Out if ideas for stopping cats pooing all over my garden! Help!

Hey everyone,

Has anyone had any luck keeping cats off their garden? I literally have 4 Pest Bye cat deterents in the garden and I'm still finding cats habe been there! Also put a box of Silent Roar pellets there a month ago which seemed to work but I guess the constant rain stops it working pretty quickly.

I've just mulched the flower beds too so guessing they'll be in the garden even more now.

On the verge of buying a water gun!

 

To be honest not sure you can really do much; lots of plants, ground cover and plenty of spiney plants will make it difficult and uncomfortable for them to find a space.
Buy a water gun and practice your quick draw.
Could be worse you might have badgers or foxes visiting on a regular basis.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nerf-E2770EU50-Super-Soaker-Barracuda/dp/B07FMGRT3V/ref=asc_df_B07FMGRT3V/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310620100076&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1819195691366420313&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006986&hvtargid=pla-683320498978&th=1
Once you become proficient, always issue a loud HISS as you fire. Its more sporting to have a moving target!

 

One of these mains water sprayers works well for us in the back garden, used for a few weeks and they soon learn to keep away. The water is aimed above the ground so it does not hit them directly , it also gives out a loud rattling sound as it sprays. ( battery operated)

For the front garden or anywhere you can use some fine black mesh over open soil and actually plant through it for spring / summer plants etc, they cannot dig into it so soon ignore the area, from a short distance you hardly notice it.

 

Since I've had a few of the local cats around and not shoowed them off I find I dont get problems much these days.
I find they scent mark as their territory which deters other cats, but also they dont like pooing in their own territory, its strange but it seems to work.

I dont understand cats.

 

So, we can't start multiple threads on subjects that have been discussed in detail before, which causes other threads to get lost in the black hole of other multiple threads?

Where's the fun in that!?

 

Ok, I knew nothing...or remembered nothing of this thread so please excuse my ignorance. A member with a better memory than me or a new member without the knowledge to rummage through the vast library of topics on here, would still have trouble finding this thread to post in it unless it's a sticky right at the start of the page

 

Its a sticky under pests and diseases.
Admittedly probably not easy to find but it is headed cat deterrent talk.

 

Fully appreciated and understood. Non-lethal means of discouragement at all times irrespective of deeper provocation. Its significant that the owners of cats are the least likely to garden constructively.

 

With any recently dug soil I cover with Green plastic netting. I do have a Fox that poo's on top though.

 

It's not my neighbours cats that crap in my garden....it's my own cat!

Not all the time, he must have a few "toilets" in the area. But when he does he digs his little hole, fills it, and then covers it back up.

Back in the early days once in a while I used to carefully dig around in his "area" and get them out.

But at the end of the day, it's fertiliser, and he buries it, what could be better. I learnt very quickly to embrace it rather than frustrate the hell out of myself trying to come up with ways of stopping him, or any of the neighbouring cats.

So I just leave them now and let them rot down and become part of the soil structure. Yes, cat crap can contain pathogens, worms etc etc. But when I'm pottering about in the garden I'm not digging with my bare hands, the cat crap never comes into contact with me.