I, for one, have no problem with the issue being raised again. Maybe somebody, someday, will come up with a solution and it will get posted in to a new topic. Sadly, I won't hold my breath waiting. Just as sadly I will have to hold my breath when clearing the deposits left on my lawn by other people's "little darlings".
I did make a suggestion on a previous thread about where to insert the end of their tails, but that didn't meet with universal approval.
Joe47 - I know, it just reminded me of a quote and I thought I'd share it with you.
That is very true and that is in fact a concern I have and that is why I'm starting to grow things in my back garden, I'm now choosing repeatable organic certified products over non organic,and (not that it makes much of a difference) choosing locally sourced fruit and veg.
I get a couple of cats who visit, but they are not allowed to dig or squat and if they do they get shhushed away, but they behave and they know they can sunbathe on my shed roof .. But don't get me started on foxes.. guess its just conditioning..
a quick jet from the hose seems to work wonders and a comment from the owner as the wet cat dashed indoors.The comment was appropriate " I don't blame you I wouldn't like a cat S******* in my gardening !!.
This is my last comment on the subject - why am I spending time and money cat proofing my garden. The cat owners should be cat proofing theirs so they don't get into other people's.
Simples.
..and the carpet gripper rod works a treat.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you want to fertilizes your plants with cat poop and pee then by all means go ahead, I know farms can use nasty stuff on their crops, that's why last year I experimented with growing my own stuff which was a great success!
You have to know about cats before you can deal with them. I assume that catching them and corking them is out the question as is any kind of harm, I'll assume they are OK to wander about but not do their business in the garden?
All cats are individuals, some will go in your garden, some in a litter box and some will go next door. Some cats bury their business, some don't - my neighbours loves squatting on my front lawn, sometimes it pretends to be bothered and scrapes the grass but mostly it won't.
So assuming they are all unique, they all dislike different things - you just have to find out which and also the cheapest since you might have to repeat what you do until the cat learns to go somewhere else. If you can identify which cat is making the mess that helps - it might only be one
All I can say is what worked for me. First off I worked out where the cats were getting into the garden, based on an assumption that if I needed to poo I wouldn't want to be jumping over a wall I looked for low level and blocked that off. You have to be good and a few sticks might need to be foot wide fence of sticks, similarly guiding where the cats go... they might have gone that way anyway and the sticks don't do anything. After about 3 months of no cat poo from the fence I started to remove portions of it to make the garden tidy... until the poo came back - that showed where the cats were getting in. You could sit and watch the garden to find this out but cats are 24 hours a day creatures, you need something else.
So know I know where the cats get in time to plant prickly bushes in the area - gooseberries worked for my with strings across the row of bushes to train them. I also get the fruits to eat.
As for chemicals - I stopped that since I kept running out, however I have a ready supply- my babies potty - the pee gets flung over the grass (pee has nitrates in - good for fertiliser if not too strong) or the areas the cats poo on. This seams to work.
As for slower beds, have to stop them digging so while the flowers are growing, sticks on top so they can't claw through or chicken wire
So find out where they get in and make that unpleasant to go through, or block it up, pee on the garden, sticks / chicken wire on the flower beds to stop digging worked for me.
Oh, and also the biggest culprit had an argument with a fox one night... that helped.
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Chris,
I, for one, have no problem with the issue being raised again. Maybe somebody, someday, will come up with a solution and it will get posted in to a new topic. Sadly, I won't hold my breath waiting. Just as sadly I will have to hold my breath when clearing the deposits left on my lawn by other people's "little darlings".
I did make a suggestion on a previous thread about where to insert the end of their tails, but that didn't meet with universal approval.
Joe47 - I know, it just reminded me of a quote and I thought I'd share it with you.
That is very true and that is in fact a concern I have and that is why I'm starting to grow things in my back garden, I'm now choosing repeatable organic certified products over non organic,and (not that it makes much of a difference) choosing locally sourced fruit and veg.
I get a couple of cats who visit, but they are not allowed to dig or squat and if they do they get shhushed away, but they behave and they know they can sunbathe on my shed roof ..
But don't get me started on foxes.. guess its just conditioning..
BLT ; the difference nobody owns a fox. they're wildlife.
Sorry , but I just thing the total cop out of cat owners " it's in their nature" just shows how selfish they are( the owners , not the cats)
The way ahead constant watering.
This is my last comment on the subject - why am I spending time and money cat proofing my garden. The cat owners should be cat proofing theirs so they don't get into other people's.
Simples.
..and the carpet gripper rod works a treat.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you want to fertilizes your plants with cat poop and pee then by all means go ahead, I know farms can use nasty stuff on their crops, that's why last year I experimented with growing my own stuff which was a great success!
Next year I plan on growing more things.
I don't see it as a question of either controlling cats or doing something else, jo47. We can do more than one thing at the same time.
Cats...
You have to know about cats before you can deal with them. I assume that catching them and corking them is out the question as is any kind of harm, I'll assume they are OK to wander about but not do their business in the garden?
All cats are individuals, some will go in your garden, some in a litter box and some will go next door. Some cats bury their business, some don't - my neighbours loves squatting on my front lawn, sometimes it pretends to be bothered and scrapes the grass but mostly it won't.
So assuming they are all unique, they all dislike different things - you just have to find out which and also the cheapest since you might have to repeat what you do until the cat learns to go somewhere else. If you can identify which cat is making the mess that helps - it might only be one
All I can say is what worked for me. First off I worked out where the cats were getting into the garden, based on an assumption that if I needed to poo I wouldn't want to be jumping over a wall I looked for low level and blocked that off. You have to be good and a few sticks might need to be foot wide fence of sticks, similarly guiding where the cats go... they might have gone that way anyway and the sticks don't do anything. After about 3 months of no cat poo from the fence I started to remove portions of it to make the garden tidy... until the poo came back - that showed where the cats were getting in. You could sit and watch the garden to find this out but cats are 24 hours a day creatures, you need something else.
So know I know where the cats get in time to plant prickly bushes in the area - gooseberries worked for my with strings across the row of bushes to train them. I also get the fruits to eat.
As for chemicals - I stopped that since I kept running out, however I have a ready supply- my babies potty - the pee gets flung over the grass (pee has nitrates in - good for fertiliser if not too strong) or the areas the cats poo on. This seams to work.
As for slower beds, have to stop them digging so while the flowers are growing, sticks on top so they can't claw through or chicken wire
So find out where they get in and make that unpleasant to go through, or block it up, pee on the garden, sticks / chicken wire on the flower beds to stop digging worked for me.
Oh, and also the biggest culprit had an argument with a fox one night... that helped.