Foxes will attack any cat,they may not always be successful.I have known many friends cats that have been beaten up or ripped open, one had to have 1oo stitches If you value your cat you should try to keep it in at night.Many cats dissapear and i think foxes take a lot of these. Cats are wonderful companions for many elderly or lonely people so although i do feel for you gardeners out there please deter rather than hurt the cats that come into your garden they are very precious to someone and you cant stop them from roaming.Live and let live, you may not be perfect.
I feel the answer is to befriend the cat and when you've spent a fortune controlling the activities of someone else's pet, shave your phone number in the cat's side and I guarantee the owner will call as soon as the cat gets home. You can then both laugh about it and discuss where to deliver the shoe-box full of receipts for cat-deterrants..
Meanwhile back in the real world this debate will rage on as long as people keep cats as pets. Perhaps a cat-tax that funds local wildlife projects would help relations?
My cats use my garden to do their business and not the neighbours gardens. I haven't trained them to do it as such, but I did dig them a nice patch of soil and put a little 'used' cat litter onto it to give them the idea of using that particular place. Even my stray cat I took in used this on his first time outside. There are a few people in the street where I live that will kick a cat if they see it somewhat putting one foot onto a driveway, they don't even try to shoo or scare it away first.
There is a fox that comes onto my allotment though - I leave water out for her (I've been told it is definitely a her by the old guys there). She doesn't do much damage other than leaving footprints for me to find, we're not allowed any livestock on our allotments so there's nothing for them to kill. I know that a fox will kill all the chickens in a coop but only take one away with them but according to some family members who either grew up in a farming environment or still are, the fox kills them all because the chickens can't get away and the fox suddenly has a lot of prey. Think of a cat trying to catch birds on a bird table - cat jumps towards the intended bird and the other fly away, put the cat into a cage of birds and it may well kill all the birds even if it was originally only intent on killing one of them. This is how it was explained to me anyway whether the fox would kill all the chickens if they could get away as easily as birds on a table I don't know.
There's also cats that come onto the allotments - they catch mice and the like and to date I've not found 1 piece of poop deposited on my freshly dug beds at all, the worst offenders of poop are the dogs that some of the owners seem to think they can let roam around when they think there's nobody else there.
Chrissie get a blaster water gun and they soon learn. For foxes get a male (human kind) to urinate along your borders. Preferably when it is dark or save it and use a watering can.
I almost ran over the local fox the other evening. It ran right out in front of my car!
Mind, it's looking old & manky so I wonder if it's coming to the end of its days.
I have made it difficult for the neighbours' cats to walk across my fence-I have hammered nails all across it close together.
And I keep a plastic bottle full of water so that if they do try to cross the fence & jump into my garden I splash some water at them.
Plus I bought this garlic powder stuff in Wilkinsons. Is very pungent. Even if it has no effect on the local moggies at least I know I'm safe from vampires
after reading this blog, it seems to me that only a sonic device is useful in combating the fox problem. Any suggestions which brand etc gives 100% results
Cats are instinctive as are all animals ,we humans are the conniving ones,trouble is we think animals are like humans,when realy we could learn alot from animals if we care to observe! I used to hate ,but now I love!my moggie has saved me because if i diddn't have him to look after where would I be only I know the debt of gratitude I owe him,he is totaly oblivious and that's how it should be :-)
I had a friend with the same cat poo problem so every time it pood she put it on a spade and threw it back over the fence to the owner so try that. Cat owners are the same as dog owners - their pets can poo anywhere they like but not on their patch so just keep returning it.
I have noticed that cats donot like my garden to poo in, because I have been taken over by brambles, nettles and dandelions. I was unable to attend to the weeding last year.
as I live in the Lincolnshire Wolds, our views of foxes are quite clear, vermin. However, our cat, a little tortie (read "Velociraptor") took apart a fox that made the schoolboy error of visiting our lane a few year ago. Oddly the chickens beat the living hell out of the cat, but the cat still looks after their interests. The cat often goads and attacks our neighbours ratty dogs too. The cat's name is "PC", all bow to to PC, respect the cat.
Posts
Cats are wonderful companions for many elderly or lonely people so although i do feel for you gardeners out there please deter rather than hurt the cats that come into your garden they are very precious to someone and you cant stop them from roaming.Live and let live, you may not be perfect.
Meanwhile back in the real world this debate will rage on as long as people keep cats as pets. Perhaps a cat-tax that funds local wildlife projects would help relations?
There is a fox that comes onto my allotment though - I leave water out for her (I've been told it is definitely a her by the old guys there). She doesn't do much damage other than leaving footprints for me to find, we're not allowed any livestock on our allotments so there's nothing for them to kill. I know that a fox will kill all the chickens in a coop but only take one away with them but according to some family members who either grew up in a farming environment or still are, the fox kills them all because the chickens can't get away and the fox suddenly has a lot of prey. Think of a cat trying to catch birds on a bird table - cat jumps towards the intended bird and the other fly away, put the cat into a cage of birds and it may well kill all the birds even if it was originally only intent on killing one of them. This is how it was explained to me anyway whether the fox would kill all the chickens if they could get away as easily as birds on a table I don't know.
There's also cats that come onto the allotments - they catch mice and the like and to date I've not found 1 piece of poop deposited on my freshly dug beds at all, the worst offenders of poop are the dogs that some of the owners seem to think they can let roam around when they think there's nobody else there.
Mind, it's looking old & manky so I wonder if it's coming to the end of its days.
I have made it difficult for the neighbours' cats to walk across my fence-I have hammered nails all across it close together.
And I keep a plastic bottle full of water so that if they do try to cross the fence & jump into my garden I splash some water at them.
Plus I bought this garlic powder stuff in Wilkinsons. Is very pungent. Even if it has no effect on the local moggies at least I know I'm safe from vampires
results