You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
Short of using cat sized land mines is there anything that actually works?!
At least one neighbours cat has taken to using my veggie patch as a toilet, you may think 'yay free fertiliser', however recently the risk from toxoplasmosis has been recognised to be quite significant.
Ive netted the veggie patch but obviously it's not enough to stop the sneaky catstard from getting in, short of netting the whole bloody garden. And it's chewed a hole in the current netting to get in anyway...
I caught one of the cheeky catstards nearly in the act the other day and got it good with the hose pipe but apparently it's not deterred it sufficiently. Unfortunately it's a couple of doors downs cat so sticking it in with the green waste on recycling day is out of the question.
Has anyone use one of these ultrasonic PIR efforts to any effect?
Alternatively does anyone want a free cat (collection only)?
Patience, Nerf gun, lots of bullets and a six pack.
Buy your veg at the supermarket like a normal person?
No but seriously: black pepper, lots of it. Our cat used to dump in the woodchip round my son's swing/slide thingy. I got a load of black pepper and liberally doused the whole area, she moved on to some sucker's garden a few doors down. Next door's jack russel stopped pissing on the slide around the same time as well for some reason.
liberally doused the whole area, she moved on to some sucker’s garden a few doors down.
Good to see you taking responsibility for your pet.
Return the leavings to the neighbor?
I tried all sort of cat repellents as the little darlings loved my gravel driveway to poo in, ok to deal with in daylight but not ideal at 5am getting in a van, not smelling it until the heater kicks in.
It got to the point where I had to try hard not to run them over on sight.
Anyway, turns out my piss Works better than pellets, crystals, gizmos, and curry plants.
Reminds me how I also blocked the hole in the gate with Perspex, where cats were popping through. The thud was very amusing when I shooed a pre poo cat away.
I'd rather not upset the neighbours and there's not much they can do other than keep the cat in / stuff a cork up it.
I mooted the idea of buying a motion activated paint ball sentry turret (why wouldn't you?!) however that idea was shot down...
Black pepper you say? I assume ground?
Seriously assuming you’re male, fill a container with your piss when you go to the bog, (so you don’t get done for indecent exposure) then pour it where cats wander in and out.
There are several cats that come into my garden to shit, sometimes on the lawn, which is particularly disgusting. There’s a black and white one that lives in one of the flats behind, it goes in and out via an open window, and enjoys having my garden as a handy latrine. I’ve shoo’d it away quite a few times, managed to almost catch it with a mug of water, but a little while back it was at the bottom of the garden when I had the hose handy, so I switched the head over to centre spray and turned the tap on and let him have it. I didn’t get him full on, but he yowled loudly, so hopefully he’s been dissuaded from shitting among my flowers.
I did have limited success with finely chopped Ghost Chilli, expensive to to the whole driveway but I like to think worth the potential effects.
Ours will always go in the most recently dug area of our garden, so if I want to keep them off one area I will turn over the soil somewhere else.
No but seriously: black pepper, lots of it. Our cat used to dump in the woodchip round my son’s swing/slide thingy. I got a load of black pepper and liberally doused the whole area, she moved on to some sucker’s garden a few doors down.
It is your cat - get a litter tray.
When this current cat karks it, don't get another. The local wildlife and neighbours will thank you.
Plastic forks, like ones get at takeaway, set into the ground handle end first, bought box if them at costco. Stopped local cats using our garden as for some reason didn't like being stabbed in arse while trying to squat 😁
Black pepper works for cats.
It also stopped dogs crapping on our front lawn
I've got two of these:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004SGC75S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
they stopped the problem within 24 hours/
Get a cat. It won't shit in your garden and will shit in theirs instead, and might chase the others off.
That's the best advice. The neighbourhood cats view your territory as fair game because it doesn't belong to anybody, so if you get a cat, preferably a big one with attitude, it will defend the territory and keep the others away.
Cats generally like a nice bit of clear earth to crap in, so I use rose prunings (or other twigs/sticks) to cover any bare earth in my raised beds. I've been told that used coffee grounds also works as a deterrent.
+1 for getting the largest cat you can possibly find from the local rescue centre.
Otherwise, nerf guns, garden hoses and black pepper are all fair game.
