Even though I hate them I will tolerate cats today. I am in a very happy mood because my brother's wife has given birth to a beautiful baby girl this morning. So, moggies, enjoy the amnesty for today
Congratulations Chrissie. Can I suggest Cat-arina or Kitty for a name? So pleased for you and your brother and every best wish to your new neice. E. xx
I think we have just about done this subject to death. Congrats on the baby but never never say foxes are not destructive. My neighbour came down one morning to find all 17 of her chicken lined up against the wire with their heads bitten off.Only one was taken. I wonder if as much fuss is made of bird and squirrel poo. I agree with Emily about live and let live or do you feel that anyone who upsets you should also be shot?
I have found that Prika-Strips along my fence tops have stopped my neighbours Tom cat from coming into our garden. I bought them off ebay and it took minutes to attach them with small nails(you can also use screws if preffered) along the top edges of all of my fences,job done! You could also attach them to fence & gate top edges. They are strips of plastic spikes, once the cat, or even fox maybe, in question has tried to land on the fence top to jump on & over well i think it's self explanatory. I also have(had),fox & badger probs in my large garden,so i have left their self dug hole under my hedge & bought a sonic fox scarer & aimed it at it-worked wonderfully,no more dug up lawn or stinkey fox poo. Had to be done as my garden was fast being taken over by them big time. But no actual harm done, we have our garden back as a nice place to sit in minus the tom cat pee smells which were truly awful and the fox poo's which our dog loved to roll on & no more huge badger dug up caverns,plants etc. I've planted a new shrub in front of the hole to disguise it but have left it there in case they decide to excavate another way in instead, to keep the said hole where i know it is. Mens pee sprinkled around your gardens perimeter also works re bagders especially. I used to get my hubby to pee into a well washed & rinsed out 4 pint plastic milk bottle, but when it rains you may have to do it again. It really works, though it has to be a mans pee re the correct pheromones etc to be present. I love wild life but when it becomes a nuisance factor within my own garden i reserve the right to control it. Foxes will attack & take both young inexpereinced & elderly cats. My vet has warned me that now my cats are elderly not to leave them outdoors on a warm summers night, as they are toothless now really & not as alert or as quick to move should they need to. My dog refused to go down to the bottom of our garden after dark if the badgers were out & about, but now since we have got the scarer in place he will venture further, until he activates it & then he runs indoors quite smartly as he doesn't like the high pitched whistles it emits-proves it works anyway. It's battery operated with an optional mains wire & plug, but it's been happily doing its thing for us for a month now on the same batteries. You can see the little red light blinking as it activates against anything warm blooded,we can't hear it unless we press the button to check it. Wonderful invention.
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Nicely put Emily :-)
I like the names, Emily. Really made me chuckle
I wonder if as much fuss is made of bird and squirrel poo.
I agree with Emily about live and let live or do you feel that anyone who upsets you should also be shot?
I bought them off ebay and it took minutes to attach them with small nails(you can also use screws if preffered) along the top edges of all of my fences,job done! You could also attach them to fence & gate top edges. They are strips of plastic spikes, once the cat, or even fox maybe, in question has tried to land on the fence top to jump on & over well i think it's self explanatory.
I also have(had),fox & badger probs in my large garden,so i have left their self dug hole under my hedge & bought a sonic fox scarer & aimed it at it-worked wonderfully,no more dug up lawn or stinkey fox poo. Had to be done as my garden was fast being taken over by them big time. But no actual harm done, we have our garden back as a nice place to sit in minus the tom cat pee smells which were truly awful and the fox poo's which our dog loved to roll on & no more huge badger dug up caverns,plants etc. I've planted a new shrub in front of the hole to disguise it but have left it there in case they decide to excavate another way in instead, to keep the said hole where i know it is.
Mens pee sprinkled around your gardens perimeter also works re bagders especially. I used to get my hubby to pee into a well washed & rinsed out 4 pint plastic milk bottle, but when it rains you may have to do it again. It really works, though it has to be a mans pee re the correct pheromones etc to be present.
I love wild life but when it becomes a nuisance factor within my own garden i reserve the right to control it. Foxes will attack & take both young inexpereinced & elderly cats. My vet has warned me that now my cats are elderly not to leave them outdoors on a warm summers night, as they are toothless now really & not as alert or as quick to move should they need to. My dog refused to go down to the bottom of our garden after dark if the badgers were out & about, but now since we have got the scarer in place he will venture further, until he activates it & then he runs indoors quite smartly as he doesn't like the high pitched whistles it emits-proves it works anyway. It's battery operated with an optional mains wire & plug, but it's been happily doing its thing for us for a month now on the same batteries. You can see the little red light blinking as it activates against anything warm blooded,we can't hear it unless we press the button to check it. Wonderful invention.