Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: cat poo
first dog wee, now cat poo!
A cat (not ours, we don't have one) keeps doing little poos around our garden. They are so small I'm assuming it's territory marking.
How (other than electric fences!) can I stop it? I have to go round the garden to clean up the poo every morning and I'm getting sick of it. _________________ Aqui, T and Baby Jack!
Not an easy idea this but it worked successfully for a friend of mine, when I had snakes she'd put my snake's poo round her roses she didnt have any trouble from local moggies after that lol! If you don't know anyone local with reptiles you can by some stuff I think it's called "Zoo Poo" about £12 a bag from garden centres and I've been told it's just as effective _________________ Life Is BRILL When You Have Genuine friends & The Odd Stalker & Many Guests!
My next door neighbour has 9 yes n i n e of the little darlings & of course the ones that visit my garden to do their whatever & make dough with the roofing felt on my workshop "aren't any of hers"...
I have tried many ways & they all only worked for a short amount of time , in my experience any way they just find somewhere else to do it, I have found that when I put rat traps out, to catch the rats coming up from the stream one of the effective ways as you can move them around, oh make sure they aren't baited & I use big bits of plastic to spring the traps so that it only gives a fright...
Don't forget the average domestic mog causes more damage to wildlife than a land based wind turbine too... _________________ the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants which they themselves create...
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Little sticks, can be prunings and about 4" high above the ground, this way the cats can't settle their bottoms! But if your son fell into these little sticks they should not hurt him at all.
I have taught everybody this round our way, you only have to look into everybodies flower pots and they all have little sticks to see it works.
Cats very rarely poo in their own gardens I have a cat but as I have 25 month old twins next door, Mum and Dad use this technique in the corners of thier garden. We have a litter tray and our cat uses this to poo everyday (we know this cause we have to clean it out everyday) which I so much prefer. But I do know that I have a barmy cat as she goes to sleep in the chicken hutch and the chickens have no issues with her or our sheep dog. If the chicken house is already locked up and she is still out she just used the dog kennel (the dog being asleep under my side of the bed)
As cats smell the earth before the cr*p,mustard powder works,also if you bury a few small jars and fill with vinegar they cant stand the smell.
should you have a wooden fence from most garden centers you can get astrip of small plastic spikes they dont hurt the cat they just hate walking on them they are not that notacieble either.
another thing you can do is fill some empty lemonade bottles with water ,the idea being is that the water reflect and will scare the cat of.
for short tem tie a plastic carrier bag on a stick when the wind russles it it scares the cats off,another thing is you know the free cds you get from the news paper collect them tie them on a string and place in the garden. _________________ WWW.CALNETALK.COM
I have said to my neighbours, pick up my cats by the scruff of the neck and dunk them in a bucket of water or pour it over them, they will never come near you again!!! It works a treat as I had to do it to a neighbours cat as it had decided one of our beds was a litter tray!!!!!!
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Elaine St James from her book 'Simplicity'
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she didnt have any trouble from local moggies after that lol! If you don't know anyone local with reptiles you can by some stuff I think it's called "Zoo Poo" about £12 a bag from garden centres and I've been told it's just as effective 
, in my experience any way they just find somewhere else to do it, I have found that when I put rat traps out, 
to see it works.
I have a cat but as I have 25 month old twins next door, Mum and Dad use this technique in the corners of thier garden. We have a litter tray and our cat uses this to poo everyday (we know this cause we have to clean it out everyday) which I so much prefer. But I do know that I have a barmy cat as she goes to sleep in the chicken hutch and the chickens have no issues with her or our sheep dog. If the chicken house is already locked up and she is still out she just used the dog kennel (the dog being asleep under my side of the bed)