This cat is driving me crazy. It keeps going in my yard and tearing up my garbage bags and completely ruining my lawn. It keeps digging up and overturning divets in my yard. Half the grass is already gone and the snow's only been melted a week! Last summer he ruined my entire yard. We had to turn it all over and replant it. Now here we go again! I've never seen a cat do this before. It's not my cat and I live in the city so I can't shoot it. (even though, believe me, I'd love to) I can't get ahold of it. Every time I see it doing it, I can't catch it. What can I do? I cannot afford to keep replacing the lawn and it's really an eyesore.
2007-03-19 12:44:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Call animal control and ask them to put out a trap for the animal and when the animal gets caught call them to come and pick it up.
Another thing which might work is to go to the nursery and pick up some scent you sprinkle around which is supposed to cause cats or dogs not to come in your yard. I don't know how well it works though.
2007-03-19 12:52:41 · answer #1 · answered by don n 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's an odd idea. I haven't tried it, but I've heard it works. Go to the zoo and ask them if you can have some droppings from a large predator (lion, tiger, bear, etc.). Spread that around the yard. The neighborhood animals will think that that large predator lives there and stay away. I've heard it working on deer, but I don't see why it won't work on a cat.
2007-03-19 12:53:22 · answer #2 · answered by Tapioca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get some ammonia and mix it 1/3 ammonia to 2/3 water and spray it all around the trash cans and on them and around the yard too and see if that helps or else get kayan pepper powder and sprinkle it around as heavy as you can if that doesnt work then maybe a bb gun it wont hurt it but it will scare the living daylights out of the cat hahaha!good luck!
2007-03-19 12:56:13 · answer #3 · answered by merychillsman2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have no children or other animals that may eat them, spread moths balls around in areas that the cat frequents. They apparently hate them. Also you can buy scaring devices that spray water every time they detect movement. A good hose down a few times should soon deter it.
2007-03-19 13:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, it may sound gross, but this works. My grandfather used it to keep rabbits, deer, etc. out of his garden....
Put human urine into milk jugs. Place the jugs around the perimeter of your property about 100 feet apart should do it. Watch what happens. The cat will be confused about this new "animal" which has "marked out" their territory, and will avoid your yard.
Works like a charm. My grandfather told me that its a method used by Native American Indians for many, many years.
2007-03-19 12:52:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bob Wire around the top of your fence might work for keeping the cat out .
2007-03-19 14:26:11 · answer #6 · answered by K_Seeks4Answers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to your local nursery and and ask for some animal repellant spray. Ropel is a brand that works well here.
2007-03-19 12:57:27 · answer #7 · answered by jimdc49 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strips of duct tape sticky side up around the trash bags
2007-03-19 13:31:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Airsoft gun. Non-lethal and get's the point across. Only took me 3 shots and my yard is cat free.
2007-03-19 12:54:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
find someone with a dog, and ask them to let their dog pee in your yard every 2 weeks. the cat will smell it and be scared. they might even make something like this... maybe a dried pee stick or something... good luck... maybe your pee might do it.,
get some iams cat food, before it gets recalled and feed it to the cat.
2007-03-19 12:55:51 · answer #10 · answered by punk_with_answers 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