Cat deterrents

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.

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?

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.

A gun might work

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.

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

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.

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?!!!!!!

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.

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).

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 size eleven to it's 'arris!
Works every time.

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.

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.