Next door neighbours cats!!!!

Just a thought, but watching this video

cats seem to be terrified of cucumbers, which apparently translates to a massive fear of snakes.
I wonder if you could buy one of those rubber snakes and stick it on the patch to deter them. They might not go near something that looks like a snake.

 

Well, I have had cats ... or should I say they have owned me ... for 48 years and have never had them bothering people ... or their gardens. But mine have always been well trained to use litter boxes.

Currently those who own me live in the citrus orchards and citrus does not bother them.

But I do love this cucumber video @Carllennon .. and perhaps this would work. Mine have to deal with the real thing on occasion ... and keep clear!

 

GYO our next door neighbour dislikes cats in her garden so she went out and bought the sonic cat scareres and has had no problems since she installed hers.She did say though that you need the sort that you connect to the mains as they work better than the battery operated ones as the battery ones obviously don't work once the batteries go flat.Not too sure if there is any way of knowing when they are flat unless you start to notice there are cats arriving in your garden again.

I think the mains ones are quiet expensive as you have two parts to buy but would work out cheaper in the long run as you wouldn't need to keep having to buy batteries all the time but then I am not sure how much power they take to run the unit.

 

I bought a sonic cat scarer. Saw the culprit through the window, taking a dump right in front of the sensor. I know where it lives. One day I'm going to do a massive dump on their lawn.

 

We used to have three cats, all died of old age. They never strayed from our own garden and we never had other cars venture beyond sitting on the to of the fence. Now we have a dog we have a steady stream of cat visitors to our garden, providing the dog isn't around! Ahha

 

My neighbour's cat uses any loose soil in my back garden as his own personal toilet. I can't use one of those sonic cat scarers because I believe they affect dogs too. My 12 year old dog would be scared of it and would start to refuse to go outside.
I've recently adopted a rescue puppy though and the cat runs whenever he sees her. She's a 9 month old Staffie and is cheeky, boisterous and full of energy. She's like a kangaroo on the end of a lead at times, bouncing up and down when she gets excited I think she'd eat the cat if she got a chance so I have to take her out to the garden on a lead.
The only thing I've tried that has worked is to put lots of bamboo skewers, pointed end up, in between the plants so that the cat can't find a place to squat. Be very careful though if you need to work with/in between those plants though.
Had to stop my puppy from eating a cat poo she discovered a couple of days ago . I'm just glad my dogs are wormed every 3 months with a prescription only strong wormer from my vet...

I like cats...but just wish Toby wouldn't use my garden as his toilet.

 

We have several cats in the neighbourhood which regularly visit our garden, any freshly dug patch of soil has a seemingly magnetic attraction to them.

For me the easiest, simplest and most effective solution has always been wire netting. I have a selection of pieces of wire netting in various lengths and sizes which I've picked up here and there for nothing. It's takes a matter of seconds to lay it down, if you want to cover a smaller area it can be folded over, it's weatherproof, animal proof and reusable again and again.

I sowed a couple of rows of beetroot seeds in the veg patch today. It took a couple of minutes to simply cover them with chicken wire. This will protect them quite adequately for the next few weeks, as the seedlings start to grow through the netting I will simply fold it up in the centre, so it can continue to offer protection for a few more weeks.



By the time the plants are a few inches high, the netting will be removed, by then the cats will have lost interest in that piece of ground anyway, as it will no longer be freshly disturbed soil.

 

Apologies if this has been posted... only skim read the thread!!

I have the buggers doing their thing in my front and back garden, winds me up something rotten. I am going to put some kind of spikey barrier on top of the fence, kinda like the thing they deter pigeons with.

Also I think going the super soaker route might be fun!!!

In all seriousness an elderly lady told me malt vinegar?? I don't know if it works but she swears by it and I don't know the implications on the soil etc

 

The spray from Wilkos is working. Everywhere I spray they stay away from - but they then go and sit, mess etc in other areas of the garden. Need a crop duster to cover the entire garden I think!!!!

 

What if you spray the boundary fences/hedge?

 

I lay thorny branches on any bare soil, usually from the blackthorn bushes in the woods just behind our house. Next door's two cats used to visit us regularly as we gave them titbits but since they died I've noticed a considerable increase in the mice and vole population in our garden.

 

That's what we do, just go all along the pavement at the front and then spray the gate and the top of the fences at the back. It works brilliantly. In fact, we noticed the other day that the main offender isn't even coming past ours now