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What do you do when you get stray cats in your garden2007-11-25 12:28:07

Some times we have stray cats in our garden or on our bouconey, what do I do about that?

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Hi Christina.I'm assuming you may be asking how to prevent the cats from returning.

If so, 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.

http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/ope/enotes/showa.

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.

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go up to them and make a loud sssssssssssss noise kinda like a snake and that will scare them off

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get a dog..

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You can fence in your garden of you can scare them off however I would fence in the garden since they are probably looking for food or using the garden as a litter box.

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sprinkle cayenne pepper around the garden and around the balcony. You have to keep putting it there after the wind blows it away or the rain washes it away,etc but cats hate it so should stay away. good luck

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Don't feed them, they'll go away.

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GET A LITTER BOX. OR A DOG.

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Hose em downlike they were the rest of the plants. (Do NOT feed them!). Or get a dog.

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Turn on the water sprinkler.

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i've seen people use mothballs as a deterrant. i could never do it just because you never know if a cat's going to do something stupid like eat one and then you have a dead kitty on your conscience, but i've heard it's safe and effective

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Fifty years ago a country boy would have advised a bowl of milk and a shotgun. :)

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Best bet is to put some tape sticky side up on the ground where they like to go for a little while. When they keep getting sticky paws they will get the picture. Cats are vain so they hate the stickiness.

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assuming that your not wanting to harm the cats i would try to put food for them somewhere quite away from your areas that you don't want them or if you don't want to inherate cats call your local animal selter.. sad part about cats tho is once you call they most of the time are just put to sleep or in my towns case shot .. cats just aren't as popular as dogs so it just depends on what you want to do for the cat s in question

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er? nothing.. The dog poo's in the garden anyway. greeeeaattt.