We have an indoor litter tray for our two kittens. They are starting to pee outside now but still do the other indoors. We also clean up after our two dogs when out on walkies or around the garden.
Given that we have nearly 4 acres of land and the neighbours on one side are beef cattle farmers and the family the other way have a dog and 3 horses, I don't think our cats are going to poo anywhere indiscreet.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
In Harrow we had the standard 30s size garden and up to 7 cats at any one time as strays found us a soft touch. Next door there were 3. Next door but 1 two more and so on. The other way was one dog who howled all day cos they left him home alone and then more cats.
Nobody got aerated. We all just wore rubber gloves when planting and hand weeding. It honestly wasn't that messy.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I have had cats for many years, all with indoor litter trays, and I really don't think their poos are that messy. They are just regular t*rds. Neighbours cats do their business in my garden, I do though object when people let their dogs poo at my step or beside the garage. Now that is bad news. And its more than 10 times bigger than a cat's poo.
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Well the poo that was right in the center of my lovely fern in the winter was a light colour and was was very runny! It wasn't something I could take out so I hadn't to just wash it away with a watering can.
They had completely trampled it flat and then messed on it so I had to chop all the fronds off. it looked such a mess!
I have noticed when they pooed in the borders it was mostly runny and not a solid poo so god knows what the culprit/culprits have been eating!! I knew they had done it even from a distance because I would look out of the kitchen window and see that a plant had completely disappeared. When I went outside the plant was buried under a huge mound of soil!
We have had a nightmare too, terrace house and 2 cats to left and 4 in 3 houses to right.
It got really bad when our previous neighbours left taking their 2 cats who only pooed indoors in their trays, but did sit in our garden (territory?). Tried sonic scarers - some success, grapefruit and orange peel - no success, gel - no success, smelly plants - no success.
What did work was holly trimmings stuck end up in the bed over winter (ouch). As the spring came we piled on loads of well rotted horse manure (damp and smelly) kept the holly spikes and edged the bed with chicken wire. Touch wood nothing has happened for at least 2 months. Plants are now filling the spaces but I do have to remember to cover any areas on pots until the plants grow bigger.
I read that it helps if it can be cleared up quickly and sprayed so they forget where to go. The cats still do come in the garden but just to drink out of the watering cans now.
It is soul destroying sometimes. Will look up the water scarecrow , my friend had huge success with a water spray box in her horses door that kicked, so it is an effective deterrent.
I haven't read the full thread (I was eating my lunch..) I used to use a water scarecrow to keep the herons away from my pond. It did work and would almost certainly scare a cat away. As soon as it triggers, sending out pulses of water about 25ft over a wide arc, the hissing sound of the jets of water would scare most creatures before they got soaked.
But beware - I've forgotten the number of times I've walked down the garden and got a soaking walking past the pond. A fun trick to play on visitors too
Billericay - Essex
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I just read on Which? that the majority of the readers rated chicken or wire bamboo spikes and half as may rated electronic devices. We have an area hidden by plants that the cheaper options are worth trying.
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We have an indoor litter tray for our two kittens. They are starting to pee outside now but still do the other indoors. We also clean up after our two dogs when out on walkies or around the garden.
Given that we have nearly 4 acres of land and the neighbours on one side are beef cattle farmers and the family the other way have a dog and 3 horses, I don't think our cats are going to poo anywhere indiscreet.
In Harrow we had the standard 30s size garden and up to 7 cats at any one time as strays found us a soft touch. Next door there were 3. Next door but 1 two more and so on. The other way was one dog who howled all day cos they left him home alone and then more cats.
Nobody got aerated. We all just wore rubber gloves when planting and hand weeding. It honestly wasn't that messy.
I have had cats for many years, all with indoor litter trays, and I really don't think their poos are that messy. They are just regular t*rds. Neighbours cats do their business in my garden, I do though object when people let their dogs poo at my step or beside the garage. Now that is bad news. And its more than 10 times bigger than a cat's poo.
Well the poo that was right in the center of my lovely fern in the winter was a light colour and was was very runny! It wasn't something I could take out so I hadn't to just wash it away with a watering can.
They had completely trampled it flat and then messed on it so I had to chop all the fronds off. it looked such a mess!
I have noticed when they pooed in the borders it was mostly runny and not a solid poo so god knows what the culprit/culprits have been eating!! I knew they had done it even from a distance because I would look out of the kitchen window and see that a plant had completely disappeared. When I went outside the plant was buried under a huge mound of soil!
We have had a nightmare too, terrace house and 2 cats to left and 4 in 3 houses to right.
It got really bad when our previous neighbours left taking their 2 cats who only pooed indoors in their trays, but did sit in our garden (territory?). Tried sonic scarers - some success, grapefruit and orange peel - no success, gel - no success, smelly plants - no success.
What did work was holly trimmings stuck end up in the bed over winter (ouch)
. As the spring came we piled on loads of well rotted horse manure (damp and smelly) kept the holly spikes and edged the bed with chicken wire. Touch wood nothing has happened for at least 2 months. Plants are now filling the spaces but I do have to remember to cover any areas on pots until the plants grow bigger.
I read that it helps if it can be cleared up quickly and sprayed so they forget where to go. The cats still do come in the garden but just to drink out of the watering cans now.
It is soul destroying sometimes. Will look up the water scarecrow , my friend had huge success with a water spray box in her horses door that kicked, so it is an effective deterrent.
Don't give up
I haven't read the full thread (I was eating my lunch..)
I used to use a water scarecrow to keep the herons away from my pond.
It did work and would almost certainly scare a cat away.
As soon as it triggers, sending out pulses of water about 25ft over a wide arc, the hissing sound of the jets of water would scare most creatures before they got soaked.
But beware - I've forgotten the number of times I've walked down the garden and got a soaking walking past the pond.
A fun trick to play on visitors too
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.