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Skip to the chase, over the winter a cat has been coming into our garden and leaving behind evidence all over the lawn. I've not done anything about it as it's been winter so not using the lawn, and I never catch the thing in the act anyway.
However with spring coming up I want to deal with it so I can use the lawn again and cut it without spraying shet everywhere.
Do those high pitched noise things work? Orange peel? Water gun sentry??
lion poo from your local zyooo
Nothing works, it has sensed your weakness and will use whatever means necessary to exploit it.
Cardboard cutout of Kurt Zouma?
lion poo from your local zyooo
Or I could just keep a lion in the garden
Waits for new thread - My lawn is covered in lion shit...
If our experience is anything to go by, the lion is probably your best option. Walking to the shed is an exercise in caution
The only thing I’ve found to work is a motion triggered sprinkler but a) I’d need 3 or 4 of them because of the shape of the garden and b) that seems a hideous waste of water.
I do have a retrofit windscreen washer setup waiting to be wired to a PIR- if that works I reckon I could make the garden considerably less hospitable for not too much money.
They do seem less likely to do it when the grass is trimmed a bit shorter, but that might just be the local furry turd machines
We had a large cat crap problem, and our garden was used as a throughfare, I stuck a mesh net over the hedge at the end and now we have very few cats as they can’t get through the netting.
Can you put pir/sensor on access routes with a squirter etc,I made a couple via eBay (used my drill battery, windscreen spay bottle, motion sensor and timer relay, for about £20 a while ago) and left these on the two paths up each side of the house.
IRL there’s nothing you can really do except make your garden less attractive to the cat. We had similar problems last year with cats treating a gravel-covered area as a litter tray. We did not conduct a good experiment to find the best deterrent, but things that happened included: bigger gravel; visiting badgers; vinegar on the site of the former cat egg; physically discouraging cats from the garden when we were in it; time passing.
Those high pitched things seem to work. I installed one in my last place and was always unpleasantly alerted when the batteries ran out. Some of those beasts were right skinheads, not frightened if you were sitting there in the yard, but they didn't seem to like that buzz.
Cardboard cutout of Kurt Zouma?
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A house I moved in had a small yard covered in pea gravel out the back, previous owner had a cat so probably did'nt have any issues, I did not, so soon became a huge litter tray, tried orange and lemon peel, full bottles of water about the place, chased a few off with a hose, I ended up covering the yard in metal 'chicken' wire for a while, it then got patio'd.
I'd suggest a huge patio? clay based tennis court?
It's a nightmare, especially if you have small children visiting, but I'd probably go for the motion trigger sprinkler at strategic placement if you know where they're coming or going, from previous threads, once they get the message fully they don't bother coming back
Bizzarely, citrus peel (oranges) is quite effective, but you have to eat a lot of oranges!
If there's cat poo left over your lawn then that probably means that your garden is the front line of a kitty turf-war.
+1 for citrus fruits putting them off but the ideal solution is to head to your local Cats Protection place and adopt the biggest, meanest looking cat that you can find.
Jeyes fluid is pretty good on hard surfaces - they hate the smell
Or get a dog - we had one that was so attuned to commands that he charged out the door into the garden when Mrs DB asked if I’d like a popular, chocolate covered, 2-fingered wafer snack…
Cork?
The high pitched sound box thing worked for us
I'm guessing the high pitched tone thing isn't so great if you have a dog.
When you say "motion triggered sprinkler"...
Maybe not much help because it depends on the owner and whether they would consider it, but I built our cat an outside litter tray and encouraged her to use that, which she does without fail… 🙂
My mum had cats crapping in her garden for months and she tried everything to no avail . She then bought the high pitched doofers and put one at each corner facing inwards and hasn’t had a single cat there since .that was well over 4 months ago now
Cardboard cutout of Kurt Zouma
This deserves more love than it’s had (high five).
I'm going to have to invest in the ultrasonic doofers
Kurt Zouma cutout?
This is a real problem in my garden, both front and rear. My frontage is gravel where I park my car, and the little bastards crap in the gravel, often next to where the car is, resulting in me getting it on my boots, then on the car mat, and the hall carpet. They also crap all over my lawn, such as it is, and any areas of bare earth where I have plants. They’ve even shit in the large pot I have my apple tree planted in! Trouble is, there’s around half a dozen different cats from the flats behind my house, and a house just down the road. It’s driving me nuts, if I had the money and the time I’d buy one of those high-power water-rifle things that fire high-velocity streams of water ‘bullets’, which would be fun, but they’re quite expensive.
