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Reply ID 12781

Moth Balls [:D] One every couple of foot in a border, we tried them over the summer and they worked for us. They were effective for about 4 months and can be brought from Botsfords at £1.50ish for a box which contains 25-30 if I remember correctly.

Reply ID 12789

orange peel works in the same way that moth balls do. or put lots of spikey little twigs in the ground - cats don't like twigs up their bum. If you can get hold of it from Paradise Park, tiger poo works too - animals have a natural fear of the bigger predator - but that's just out of the frying pan into the fire really!!!

Reply ID 12793

Grab the cat and take it to a animal shelter away from Hertford claiming it was a stry in the Garden. It will be re-homed in another area! Just keep doing this but use different animal shelters as they may catch on.

Reply ID 12794

I have the same problem, but have never been able to catch the cat in the act, for months I blamed the neighbours dog! I did buy some pepper stuff from the Riverside Gdn center that worked for a while. I always thought Cats were supposed to bury there turds?

Reply ID 12796

We know that but someone should tell them that. Anyway, that's no use if it's on your beds as you find it when you dig. To be honest I found few of the above suggestions worked for the cats in my garden, and those that did only worked intermittently - and always needed renewing after rain which wasn't always immediately possible (didn't try a dog though). The only thing that has worked has been the electronic cat scarer. Could you not mount it high up on your wall pointing downwards into the garden?

Reply ID 12797

I just throw it over the fence in to my neighbours garden. After all, if their cat does a huge, stinking log in my garden, who am I to deprive them of the immense pleasure such a gift can bring? I then went out and bought 2 kittens of my own, one of them is the fastest growing cat ever, so hopefully when old enough, can patrol my garden and beat the living S**t out of said neighbours cats and make them log elsewhere. What's even better is my own cats wont log in my garden, but go in my neighbours anyway, so revenge after all this time!!

Reply ID 12809

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Originally posted by And
Grab the cat and take it to a animal shelter away from Hertford claiming it was a stry in the Garden. It will be re-homed in another area! Just keep doing this but use different animal shelters as they may catch on.

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Reply ID 12810

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Originally posted by Victor Meldrew
I have the same problem, but have never been able to catch the cat in the act, for months I blamed the neighbours dog! I did buy some pepper stuff from the Riverside Gdn center that worked for a while. I always thought Cats were supposed to bury there turds?

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Reply ID 12811

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Originally posted by skanky
We know that but someone should tell them that. Anyway, that's no use if it's on your beds as you find it when you dig. To be honest I found few of the above suggestions worked for the cats in my garden, and those that did only worked intermittently - and always needed renewing after rain which wasn't always immediately possible (didn't try a dog though). The only thing that has worked has been the electronic cat scarer. Could you not mount it high up on your wall pointing downwards into the garden?

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Reply ID 12813

The best way to keep the cats away is to own a dog. Experience has taught me this. However, experience has also taught me that dogs do bigger, smellier turds, are noisy, needs lots of maintenance, including early morning walks in the freezing cold and pouring rain, and leave lots of hair all over the house. Someone please tell my wife that we are not getting another dog.