How can I stop a cat from sitting on my car roof?

Question

This is not my cat! Mine is little & cute and is kept inside!

Answer 1

Ask it, respectfully and with genuine decency in your voice, not to sit on your car anymore. Await a fair and just amount of time for it to carefully consider your request, a week for a kitten under a year old, two days for a male, one day for a female. If that does not work, a cold spritz with the garden hose every time you see the cat on the car will do the trick. The cat will have to be spritzed only once or twice before it modifies its behavior. Anticipate retaliation, though, such as intense scenting all over the car. Please don't hurt the cat, though. It just thinks it's Gunga Din, and that is good. The world needs such mighty, elegant spirits in the mix. Try figuring out if the cat is afraid to be on the ground at times. Maybe a neighborhood dog is harassing the cat. Sometimes, cats with playful grudges against certain birds in the area . . . especially crows, bluejays and owls . . . will sit on a car and taunt for dive-bomb strafings from the birds, just for the comraderie of the spar. Cats deliberately choose the wide-open surface of a car to avoid injury and interference whilst sparring. When a cat wants to REALLY catch a bird, it hides low and unseen. Sometimes a cat sits on a car because it has a crush on the car's owner. If you suspect this, just flirt a little with it in your comings and goings. Bring it a present, perhaps, like a small bowl of chopped beef kidneys, and, the cat will claim your car to be under his or her protection. And, the cat will then keep all other animals away from and off your car. Remember. Chopped beef kidneys to bribe a cat.

Answer 2

Good luck with that! And hood and front window....pawprints everywhere. The only way I was successful, after washing car, was keeping the car in the garage and not letting the cat in. I witnessed the funniest sight once---I walked out in time to see my cat strolling across the roof of my car, then falling through the open sunroof! The look on that cat's face was priceless and I was laughing so hard, I almost forgot to let the cat out of the car. The cat was not at all amused!

Answer 3

You might try a mister of some type. While water from a hose is too strong a spray (and in the winter time can be harmful to the cat), most cats dislike water enough that if you keep a small bottle of clean tap water in your garage or carport and spray it at the cat whenever you see it, it'll learn not to climb on the car any more. Surprising noises can also work, though an air horn might be 'overkill'. You don't want to injure the cat or it's ability to hear (enemies or prey, if it's feral).

Answer 4

Well, one thing i noticed about my cats is that they don't like things that smell good, like floral shampoo, or the flea liquid one puts behind their head .... so i think i towel with strong clean odor of some sort would deter a cat. Also, put cardboard up on top with (yucko) old banana peels. A banana smells like turpentine (it does!) and cats are not fond of that either. Experiement. Even though i think a cat sitting on your car roof doesn't hurt much. Unless paw prints bother you. Best of luck. If you can't beat them join them? : ) Let's all go sit on car roofs and see what cats like about it. Anyway my cats sit on our flipped over spare boat. I've seen a cat on top of my neighbor's camper. Cats love heights!

Answer 5

Shoot it. is it kept outdoors or indoors? The car that is. Spray it with a hose a few times. put an electric fence around where you park and put the remote on the cats collar.

Answer 6

my cat sit car roof

Answer 7

BUY A DOG ----- ONLY KIDDING ------ I HAD THAT PROBLEM SOME TIME AGO AND I FOUND THAT USING A COMMERCIAL SPRAY USED TO KEEP ANIMALS OFF FURNITURE SPRAYED ON A RAG AND PLACED ON THE ROOF OF THE CAR KEPT THEM OFF. IT ONLY TOOK A COUPLE OF DAYS OF PUTTING IT ON EACH TIME I CAME HOME, THEY STOPPED JUMPING UP ON AND SCRATCHING THE PAINT. IT WAS A LOT CHEAPER THAN HAVING IT HAND POLISHED AND COMPOUNDED ALL THE TIME. GOOD LUCK

Answer 8

Put something on your car roof it's scared of?

Answer 9

I also have the same problem & to make it worst there are scratches on my car. It's my neighbour's cat. Damn cat!

Answer 10

Dust it with cayenne pepper.

P.S. This not to be cruel - one encounter, and it will not hang out there again.

NOT the cat! The car roof!