Making a garden cat proof.

Has anybody any hints and tips, and what is the best location for the shotgun hide?
Nik

 

Nik

First of all you have to create the right environment for the little darlings.Things like a freshly dug veg plot or an area you are preparing for a new lawn are ideal, if this fails try planting a bit of cat mint (usually never fails)

If you have some bamboo growing try to use that rather than your shotgun hide. It lulls them into a false sense of security.

Next rather than a shotgun ...... Use a crossbow, these are much more eco friendly (and we are all green on here!) they give a much cleaner kill and as I am believe in only killing to eat (It would be really cruel to kill for pleasure)It leaves a much cleaner carcass.

Perhaps we should start a new thread on ways to cook a cat? Or the old favourite 100 uses of a dead cat?

Personally I prefer them roasted with a hint of parsley , some home grown new potatoes with spinach and carrots.

*cups hand to ear* Oh no are those sirens the cat police coming to get me?

Happy hunting

...... and remember the only good cat is a dead one!!!

 

Nik, I seriously considered some pigeon spikes for the tops of the fence. Single pinned barbed wire also. Not to be cruel but to provide obstruction. Chicken wire in hedges and for fence gaps. Avoid long grass and freshly dug earth. Mulch what you can and plenty of evergreen ground cover.

 

Trouble is cats don't like trolls - they can smell em a mile off.

 

Rather like GC members can?

 

Where i used to live, I trimmed a berberis hedge for a customer and had a trailer load of trimmings. Rather than dispose of in my usual way, Farmers bonfire site, i took them home and laid them over the veg plot and round the freshly dug borders. No cat pooh. They didn't get hurt, and the owner didn't get cross. The only time i thought i would have to get my shotgun out was when 'BLOO@Y RAMBLERS' walked by collecting seeds and cuttings from my front garden. Don't have the problem now with 'RAMBLERS'. But do have a problem with the odd 'TWITCHER' looking for red kites.

 

:D :D

 

Just to let you know I have 3 cats and had to purchase something called Silent Roar, I'll see if this link pastes: http://www.cat-repellant.info/html/silent-roar.htm

I have sprinkled the pellets around my herb box and can happily say my cats have steered clear!

It was fairly expensive - �£7.99 - from my local Garden Nursery, but the box has lasted well over a year and still has a quarter left. You only have to sparingly sprinkle around the earth for the cats to get the message!

Hope that helps?

Lisa
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Sorry Auuarian3 they have just gone up to �£9-99
MEF750

 

I'm glad you had success with that stuff. My cats could clearly smell it, sniffing interestedly, than squatted on it regardless-Grrr!
I have tried the garlic smelling stuff, which made me feel ill, the lemony stuff, pepper dust and the lion poo and nothing stops my cats peeing on the lawn :(

 

'Keep off' - its a green crystal slime concoction. they hate the smell.
Also line your boundries with chicken wire facing inwards - and last but not least, get a cat! It'll keep others out.
i've got lots of cats and took your shotgun remark with good humour - i know they can be little devils, but it's upto you to protect your property minus anything cruel not for them to keep away as they can by law

 

forgot to add, get a water pistol, one of those big ones and squiret them when they come to your garden and they should be too afraid to come back.

 

Well, if you have cats you live with their little habits, mine always come inside to use their litter trays then go back out. Wouldn't mind so much but I live surrounded by countryside not neighbouring gardens!
If you don't own the cats there are heaps of products from plants they hate the smell of to an automatic water pistol based on motion sensor to granules you can sprinkle around precious areas that are meant to repel them. Good garden centres can advise or you will find them advertised in the back of most garden pages.

 

lol mine do that! i spend a fortune on cat litter when they could just do it outside. they must just be above that 'going outside' malarky.

 

a fortune on cat litter? don't even get me started on vet bills!