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Cat deterrents

RodneyCharltonTrotta
RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,835
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Can anyone please recommend deterrents for cats that actually work?

Both sides of neighbours have them and all coming into the garden and shitting all over it which is a pain as having to clear it up every day before letting the kids out there.

Can't really ask the neighbours to stop it as impossible to control cats other than lock them in and don't want to get into petty acts of lobbing it over fences as it achieves nothing and doesn't solve the problem.

A very first world problem I know but any suggestions that have worked for you will be gratefully received.

Cheers
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  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,893
    Not a serious answer but get a dog
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,206
    It takes a while but my neighbour's cat doesn't like me hissing at it or just the sight of my NERF gun. (If you like, you can blame my great nephew for a 66-year-old having a NERF. That's what I told Mrs cafcfan anyway!) The cat hasn't been in my back garden for over a year now.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,893
    edited August 2018
    Serious answer, there are plants you can get that cats don’t like, google should help.

    There are also battery operated sounders that give off high frequency waves that stop them, not sure how good they are
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,843
    When I was a kid, my mum used to put half filled plastic soft drink bottles (the 2 litre variety) and lay them in her rose garden bed. She said that they would keep the cats away, but I'm not really sure if it worked. It did look weird having two or three of these clear plastic bottles on the garden, but you never know and my mum said it would better that cat poo?
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,206
    Pedro45 said:

    When I was a kid, my mum used to put half filled plastic soft drink bottles (the 2 litre variety) and lay them in her rose garden bed. She said that they would keep the cats away, but I'm not really sure if it worked. It did look weird having two or three of these clear plastic bottles on the garden, but you never know and my mum said it would better that cat poo?

    Hate to break it to you mate but I reckon that was just her secret stash of Frosty Jack's.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    There's a website for this
    https://thescaredycat.com/

    Actually there's a few.
    But get some Lion dung from your nearest zoo and put in on your flower beds.
    Cats hate the smell, plus it keeps lions away too.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,835
    Todds_right_hook said:

    Not a serious answer but get a dog

    Plan to in a few years mate but can't at present
  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,345
    edited August 2018
    A gun might work :wink:
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,995
    Todds_right_hook said:


    There are also battery operated sounders that give off high frequency waves that stop them, not sure how good they are

    You can buy those to deter rodents - I asked a Rentokil bloke about them a few years ago and he said you just end up with deaf rodents wandering around. Presume it's the same for the cat ones.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,840
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

    Todds_right_hook said:

    Not a serious answer but get a dog

    Plan to in a few years mate but can't at present
    Then you'll have scenes like this to watch out your kitchen window.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlZ4Ryx73k

    I particularly like where at 1:24 the cat checks the camera's in a good position.

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  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,815
    Before we got the dog we had these, worked an absolute treat once we found the right frequency.

    https://amazon.co.uk/PestBye-Ultrasonic-Operated-Activated-Repellent/dp/B00FXSU2WK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1534151605&sr=8-2&keywords=animal+deterrent+for+the+garden
  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,830
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

    Can anyone please recommend deterrents for cats that actually work?

    Both sides of neighbours have them and all coming into the garden and shitting all over it which is a pain as having to clear it up every day before letting the kids out there.

    Can't really ask the neighbours to stop it as impossible to control cats other than lock them in and don't want to get into petty acts of lobbing it over fences as it achieves nothing and doesn't solve the problem.

    A very first world problem I know but any suggestions that have worked for you will be gratefully received.

    Cheers

    Work out what cat belongs to what garden and throw the cat shit back in thier garden
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,835
    cafcpolo said:

    Before we got the dog we had these, worked an absolute treat once we found the right frequency.

    https://amazon.co.uk/PestBye-Ultrasonic-Operated-Activated-Repellent/dp/B00FXSU2WK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1534151605&sr=8-2&keywords=animal+deterrent+for+the+garden

    Thanks. Was looking at those so may give them a try
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,835
    clb74 said:

    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

    Can anyone please recommend deterrents for cats that actually work?

    Both sides of neighbours have them and all coming into the garden and shitting all over it which is a pain as having to clear it up every day before letting the kids out there.

    Can't really ask the neighbours to stop it as impossible to control cats other than lock them in and don't want to get into petty acts of lobbing it over fences as it achieves nothing and doesn't solve the problem.

    A very first world problem I know but any suggestions that have worked for you will be gratefully received.

    Cheers

    Work out what cat belongs to what garden and throw the cat shit back in thier garden
    Was my initial thought but doesn't solve the problem as will still need to door it every day and just ends up causing aggro with neighbours without solving it unfortunately
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,206
    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

    cafcpolo said:

    Before we got the dog we had these, worked an absolute treat once we found the right frequency.

    https://amazon.co.uk/PestBye-Ultrasonic-Operated-Activated-Repellent/dp/B00FXSU2WK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1534151605&sr=8-2&keywords=animal+deterrent+for+the+garden

    Thanks. Was looking at those so may give them a try
    A NERF would be much more fun though. And you can pimp them. I particularly like this one. (If you don't want to watch half an hour of NERF geek boredom, skip to 35 minutes - the dinos crack me up!)


    https://youtu.be/G7MDrUG4cws
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,046
    Ever thought about getting a cat yourself? best way to keep cats out of your garden! Our two cats are sisters, getting on a bit at 14yo now but they love nothing more than chasing the foxes and squirrels out of our garden. We don't have a litter tray for them. One goes in our garden once a day in the same flowerbed, the other presumably goes elsewhere as we've never seen her.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,206
    JohnBoyUK said:

    Ever thought about getting a cat yourself? best way to keep cats out of your garden! Our two cats are sisters, getting on a bit at 14yo now but they love nothing more than chasing the foxes and squirrels out of our garden. We don't have a litter tray for them. One goes in our garden once a day in the same flowerbed, the other presumably goes elsewhere as we've never seen her.