Might be worth considering, as my workplace is instigating new shifts, which will mean I’ll get five days off in a row a couple of times a month, so sitting quietly out on the patio waiting for the little furry shitbags to pitch up for target practice might be entertaining. 😈🙀
I’d suggest a huge patio?
Bloody big cat was it?
I have some Wilko granules that are basically garlic infused clay the deter cats from pooing in my veg beds. They seem to help break the cycle of cats choosing that place if you spread the after clearing up the poo. They are not foolproof but useful at reducing the problem for us.
Get a farm kitten, 100's of generations of selective breeding for being tough little ratters. Wait a few months and all the cats will be too scared to come in your garden and as a big plus they'll hide inside when its shitting in their gardens.
Buy a cat!
combine the first and lasr comment... buy a lion
Dog. Cats don’t seem so keen on our garden any more. Despite the copious bird feeders.
I can loan you big noisy dog, she seems to keep cats at bay, bit isn't without her own issues, and output, quite a lot of it!
Must be a turf war going on as cat's generally don't sh1t on lawns - ours never have over the years - our current gang are indoor/outdoor cat run ones being 'pedigrees' and one is a rescue. Funily enough, they all head for the part of the run with bark chippings for their crapping - so that dispells the myth of covering soil with chippings to stop them.
Ultrasonic might be the only thing you can use that will work long term. We used to have some Tom's coming into the garden years ago, and shooting them with a super soaker got the message through - they didn't come back - and you can get them from upstairs.
The only place we get other cat's crapping is in two raised beds at the side of the house - but only when it's been nicely prepared for panting - nice soft soil.
cat’s generally don’t sh1t on lawns
If it's directly on the lawn and not being buried then its a fox not a cat thats doing it. Foxes are known to crap on your lawn.
Cats bury because they're predators. Foxes are like dogs and happy to crap anywhere.
Cats mark territory by rubbing scent glands or weeing, not crapping. Deffo not a cat behaviour(As I understand it)
Ultrasonics, chucking water, chasing/ shouting at the cat - none of these worked for me. Eventually I made friends with the neighbors cat and once she had established that our garden was her patch, she stopped shitting on it. She asks to come in the house now, not for food or attention but to take a shortcut through the house from front to back garden.
If it’s directly on the lawn and not being buried then its a fox not a cat thats doing it. Foxes are known to crap on your lawn.
Absolutely not. I’ve watched the neighbours cats do it. In one case I turned around to find one of them doing it with me less than two metres away.
Cats bury because they’re predators.
If by ‘bury’ you mean derisively kicking a bit of grass in its general direction. Oft claimed by cat owners who want to excuse the anti social habits of their pets.
If it’s directly on the lawn and not being buried then its a fox not a cat thats doing it.
I'm pretty sure I can tell the difference between a fox and a cat when I see one of them crapping on my lawn.
If citrus works then it is likely to be the citronella in it - it can be bought as mosquito repellant - normal for garden candle things.
BTW - we adopted a dog - that seems to have sorted the problem
We had a cat that used to enjoy picking on dogs. She was pretty quick and had mastered a claw swipe to the dogs nose. Occasionally she was seen chasing dogs.
A stray from the rescue centre, but tough as.
Try coffee grounds from your bean-to-cup machine (you do have a b2c machine don’t you STWer?). Cats hate them. But you will have to keep your caffeine consumption up in order to get enough grounds to brush into the lawn.
Wait until summer then borrow the largest, hungriest boa your local herpatologist has. Leave it sunning in the garden and let nature take its course.
Tried a few things until this worked
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cat’s generally don’t sh1t on lawns – ours never have over the years
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA "My little moggie poggie would never do that" its because your cats are sh1tting on MY lawn for my 2 year old to roll in.
Like those dog owners whose dogs chase down sheep "ooh thats not like him he wouldn't hurt a fly"
People forget their pets are animals, they forget they do animal things
Because they are territorial animals, piss of another animal spread around works 100%, it worked at our last house and it works at this house.
And by piss of another animal I mean your own piss.
Morning piss is the most pungent and most effective.
Every day at 0600 take your morning piss wandering around your patch.
Mark YOUR territory.
TAKE BACK CONTROL.
(or do it in a bottle and spread later, I'm serious)