when i had cats.. i kept an area of my flower beds empty and bare.. dug it over regularlary and my cats always used it.. as did others.. but mine never went anywhere else.. as it was soft and easy for them dig..
so maybe other cat owners could do the same..
Exactly, I have the same and I gave my neighbour a big bottle of Jeyes Fluid too, no cats have visited her since, at least not ours!
See the main difference between a cat and a dog is dogs sleep at night and cats don't. Are they meant to be shut in all night? Are we meant to stay up all night following them around? How would you deal with that?
I wear gloves when working. Its not nice to grab a pile of cat poo but every job has its drawbacks and in the grand scheme of things I can think of worse things.
I have an area under my conifer where nothing will grow so it is dry, loose and easy to dig in from all the leaves falling off said conifer. My cat goes nowhere else. I, initially, sprinkled some cat litter on the area when we first rescued her and she quickly caught on. She does go into many neighbours' gardens but for adventure only.
We haven't had any mice in the house since we got her either
Aw this gave me a good chuckle this morning! Can't imagine how this would possibly work. Visions of a cat warden lurking in the bushes, catching cats doing their business where they shouldn't, chasing them through peoples gardens, to capture them and identify owner. Ridiculous!
If you don't wants cats in the garden get a dog, or borrow one for a while until cats learn.
I would be more interested in encouraging horse riders to scoop the mammoth messes they leave behind in the parks and roads near me!
No Cat problem here, but maybe you could start a petition against foxes they keep crapping on the lawn. Or maybe rabbits too.
Or the farmer next door who has calves dropping pats all day. Actually the worst is muck spreading you could cut the air with a knife on those days.
Seriously cats are pretty clean they bury their waste, a completely different situation to that of dogs or foxes. Jeyes fluid seems to be the thing for cat control. Cats are also pretty good on the mouse / rat problem. Which is a much bigger issue, as mice are basically incontinent. pretty disgusting when they get into your kitchen cupboards.
seen in Derbyshire garden , a very tall cage made from a wooden frame with attached chicken wire (even across the top ) and a chicken wired /wooden gate .Shade for cats, a dugg area for the crap , and a litter tray ,a movable tree trunk .
Thought it was a odd thing to do - but maybe its the answer - the cats seemed to be enjoying themselves and still there at dusk - there was a covered area which contained blankets . Maybe the cats bed ?
Ours spend the day under low-growing shrubs waiting for me to walk past with something large like a wash basket so that I can't see my feet. They then skitter out and grab me round the ankles before zooming off towards the horizon.
I know what you mean about muckspreading, Blackest. Oh those lovely rural smells.
If you have a dog you can have a fence to keep it in your garden.If everyone with a cat had to keep them in their own gardens then the fences would have to be very high and slippery.I doubt many people would like this type of fence constructed. I have an indoor litter tray which my cats use. They still enjoy going out and exploring.
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Exactly, I have the same and I gave my neighbour a big bottle of Jeyes Fluid too, no cats have visited her since, at least not ours!
LOL archiepem!
See the main difference between a cat and a dog is dogs sleep at night and cats don't. Are they meant to be shut in all night? Are we meant to stay up all night following them around? How would you deal with that?
I wear gloves when working. Its not nice to grab a pile of cat poo but every job has its drawbacks and in the grand scheme of things I can think of worse things.
I have an area under my conifer where nothing will grow so it is dry, loose and easy to dig in from all the leaves falling off said conifer. My cat goes nowhere else. I, initially, sprinkled some cat litter on the area when we first rescued her and she quickly caught on. She does go into many neighbours' gardens but for adventure only.
We haven't had any mice in the house since we got her either
well charlies a swine for that she brings them in the middle of the night and let them loose and birds in the day . gets locked down stairs now
Aw this gave me a good chuckle this morning! Can't imagine how this would possibly work. Visions of a cat warden lurking in the bushes, catching cats doing their business where they shouldn't, chasing them through peoples gardens, to capture them and identify owner. Ridiculous!
If you don't wants cats in the garden get a dog, or borrow one for a while until cats learn.
I would be more interested in encouraging horse riders to scoop the mammoth messes they leave behind in the parks and roads near me!
No Cat problem here, but maybe you could start a petition against foxes they keep crapping on the lawn. Or maybe rabbits too.
Or the farmer next door who has calves dropping pats all day. Actually the worst is muck spreading you could cut the air with a knife on those days.
Seriously cats are pretty clean they bury their waste, a completely different situation to that of dogs or foxes. Jeyes fluid seems to be the thing for cat control. Cats are also pretty good on the mouse / rat problem. Which is a much bigger issue, as mice are basically incontinent. pretty disgusting when they get into your kitchen cupboards.
seen in Derbyshire garden , a very tall cage made from a wooden frame with attached chicken wire (even across the top ) and a chicken wired /wooden gate .Shade for cats, a dugg area for the crap , and a litter tray ,a movable tree trunk .
Thought it was a odd thing to do - but maybe its the answer - the cats seemed to be enjoying themselves and still there at dusk - there was a covered area which contained blankets . Maybe the cats bed ?
Not my garden, please note.
Ours spend the day under low-growing shrubs waiting for me to walk past with something large like a wash basket so that I can't see my feet. They then skitter out and grab me round the ankles before zooming off towards the horizon.
I know what you mean about muckspreading, Blackest. Oh those lovely rural smells.
lol Waterbutts, not a day goes by without me saying "this cat will be the b***** death of me". I'm sure he is trying to make me break my neck.
If you have a dog you can have a fence to keep it in your garden.If everyone with a cat had to keep them in their own gardens then the fences would have to be very high and slippery.I doubt many people would like this type of fence constructed. I have an indoor litter tray which my cats use. They still enjoy going out and exploring.