Cat Deterrent Talk.? All post of this nature in this thread only.. Humane talk only please.!

Discussion in 'Pests, Diseases and Cures' started by Marley Farley, Feb 25, 2013.

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    Maybe,but cats are easy to look after. :smile:
     
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      Particularly if you get them to poo in someone else's garden :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
       
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        They always do that usually.
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          So I've had a good read through this thread after getting fed up of cleaning cat poop up or going over it accidently with the lawnmower (although most of it is off topic and complete waffle in relation to repellents!).

          I'm going to go for the Catapult Animal Repellent spray due to it containing the aluminium ammonium sulphate. I looked at the Scat-a-cat pellets they do but they are the garlic based ones.

          Vitax Stay Off Ready To Use spray looks very similar too.

          The cheese grater and citronella candle idea was not something I fancied doing!!
           
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            The best deterrent we had was the cat that adopted us and lived in our greenhouse. He kept all other cats out as well as dogs, foxes, squirrels and badgers. He only allowed birds and looked after them with a passion, never killing them except for the hawks that went after the birds. He even let the baby pheasants play with him. :dbgrtmb:
             
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              Wonderful; thank you. One of mine used to try to play with the resident pine marten. Who did not know what to make of that.
               
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              Our cat protected all the birds and we have a lot of stories about him. His motto seemed to be 'Two legs good, four legs bad'.
               
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                hi we moved in 3 yrs ago and there are alot of cats about mostly they dont come in but our next door neighbour has 8 cats we have tried different detterent eg plants , plastic spikes , sprays , water , sonic noise , they still come in and dig poo and wee we are totally fed up with them dont get me wrong we like cats but with the amount of money we have spent of protection for our garden is huge , the neighbours even had a go at my wife and said she is shooo cats out of garden in a un frienedly maner how is unsure as she is all ways with me as i am her carer as well has husband ... any advice would be great thanks
                 
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                  You need to get a cat or dog.;)

                  Just joking, but it works.:smile:
                   
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                    thanks for your reply we do have a dog he is the same one in the avatar picture his name is king rocco one for the ladies .. IMG_20200726_173826_resized_20201012_034018723.jpg
                     
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                      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                      OH of course, does he chase cats?
                       
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                      rocco is a very friendly dog he is more inquisitive than chase we have a cat next door called tilly both rocco and tilly had a sniff of each other which i find strange
                       
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                        What works for us most of the time, is to use some fine mesh black netting laid on top of the soil and pegged down, cutting slits in it to go over existing plants or to allow new ones to come through.

                        Has worked well for several years and once the plants are growing you do not really see the netting.

                        Also for areas difficult to net, treading the soil down so creating a hard surface makes them look elsewhere for softer soil.

                        The other effective method are the PIR water sprayers, they soon learn the gardens out of bounds.

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                          thanks for your reply we tried meshing the garden where the flowers and veg grow cats still come in to mess about , we have spent alot of cages to house veg and flowers but the cats are still coming into the garden , with water sprayers i think you need a outside tap which we have not got
                           

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                            I'm lucky as I have good neighbours and they, years ago, let me erect a 3' high by 6' long frame of slack Chicken wire on top of and along my 6' high fences. At the time I had two Cats with one in particular always trying to climb onto the Garage roof which meant me when returning from work to climb a ladder in my Suit to get her down. I put those frames on the fences to keep my Cats in and stop them from becoming run over as had happened to previous Cats that we had. But, one unrealised bonus when I built the frames was that they have also kept Cats out due to the fact that when a Cat jumps onto the frame the slack Chicken wire makes the Cat go backwards and they can't hang on and so fall off and that works the same for my Cats. There is only one other access point to my garden and that is a 7' tall wooden garden gate/door which no Cat has ever jumped over.:cat-kittyandsmiley::coffee:
                             
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