Our neighbour has 3 cats and they all use our garden as a toilet. We've tried everything to get rid of them (orange peel, various herbs, sonic deterent, chemical deterrent) and nothing works. During my pregnancy I couldn't use the garden because of it. My son is now 7 months old and crawling, but we cant' let him use the garden for fear of coming across cat wee and poo. I don't know what to do - we're going to speak to them but our other neighbour spoke to them and they said that there was nothing they could do. Any advice please?!
2007-06-02 00:05:50 · 16 answers · asked by Bart 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Try taking your son with you when you go to talk to them, and explain just what a pity it is that the poor little chappie can`t even play in his own garden. Stay calm and friendly and if they are reasonable people they should try to help you. If you get no joy then you should report them to your local environmental health department who should then take action.
2007-06-02 00:13:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once had to rehome a cat because my neighbours complained about it using their children's sandtray. Cats seem so clean because they bury their doings, but it's a real problem if they bury them in your patch! It's usually when there is no suitable place in their own garden. Any chance of getting your neighbour to provide a patch of earth in their garden? And maybe you could get rid of all the attractive earth/ sand in yours, or a section of it, so that the cats would find somewhere else. (That's if you live somewhere where you can grow a lawn on what is now earth, assuming you would not want to pave it all!)
Have you tried throwing water on the cats, to deter them completely from coming into your garden? Have a hose pipe ready!
2007-06-02 07:10:37 · answer #2 · answered by jimporary 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I gave my neighbours sons water pistols so they could shoot at my cats when they jumped the 6 foot fence to their garden. My neighbour added a sprinkler system which they turned on any time they saw my cats in their garden. After one very wet summer my cats learned to stay away from the neighbours.
2007-06-02 07:25:25 · answer #3 · answered by freebird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We love cats,but had the same problem with 5 neighbours cats,that is till we got a small dog that loves to chase cats.
She seems to know when a cat is about,which is very rare now we have her.We don't get cats doing there business
i`m glad to say now,as the cats give our garden a wide berth.
2007-06-02 07:21:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There aren't many substances more nauseating than cat crap. Other than a chemical that repels cats, like Liquid Fence, you could put down a piece of chicken wire over the areas they are messin' in. And anybody that thinks you should just let your son play in the stuff is wrong. Look up how many diseases and para sites a human can catch from dog and cat feces. Cats are destructive and shouldn't be let out of the house. They aren't a native species in North America.
2007-06-02 08:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cats hate water. In the neighbours won't help spray it with a water spray. It won't harm the cat and it will soon get the message.
P.S I love cats if they provide him with an area in their own garden it wouldn't be a problem. Get them a bag of sand.
2007-06-02 12:07:30 · answer #6 · answered by EdgeWitch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is going to sound stupid but honestly it will work. Get some of those rubber toy snakes from a joke or toy shop and scatter them around the garden. Cats are scared of all snakes and will avoid the area like the plague.
2007-06-02 08:15:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Often hated by gardeners, cats love to mess up freshly hoed borders or chase songbirds attracted by the wild bird food. There are a number of ways of detering cats from your garden, starting with granular, powdered and spray deterents. These are applied to areas of the garden you wish to keep them away from and they must be reapplied on a regular basis or until the cat has stopped visiting. There is a new product which contains lion dung, this can be sprinkled or hoed into beds or borders and the scent of a much larger feline will keep cats at bay. If you have a large garden you can also buy sonic cat deterents. These emit noises which are too high pitched for us to hear and the cats will not stand the noise for very long and will choose somewhere else to go instead, these devices will also deter any animals up to the size of a cat, like mice and rats."
http://www.klondyke.co.uk/pages/products/pestdeterents.htm
Personally, I feel you should just leave the cats alone and let them roam your garden. Cats usually bury their waste so its not like you will be stepping in feces constantly. Tons of cats roam my garden and i don't ever see any damage done. Any maybe the advice i posted will help if the cats are bothering you.
2007-06-02 07:20:41 · answer #8 · answered by Beeg 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
You could put hotwire at the top of your fence... it would shock them. But they probably wouldn't try coming back if they got zapped once. It's mean, but it is a temporary pain that doesn't cause permanent damage. Good luck. I have a little one too. We actually keep our dog in only one half of the yard with the hotwire so that our baby can crawl around without getting into animal ick.
2007-06-02 07:15:44 · answer #9 · answered by Christine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it would be hard to stop cats fouling in your garden,i believe there is a device you can get from big diy stores that give off a sound that deters cats.
2007-06-02 07:12:23 · answer #10 · answered by Mel26 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