A saucer of anti-freeze is not fair game. Statistically, people who do this are sociopaths with tiny genitals, bad breath and no friends.
Statistically, people who do this are sociopaths with tiny genitals, bad breath and no friends.
....but presumably, shit free gardens.
That's the problem with statistics. They can be used to justify pretty much anything, no matter how reprehensible.
Does black pepper work all year round, or is it seasonal?
Good to see you taking responsibility for your pet.
Get bent, you sanctimonious arse. Read on and judge if I'm a responsible pet owner or not.
It is your cat – get a litter tray. When this current cat karks it, don’t get another. The local wildlife and neighbours will thank you.
We do have a litter tray. She prefers to go outside, cats are like that, and they have a right to roam enshrined in law (unlike the various dogs that also crap in our garden). I know the neighbour who's garden she does use and have offered to help move her on from there at my own cost but she genuinely doesn't mind.
She's bloody terrible at hunting, the biggest thing she's caught in the past decade is an earthworm. We have also always shut our cats in from twilight to dawn as that's when cats do most of their hunting. But anyway, the idea that cats, which have been in Britain for two millennia, have any significant effect on the general ecology when compared to the damage wrought by road traffic and farmers and humanity in general is frankly ridiculous.
We foster cats and kittens for a local animal rescue charity, who ensure that they are all neutered before being rehomed, and carry out trap and neuter programmes which keeps down the feral population. They help people to have pets without inadvertently adding loads of unwanted extra animals to the world, and without killing those that are alive already.
When you see some of the things that people do to cats (and dogs and other animals) you change your opinion rather of the relative worth of human beings and their shitty little gardens when compared to animals. Honestly, I offered some geniune advice to help the OP, but I really should know better. **** your sodding begonias, I hope the local feral tom breaks into your house and shits in your shoes.
When you see some of the things that people do to cats (and dogs and other animals) you change your opinion rather of the relative worth of human beings and their shitty little gardens when compared to animals.
Weren't you just kicking the shit out of a dog on another thread? 😉
Weren’t you just kicking the shit out of a dog on another thread
Yeah, hypothetically. It had already hypothetically attacked me though.
Does black pepper work all year round, or is it seasonal?
Great work!
I don't have the time, interest or inclination to get my own cat. If I worked from home more I'd get a dog but with current work it wouldn't be fair to own one.
The veggie patch is quite well populated with veg so trying to get any deterrent on the soil and not the plants will be a challenge either physical obstructions on the soil or chemical etc.
The garden isn't very well secured from feline ingress unfortunately as there is only a low hedge one side and a low fence to the side and rear so I'd have to practically wee all around the bound which doesn't sound ideal or pleasant.
The ultrasonic deterrent is what I was previously considering so I might give that a go.
Get bent, you sanctimonious arse. Read on and judge if I’m a responsible pet owner or not.
Exactly the response I'd expect from a selfish, irresponsible dickhead.
The ultrasonic deterrent is what I was previously considering so I might give that a go.
We got one of these, it doesn't work immediately, but persevere with it and it should do. It's done the trick in our front garden.
Best way to promote cat ownership, ever!
Our cat used to dump in the woodchip round my son’s swing/slide thingy. I got a load of black pepper and liberally doused the whole area, she moved on to some sucker’s garden a few doors down.
A lot of people making this sort of statement seem to forget, population density is key to ecology.
But anyway, the idea that cats, which have been in Britain for two millennia, have any significant effect on the general ecology when compared to the damage wrought by road traffic and farmers and humanity in general is frankly ridiculous.
Also: No humans = No domestic cat.
Humans are just as responsible for wildlife death by cat predation as they are for the other things mentioned.
We've been plagued by cat poo in our lawned and soil garden, we're basically the only house on the street who have not paved the garden over and don't own a cat. Despite there being a massive field and a sodding huge park just the other side of the fence they still prefer our garden which is especially annoying as we bought the house for the garden knowing we had a kid on the way who could run around it.
