I have my garden sectioned off from my dog. A) because he likes to dig things up, but because I like to walk around barefoot, and I have my grand children come, so I want somewhere foul free for them to play. Now I have my neighbour's Cat messing in there instead. I've put spikes in my beds, but instead it's started messing on my lawn.
Now for those defending cats and saying they are protected, and have the right to roam as they wish, so what? As owners you have a responsibility to your pet. To me this is a cop out to not take responsibility for your own pet. I'm sick of your cats in my garden. I'm sick of having to slam the brakes on when one decided to run in front of my car, and thus someone else nearly hits the back of me, because I actually don't want to hit your pet that actually I'm allergic to, and rather phobic of. I'm sick of spending MY VERY LIMITED MONEY on muck bags for your cats stinking mess in my garden. I'm sick of my bin stinking for two weeks with your cat's muck in it. I'm sick of it on my boots, tools, or worse still, my clothes and hands. All because you can't be bothered to take responsibility for your own pets as dog, or any other pet owner has to.
I have a friend who rescues cats. She's just as annoyed as I am by all those of you that allow your cats to roam. She hates that you let your cats get run over, and she has to pick them up, that you allow them to stray so that she becomes responsible for them, and that they get poisoned because you don't provide for them as you should. She has 12 at the moment. They have a huge enclosure in her garden that they can access from her house. This is what people with cats should do instead of making them someone else's responsibility. You see, if I wanted to be doing all that I do above, I'd have bought a cat myself. Instead I'm searching the internet trying to find ways to keep them out of my garden in ways that won't cost me even more money, and I've already tried Lemon peels, juice, oil, coffee grounds, and citronella. Now I'm using spikes, but the damn thing has just moved to my lawn >:-( I have ME, and my garden is the only bit of pleasure I have left to me, and now it's being destroyed by someone else's cat!
Thank you for your response, Philippa, it's appreciated. I've since had a more direct word with the owner, who has agreed to try and keep her in, or rehome her, since she now also has kittens :-( Another responsibility that many owners lack in taking care of.
I bought one of those sonic cat scaring things. It worked directly behind where I placed it for all of two days. Then I caught the cat squatting right in front of it. It looked at me over its shoulder as though to say 'Challenge accepted!' I hate the damn thing with a passion. I've hacked my poor roses and hawthorn hedges to bits to place their thorns on the beds, and it still craps everywhere. It gets in amongst my Raspberry canes, has no sense of smell at all! I put down £18 worth of ground pepper in two days and the damn thing dug through it like it was fresh sand to mess in!!!! If it can't mess there it does it in the open on my lawns. Then the next thing you see is all the bleeding heart posts on facebook because their cats are missing, been run over, or have been poisoned.
Again, be responsible owners. Try looking after your pets. Keep them in, or build them a pen. Keep them safe, and stop expecting everyone else to take responsibility for your pets.
In total now I have spent over £150 trying to keep this cat out of my garden, to no avail. For a garden I can no longer use, because of someone else's cat, a cat they said they would keep in, but don't. That is money I can't afford, and money I would much rather have spent on my actual garden to please me. I don't wish ill on the cat, but I can fully understand why people poison them. I've looked all over youtube, and the net, the only things I haven't tried are chemicals, chilli to burn her feet and mouth, and poison.
I was told Moth Balls, because of the smell, but they are a pesticide/chemical, and I garden organically. Aside from the fact that they stink just as bad as the cat muck, I'm already worried about what I've put down is doing to my soil :-( I was also told jayes fluid, various spays with bleach, and all stuff that I just wouldn't want to use :-(
The problem I have is that my garden is large with several access points. I doubt even a scarecrow water pistol thing would work, because the cat would have to walk past it, which may work once, as the sonic thing did.
I tried a detergent bottle as a water pistol but wasn't effective enough. I invested in a super soaker pump-action water gun for about £20 . It is the equivalent of a water sawn -off shotgun with instant blast and a range of 10metres. It's great fun but unfortunately the cats rarely visit anymore. They don't annoy me anymore and as soon as they see me they scarper!
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I have my garden sectioned off from my dog. A) because he likes to dig things up, but
because I like to walk around barefoot, and I have my grand children come, so I want somewhere foul free for them to play. Now I have my neighbour's Cat messing in there instead. I've put spikes in my beds, but instead it's started messing on my lawn.
