Urgent Advice - Cat poop in garden - Arrrrgh!

Hi,

I have one cat living one side of me and 3 cats on the other. As i have dug a large area of my garden over (not long owned the house and garden was a jungle so pulled weeds and dug over), the cats are using my garden as a litter tray - its driving me mad not to mention the nasty presents that I have to remove. I have tried 'Get Off' but it was about as much use as a chocolate fireguard so i'm wondering the best way to stop them pooing in my garden? i have even borrowed a dog for the day but that did not stop them.

Any tried and tested ideas??

Thanks

 

Ill look forward to the replies on this!!!!!

A water pistol works well but every time i mention it 'someone' gets irate about cruelty ...... despite the fact that thopse of us who have cats and know that a squirt of water is completly harmless!!!!

 

This will work. http://www.deteracat.co.uk/scarecrow_water_jet_pack.htm

word of warning...make sure you're sitting down before looking at the price. :D

 

A fire hose works better.
Dig the little presents up and chuck them over the fences of the cat owners, try to do it in the correct proportions 3 lots one side to 1 lot the other got to be seen to be fair.

 

Yeah I'd go for this one lol or squirt them with the hose.

There's a gravel drive down the road from me and as soon as they laid it the cats started using it. She's got one of those sonic things but the cats aren't bothered by it. I am cause I can hear the bloomin thing. She's now got that coleus whatsit plant that cats aren't supposed to like but when I had it I found a cat sleeping with it's head on it and the cats are still using her drive.

 

I'd say use a water pistol on them if you see them, eventually they'll not come in. I have 4 cats and use my back garden to grow some veg in a bed. Took 3 days with the water pistol to stop them going into it, no messing in it just laying on the soil but not what you want with seedlings. 'Get off' doesn't seem to have much of an effect on cats, and one cat nearby deliberately sets off the sonic scarer's people have around here (seen it doing it and the cat never runs away just moves out of the sensor range). Apparently cats don't like citrus - wish someone would tell one of my cats he loves orange juice. Go with the water pistol - you don't need a big expensive one as long as it wets the cat it'll work.

Luckily my cats use a piece of ground in the garden for their outside toilet so cleaning up after them is easy.

 

While you are saving up for your waterjet kit you might like to try chicken manure pellets 'they don't like the smell of them, If everyone trained their cat to use a tray we wouldn't be bothered with the filth.

 

I use brushwood cuttings to deter cats from using recently dug over soil, we have three cats, all litter tray trained but they will always prefer outside.



Some cheep netting has also worked well for us in the past before we moved here, back then there was a huge population of cats where we lived...and the netting stopped all deposits.

Steve...

 

Didn't realise they didn't like the chicken pellets. I use them gardening so thats why i have no cats lol that and the fact I send my Staffy and GSD after them.

 

I use chicken pellets and it will not deter our 3 cats, nor will any of the commercial products available that we have tried...the latest for this year was "Scent off"...which had a reverse effect actually attracting the blessed little blighters to sniff around and then do what thy had to do. A physical barrier is best.

BTW..in our last house our neighbour tried a few of those sonic cat scarers because she had a very active bird table attracting every cat in the neighbourhood seemingly. Cat ignored all of the different versions and the noise from the sonic scarers drove her nieghbours crackers.

Steve...

 

A little squirt is the answer :lollol:....I'd love to see someone doing that to my cat and then able to hold their'pistol'

 

Hmmm.... after reading the advice i think a physical barrier would be best. We're not actuall living at the house so a water pistol is not a good option - it' like, i turn up at the house to work on the place and the scent of eau de cat s**t comes wafting in the windows - seriously NOT NICE!!!! I think i will peg some netting over the area as my mum suggested. Thanks for all your ideas and if anyone has any more i welcome them!! My mum says my uncle used to put out lemonade bottles with water in and lay them on their side on the flower beds - anyone heard of this? My grandad has pieces of cut up hose cos he says they look like snakes and apparantly the cats don't like them?

 

I sypathise with your problem, but in my experience the cats tend to take an interest if you have bare, freshly dug soil. Once your plants take over the cats don't seem as interested.

 

I always use Growing Success Cat repellent (you can get it in Wilkos). It seems fairly effective and because you only need a sprinkle of granules, it does'nt cost a fortune to apply regulary. Plus you don't get left with bits of Gel, etc all over the soil, like some products.

I have tried a sonic repeller, but most of the cats (we have plagues of them round here) take no notice and my repeller ate batteries, like it worked for Everready.

One of my neighbours has an electric fence, which is very effective, except he tends to forget it is there and often zaps himself. :hehe:

 

Cats again:D