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Cats. Pets or pests?

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  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    pansyface said:
    Of course, homo sapiens is the top of the top five. Worldwide destruction of ecological health. How do you keep them out of your garden?
    Exactly:
    - not taking care of the garden at all
    - erecting fences that foxes break neck and leg and no hedgehog can go through 
    - planting the opposite of what insects need to live
    - spraying weed killer
    - mowing permanently the lawn
    - etc.

    I ♥ my garden.

  • Chris-P-BaconChris-P-Bacon Posts: 943
    bédé said:
    I name cats as in the top five garden, health and ecological problems.  How you I keep them out of my garden?
    Use the search function (which nobody does!)..sit back, open a bag of popcorn and prepare to be entertained.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I really don't like popcorn.  Nasty, squeaky stiff like polystyrene.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited November 2022
    B3 said:
    You've chosen the number one guaranteed subject to cause a row on the forum. Enjoy😒

     For "row" read healthy debate.

    Although so far, it doesn't seem much of a debate.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Healthy debate [sometimes] that's been done a hundred times though, and usually ends up in a particular way.  

    @Chris-P-Bacon - although, in this instance it [the search function] does work. There just isn't space for the amount of threads on the subject  on it :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    edited November 2022
    Dove,I was thinking Hosta will be rich this week. I have found the only sure fire way to stop cats coming in the garden...is to have one of your own. I suppose living in a flat without a garden would also work! We have to have our front garden open plan,and we get the dog ****. I have had dogs since childhood,am very mindful even where they wee, not on people's shrubs or wheelie bins.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Nanny Beach said:
    ...is to have one of your own.
    I trust everyone has seen the Shalford and Brighton cats on TV.  The urban ones do a sort of time-share of territories.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Your trust is misplaced. But don’t bother to enlighten me.
    Rutland, England
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Incase anyone is wondering why Hostafan will be getting rich it is explained here -
    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1039121/cats

    There are some tips on cat prevention here -
    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1065417/cat-in-my-garden/p1
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Update,was on a slightly different post, regarding cat belonging to someone else. My daughter is moving Saturday, since she moved someone has been feeding/taking in her cat....yet again. She posted on her"neighbourhood friends" post.  This isn't Mumsnet, might just have well have been! She said if someone has fallen in love with him, especially a child, she doesn't want to try and take him. If an adult cat appears,he's likely got an owner. He's microchipped,they could have taken him to a vet and checked! She got suggestions,try the RSPCA( they wouldn't be interested) at the end of the day,he's HER cat,cost a huge amount in vet bills. She got abuse!!! She's obviously not interested in him,she's moving and abandoning him,vile. She had a 3rd nervous breakdown recently,and has been physically unwell to.
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