How do I keep cats out of my garden?
Question:on one side of my house a women feeds them and then they come in and do their business
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A lot of garden stores sell the 'scarecrow sprinkler'. It detects the motion of the cat entering the yard and gives them a good drenching with the sprinkler. There are also chemicals you can buy that the cats won't like that will keep them away. You could mulch or enclose flower/veggie beds with oyster shells. The sharp edges are uncomfortable on their feet. Stick lots of plastic forks, tines up, into your flower beds, or cover beds with chicken wire, cutting and pulling up random wires to make a stickery surface. Good luck!
shot them with a bb or pellet gun every time they get in your garden then theyll think there is something there and wont go in it anymore
Cats hate the smell of citrus. Lemon, orange, limes... etc. Spraying these smells around your garden will make it less attractive.
Pet stores sell "invisible fences" which may help. But you are looking at a small investment for the trouble.
My mother puts red and black ground pepper in her beds to keep their pets out of them. It seems to work for her. Yuo might try it?
Spread around some cayenne pepper. They hate the stuff.
throw catnip seeds either somewhere you don't mind them... or in the persons yard where they don't weed... or grow a bunch inside from seed ...let it dry when you harvest it...and throw it where u don't mind them going...
i would succumb to planting anything a cat might not like too ... such as pyracantha... never seen anything but a bird get past that...
I Just had this problem with a stray kitten eating my fresh patio garden tomatoes & pepper plants & digging in my other planters to potty! I was ready to strangle a cat!
So, until I could buy a new "electronic fence" to replace the one at my last home, I tried tossing some Moth balls (at any groc or walmart type store) around my walkway and porch where i didnt want the cat to cross.
He HASNT Been Back! The Mothballs worked I guess...becuz he was here several times a day/nite before, now he hasnt bothered my plants for almost 2 weeks! It wont hurt to try them-they are cheap and dont dissolve in rain and dont hurt the pets. Its the strong odor that cats (&other rodents either) dont like. Good luck stopping your litter-critter too!
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