    You do know you live next door to @RodneyCharltonTrotta don't you?
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,200
    clb74 said:

    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

    Can anyone please recommend deterrents for cats that actually work?

    Both sides of neighbours have them and all coming into the garden and shitting all over it which is a pain as having to clear it up every day before letting the kids out there.

    Can't really ask the neighbours to stop it as impossible to control cats other than lock them in and don't want to get into petty acts of lobbing it over fences as it achieves nothing and doesn't solve the problem.

    A very first world problem I know but any suggestions that have worked for you will be gratefully received.

    Cheers

    Work out what cat belongs to what garden and throw the cat shit back in thier garden
    I wonder what Blackpool72's deterrent is?!!!!!!
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    JohnBoyUK said:

    Ever thought about getting a cat yourself? best way to keep cats out of your garden! Our two cats are sisters, getting on a bit at 14yo now but they love nothing more than chasing the foxes and squirrels out of our garden. We don't have a litter tray for them. One goes in our garden once a day in the same flowerbed, the other presumably goes elsewhere as we've never seen her.

    You've had a cat for 14 years and never seen it?
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,046
    cafcfan said:

    JohnBoyUK said:

    Ever thought about getting a cat yourself? best way to keep cats out of your garden! Our two cats are sisters, getting on a bit at 14yo now but they love nothing more than chasing the foxes and squirrels out of our garden. We don't have a litter tray for them. One goes in our garden once a day in the same flowerbed, the other presumably goes elsewhere as we've never seen her.

    You do know you live next door to @RodneyCharltonTrotta don't you?
    In 99.99% of cases, cats don't shit on their own turf. It took me a long time to get my head around the fact that one of ours bloody does.

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  • Valleyofdreams
    Valleyofdreams Posts: 149
    Have the same problem as every house on my road seems to have a cat. Winds me up a treat as my kids step in it and cat shit stinks like no other.
    The problem has eased abit since I got a cat repellent spray from homebase. The problem with this is is that you have to spray it regularly which I forget to do at times. Also they don’t like the smell of lemon.
    Other than that I’m forever chasing them down the street which works for 10 minutes!!!!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,104
    I found a great cat deterrent by accident the other day. Our neighbours had gone out, leaving their dog in the back garden. The dog in concern is a noisy fecker and barks at absolutely anything. This doesn't actually bother me; I'm deaf enough and obtuse enough to block it out. Mrs Stig going on about it non-stop does bother me though, so I had to find a solution. I figured that I needed a louder scarier animal to shut the dog up. So I found a youtube clip of a lion roaring, cranked up the stereo and let rip. All around our neighbourhood all you could hear was was this lion. Our cats absolutely flew. So did the rabbits. The sky was cleared of birds. Even my little collection of steatodas looked nervous. And then the clip finished, the stereo went silent and all we could hear was the dog again. Louder than ever. So the lesson is this. Get a lion, it's a great deterrent for cats and won't affect your dog (perhaps).
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,272
    Human male urine is the best way, what I do is piss into a 5 litre bottle and save it up, doesn't take long then slosh it around the borders of your garden. The frequency things are good too. Alternatively get some cats
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,847
    cafcpolo said:

    Before we got the dog we had these, worked an absolute treat once we found the right frequency.

    https://amazon.co.uk/PestBye-Ultrasonic-Operated-Activated-Repellent/dp/B00FXSU2WK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1534151605&sr=8-2&keywords=animal+deterrent+for+the+garden

    these (well a very similar model) have worked brilliantly in my garden with the fox problem.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Sadly I've just checked.
    If you can't get fresh, eBay have boxes of lion dung pellets for £11.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,760
    A size eleven to it's 'arris!
    Works every time.
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    paulie8290 said:

    A gun might work :wink:

    beat me to it

  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,729
    ElfsborgAddick said:

    clb74 said:

    RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

    Can anyone please recommend deterrents for cats that actually work?

    Both sides of neighbours have them and all coming into the garden and shitting all over it which is a pain as having to clear it up every day before letting the kids out there.

    Can't really ask the neighbours to stop it as impossible to control cats other than lock them in and don't want to get into petty acts of lobbing it over fences as it achieves nothing and doesn't solve the problem.

    A very first world problem I know but any suggestions that have worked for you will be gratefully received.

    Cheers

    Work out what cat belongs to what garden and throw the cat shit back in thier garden
    I wonder what Blackpool72's deterrent is?!!!!!!
    If I posted that on here I'd probably get banned.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,154
    Pepper.

    Get your own cat/dog

    Also, since I replaced soil with stone in my garden it's too cold for the little f*ckers to sit on and sh!t.

    I've had mixed success with pellets.

    A gun or water sprinkler of sorts.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,426
    edited August 2018
    We used to have one that sat on the front gate winding the dogs up who would all be standing at the lounge window. One day I'd been out with JJ and as returned I could see the cat in its normal position and I could hear my dogs. It was so focused on my dogs we got within 2 yards of it when JJ let rip with proper bark. The cat was last seen tripping speed cameras on the A2 heading for London. ;)

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