My next door neighbours cat has now given up skulking in my garden , after it attacked my pond I now net it and spray water at it. The persecution is working thankfully. However I experienced a magpie attacking my blue tit box this spring not a cat.
wat sa load of wingers cats bury there u know wat did you ever hear of disinfectint just pour a small bit on your path and leave it for an hour and then hose it down while brushing it away they dont like this smell plus if you put milk plastic and clear water bottles in the garden full of water just spread them on the flower beds where you dont whant them to go to believe me the hate seing there owen reflection in the bottles plus im sure you know the dont like water
I'm glad I'm not the only one who suffers from these menacing moggies. I have put alpine stones right across my borders to stop them using it as a toilet, now they mess on the lawn. And I love seeing the birds and squirrels in my garden, I feel like I'm on guard duty every day, trying to protect the birds from the cats. I sit in my greenhouse, I can see them but they can't see me, so when I suddenly appear with a bucket of water, well, you should see them fly, it's great.
They built a bypass close to our house which ruined lots of farmland and habitat, The homeless rats and rabbits came into the garden and caused havoc with our chickens along with the ragwort seed which killed 3 hens! A badly treated stray we took in had 3 kittens and thay are now all spayed. They patrol my and the neighbours veg patch and this year we have had no rabbit damage and hopefully they will keep the rats away from the chickens this winter. Well worth the £500 vet bill for the spaying and ops to sort out mum cat.
I don't want cats in my garden under any circumstances and I have tried everything to keep them out. When I had a dog she was trained to stay out of neighbours' gardens as they would have soon complained. However, it seems to be perfectly acceptable for their cats to use my garden as a toilet! The damage and destruction is really not fair and we are forever chasing them away from the bird table None of the cat deterents work, maybe I need another dog.
This is a story without an end, isn't it? I have just taken my furry friend for a blood test so I am feeling bad! Did you hear on the telly the other day of the danger caused to our 'cute and endangered species'(of little birds)by the feeders that humans put out for them? These are spreading disease easily amongst little birds because of the proximity by which the birds are feeding and have, in fact made some species extinct. This is due to the humans not being very particular about cleaning their bird feeders. Birds are territorial but feeders are like our supermarkets where we all pick up germs from each other along with our food! I find this worrying. Once more - don't be too angry with the cats - Humans are supposed to be 'intelligent'.
I could'nt agree more Juliemay. I found a bottle of green gel called keep out or stay away for my garden, the cats hated it. I used to put some down every few days and it worked, I got it in Wilkinsons, great stuff. Since I started putting alpine stones in my borders the cats don't mess in them anymore because they don't like the sharp stones on there paws, but they now mess on the lawn. I also get the foxes and they mess everywhere and dig out my pots. I have started getting a couple of sparrowhawks in the garden, but they kill to survive, the cats kill for fun. There is another gadget, it looks like a loud halla but smaller, it has two settings on it, one for scarring the cats and one to stop dogs barking, B&Q sell them, I don't know how good they are but I'm willing to try anything once, I think there about £10.00 pounds, not much if it works, hope that is of some help.
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There are less birds of prey. Foxes are rife and there are quite a few mink type predators around. So do we have less predators now with cats or more?
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Did you hear on the telly the other day of the danger caused to our 'cute and endangered species'(of little birds)by the feeders that humans put out for them? These are spreading disease easily amongst little birds because of the proximity by which the birds are feeding and have, in fact made some species extinct. This is due to the humans not being very particular about cleaning their bird feeders. Birds are territorial but feeders are like our supermarkets where we all pick up germs from each other along with our food!
I find this worrying. Once more - don't be too angry with the cats - Humans are supposed to be 'intelligent'.