jimmy egan

Is there a safe and natural way to keep cats from using my nice never walked
on garden beds as a litter box ? I have tried hot pepper flakes and ammonia
without success. This is becoming a large problem. Especially when your yard
begins to smell of cat urine and feces. It is a small yard in suburban Long
Island. Any help would be appreciated as I would like the cats to never be
in my yard ... Thanks in advance ...

jimmy egan

Is there a safe and natural way to keep cats from using my nice never walked
on garden beds as a litter box ? I have tried hot pepper flakes and ammonia
without success. This is becoming a large problem. Especially when your yard
begins to smell of cat urine and feces. It is a small yard in suburban Long
Island. Any help would be appreciated as I would like the cats to never be
in my yard ... Thanks in advance ...

ed clarke

Victor #4 traps on eBay. Or a simple snare. Around here they would be eaten
by coyotes and I'm only about forty miles north of Long Island.

grampysgurl

And this act would buy you a limo trip with a Police Officer chauffeur with the
addition of some very nice silver bracelets, in my town. If this is the choice
someone makes they need to make sure it's a legal choice, here it is theft of
personnel property.
Colleen
zone 5 CT

robert chambers

I can see that a snare might be considered with a dim view but
mousetraps in the bushes? please.

wspohn4

Not at all - only if you keep the cat. You have a legal right to stop a
trespass.

Killing/eating/hurting etc. the cat will contravene various laws; taking them
to the SPCA will not.

dewitt

These aren't mousetraps. They are leg hold traps designed for animals
much larger than a cat. They would likely kill or severely injure a
cat.

deg

priscilla h ballou

Jimmy Egan <juegan@optonline.net> quoth:

Gardeners' Supply sells a gizmo that you can put on the dirt among your
plants. It's a grid of hard plastic spikes sticking up. You buy lots of
them ($$) or move their placement around. It doesn't hurt the cats, but
it does make the area inhospitable to them, and the idea is that
eventually they become habituated to disliking the area and then stay
away.

I cannot testify to its efficacy, since I don't mind cats in my garden and
even feed and provide shelter for local ferals (whom I've TNRed).

Priscilla

kay lancaster

Ammonia is a "pee here" cue for cats and dogs. Leach the soil well,
then consider one of the commercially available repellents, or a
mulch of something stickery like pine cones, or orange peel, or even rue
(though be quite careful with rue -- it's a common skin sensitizer).

j. p.

Who told you about this? Elvis?