Post by Mr PounderPost by YowiePost by Mr PounderHi
I would appreciate any help on what is probably an old chessnut.
I am not much good at gardenening.
We moved home last year and now have quite a nice garden, it has
cost money and a lot of work.
Cats are insisting on digging up my flower beds and pooing
Leaving a length of hose pipe on the lawn, cats think it is a snake
............ errr yes okay.
Kat - A -Pelt ............... did not work.
That green gel stuff in a bottle ....... did not work.
Talking to the cats ........... did not work.
I have a Scare Cat on order.
Has anybody any ideas?
Would pepper work?
Cats (apparantly) hate the smell of citrus, so perhaps putting
orange peel on and in your garden might discourage them. Youcan also
buy orange oil fairly cheaply - and it also acts as a pesticide.
Spray that around, and it should keep all but the most determined
cat off your garden. You may also want to try laying something akin to a
fine chicken
wire mesh over your garden bed (or just ever so slighly beneath the
top of it), which prevents the cats from digging in your flower beds.
Apprantly going to the zoo and collecting some 'big cat' effluent and
sprinkling it around will discourage smaller cats.
And yet another option is of course getting a cat yourself that will
claim your garden as their territory and scare off the other cats.
This of course may defeat the purpose :-)
HTH
Yowie
Yow
Thanks for that, I will try the orange peel.
Getting a cat is not really an option, the wife says no due to her
wonderful spotlessly clean wooden floors.
We were going to get another dog, we lost our wonderful Lucy dog four
years ago - it still hurts.
Sorry to hear about your Lucy. Many of us here cat people (I'm posting from
RPCA) also have dogs that we love just as much, so we can sympathise
Post by Mr PounderA dog would make marks on the wonderful spotlessly clean wooden floors:-(
Yes, but they would be dog marks, not cat marks. There's a difference :-).
(please do not question female logic, you'll only end up hurting yourself)
Post by Mr PounderWhere would one buy orange oil?
There's the usual 'herbal essences' type places, but they are going to
charge you through the nose for 'top quality' orange 'essential oils' which
you don't need - you just need the lower quality stuff because you aren't
using it to make a perfume or heal someone's aura.
Chemical companies and cleaning companies are good bets. Less pure orange
oil might also be known as 'orange terpenes' or 'd-limonene' and will
probably be just as effective because its the *smell* the cats don't like.
Be aware, though, that orange oil is not the perfectly safe, can use on
anythign and everything with no risk stuff - if you do go down the orange
oil route, please read the safety instructions first. The orange oil if used
neat will happily strip the natural oils out of your skin which can cause
irritation, and lead to dermititus. It will also melt some plastics. There's
a reason why its an industrial solvent!
Before you waste your money on buying the oil, though, try the citrus peels
or even make an 'orange soup' by putting orange peels & some water into a
food processor and spray the resulting mess around. If it has no effect at
all on the number of feline visitors, don't waste your money on the orange
oil, try the motion sensitive sprayers. Or the lion pee.
Good luck.
Yowie
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