We've tried:
Ultra sonic - didn't cover all of the garden so they just used the blind spots and both units I had died from water ingress after 2 months
Every off the shelf powder & potion I can lay my hands on - little effect especially after its rained
Spikes in the ground - not too practical on the lawn and they'll find a spot big enough for their arse somewhere
Spraying with water - they'll just come back after you've gone
Orange peel - made no difference
Cat unfriendly plants - minor deterrent but only localised
Running screaming in my undies - little lasting effects on the cats, large effect on the neighbours
The only thing that has worked is netting off the whole garden about 4 inch off the floor, its a bit of a ball ache but the cats don't like walking on it so they stay away, we forgot to put it back over a long weekend away and were expecting 6 or 7 poos but didn't have any. We're currently using the basic green stuff as its cheap but will be upgrading to something like pigeon netting and a frame to make putting it on and off easier.
Get yourself a 2L bottle of fizzy pop (in a clear bottle). Pour fizzy pop down sink* and 3/4 fill bottle with water (might require a few bottles if it's a big patch) and place them on their side around where the cat's do their do. Not 100% sure why this works (have a theory but wouldn't dare post it on here without legit peer reviewed scientific papers to back it up 😛 ) but it seems to do the trick for anyone who's tried it.
*or drink it?
But anyway, the idea that cats, which have been in Britain for two millennia, have any significant effect on the general ecology when compared to the damage wrought by road traffic and farmers and humanity in general is frankly ridiculous.
Not really ridiculous, probably quite close to the truth. Also, excellent whataboutery: quite typical of a cat owner in full “mine wouldn’t do that” flow. Just do the local wildlife a favour and get it euthanised at a vet.
I do quite like cats, had a pet cat whilst growing up.
That moggie was a 4 legged killing machine, it was a kitten of a farmers cat.
It actually caught fish out of our pond, it used to take any unsuspecting bird that flew too close to the shed or too low over the raised patio.
It must have decimated the local wildlife, didn’t matter how much it was fed, they’re hunters it’s what they do and too many people means too many moggies.
Cut down bamboo sticks like has been suggested with forks, but less unsightly.
I could box up toby and post him down to you for a few days cat deterrence duties, he just loves cats and quite often will not let them go till he's shook the bejesus out of them, to be honest he prefers rats but a cat will amuse him just as much. He used to go in all guns blazing and miss 50% of the time but has learned to wait till the cats come right into the garden before launching himself out of the shed or from the window ledge, i'd say he has at least an 80% success rate now but the local cats very rarely venture into the garden now so he needs a new challenge.
[img] 
[/img]
[img] 
[/img]
Glazed expression due a morning of ratting duties up on a mates farm, 17 dispatched by a vigorous shake so a very happy dog.
I got a motion controlled water sprayer - connect it up to a hosepipe and every time they go near they get an immediate spray of water.
We discovered that cat were eating the food we put out for hedgehogs. Tried building a hedgehog only feeder, failed. Tried spraying cat with water, partial success but the cat always came back.
In a moment of inspiration I cobbled together my alarm mine next to the feeder and fed the trip wire through the window. That evening the usual moggy turned up and started on the hedgehog food so I pulled the cord. It was like a magic trick, a huge puff of smoke, a loud bang and the moggy appeared on next doors shed roof, seemingly by teleporting! Cat never came back.
I am a bad man.
The RSPB sells one of those cat repeller things that in our experience actually works. Motion activated. Powered by a 9v battery - buy in bulk from eBay - next door's cat has modified its route across our backyard to avoid triggering it and no longer craps in our flower beds. We tried one of the cheaper, solar-powered alternatives before, but it was nigh on useless, the one the RSPB sells is expensive, but it works.
This thing: https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/gardening-tools/ca****ch-cat-deterrent.html
What an aggressive fellow you are mintimperial.
Nothing will work but this. Tried everything.
[URL= http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/u603/davecorleoni/7e100f0e3d618bb85eeb34f02f3946ff_zpsz4uo3llu.jp g" target="_blank">
http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/u603/davecorleoni/7e100f0e3d618bb85eeb34f02f3946ff_zpsz4uo3llu.jp g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
Lion poo, apparently. Something to do with the scent of a biggerer cat puts the smaller ones off from visiting.
It worked for us when all the local Tom cats used to piss in our back garden where we lived before now.
I was all up for land mines as I don't really like cats.
Maybe plant more cucumbers!
CAT AND CUCUMBER GIF HERE!