Dissuading cats from my flower bed...

thatmguy

thatmguy

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Any recommendations on non-lethal ways to keep the neighbors cat from crapping in my flowerbed?

Asking hasn't worked.

I know a permanent solution, but would prefer to try something else...

Cayenne has not worked....
 
We had a male cat spraying around our heat pump. As a result, we'd come home and our house would smell like cat piss. Never could catch him in the act.

I went to our local pet store and bought a product called Repel II Dog & Cat Repellent. It comes in a cardboard container similar to a half-gallon milk carton. Contains granules that you sprinkle around the area you want to protect. We never had any more trouble after I put it out all around our heat pump.
 
We had a nasty time with cats in our garden when we first bought the house. Terrible smell, digging everywhere, and piles of buried poo. Best solution, get a dog.

-Bob
 
Have fluggin allegies to pet-type animals, or a Dobe woulda taken care of it already...:thumbup:
 
In the areas where it won't interfere with the appearance you can lay down strips of chicken wire (or rounds), window screen is softer and will lay flatter on the ground.

In my half whiskey barrels I cut out rounds from old window screening I had.

Anything that interferes with the cats moving the dirt makes them want to find a better place.

If you find your efforts work but not entirely, you could try leaving a sacrificial area of loose dirt somewhere in the area of the garden bed.( you would have to keep it inviting)
 
Tiger or Lion poop in the flower bed. It is something to do with them being a cat from higher up the predator chain. Ask your local zoo. This is not a wind up. Longleat Safari Park in the UK sells it it bags. It looks like horse manure and does the soil good. Apply yearly.
 
i hate folks who allow there animals to mess in others yards, how inconsiderate can ya get?????

i was outside washing my car a few weeks ago and dude walks by me with a lab on a leash and the dog squats and craps right in my yard, right in front of me, dude just starts to walk off, i said "dude, arent ya forgetting something"? and he says "oh sorry will be back for it" and he did come get it, but man, carry a plastic bag with ya to clean up after your pet, my yards not a toilet. makes me wonder if i hadnt said anything if he would have come back for it, i hope so but ya never know. nothing against animals though, just clean up after them.

rant off.
 
SIFU1A said:
i hate folks who allow there animals to mess in others yards, how inconsiderate can ya get?????.
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Cats are different. You let them out, and they come back. If you know the owner contact them. Other than that.... well..... Cats are cats.
I hope something works. Try your local pet store. I know cats really hate walking on sticky tape... that's what we use inside, masking tape laying face up.
 
I had the same situation going on 7 or 8 years ago. During the summer, the area (mulched beds) around my front door smelled like cat piss / ammonia ... After two summers of the same nonsense, it was time for action. If you've tried it before, you likely know that talking to pet owners about bad dog or cat behavior normally doesn't yield the desired permanent result, so other steps are in order when a "stray" :D animal is repeatedly making your life difficult.

Ole Razz just borrowed a live trap, put a bowl of nice smelly cat food in it and I bagged the sucker the first night. :D He was the biggest ugliest Tomcat I think I'd ever seen ... almost Bobcat size. I'm an early riser, so I just loaded the trap into the back of the truck and drove 20 miles south and released him into a "good" neighborhood. I'm sure he's still up to his antics, but 20+ miles from my house.

Razz
 
My neighbour has 12 (yes, TWELVE!!!) cats & must admit they dont seem too much of a nuisance in my garden, but theyre constantly under my car, spraying so my car always smellls of cats.
I read that they dislike citrus, si I mixed up some orange juice, lemon juice & water in one of those little garden sprayers & sprayed a good mist of it around the area of my car, under it, around the tyres & along the sills, So far, it seems to be working.
 
Cheap- ammonia soaked rag in a plastic container with holes poked on top placed next to whatever. More expensive- motion sensor connected to garden hose, anytime the beam is broke cat gets watered.
 
Hope some coyotes move into the neighborhood? I had some neighbor whose wife grew up on a farm and thought we needed 20 or so "barn cats" living through out the neighbor hood. I said to them several times that I did not like coming home and finding 6 or more cats on MY porch or in my yard using my flowerbeds as a toilet and they just ignored me... when confronted by another neghbor the guy just said "do whatya gotta do"! ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE! somehow they all seem to have disappeard this winter. It is a shame that an animal has to suffer because someone feels it is thier right to let an animal run free. Sad thing is if it was just one no one around here would have minded much. But litterally 20 some cats running your residential lot gets old quick!

As far as the IDIOT who knowingly dumped a problem cat in another neighborhood... what a jerk! and thats putting it mildly....
 
A good friend of mine also was having problems with cats. The neighbors were feeding all of the strays, and it was causing problems.

So, he just trapped them one by one and released them down the street or whenever he went to Walmart. It worked pretty good, as none of them came back, and the neighbors now have inside cats.
 
braddy said:
In the areas where it won't interfere with the appearance you can lay down strips of chicken wire (or rounds), window screen is softer and will lay flatter on the ground.

In my half whiskey barrels I cut out rounds from old window screening I had.

Anything that interferes with the cats moving the dirt makes them want to find a better place.

If you find your efforts work but not entirely, you could try leaving a sacrificial area of loose dirt somewhere in the area of the garden bed.( you would have to keep it inviting)
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I'm with braddy. Chicken wire works great against cats because they don't go where they can't disturb the dirt and the plants will grow right up through it. You just lay it down in the spring, cover with a thin layer of mulch, and you're good to go (but the cats aren't).
 
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