Scaring off cats

[Ian M]

I put a fence up around the Veggie plot. Mostly due to the Deer but also the cats. Hare prof fence is not cat proof! Had to go round and make the gap between the vertical wires smaller. We have a bamboo/grass type thing so had plenty of canes. Bonus was it looks a bit better as well. Even our own cat has given up trying to get in.
A few heavy wire hoops pushed into the ground and a net over will also keep both cats and pigeons off.
Cats are supposed to not like coffee grinds either, but you might end up giving to much nitrogen to the veggies. Good for leaf, not so good for flower, so you might loose out on the peas and the like.
Maybe you can find some odd bits of wire fence around the farm. Or if you still have that fire wood thing going you could use some of the smaller stuff to make a "rustic" split stake fence....

Was intrigued to read the "right to roam" comment. Over here it t'other way round: you are s'posed to keep you cat in your garden!

[AlanG]

Was intrigued to read the "right to roam" comment. Over here it t'other way round: you are s'posed to keep you cat in your garden!

I can only wish it was like that Ian.

I've got a set up in mind now. Whilst i shall be having proper netting up next year, i might be able to come across an electric fence set up. I'm sure 10V will deter the cats! Would be better with 240 but 10 will suffice for now. It'll certainly make them yelp. The pigs and me both do when we touch it lol

[PaulTRose]

well since you are growing things why not grow a few more things that deter cats?

https://blog.primrose.co.uk/2017/04/27/cat-deterrent-plants/

https://horticulture.co.uk/cat-deterrent-plants/

https://davidsuzuki.org/queen-of-green/keep-cats-garden/

you might not like the next bit but if i had a neighbour who was using methods which potentially could harm animals (not just cats) i would report them to police and rspca

and any one harmed either of our cats they would soon be decomposing at the bottom the compost heap

[Tim Marlow]

To be fair to Alan, Paul, he just wants to stop them getting in, not hurt them. A set up like he describes will just deter them.

[Gary MacKenzie]

I can only wish it was like that Ian.

I've got a set up in mind now. Whilst i shall be having proper netting up next year, i might be able to come across an electric fence set up. I'm sure 10V will deter the cats! Would be better with 240 but 10 will suffice for now. It'll certainly make them yelp. The pigs and me both do when we touch it lol

Friend found that placing unused plastic pots on any spare ground between the plants and netting over top stopped cats getting into netted areas and leaving deposits behind ...... it appears that if there is no ''virgin ground'' for them to use , they stop leaving presents there.
Blue alkethene pipe https://www.toolstation.com/mdpe-pipe/p11290 used for the hoops the nets sit over.

[AlanG]

I have plenty of blue water pipe coming from work

[Guest]

I read orange peal, haven't tried it here at Race Towers as we have very little cat problem, but worth a try.

[stona]

I found a super-soaker loaded with something citrus did the trick. I used a water and orange juice mix

Cats hate anything citrus, but still have to clean off a direct hit, they can't help it. They really don't enjoy it.

The neighbours' cats became very circumspect about doing anything in my garden after a few hits. They now tend to take an aerial route, over various outhouses and my conservatory to some other unfortunate's garden where they can deposit their extremely smelly packages. If they see me most of them beat a hasty retreat, one likes to stare me down until I move as if to pick up the dreaded water pistol. Another likes to bask on the roof of my shed, and as long as he stays up there he's fine

The only downside is that you have to devote some time and effort to identifying and engaging the culprits. Any new cats would require a repeat application, but I've not had to do that for months.

It was quite fun and no cats were physically injured, though I can't say the same for their pride. I don't particularly like cats, but neither would I wish to hurt them.

Those electronic/ultrasonic gizmos simply don't work. ALL the neighbourhood cats simply ignored them. Why they are allowed to be sold for a purpose for which they are clearly not fit I do not know.

[Gern]

Why they are allowed to be sold for a purpose for which they are clearly not fit I do not know.

For the same reasons that politicians get paid I suppose!

[Lee Drennen]

Try Blood Meal it works for me but not on Deer I found out what’s destroying my garden my wife caught one eating the tomato vines the other evening I’m done with the garden this year. I might plant a few that I grew in the house in pots and call it a season. Good luck

[The Smythe Meister]

7.62 ...... works EVERY time:thumb2:!!
Andy

[Tim Marlow]

As does giving the person with the gun a free twelve gauge enema!

[Guest]

Those electronic/ultrasonic gizmos simply don't work.

I can hear the ones the neighbour has. Gives me a headache.

The watergun is a sound idea. I have used it to great effect to disperse amorous cats…plus it serves as an evenings entertainment!

[stona]

I can hear the ones the neighbour has. Gives me a headache.

I don't remember hearing them. I started with one my brother gave me, which did nothing at all. I assumed it was not working and invested in another, which also did b*gger all, at least as far as discouraging feline toilet activists went.

The super-soaker definitely worked. Whatever else cats may be, they are not stupid and react quickly to what I like to think of as water based aversion therapy

[Dave Ward]

Well, speaking as a flat-dweller, with no involvement in a garden, I don't see what the problem is!! :tongue-out2:
( Apologies to all those that dedicate time and effort to horticulture )
Dave