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Get rid of unwanted cats in your garden

If you are troubled with unwanted cats in your garden or yard. It is said that it you cut a few lengths of black garden hose and place them around the garden the cats will stay away.

Well I am not to sure but give it a go.

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Cats Detest This Comments By: John Cullum Soak used tea bags in Jeyes Fluid and bury about 20 - 30mm under the soil around your plants. Cats can't stand it and the tea bags deteriorate as compost!   CAYENNE DOES NOT HELP Comments By: ANON I TRIED A WHOLE BOX OF CAYENNE TO KEEP CATS OUT OF MY YARD,DOES NOT WORK!!!!   Cats in your gardens Comments By: Pam I think if they are allowed to roam your yard, the Animal shelter should be made to pick them up. I have found nothing other than, live cages, and take them to animal shelter.   Cats in Gardens Comments By: Anon I have read putting rose bush cuttings in your flower beds will deter cats... I have done this and it seems to have worked for me. Now I need help with dogs digging up flower beds. Good Luck!!   to Pam Comments By: Anon Just because you apparently dislike cats, doesn't give you the right to feel that all outside cats need to be sent to a shelter...you wouldn't say that the neighborhood kids that play in everyone elses yard but theirs need to be sent to an adoption agency now would you? I have found that my own urine works well...cats are territorial just like dogs.   cats in the garden Comments By: anon I find cats are an excuse for a pet, if your neighbors dog was fouling in your garden you would not tolerate it, so why should it be acceptable for cats to do so. Why should I pay a mortgage and maintain my garden just to let somebody else's "Pet" use it as a toilet. If you catch a cat fouling your lawn, you should be able to eradicate it like any other pest using any means possible.   cat problems Comments By: b.j. i like cats. its just my dog does her business in our yard and cats should do theirs in their yard. if they are strays then they need to be picked up before they get hit by cars. if they were stray dogs the humane society would be they right away. it seems their are more stray cats than dogs.   Dear anon Comments By: Rob Kids in the yard aren't crapping everywhere, neighbours cats are. Train them to crap in your yard if you like them so much   Why have a pet if you don't take care of them? Comments By: Anon It's absolutely ridiculous that some of you would honestly think that it is okay to let your cats run through other people's yard and use it as a restroom. Besides the fact that cleaning up animal feces is disguisting, there are serious health ramifications, also. Suppose that a toddler picks up your cat's crap and eats it or a pregnant woman gardening catch toxoplasmosis and loses her baby. How can you honestly sit here and say that your cat's freedom is worth this? If I find your cat in my yard, it will be dropped off at the SPCA 50 miles from my home so that I will not have to worry about it anymore. Use some common sense!   CAT CRAP Comments By: richard Grate some cold tar soap and spread it over your flower beds,the cats wont do their business there again as they hate the smell of the soap. It worked for me as I WAS ALWAYS GETTING CATS CRAPPING IN MY GARDEN   Unwanted cats in my garden Comments By: Georgie I mean no harm to cats, I just am disappointed that my new garden smells like a toilet and that they dig up the plants after they finish. How do I deter them back to their homes?   NAPPIES FOR CATS! Comments By: Sharon I was told a bottle of water would stop cats coming in our garden, sadly it does not work! My Great Grandad got so sick of the problem of cats messing in his garden that he caught the cats and put mustard on their bum, and it worked! Although I think it is a bit extreme, I sort of know how he feels as the cats in our area all come and use our garden as a toilet. And not only that they mess outside our house. It is disgusting! And I am really sick of it. Why should I have to clear someone elses pets mess up. We have a little girl and having to check the garden for poo when we have no animals is really not on! My daughter has invented a pretend cat called snowy who does not poo in the garden but actually uses the toilet. So all cat lovers out their train your cat or put a nappy on it!   Losers Comments By: Cat woman Pellet gun   Argh! Comments By: Rose My neighbour has 5 cats... not only do they use my garden as there toilet.. but they are ripping to shreds my wooden arches and shed!! They have ruined everything including the roof. The comments that people have put about using the garden as a toilet has helped, But i need help on how they stop using my garden as a scratch post! Thanx :)   back at Pam Comments By: Sick of it! People should be just as responsible with their pets as they are with their children. I would not want my kids destroying your yard anymore than I would appreciate your animals in my garden.   