Your neighbours have 5 which I agree wholeheartedly is a problem.
The water pistol worked in my neighbours garden because she had medium sized square city garden. She was elderly and mainly sat by her back door. The pistol could get a good shot across a lot of the garden. She made a sport if it. Perhaps not the best option is you have a large garden or are not always around.
I like cats and love seeing them in gardens (including my own) but I don't like the deposits they leave . I'm not sure why the local cats find our garden so appealing and use it as a litter tray, I get very disheartened at times as they even get in my veg trug.
The trouble with the water blaster I had is the cats just got wise to it. It would go over 40 feet no trouble, but they knew full well to run off if I did so much as open the back door. Then they would be back soon after.
I really got to see a lot as my entire garden is covered by CCTV wildlife cams. So I could monitor all the deterrents I tried.
Nothing I tried was effective before the Scarecrows. Now cats only run along the back of the garden as quickly as they can, they hardly ever come in these days at all.
What a change from a garden that was literally overrun by cats and smelt so bad I couldn't bare being out there on hot days.
I always found holly leaves very effective, , but I made cages covered in fine netting for my veg.This also had the benefit of keeping the cabbage whites away
The cats we get in our garden either come over the back fence or either of the side fences and bolt down the path at the side of the house if startled.
I've recently planted a holly hedge down the western fence as a windbreak, though it will take years to grow dense enough for that and a Hazel/Dog Rose and Blackthorn hedge down the east fence which seperates my garden from the footpath. The south fence which screens us from the local supermarket has ivy and honeysuckle growing up it. Hopefully, these will make it too inconvenient for the little swines to just hop into the garden for a poop.
B3, I thought so, but was too polite to say! Wish I had asked you last week, as this was when I pruned my holly and disposed of the cuttings! Never gave it a thought......
I have a bigger problem with them leaving their messages on the lawn. If anybody has a solution to this one I'd love to hear it, particularly as the use of a shotgun doesn't seem to be approved of by most people here.
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Your neighbours have 5 which I agree wholeheartedly is a problem.
The water pistol worked in my neighbours garden because she had medium sized square city garden. She was elderly and mainly sat by her back door. The pistol could get a good shot across a lot of the garden. She made a sport if it. Perhaps not the best option is you have a large garden or are not always around.
I like cats and love seeing them in gardens (including my own) but I don't like the deposits they leave . I'm not sure why the local cats find our garden so appealing and use it as a litter tray, I get very disheartened at times as they even get in my veg trug.
The trouble with the water blaster I had is the cats just got wise to it. It would go over 40 feet no trouble, but they knew full well to run off if I did so much as open the back door. Then they would be back soon after.
I really got to see a lot as my entire garden is covered by CCTV wildlife cams. So I could monitor all the deterrents I tried.
Nothing I tried was effective before the Scarecrows. Now cats only run along the back of the garden as quickly as they can, they hardly ever come in these days at all.
What a change from a garden that was literally overrun by cats and smelt so bad I couldn't bare being out there on hot days.
I always found holly leaves very effective, , but I made cages covered in fine netting for my veg.This also had the benefit of keeping the cabbage whites away
Did I say ivy?? - brain dead after trimming ivy in my garden. I meant HOLLY!
Or maybe I was getting in the mood for Christmas
Holly really does work. Deters squirrels too.
The cats we get in our garden either come over the back fence or either of the side fences and bolt down the path at the side of the house if startled.
I've recently planted a holly hedge down the western fence as a windbreak, though it will take years to grow dense enough for that and a Hazel/Dog Rose and Blackthorn hedge down the east fence which seperates my garden from the footpath. The south fence which screens us from the local supermarket has ivy and honeysuckle growing up it. Hopefully, these will make it too inconvenient for the little swines to just hop into the garden for a poop.
B3, I thought so, but was too polite to say! Wish I had asked you last week, as this was when I pruned my holly and disposed of the cuttings! Never gave it a thought......
Many thanks, you made me chuckle!
I have a bigger problem with them leaving their messages on the lawn. If anybody has a solution to this one I'd love to hear it, particularly as the use of a shotgun doesn't seem to be approved of by most people here.
We used to live in a rural village, our problem was fox poo on the lawn.