CATS

CAN anyone tell me how to stop cats from coming in to my garden and digging up my bulbs

 

How about mulching with bark chippings? In my experience, cats don't much like the feel of bark.

 

Granfather's solution. Mulch with gorse clippings, Kitty will soon learn!

 

I've tried lately, using lemon juice. Seems to work at the moment

 

Oh! Oh! Oh! Me paws! Me paws!

 

One of my cats loves the smell of olbas oil, whenever I have a cold I put some on a paper hanky
the cat always finds it and its usually ripped to shreds!

 

Back in summer we took on a "rescue" moggie as a house cat and use a wood base litter which I compost.Noticing visiting cats no longer used the heap to sunbathe on I spread some around the flower beds they mess in..seems to have done the trick ...I'll still wear gloves to weed though :D

 

Try bottles filled with water (to reflect their image)

 

Its a hard one this :rolleyes: , Both our cats and the neighbours love bark chippings and even the gravel on the drive. you can get things that put out an ulrasonic pulse that is supost to keep animals away, dont know if it work though. Fresh orange peel does work in the house so you could try that if its only a small area just crush up the peel and sprinkl it about. Only othe thing I can think of is calling the RSPCA to see if they know a cat friendly way to hellp. all the best

 

The RSPCA usually recommends a water pistol for cats..probably not one of those super soaker, pump action types though

How about a PIR motion detector rigged up to a strategic sprinkler via a 12v solenoid valve?

 

Ar yes now I did see somthing like that in a flyer that came through the door once, but for the life of me I cant remember what it was hang on a mo.

 

Found somthing
http://www.aquatics-direct.co.uk/itemsviewer.asp?ID=2208&type=

Not cheep though im affraid. :eek:

 

is there nothing left to invent?

 

Now if it can be halved in price, made cat, dog and squirrel selective......I'll have several! :D

[ 28. January 2006, 11:18 AM: Message edited by: Liz ]

 

It is a bit pricy