cat poo Comments By: cat hater well , i have tried most things to stop the damn things using my garden as a toilet , I now resort to chasing them off and hopefully they will get run over   this works for me Comments By: cats are useless moth balls I toss a few in my garden and they don't go near it. Also, if you have the opportunity to see cats, a spray bottle with water aimed at them works. This may take a couple of times. Alot of people don't know that cats have to be leashed the same as dogs. I don't come over and crap in your garden/yard, so keep your damn cat out of mine   poo! Comments By: c. monkey Cats are obviously very stupid. Next doors cats were constantly using our garden as a toilet. One day our greyhound caught one and killed it, has its brother learnt? No chance. Now I have to check its not there before I let the greyhound out because I cant face going and tell the owners again. Hardly fair that we have to check out our own garden before using it.   next door cat attacking my dog Comments By: karen i have a 3 year old german shepard dog who keeps getting attacked by the next door neighbours male cat, he spends all day winding my dog up and its driving me mad, my dogs nose is covered in scars from this bloody cat and i cant seem to deter this cat, i have sprayed water at it, shooed it off but still tries to get into my garden while my dog is sitting there, please can someone help as i feel i want to kill this bloody cat!!   Bloody cats Comments By: Lizzie I loathe cats - probably close to a phobia - and am totally sick of them prowling my garden. It amazes me that animals kept as domestic pets are allowed to roam onto other people's properties. They are pests which cause damage and potentially spread disease (toxicara) and should, in my opinion, be treated in the same way as rats - with poison. Extreme I know, but my feelings about them are also extreme.   Gits Comments By: Yuri I spent two days of backbreaking work clearing my front garden of weeds and grass tufts, putting membrane down, then bark chips. Only to find that it is now a giant toilet for two or more furry gits in the local. I have tried orange peel in the back garden section, and that seems to have work, so will be heading along the shops today to buy the biggest bags of oranges you can get, chopping them up like a frenzied nutter, and scattering them like a woman possessed. used to like cats, but not after removing numerous presents. I'm a single mum with two kids and can do without this hassle. Down with the fluffy gits. Round up the owners and make them clean the gardens!!! Yep, like they care.   Tired of Neighbor's Cats Spraying Our Property and Scratching Our Vehicles Comments By: G. C. I love animals, BUT I am really extremely tired of our neighbors attitude "that cats will be cats." I attempted to speak to the lady next door about her cats, but, somehow, she thinks her cats have the right to pee all over our property, chase off the birds from our birdbath in the front yard, and scratch the **@@*@*!! out of our vehicles. My husband purchased a brand new $45,000 truck a couple of years ago and only had it about 3 weeks before her cats put scratches all down the side of it. Our dogs don't chase the cats for the reason that we keep the older dog in the house and the young dog in the back yard. (And, no, our house does not smell like pee. Our older dog is well-trained and is allowed to go out frequently. We do not allow him to run loose like our "wonderful" neighbors with the cats do). We do not allow either one of our dogs to run loose (and they are well-trained. Of course, we do not have a "cat problem" in the back yard (or the house) as we have a dog there. Cat Lovers would be the first to complain if we allowed our dogs to do what their cats do. I am at my wits end! The neighbors with the cats do not care about the destruction that their cats have caused to our property. They would not like it if our dogs destroyed their home. If they love their cats so much, then they need to keep them in their house since they "can't stop them from roaming because it is the feline's nature."   mouse traps Comments By: Richie i was thinking about putting down loads of wooden mouse traps around the garden. Do you think that it would snap on the feet or nouses????   