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Cats messing in my garden!!!!!
Frunchy2904
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Any advice on how to stop cats fouling in my garden. Have tried all the pellets, powders etc from garden centre and no luck! It's getting ridiculous now....Clearing up after them everyday!
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(Seriously, there are loads of solutions out there but you have to find the ones that suit your particular cats - scaring them away is probably the best bet).
I still read glowing recommendations for the ultra expensive noise machines that detect cats crossing their beams - all I can say is that they didn't make the slightest difference for me.
else there is a plant that cats apparently don't like,
Use the search option or pop over to the pets section, This has been covered many, many times
I joke of course
By sheer chance we spotted a plant in a garden centre with a picture of a cat and a cross over it..
We purchased 2 of them.. Planted them and the poop stopped within days.
I didn't realise at time of purchase/planting that they makes cats sick and feel bad as we noticed cat sick/runny poop next to the plants the day after planting them as we were intending to remove them ( we thought it was just the plants smell that would deter them). Never had to remove the plants in the end as the cat(s) stopped visiting after then. We've seen the cats so they are ok thankfully, just seems that whatever this plant does, its very effective.
The plant stinks of pee,can't remember name of it.
Coleus canina this is the name of it. Also known as the scaredy cat plant. What I remembered being a red cross over it was actually red writing.
I once put a bottle of water on the front lawn to deter the next door's dogs away by word of advice and it actually worked!
I have tried loads of things in the summer i sit out there with a schooling whip and crack it if one steps foot in my garden
The best thing we found was man-wee, its all about marking the territory, you only need a little bit ( don't want your garden smelling like a urinal) put in the area the cat poo's and it will keep them away
*lady-wee doesn't work due to different hormones etc
No they don't even have the decency to cover it up
I second this! I bought one of these plants not expecting it to really work and it did. I was getting cats coming into my open front porch and crapping in all the plant pots. Within days of putting the plant out there they stopped visiting. That reminds me I need to buy another because the frost killed mine.
I must admit those cats did have brains, if they were in the front garden and saw us coming up the road walking the dogs they would disappear very quickly
One of the neighbours did that,now she just lets that shit everywhere on her garden without clearing it up.
If you're a gardener it's better that way, at least you can see where it is. :cool:
This!! Its about time these people were made responsible for their purring rats.
The best method is an air rifle.
'They don't like it up em'.:)
But living in the real world I find tat sticking sprigs of holly in the spaces between plants deters them to some extent.
They like freshly dug soil so try and avoid this by heavy planting.
My 2 do, and always where I want to grow my veg:(