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Mystery pooper part 3 (buying cat repellent stuff)
RubyLeaf
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I'm back, again. Since I last posted about this issue, the mystery cat crapping on my lawn nearly every night has not been deterred by my efforts. The first thing I did was prune my roses so I could use the thorny branches to cover the lawn. This sort of worked. However, because I didn't have enough branches and not enough thick ones, the cat happily crapped on the other part of the lawn. He even tip toes through any gaps to even poop on the branches.
The next thing I tried was using my spare chicken pellets. I soaked them in vinegar. Boy did they reek. Covered a section of the lawn, but the cat seemed to of tip toes through the gaps and even pooped on a pile of the pellets.
Before I refused to spend money, but when I think about it, we buy things to prevent pests such as the cabbage butterfly, and really, this cat is a pest. From what I've read, chicken wire is a good idea, but has to be angled to the cat can't jump over it. How high and what degree of an angle? The second piece of equipment I looked at that seems to be a great idea is a spray repellent. One issue is this pooping is being done on the front lawn. My hose will stretch, but this spray would likely trigger when someone walks across the path nearby. That brings me to the second issue. My front lawn isn't big, and its more of a width issue than a length one. I've seen a spray that reaches 10m, but I wouldn't even need half of that.
Please, if you can offer some recommendations and such I'd be so so grateful.
The next thing I tried was using my spare chicken pellets. I soaked them in vinegar. Boy did they reek. Covered a section of the lawn, but the cat seemed to of tip toes through the gaps and even pooped on a pile of the pellets.
Before I refused to spend money, but when I think about it, we buy things to prevent pests such as the cabbage butterfly, and really, this cat is a pest. From what I've read, chicken wire is a good idea, but has to be angled to the cat can't jump over it. How high and what degree of an angle? The second piece of equipment I looked at that seems to be a great idea is a spray repellent. One issue is this pooping is being done on the front lawn. My hose will stretch, but this spray would likely trigger when someone walks across the path nearby. That brings me to the second issue. My front lawn isn't big, and its more of a width issue than a length one. I've seen a spray that reaches 10m, but I wouldn't even need half of that.
Please, if you can offer some recommendations and such I'd be so so grateful.
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Cats are a rule into themselves. It's not even my cats that are doing it as mine still use a litter tray.
I really don't want contraptions all over my garden but the Sounders seem to work for others.
I guess I simply didn't do enough research and let my only (negative) view of them fester. Posy said: Perhaps. But it would need to be designed for a small area. I've only done a quick search, and those I've seen were ones designed spray up to 10m which as I've said is WAY too much.
As for resignation. No chance on Earth. There is no way I'm going to clean up its crap nearly every night for the remainder of its life. It wears you down after doing it for a long time, and with this lockdown affecting us all in some way, its just too much for me now. I've had it. My front lawn is not its personal toilet, and its going to learn that fact.
When I had a male cat, I encouraged it to poop in the litter tray and in our back garden. I like to think I brought them (I had two) up right. You can train cats to a degree. So the cats will be cats saying isn't quite so true to me.
I acknowledge though that everyone has different approaches and ways of handling things 🙂