How Do I Keep My Neighbors Cats From Using My Flowerbeds As A Litterbox?
My next door neighbor has 8 cats that she lets outside. She has actually bragged to me about not having litter boxes in the house. I have noticed that my flowerbeds are now being used by the cats for a bathroom!!!! HELP!!!!
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#1 by KingOfTh - November 3rd, 2009 at 13:14
Who cares?! It’s good for your flowers!
#2 by Free Wordpress Plugins - November 3rd, 2009 at 18:04
Moth balls really do work! I had to use them in my flower beds.
#3 by All Smiles - November 3rd, 2009 at 23:15
Get a watch dog and stick him in the back yard. The cats won’t be in your garden anymore. Once they’ve peed it’s like a territory thing. They’ll keep coming back until it’s too full of pee and poop.
#4 by someone - November 4th, 2009 at 04:56
Maybe it fertilizes them. I duno
#5 by kissable - November 4th, 2009 at 10:36
the best thing to use is mothballs. they are cheap and you can get them almost anywhere. i had the same problem with the neighborhood cats around here and i just got a small bag of mothballs and put a few here and there in my flowerbeds and the cats won’t come near it anymore. and don’t worry honey…the mothballs won’t hurt your flowers at all ; )
#6 by wizjp - November 4th, 2009 at 14:46
Mothballs. Drives them nuts.
#7 by Melissa S - November 4th, 2009 at 20:07
This is NOT GOOD FOR YOUR PLANTS! Cats have alot of amionia in their pee and it will cause your plants to die. use mothballs.
#8 by Woof - November 5th, 2009 at 02:36
Get a dog??
#9 by JDoe - November 5th, 2009 at 06:45
You can get cat repellent from a pet store or home depot.
I’ve used a cat/dog repellent spray around my yard and it worked.
Specifically for gardens: http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_d…
General indoor/outdoor spray:http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_d…
#10 by shelly and michael lynn - November 5th, 2009 at 11:46
there’s some stuff you can buy called keep away or keep out. i bought it at a country hardware store and it was pretty expensive. its sortof like liter with a smeel that they cant stand and you sprinkle it around the flowerbed for like a week so that it teaches the cats to stay out. i am not sure if walmart sells it but check to see.it would probally be alot cheaper. i had to use it to keep my own cats out of my flower garden. it really worked.they hate it and now they dont even try. dont listen to those people that say its good for your flower beds because from my experience, cats using the bathroom in my flowerbeds, has detroyed my plants not counting that it stinks really bad. but yes,cat poop kills them.
#11 by jenna - November 5th, 2009 at 18:26
I use crushed red pepper. It works OK, but it’s not toxic, which is important to me.
#12 by sandra p - November 5th, 2009 at 21:29
put a strong smelling ordor like . on it to put the off cat dont like strong smell. or when u see them there spray them with a little water to put them off cats dont like getting wet.
#13 by Adelvice W - November 5th, 2009 at 22:29
First you might want to talk to the owner to see if she’d be willing to work with you on this one, however, the outlook on that doesn’t seem too great if she’s happy not to scoop any litter boxes. I’ve got seven cats so I know how much work that many litter boxes takes because I’m not inconsiderate enough to let my cats do their business all over the neighborhood.
Are there any leash laws in your area regarding cats? Could you call animal control and have them pick the cats up or surrender them to the shelter yourself? (I wouldn’t do this last one unless you’ve talked to the owner and she’s proven to be difficult.) You may be able to report it to a public health service in your area as well – cats often carry intestinal parasites that are transmissible to humans such as toxoplasmosis, giardia, and coccidia. Besides making a mess out of your garden these cats are putting you at risk. Children’s sandboxes are another favorite make-shift litter box for cats so this really isn’t a healthy situation.
Cats hate citrus so you could try to get citrus-scented air freshener or save your orange peels and make a barrier around your garden with those. Mint (but not catnip) is also hated by cats so something mint scented might help as well.
#14 by 2Dogs_75 - November 5th, 2009 at 23:49
Moth Balls
short of a .22 pellet gun
#15 by Hummer H1 Parts - November 6th, 2009 at 01:57
shoot em
#16 by WP Autoblog Software - November 6th, 2009 at 07:31
A pellet gun.
#17 by SEBchick - November 6th, 2009 at 10:11
get a fence…
#18 by sevenina - November 6th, 2009 at 15:10
There is a product….it’s called Keep Away, or something like that. You spread it on the ground, sort of creating an invisible fence. We used it around our stairs to keep racoons off the deck, and it works. Check the hardware store, it’s in the pesticide section, and if memory serves, is completely non toxic.
#19 by Ella - November 6th, 2009 at 19:20
Try Cayanne pepper, or regular pepper, cats hate peppar.
#20 by WP Robot Wordpress Autoposter - November 6th, 2009 at 21:20
Cats instinctively want to go in dirt. So if there isn’t dirt to be seen, or somehow they can’t dig in it, they won’t go there. You could try a weed barrier or something, which is a big thick cloth that you put around your flowers. Or try some pest spray around your garden.
#21 by Vika - November 7th, 2009 at 01:15
You could try using a diluted vinigar solution and spray the surounding area (that way it will still be detectable to the cats but not harm your flowers). Cats seem to universally hate the smell, so much so that its used to train tigers and such from misbehaving! Its also extremely cheap.
#22 by crazytop - November 7th, 2009 at 01:54
i hear putting lemon peels in your garden works we tried it and we haven’t had any of the neighborhood cats crap in our garden
#23 by Pissed_L - November 7th, 2009 at 07:18
Hey, its free fertilizer. The marigolds will grow even better next year.