Unwanted cats in your garden Comments By: Reena Here's something I've tried to keep cats out. Sprinkle hot pepper flakes (a spice) all over your garden. They don't like the smell or the taste when they lick their paws. It worked for me!   i want to kill the cat next door-help!! Comments By: karen i am sick and tired of my next door neighbours cat not only free roaming my garden all day and all night,the cat attacks my dog daily on a regular basis,it rips my rubbish to shreds and leaves it all over my garden, it has also ruined 2 swimming pools i have brought my kids and i have had enough! i have spoke to the owners only to be told " i cant watch my cat all of the time" well i wont watch my dog when it accidently gets into her garden and eats her cat! wonder if she will complain then? i have tried everything with this cat and still it comes back,has anyone got any tips for me please? i dont let my animal roam around in other peoples garden so why the hell should cats be allowed to roam around in my garden, there should be a law brought out!!   i want revenge Comments By: ratking in my close there's about 6 or 7 cat's every morning next to my front door there is a cat crap i cant leave my door open on hot day's or when im cooking i cant open the window cos its next to ny fronyt door and i dont wont fly's coming in off it. iv tried curry powder and dont wont to get rid of cat crap bye putting a massive lion turd there? and dont want to p##s in my front garden. i just want revenge!!! i'v even booted them when there in my garden and shot them with a bb gun they just come back, it's war. as u can tell i dont care for there heath. i have 4 pet rats maybe i should let them round people's front garden. Or go take a turd outside there house see if it ok with them. does anyone know how i can eradicate this problem permanently.   garanteed way of ridding yourself of the problem Comments By: peter this tip works every time - borrow / buy an AK47 with a full mag of ammo, seems to do the trick with me!!   To Pam Comments By: ANON Cats do roam and this does not give you the right to pick them up and take them to a shelter...there are ways that you can be humane and scare them off e.g. water. Maybe someone should trap you and put you in a cage and cart you off...!!!!   cat trap Comments By: cat killer place a trap , in garden catch the bloody things , drive about 40-50 miles a drop the bloody thing off   Neighbor feeds stray cats Comments By: NJ homeowner My neighbor feeds the stray cats in the neighborhood plus she has a few of her own. My front and back gardens are full of cat feces and urine. The smell is disgusting. We tried "critter ridder" and red pepper but to no avail. My next attempt will be moth balls. I don't want to confront her as she is a very kind and giving person but her love of animals goes too far.   cat fouling Comments By: jenny i've tried water bottles, powder from b&q and citrus peel nothing works!! i'm trying to sort out my garden so my young daughter can play in it but can't get rid of the bloody cats there's about 12 on our estate that all use my garden help!!!   amazing Comments By: Clarissa reading through the comments I am not surprised that the world is as it is. Total selfishness resulting in cruel solutions. Few people have said that they should try to negotiate with the owners and share a solution. Also cats bury their poo if there is poo on the surface there is something wrong. To the lady who daren't open her window has she thought of clearing it up so she can open her window and talking to her neighbour?? Why are you all so intent on destroying the animals?? What sort of people are you?   Cats...wat are they for? Comments By: The Cats Ass Whisperer The only good thing a cat is for is to catch mice, apart from that they are useless, selfish smelly intolerable things! A kick in the arse keeps my neighbours cats at bay....and provides me with some much needed humour in this otherwise dreary life :)   Get a fish pond !!! Comments By: Anon I found a cat in my fish pond after it tried to get the fish fell in and couldnt get out.....stupid thing, but i didnt have any bother with that one anymore!!!! I have even found a cat in the house, now if i wanted a cat i would have got one! but the best thing to get rid would have to be a shot gun!!!!only joking, horrible smelly animals!   Cats Comments By: Jeff Fill a supersoaker with antifreeze and spray the cats.They lick it off and it kills them.Or buy an air gun and shoot them.To all cat lovers... dont birds have a right to live too ?How many times has your cat bought a dead bird home and you have secretly been pleased cause your little kitty is so cleaver ??Cats are for selfish bone idle people,stroke em when its convenient to you,then feed em an forget em.If cats just went in there own garden and the owner had to keep clearing it up cats would become extinct...which would be great   the devils animal Comments By: claire carpet rods :-) all the other stuff dont work...:-( it's a waist of time and money..and as for all you stupid people with cat's get a litter box!! you dont care about what us people has to go through maybe we should piss and SHIT in your garden and outside you're frontdoor..let you smell all the lovely smells we smell from you're bloody cats!!!   