Now for those defending cats and saying they are protected, and have the right to roam as they wish, so what? As owners you have a responsibility to your pet. To me this is a cop out to not take responsibility for your own pet. I'm sick of your cats in my garden. I'm sick of having to slam the brakes on when one decided to run in front of my car, and thus someone else nearly hits the back of me, because I actually don't want to hit your pet that actually I'm allergic to, and rather phobic of. I'm sick of spending MY VERY LIMITED MONEY on muck bags for your cats stinking mess in my garden. I'm sick of my bin stinking for two weeks with your cat's muck in it. I'm sick of it on my boots, tools, or worse still, my clothes and hands. All because you can't be bothered to take responsibility for your own pets as dog, or any other pet owner has to.
I have a friend who rescues cats. She's just as annoyed as I am by all those of you that allow your cats to roam. She hates that you let your cats get run over, and she has to pick them up, that you allow them to stray so that she becomes responsible for them, and that they get poisoned because you don't provide for them as you should. She has 12 at the moment. They have a huge enclosure in her garden that they can access from her house. This is what people with cats should do instead of making them someone else's responsibility. You see, if I wanted to be doing all that I do above, I'd have bought a cat myself. Instead I'm searching the internet trying to find ways to keep them out of my garden in ways that won't cost me even more money, and I've already tried Lemon peels, juice, oil, coffee grounds, and citronella. Now I'm using spikes, but the damn thing has just moved to my lawn >:-( I have ME, and my garden is the only bit of pleasure I have left to me, and now it's being destroyed by someone else's cat!
Thank you for your response, Philippa, it's appreciated. I've since had a more direct word with the owner, who has agreed to try and keep her in, or rehome her, since she now also has kittens :-( Another responsibility that many owners lack in taking care of.
Hello,
We love all animals in our happy house.
We also love feeding wild birds in our garden.
What we don't like is neighbourhood cats killing the birds we feed & leaving their mess in our garden.
The ONLY solution we have found is the UK made ultrasonic cat deterrent Catwatch.
It scares the cats away using noise which you can't hear,but the cats don't like.
Tested & approved by The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Available online, it works, and best of all is does not harm the cat, it's just a noise.
The ultrasonic thingy works for me too.
Although the constipation issue hasn't gone away!
Lol
I bought one of those sonic cat scaring things. It worked directly behind where I placed it for all of two days. Then I caught the cat squatting right in front of it. It looked at me over its shoulder as though to say 'Challenge accepted!' I hate the damn thing with a passion. I've hacked my poor roses and hawthorn hedges to bits to place their thorns on the beds, and it still craps everywhere. It gets in amongst my Raspberry canes, has no sense of smell at all! I put down £18 worth of ground pepper in two days and the damn thing dug through it like it was fresh sand to mess in!!!! If it can't mess there it does it in the open on my lawns. Then the next thing you see is all the bleeding heart posts on facebook because their cats are missing, been run over, or have been poisoned.
Again, be responsible owners. Try looking after your pets. Keep them in, or build them a pen. Keep them safe, and stop expecting everyone else to take responsibility for your pets.
In total now I have spent over £150 trying to keep this cat out of my garden, to no avail. For a garden I can no longer use, because of someone else's cat, a cat they said they would keep in, but don't. That is money I can't afford, and money I would much rather have spent on my actual garden to please me. I don't wish ill on the cat, but I can fully understand why people poison them. I've looked all over youtube, and the net, the only things I haven't tried are chemicals, chilli to burn her feet and mouth, and poison.
Anyone tried cucumbers?
Having seen youtube compilations of cats literally jumping in fear at the sight of one placed behind them, I think I'll give it a go.
There's a black one that's shitting in my new flower bed, the little twat.
I was told Moth Balls, because of the smell, but they are a pesticide/chemical, and I garden organically. Aside from the fact that they stink just as bad as the cat muck, I'm already worried about what I've put down is doing to my soil :-( I was also told jayes fluid, various spays with bleach, and all stuff that I just wouldn't want to use :-(
The problem I have is that my garden is large with several access points. I doubt even a scarecrow water pistol thing would work, because the cat would have to walk past it, which may work once, as the sonic thing did.