Sensible and humane answers only please. I feed the birds and a mouse that visits regularly with his family. The cat knows this and lies in wait aiming to catch either the mouse or birds. As I take pleasure in the birds being in my garden I feel it is my duty to fend for them. It is not possible for my dog to be out there all the time. He frightens the birds away anyhow as he is large and boisterous. Hope you can help.
2006-12-03 04:24:52 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
You can buy some pepper spray to put on your soil which repels the cats. I used to keep the hosepipe nearby and just 'jet' a stream of water when I saw a neighbour's cat, which made it run away and then after a few tries of this it didn't come back, but you have to be there. Good luck, ignore the people who say you shouldn't feed the animals - as long as you don't put the food too near your house then you won't be attracting real vermin like rats around.
2006-12-03 04:41:00 · answer #1 · answered by gorgeousfluffpot 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if you have a big garden you can put up a 2 inch weld mesh aviary type thing that the birds can get into, but the cat can't and then they would be safe. Then you could put the food inside. or howabout garden sprayers that go off periodcally. Birds like a shower, cats not, don't know about the mouse tho!
2006-12-04 07:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by Danabee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Really the only way is to stop feeding birds. And feeding mice is just asking for trouble anyway because they breed so fast and do so much damage. I have 3 cats and I am glad they're out there keeping the rodent population down. I do try to remember to wear my gloves when I'm gardening though, cause they use my flowerbeds for potty. I've never run into any cat poo in the 6 years I've had this house, but I've seen them go out there.
PS it is not your duty to feed birds. I know Americans love to do it and the seed and feeder manufacturers love to have you do it because it's a racket. But it upsets the whole ecosystem. Birds will overwinter when they should fly south. It brings in hawks and others to prey on the smaller birds. It brings in invasives like starlings. And it sets up a buffet for neighborhood cats. The only humane way to feed birds is by planting flowers whose seeds they will eat. I have no feeders in my yard but I have birds there all the time, feeding on the things I have planted for them.
2006-12-03 04:32:35 · answer #3 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
once you're saying he's an outside cat, do you mean with the aid of personality (he chooses to be out lots) or do you mean he lives outdoors. If its the latter, and he's expected to sleep outdoors at nighttime, cats living this stay might want to be very unhappy because they haven't any safeguard probability-free position to retreat to if threatened with the aid of alternative cats. they could opt for to stray and attempt to locate yet another living house the position they're allowed the liberty to come back and bypass. So if it truly is the case, supply him a cat flap to come back and bypass and he might want to settle extra. The neighbours are thoroughly out of order doing this, i'd bypass round and characteristic a sturdy word and advise that in the experience that they are obviously in choose of taking up a puppy, to undertake between the numerous thousands of undesirable strays waiting rehoming that would want to nicely be modern-day in animal sanctuaries up and down the rustic, quite than stealing your puppy from lower than your nostril. you may want to take a itemizing of numerous the community animal sanctuaries for them so as that they haven't any excuse. tell them he's micro-chipped and in the experience that they proceed you should record them to the police.
2016-11-23 14:28:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a garden sonic emitter. They keep out all unwanted local night predators. Cats, foxes, badgers, moles etc. they come in battery operated or mains power if you have that in the garden and silent to the human ear. I have one that's on a rotator in a corner of the garden and you'd never know it was there.
I got my mine from a 'Wyevale' garden centre, so I would imagine that all the branches stock them and they don't affect the birds. Mine cost me about £60 and is battery/mains power operated.
2006-12-03 05:18:37 · answer #5 · answered by statusquo44 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only way I found to keep cats out of your garden is to get a cat. I did this and it stopped all the neighbourhood cats using my garden as a toilet, also they never poo in there own garden! something to think about.
2006-12-03 04:37:23 · answer #6 · answered by Samantha T 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can get Tiger and Lion poo from the zoo and put it out. They think a bigger cat is around and scarper.
Also a super-soaker has been known to work extremely well.........
2006-12-03 04:30:43 · answer #7 · answered by NarkyBoots 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
put pepper as in salt and pepper in your garden and orange peel as they don't like this also try and keep any rubbish in your shed or garage so they arn't tempted to come in and riffle through them leanne g xx
2006-12-03 04:29:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The earlier answer with the Lion or Tiger c**p (NarkyBoot) really does work I've witnessed it.
2006-12-03 06:06:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
cats pepper spray ..or better still jeyes fluid buy it the hardware shop ......cheap and does the trick
2006-12-03 04:30:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