Cats how to chase/eliminate visits

Oh gawd. I give up. Don't step in any poop, now.

 

I have a cat but it's other cats that annoy me. But I also like to keep my cat out of newly dug soil. I use ground coffee after it's been used, I just tip it on top of the soil. Worth a try as it works for me. I did find they sprayed pots so I still wash my pots down with a strong coffee too. My friend also suggested used citrus peel in the top of pots.

We also had a problem with dog poo but we solved that with a gate which cost a fortune!!! Bad owners...

Good luck.

Kate

 

Agreed. So many people turn into pathetic cowards where cats or any other animals are concerned.

 

I was'nt aware we were argueing, sorry you viewed it that way, just exchanging views trying to see all sides

Not sure its "So many people" or lots of cats would be hurt all the time, I think it takes someone "not quite right in the head" to harm a pet in the first place, and thankfully they are very few and far between, there was a case last year on our local TV news of cats being poisoned, I was shocked that they named the poison that cats love, to me that was completely dumb on the part of the news crew, however even with informing the masses about the poison there was no increase in others putting down more poison, this shows that 99.999% of peeps would'nt do it even if they knew how, cats might miff them owf but they dont take it further.

My gf is in Alaska, she has three "house cats" Bo is a cool cat but the others are dumb, only Bo goes outside but he does so on a leash tied to a line in the garden, when I asked why she told me that out there they WILL shoot cats for wrecking gardens, and this is'nt local crazys its the nice peeps that live around her, but she has to make sure her pets actions dont effect others!

Anyway, to the OP, green jell n dogs work, the jell does wash away though:gaagh:
EDIT.......
was writting post when Marley posted

 

Sorry, Marley - you've had to do your headmistress thing rather a lot recently, haven't you?

The cat thing goes in phases and at the moment we have a lot of new members who are posting stuff. A significant number of founding members of the forum are cat lovers and most have learned to avoid these threads because they are (a) pointless and (b) ill tempered. I have decided to join their number, so this is absolutely my last word.

What you can do about cats (and let's face it, no one is going to outlaw them or make people keep them permanently banged up) can be summarised as follows:-

(a) Get a dog. It will probably poo all over your lawn, leave brown patches on it, wreck the flowerbeds and need several walks a day but at least the cats won't come to call.

(b) Make a cheap water squirter out of an old washing up liquid bottle. If you aim at unwanted moggies regularly, eventually all you will have to do is show them the bottle to get them to go away.

(b) Protect freshly dug, open soil in some way until plants get established. I use rose prunings.

(c) Try the various cat repellent products, but don't expect too much of them

(d) Chill out, pour a nice drink and enjoy your garden instead of seeing it as some kind of miserable battleground.

(e) Start a forum entitled 'Cats**t Corner', thus freeing up GC for other discussions.

 

I take it you do not have any young grand kids, who come in after playing on the grass, feet covered in cat muck, or notice your cats killing the bird life

Jack McH

 

I did try the search before posting, and could not find a thread sorry

Jack McH

 

Hells Bells, I did not want to start a war
Just simple advice on how to keep unwanted cats from mucking on the lawn
I did not say I hate cats, just the dirt they leave behind, and the mess on the kids after playing in the garden

I do not have foxes and rabbits in the middle of town, dogs no longer wander free all day as they did, and now the owners of dogs by law have to clean up after them

Oh well a Lurcher it is then, and remember not to ask for advice in future

Jack McHammocklashing (just paid my subs too :-(

 

A) for that "cat thing" to go in phases (as you say so on this forum) they MUST BE A PROBLEM for the rest of the world, or they would'nt keep posting new threads about the same old problem:WINK1:

B) Sorry for being new and not knowing past history, but I wont say it twice.

C) "If" my dog poo's n kills patchs of the lawn it'll be my fault and noone elses, I choose and paid good money for him, you will NEVER see me asking for advice on that, however you will NEVER read on this forum from the guy or girl next door about MY PET in THEIR GARDEN, thats the part you cat lovers will NEVER get your head around.

D) one of the noobs did post a usefull link, not sidetracked into fox's n silly stuff, and Ziggy put up yet another usefull tip, tho no one made comment on that.

E) most of us are animal lovers, a farmer has the right by law to shoot my family pet if its chasing his livestock, I therefore as a responcible pet owner dont ever let him be a pest.

F) lets all get along and see the others PoV, I'm new to "real" gardening this year but have tinkered in the past, last year I gave up on the front garden after digging it and all the local cats moved in (the silly women down the end hand 14 in a flat before Salisbury District Council took them off her)

Now what about a group hug? before going back to gardening

 

Guys , you cant go shooting at a cat, its somebodys pet.

If a cat isnt burying its poo its had its territory threatened and both or more cats are trying to work it out.
The best thing to do is go to the zoo and get some lion poo , place this near to where the cats are pooing and they will move on, you have to be smart and move them away gradually with the lion poo.
Sorry if this has been said already, I didnt read the whole thread.
I have a cat at the moment pooing in my garden, its new to the area so it is marking/locating territory, it's poo stinks.

 

i am sorry for adopting such a tone that my thoughts may be deleted. that aside. cats are a menace, its not about gardening but nature in general. last year in my dads garden the nesting birds were; blackkbird, robin, wren, dunnock and blue tit. the year before i found a wren with its whole backside bitten, a robins nest raided with day old chicks dead. none of which had been eaten as prey, only sport. i am not inciting anything inflamatory here. but merely emphasising a point, if you choose to delete post then i dont mind.