Amazing Comments By: Julie To the girl that left the comment about people being selfish, I don't think so. I am tortured with a cat who chooses to come into my house and spray everywhere. I don't have grass, my property is all flags. I chose to put a little tree in a pot by my front door, the cat craps in it all the time and DOESN'T bury it. I have three young children so it is a health issue. If people can't control their cats, why should I have to put up with it. Its getting to the stage where I will harm the thing, as my patience is wearing thin. I am usually very tolerant but if you're having to clean up some other persons dirty animal crap on your property on a daily basis, it wears you down. What's more important, my kids health or some stinking animal that's not controlled?   cat owner Comments By: dermot I own a cat myself and love him dearly, but I'm not too fond of his and other cats 'presents' for me in the garden...the smell is realy bad, but i suppose it's something I just have to get used too !!   shoot the owner Comments By: ANON Shoot the owner of the bloody cat,then they wont be able to feed it.Therefore it should starve to death and die of natural causes.So you wont get into trouble with the RSPCA or the cat liberation army.   Had it with cats too Comments By: SickOfCats To Clarissa & 'Anon' (and any other cat owners who think the comments here are 'selfish' or 'cruel) - your attitude is like most cat owners - you just don't care what damage your animals are doing to other peoples' property, or how much work or trouble or expense YOUR animal is causing someone else - but god forbid if they should dare to remove your precious kitty. YOU are the ones who are being selfish by not caring at all about your neighbors & their right to enjoy their own property without YOUR pet destroying it constantly! If you feel that your cat should be allowed to roam in my yard - fine. But then YOU take the RESPONSIBILITY for it, after all, it's YOUR cat, not mine! YOU come to my house several times a day, every day, and clean up any poop that your cat has left, YOU pay for the cleaners/deodorizers that I must use to remove the urine stench on my deck and outside furniture, YOU pay the replacement cost of plants and property that your cat has destroyed. It's not my cat - why should *I* keep cleaning up after it day in & day out? If YOU, as the cat's owner, won't take TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY for what YOUR cat is doing to your neighbor's property - then you have no justification in saying that your neighbor shouldn't take the cat away so that it no longer causes trouble. I should NOT have to clean up after SOMEONE ELSE'S pets every day!!! 'cats like to roam' - well, too bad - they shouldn't be allowed to roam freely through other people's yards, destroying everything and making an awful stinky mess. If you want to let your cat be outside, then fence your yard and add 'cat-fencing' along the top so that it must stay in your own yard. If you cannot be a RESPONSIBLE pet owner, and take proper care of your animal (i.e. - ideally keep it indoors where it is safe & where it will not bother other people), then you have no right to own an animal! I dearly love animals - I'll even trap a mouse, rat, or snake or other 'pest' animal & release it in the wild away from people - I've even trapped a few small rattlesnakes & removed them from my yard, rather than killing them. But I'm fed up & SICK of these durn cats - spraying them with water only scares them away for the moment - they end up coming right back, pepper, oranges, etc can't be spread over every inch of my property, and doesn't seem to have much effect on them anyway. I WILL start trapping the cats & removing them from my property. I've talked to the owners to no avail - they are pretty much like Clarissa and 'anon' - they don't see that it's a real problem, so they won't do anything - their cat's "rights to roam" are apparently more important than anything else. I'm fed up & no longer will tolerate my property being ruined by SOMEONE ELSE'S so-called 'pets'. If they can't take genuine responsibility for the nasty beasts, then I'll do whatever I have to do to protect my property and get things back to where I can use my own deck, yard and garden again. If that means carting the beasts off to the shelter, or releasing them in the woods 20 miles away, so be it. But they will now be physically removed from my property as fast as I can catch them - this has gone on for several years now & I've had it. I never thought I'd get to the point in my life where I actually hated any kind of animal, but I am starting to develop a genuine hatred and loathing for cats (and particularly their irresponsible SELFISH owners!)   flea drops Comments By: cat hater get some nice cooked meat, chop it up small enough for cats to eat. Mix in some dog flea drops (its deadly to cats) and sprinkle meat where you know the cats will find it. It does kill.....so beware..you dont get caught.   MY CATS FOULS OTHER PEOPLE GARDENS Comments By: Anon I own 2 cats, and they love the outdoors, they get very upset at staying in the whole day, and I know they roam other people's properties, I hate that too, and I do know that I would definitely get upset at other people's cats roaming my garden, what can I do to prevent them from doing this, someone mentioned cat-fencing, where can I get that, and if I fenced my garden, would they not simply go over the fence?   