, ready to hurl abuse at any visiting cat.
Dig up your lawn and lay it indoors.
Get a bag of garlic granules (pretty cheap from horse feed-type shops). Scatter some on your lawn, they don’t like the smell. Black pepper is supposed to work too.
Motion triggered sprinkler is the only thing that keeps them off long term for us.
Plug the cats with frozen sausages.
Must be great to some folk to have this as your biggest problem atm.
I do feel your pain tho.
Get rid of the lawn and then start a new thread asking how to stop cats shitting on the paving. After this get rid of the paving and start a new thread asking how to stop cats shitting on the decking.
There’s three cats that come into my garden, two of them from a flat just the other side of my garden fence. I guess the owner can’t be arsed to put down a tray of kitty litter, so they shit on my lawn, or the dirt where I’ve got plants growing. They also get up into the branches of my acer tree, just above the bird feeders. I’ve had to construct cat-proof feeding boxes for the hedgehogs as well, the furry vermin will scoff all the dog food I put out for them. 🤬
Sack, brick, canal
Buy a farm.
I barely notice when cats shit on my 6 acres.
The cow shit, however, gets everywhere.
...from a flat just the other side of my garden fence.from a flat just the other side of my garden fence
You do use a spade to trebuchet the turds at/ through the windows of said flat?
One of those electronic cat scarers. Plant it in the garden you want the cats to stay away from. It gives out a high pitched beep every time a cat is in the proximity.
WARNING: It wont ****in work. All it will do is piss off your neighbours who have vastly superior hearing than you ie anyone under the age of 45.
Wind sets them off, cars set them off, kids walking by set them off, a mosquito flapping its wings on a different Continent set those ****in things off. HOWEVER you will be safe in the knowledge that "Well I cant hear it" and the "cats have gone away" so it must work whilst happily not taking notice of the bloody big lion that has moved in next door and the WHOLE street that cant get any sleep because of the ****in electronic bleeping.
RANT OVER!!!
My pee solved our problem. I filled a Jerry can with it, snuck up on the cat in question and beat it to death with the can.
More seriously, I cleared the leavings and poured some of the aforementioned pee in the effected areas. I also chopped a load of ghost chilies up and made a sort of thin soup that I spread in the poo areas. Between the two rounds of chemical warfare the leavings stopped.
WARNING: It wont **** work. All it will do is piss off your neighbours who have vastly superior hearing than you ie anyone under the age of 45.
Ours work, youv'e probs got yours set to the wrong frequency.
Unless out of the 15 cats in our street the only one that was crapping on our lawn is dead. Or moved house. Anyway, nee shite since we installed 2, 2 years ago.
Slowly build up a rapport with them by feeding them. Then just hoof them over the fence once you're ready
Nobody likes cats, they just put on this act to offend cat haters. Liberal pussy lovers .....
Landmines should do the job
Moth balls under a polystyrene cup
Super soaker, chili vinegar
Thanks for all the replies guys, from funny to useful. I'll try a couple of the more humane suggestions first I think!!
In the US they use ground hyena droppings apparently. You could try and get some fox droppings and see if they work. Some have suggested growing Lavender to keep them away. Not sure that always works.
A big dog is pretty good i find. Mine takes it as a personal insult that cats would even consider entering her territory, let alone defecating there. Despite being surrounded by the furry terrorists I've had one cat poo in two years to my knowledge (can't rule out my dog eating some of the evidence however). The enormous shites that she regularly marks her territory with though are another thing entirely. Win some, lose some i guess
WTF, Nobodies challenged this.
I have a litter tray in the conservatory next to the cat flap, it gets used but I suspect that Sid (vicious) might have the occasional
Chod outside. I apologise.
Sid (vicious) is timid beyond belief, never killed anything, sht scared of his own shadow.
Putting chilli on your lawn will result in the local cat to attempt to scratching his own eyes out through the pain you have inflicted on it, hopefully the old lady down the street has got insurance to cover the vets bill.
AND, when you set JACK ( you have mentioned this before ) on the local cat, I hope you take into consideration that this cat may be loved and the only companion by the old lady down the street has and imagine how she is going to explain to grandchildren how kitty ‘has gone to heaven’
You ****prick.
I do not like dogs, been bit to many times when riding and have skin grafts on my hand and leg, been covered in Shiite after a ride to many times.
locals dogs shat all over the local nature reserve with the owners consent. HEALTH NUSIENCE
Local dogs bark on repeat, NOISE NUSIENCE
Have witnessed owners thinking it’s OK for the dog to terrorise local swans, ground nesting birds, lambs etc, WILDLIFE NUISANCE.
my lad, 4 yrs old has been bitten twice by different dogs, dogs are a Social problem that only a non dog owner would understand,,,,,l do not like your filth scavanger licking me or sniffing my groin.
It’s the owners fault and all that BS 🙄
Grand scheme of things, dogs are a bigger problem than cats.
oreetmon - do you need a hug?
Putting chilli on your lawn will result in the local cat to attempt to scratching his own eyes out through the pain you have inflicted on it, hopefully the old lady down the street has got insurance to cover the vets bill.
Actually the local cat sleeps at the end of our garden under the bird table and seems in rude health. It just no longer has a turnout on our gravel driveway.
Also cats are bastard's we had one, we loved it but ultimately it killed everything it could, rabbits, ducks and even fish. You had to admire it's ability to kill stuff. Our garden was a no fly zone for years.
When you buy a cat from Cats-R-Us is there some kind of scheme like carbon offsets where you can pay for the sins of your feline felon.
Eg for every 500 songbirds it kills for fun, the scheme organisers drown a basket of kittens? Asking for a friend.....
You need to show them you are the dominant cat and its YOUR territory.
Take a bigger shit than them.
We tried the chilli powder thing to try and deter rabbits from a large area of lawn. Catering packs of chilli mixed with vinegar down all the burrow entrances.
I suspect we now have bunnies that just quite like curry.