And how to keep them in?

I mean the cats.
We have three cats, my husband loves them. However, our neighbour loves birds. We have a big garden and I would like to keep them our side of the fence. I can see my neighbours point ....
Any ideas?

 

Armandii will be able to help you with this I think Annemieke.

 

There are a couple of options;

One is to make a cat run in the garden, so they can still get outside time without getting the birds.

The second is to put up non-scalable fencing, so your cats get uninhibited run of your garden but don't get into your neighbour's.

Another option is to get a bell on their collars. Cats hunt birds differently to how they hunt mice and other rodents, and bells often work to make the birds fly off when the cat pounces. Obviously this isn't 100%!

 

As Ellen suggested, non-scalable fencing is the only sure way, and as high as you are allowed.

Val

 

what would "non-scalable fencing" be exactly guys? just curious.

 

Have a look here for some options (wouldn't recommend the electric fencing option though). Would ignore the electric fence option!

I like the katzecure option. Not sure how expensive it is but you could do something similar yourself.

 

Our neighbours put orange peel down in the garden where whey don't want our cats 'doing their business'. Apparently it works very well. Perhaps some along the border would deter them?


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There are also other things to buy to put in a garden to try & deter cats. This is from the rspb's site

http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/gardening/unwantedvisitors/cats/catdeterrents.aspx

 

Thanks for all the tips! Not sure whether they will work on our cats, and/or how expensive some of them are, but I'll look into it.

 

Good luck

 

??? I'm not very bright (anymore) ...

 

Do these fences actually work? I was looking at the pics thinking surely an agile cat could be up and over those fences and do a runner? Perhaps I'm thinking of my Burmese cat who was that stubborn he would have seen it as his life's mission to undertake a Great Escape!