Don't Use Poison! Comments By: John Please DO NOT leave poisoned bait around because you could end up killing something else like a bird etc. Still looking for the best solution to keep the cats out though - they are NOT WELCOME!   Cat crap!!!! Comments By: Anon - UK Cats crap stinks - they dont bury it and its usually waiting by my front door when i get home. i hate it with a passion and have got to the point where i would do just about anything to stop it. reading the comments across the web it seems that there isnt a simple solution - except killing the cats. this is something that id rather not have to resort to but if the crap on the doorstep carries on then who knows. the owners should be more responsible for their cats, i wouldnt let my pet dog crap in someone elses garden. and when walking a dog its an offence to leave a turd if your dog lays one. you have to pick it up and dispose of it responsibly. it should be the same with cat owners. i dont want your cats crap!!!! if it carries on then all i can say is that their has been a few 'good' ideas at 'stopping' it from happening again on these comments.   I HATE CATS!!!!!! Comments By: Teresa I used to like cats until I moved to our new house. It's like a bloody creche here. What is the purpose of a cat???? All they do is cry all bloody night long when we are trying to get some zzzzzzzz's. Then we have to face the stench of cat shit & piss in the morning. Their irresponsible owners don't give a damn even. Best thing to do is pick the crap up when it's dark and throw it over the neighbours garden. We've bought a black metal cat from e bay which is a really good deterrent. It's screwed to the front wall of the house. Well worth £6.99. It's so much fun too as the cats just stare at it for ages and then runs away shitting itself. Ha Ha. We still see the cats but they don't come near the house anymore. Cat owners keep your horrid animals in your own bloody properties. Why should we have to put up with your mess AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH   Driven to tears by cats! Comments By: Kay I have lived with my husband and three small children in our home for 3 yrs with no problems. My husband built me some lovely raised beds and the children 8,6 and 3 and I grow our own veggies and berries all year round. A lady recently moved in across the road and brought 2 cats with her. Unfortunately it is my garden they like and they do their buisness here - inbetween our veg and salads. I am 8 months pregnant now and have worrryingly come into very close contact with cat mess many times weeding and harvesting. My children ahve been upset as their little crops have been unusable where cats have dug their buisness into their patchs. Tried Tea bags, water, hissing and chasing, sound devices. I am so upset that someone could be so inconsiderate to my children and unborn baby. She seems to see if I chase the cats off so she must see if they come in! Is there a law against taking them off? Im happy to politely warn the lady of my intention and confess to its whereabounce once it has been taken but I am not happy to allow it to go on. I am going to first ask the lady to remove its mess from my garden every time I find it or see it there though and see if she is willing. x   There should be laws on cats too! Comments By: A dog lover I am so sick and tired of having to clean up my neighbors cats' crap. Sometimes I would spend hours scooping up their crap, hosing down the place and sprinkling the affected areas w/cat repellent powder from the pet store. I've already spent a lot of money on that plus my time. I've already talked to my neighbor but to no avail. There should be responsibility placed on cat owners'too. I have a dog and I can't let my dog run next door and poo in other peoples' front yard. If we can start charging cat owners for all the trouble their stinky cats are causing, I bet we won't really have this crap of a problem. Cat owners are the most irresponsible people in this world. The victims should start dumping cat crap in their owners' yards so they can start taking responsibility.   CAT MESS Comments By: MARY STONE I AM NOT SELFISH, I DO NOT HATE CATS OR ANY OTHER ANIMALS, BUT WHY SHOULD I HAVE THE PROBLEM AND EXPENSE OF TRYING TO CLEAR UP CATS MESS. THEY DIG UP MY GARDEN,. LEAVE AN AWFUL SMELLY DEPOSIT AND TREAT MY GARDEN AS IF IT WAS THEIR OWN. THERE MUST BE A SIOLUTION IN THIS DAY AND AGE, BUT AFTER READING EVERYONES COMMENTS ON THE PROBLEM THERE SEEMS NO SOLUTION.. WHAT I FIND UPSETTING IS THAT SOME CAT OWNERS SEEM TO THINK WE ARE UNREASONABLE FOR NOT LIKING THEIR CATS CRAPPING IN OUR GARDENS. IF I KNEW WHERE THE CATS LIVE THAT DO THIS IN MY GARDEN I WOULD BAG IT UP AND RETURN IT. I KNOW THIS WOULD NOT STOP THE PROBLEM BUT IT WOULD MAKE ME FEEL BETTER.