How do you stop a cat shatting in your garden?

[Zebedee]

got to say that this has got to be the funniest thread in ages!!

I'll go along with that......hilarious in fact.

 

[NMH]

Time for a little jungle warfare if you ask me. Dig neat hole in garden, about 3 to 4ft deep. Place sharp knives facing up, and some broken glass, then cover hole with light collapse-able twigs and straws, leaves and stuff.
Enjoy results the next day

I will see if I can find a recipe for 'buggered cat' and let you know.




Now, if you wish to catch and torture the feline before turning into garden mulch and compost - try several mousetraps (or rat ones, larger) distributed around the area. Tie a string to each one and reel the one in that appears to have snared this catch.

Cat is very flammable when a rum flambe is applied, it de-furs the meat and this will also finally discourage the meal from further struggle before consumption.

 

[Shegull]

Not only do I have a problem with the neighbourhood cats but last night the kids told me that we have a birds nest in the attic.

Where did I go wrong that everything out there seems to take a shine to my house and garden.

 

[Yorkie]

Using anything that smells is useless because rain washes out any smell.

If you have been pruning any hedges then leave the twigs all over the mulches because cats need somewhere comfortable to squat whilst defecating.

If you haven't then buy garden sticks (cheaper than bamboo canes) and break them up into 6 inch lengths. Stick in the gardne vertically every 6 inches or so - consequence - no comfortable space for Tiddles to tiddle so to speak.

After a few months you can take all the sticks out again because they will have found somewhere else regularly to go.

Tip courtesy of Alan Titchmarsh.

 

[Caveman]

We've got a dog but cats still shit in our garden.
It's not a problem though - as the dog eats cat shit.

Gulp! I don't have a dog!

I've also unearthed what appears to be "white cat poo",
now this brought tears to my eyes, not only because of the smell, but when was the last time you saw white shite..??

P.S. Please tell me you don't let your dog lick your face?

 

[Caveman]

Yorkie I will try!

 

[Train Spotter]

Shoot them with a Super Soaker !
Great Fun !!

Failing that, put a great big fence up.

 

[Dover]

Chilli powder worked for me with six of the local moggies. Now no problems.

 

[Gully]

Thanks Dover, we have a couple of decent asian supermarkets in Gloucester, I will go and buy a catering pack of chilli powder and paint my garden red...

 

[portslade seagull]

i suppose gully that if you can't beat them
bloody well join them because when they see
a richard that big they're piss themselves
and hot foot it out of there !!!!!1

 

[ziggy]

Is this a lady with two large towers...? If so anytime after 5.30pm

She's a cat!
But she has the temprement of Vinnie Jones when she sees another cat!

 

[CAFC Matt]

MY dad throws my football boots at em and if they hit with the studs they don't come back. Bloody things used to shat everywhere

 

[Gully]

Cracking good idea Portslade, but I am new to the street and still trying to suss out and make a good impression with the neighbours (particularly the lass across the road), what will they think of me if they see me taking a dump in the garden? Think I will stick with the Chilli idea, far less damaging on the environment, and my reputation...

 

[Gazwag]

So Mr Caveman, did you manage to stop that dam cat shatting in your garden and if so which method did you use?

 

[Gully]

Don't know about Caveman but they are still doing it in my front garden and occasionally on the grass at the back...

 

[Brightonfan1983]

I've heard that cats 'go' in foreign territory. So if you welcome them in and be nice to them, your garden is no longer out of bounds and they'll go further afield.

But this could also be b*ll*cks.

 

[Strike]

Shall we put this award winning thread in NSC gold?

 

[Gazwag]

Our next door neighbours are about to move who have three black cats. One of their cats is allergic to some cat food but goes into a house opposite us through the cat flap, eats their cats food and is then sick on the kitchen floor.

Therefore a good way to solve a cat problem is to get the owners to move out.

 

[graz126]

we have 2 cats and they kept shitting all over our garden. aswell as other peoples cats. we tryed training them but have been told that 1 of them has a mentle disorder. problem is it would be unfair to make our cats shit in next door neighbours garden instead. so here was our solution and it works. dig over a small area of fresh soil. they will shit in it all the time. this is not what you want though.
the bit you do want is lemon juice, it is a poison to cats. this does tend too wash away eventually. but you can buy some brilliant lemon scented thyme, produced by doome valley (ours was anyway). plant this around your garden it is a beautiful herb. and it does keep the cats away. it works for me anyway.
wish we could just get rid of the cats instead. dont think the kids would be too happy though.

 

[m20gull]

I've heard that cats 'go' in foreign territory. So if you welcome them in and be nice to them, your garden is no longer out of bounds and they'll go further afield.

But this could also be b*ll*cks.

It is b*ll*cks. One of our own cats uses our garden all of the time.

Water is the best weapon - whether a water pistol or a jet washer. There is much entertainment in soaking a cat thoroughly with a hosepipe. And not only that, the cat goes home and gets its owner's house wet too.

Ands why don't all dogs eat cat poo? Only one of ours does.