Keeping cats out of a garden?

[Shox Dr]

She would be neither surprised nor concerned

 

[Pete.]

Remember a scarecrow does what it says on the tin, scares crows. You might also scare away the very creatures you are feeding and photographing

Get a scarecat then....

 

[mike 109444]

Did hear on radio that they are looking to reintroduce the lynx into uk !
Maybe that's the answer get a lynx and scare the poop from the local cats!

 

[brightspark]

get yourself a big ginger tom of a farm and no cats will dare come in to your garden

 

[the snooper]

get yourself a big ginger tom of a farm and no cats will dare come in to your garden

I don't know anyone that fits that description let alone who owns a farm

 

[Pete.]

Super soaker sounds fun my dad was an old skool landscape gardener, will ask if he has any proper creosote

The garden is quite big, with various different fences, hedges, walls and buildings on the perimeter, so would be impossible to use the spiky strips

When this came up on another forum someone suggested using a super soaker loaded with a mixture of cola and lemon juice. The cola will make the lemon juice stick to their fur and they'll be forced to lick it off.

 

[the snooper]

When this came up on another forum someone suggested using a super soaker loaded with a mixture of cola and lemon juice. The cola will make the lemon juice stick to their fur and they'll be forced to lick it off.

sods law that cat in question would like it and be back for more

 

[colnerov]

A couple of years ago a mates parents decided a pair of Doves in the garden would be nice. So they got a pair, put up a Dovecote and put out food for them. So far so good, before they knew it a dozen Pigeons had moved in. So that was the end of that

 

[julianf]

If my dog wasn't lazy/simple/scared of the rain/a typical whippet, he would probably scare them off with no harm done, however due to me being on call today I've spent most of it at home, he's been out twice for a ****, ran back inside, had some food and came in to my office with rspca eyes when the heating went off. Cat deterrent he is not

Whippets*, in their natural habitat -

Ive posted the same sort of photo before. Once again, there's two of them there, back to back.

My partner made these 'bed' things. Theyre like an envelope, with an old duvet in the bottom half, and just a blanket on the top half. They love them.


A better photo of the apparatus (which i have posted before) -

 

[julianf]

ps. i have not seen one of our hounds today. I know she is in there, as i can hear her breathing. I guess she will say hello at some point.

 

[johnyev]

Mothballs round the edge of the garden seem to work for me

 

[PhillipM]

sods law that cat in question would like it and be back for more

Neighbour of mine once bought one of those ultrasonic cat scarers that give a high pitch 'click' out every now and again to keep most cats away so they didn't soil in his plants - said it worked great up until my eldest cat came over to see him in a morning (he used to feed her his bacon sandwich whilst sat outside, cat got a better breakfast than me!) - she sniffed around it, and promptly laid by it in the sun all day for weeks.

She was half deaf by then - I guess she couldn't hear the clicks and just found a nice spot in the sun without any other pesky cats around!

 

[julianf]

If the cats were wild would they then be welcomed into your garden? Would you put food out for them?
More over if the birds were pets, let's say someone in the area has a flock of Pidgeons, would they no longer be welcome?

They are all just natures creations, how about trying to appreciate the beauty and grace of the cats as much as the birds.

Just a thought.

If they were wild, their numbers would be managed by their environment, and their frequency so low as to not cause upset to the same extent.

Not only that, but, rightly or wrongly, people would shoot them without a second thought.

 

[daleyd]

Neighbour of mine once bought one of those ultrasonic cat scarers that give a high pitch 'click' out every now and again to keep most cats away so they didn't soil in his plants - said it worked great up until my eldest cat came over to see him in a morning (he used to feed her his bacon sandwich whilst sat outside, cat got a better breakfast than me!) - she sniffed around it, and promptly laid by it in the sun all day for weeks.

She was half deaf by then - I guess she couldn't hear the clicks and just found a nice spot in the sun without any other pesky cats around!

Our ginger tom farm cat was sat next to our previous neighbour while she was putting the smelly anti cat stuff around her garden - he always had a rubbish sense of smell!!

 

[PhillipM]

If they were wild, their numbers would be managed by their environment, and their frequency so low as to not cause upset to the same extent.

Not only that, but, rightly or wrongly, people would shoot them without a second thought.

He might get upset if the neighbours start shooting his birds too...

 

[Kent]

As some of you may have noticed I like photography, and this year I've set up some bird feeders and a table in the hope of some nice shots in the summer,

However it has attracted the attention of a couple of local cats, and due to the feeders being low ish the cat(s) are scaring the birds off

Any non lethal effective methods of keeping them away? the dog will chase them off but I'm not home to let him out all the time

Mrs Kayos has already said no to an air rifle or a sack with a brick inside, so must be non lethal

Ok without reading through the whole thread here is what worked for me when cats were using my kids play area as a litter tray when I lived on a suburban housing estate a number of years back.
Placed a few plastic flocked crow decoys on top of the swing! Crows and magpies mob cats and other predators / competitors but cats have less than great brains or nose so it worked real good for me. after all cat poop is not what you want walking into your house or to see on your kids

The only other thing is a water squirter device sold widely to keep herons off a fishpond that is triggered by a PIR and no they are not expensive.

 

[Keith 66]

I used to have a cat (inherited from a lodger) & he was a fine old tiggermogger who i got quite attached to. However primarily i am a Dog person.
Thing that gets my goat is that i clean up after my dog & yet cat owners think it is aceptable for their pets to crap everywhere but their own property.
I have had my young son aged 3 at the time put his hands in cat crap in our garden & it wasnt funny. Sorry folks but i simply aint having the poxy things crapping in my garden. Fortunately our collie is pretty sharp & keeps cats out so we dont have a problem at the moment!

 

[brightspark]

what annoys me is with cats i work at punters houses and they have a sh,,,it tray in the kitchen cat has a crap then jumps on the worktop where food is prepared. i generaly swipe em off if i see them on worktops

 

[Rocketman]

what annoys me is with cats i work at punters houses and they have a sh,,,it tray in the kitchen cat has a crap then jumps on the worktop where food is prepared. i generaly swipe em off if i see them on worktops

Thing that gets me is the pavement is poop tray for dogs yet every dog owner picks the dog poop up?? beats me how it gets there. Must be the dog poop fairies??

 

[Keith 66]

Dont get me started on the morons who pick their dog crap up in a bag then hang it on a bush so its there for the next 25 years.
We truly are a filthy society.