How can you prevent CATS using your yard as a LITTER BOX?

Answer 1

Hi there...

Common odours that are effective deterrents for cats are:

Citronella works best for cats as well as citrus scents such as orange or lemon (primarily towards cats), cayenne pepper, coffee grounds, pipe tobacco, lavender oil, lemon grass oil, citronella oil, peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil, and mustard oil.

"Havahart's Cat Repellent" uses capsaicin pepper and oil of mustard as its active ingredients. It repels by both taste and odor, has a lemon scent.

Every animal responds differently to each of these. Some will not be phased by them and others will be quite revolting.

For training purposes they are applied on items that are to encourage avoidance behaviours and not for use with a squirt bottle as they could harm the eyes or respiratory system. Test each substance and observe to see which works as a deterrent so that accidental injestion does not occur as some could then be fatal.

Coleus plants can be effective, but every cat responds differently so it is uncertain without experimenting.

Many people believe mothballs work, however they are considered toxic and should NOT be used. Here's more information on this:
http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/ope/enotes/showarticle.cfm?id=89
MOTHBALLS are toxic to cats which contains the ingredient Naphthalene. Mothballs are approximately twice as toxic as paradichlorobenzene, and cats are especially sensitive to naphthalene. Signs of ingestion of naphthalene mothballs include emesis, weakness, lethargy, brown-colored mucous membranes and collapses. Paradichlorobenzene mothballs may cause GI upset, ataxia, disorientation, and depression. Elevations in liver serum biochemical values may occur within 72 hours of indigestion.

Answer 2

Honestly there is no sheer way of stopping a cat from entering your yard and using it as a facility but what you can do is use ammonia its a repelent to all animals and if you line your yard with it, it may stop them from entering if not i would suggest the water theory take a hose and spray the crap out of the cat because cats are quick and agile a bb gun may miss if not last resort call animal control.

Answer 3

well you should buy a squirt bottle and every time they go then give them a little squirt.. and every time you see them about to go then squirt... pick them up and place them in the cat box... i know it takes a while but they will get the hang of it and when they realize that they are getting squirt for going to the restroom in the back yard then they will stop and go in the litter box like they were trained to
well much luck to you and your cats and i wish you well

-tdwire-

Answer 4

A motion-activated yard sprinkler should keep them away. A few squirts, no more cats! Of course, this may be a bit spendy.

Spray citrus oils or anything citrus-scented where they are doing their business. Cats HATE citrus smell.

Answer 5

Cats generally poke around flower beds and shrubs. Buy a big bottle of cayenne pepper at the dollar store and sprinkle it all over the spots the cat/s like to claim as their territory. That works for me.

My mom got a super duper long-range (50 ft) water gun and used to spray them if they went in her garden, from sitting down on her patio. She also sprays them with bleach (which I think is so mean) but apparently it works for her, and the cats seem fine soo...I'll leave that one up to you.

++ Oh yes - my hairdresser gives her hair clippings away to this man who uses it to put nitrogen in his soil, and also to ward off cats. Never tried it myself, but he says it works.

Answer 6

Buy some catnip and plant the catnip in someone else's yard...one of the culprit cat owners yards...or all of the culprit cat owners yards.

Answer 7

There is a product you can buy at a local nursery it's called shoo cat its like a powder you sprinkle it around your yard cats don't like it.

Answer 8

please dont squirt the cat.. it will get a skin deasease and it will itch and u should just put it in a litter box once in a while and i might go there first put the litter box where it first went and move it alittle all the time

Answer 9

Try sprinkling black pepper in the areas that the cats seem to like to go.

Answer 10

YOUR cats, or somebody else's cats? I don't think there's much you can do if it's someone else's cat. My dad shot one with a BB gun once. I don't think it came back.

You can always identify who the cat belongs to and then go complain.