"Andy MacAskill" wrote in message
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bewtifulfreak wrote:

Anyone have suggestions for keeping your cats out of a garden they're
unwelcome in? I don't want to have to keep them in, as they've been
enjoying going out for more than a year now - since before this person
moved
in, in fact - and they're generally very safe roaming out back, but I do
respect the fact that she's not too happy that they're interfering with
her
garden. She claims to have tried everything and given up; I have no
idea
what she actually has tried, as she didn't really seem to want to
discuss
the subject, seemed politely but annoyedly resigned, so I feel the onus
is
on me. But other than try and fence little areas in the bushes that
they
sneak through (and they could still just jump onto and over the fence),
I'm
at a real loss as to what I might do to resolve the situation. I want
to
keep both neighbor and cats happy, but have no idea how I might acheive
this! Any ideas would be most gratefully received.

Ann

P.S. She never actually brought it up, but we had to go and ask her when
we
saw her out back once if the cats were bothering her or interfering with
her
garden, and got the answer we'd hoped not to hear! All the more reason
I
wish I could do something about it, because even though she's doesn't
really
go out of her way to be neighborly to us, she's always been polite and
never
made the stink that she could have about the cats, so I'd really like to
try
and show her some consideration in return.

Offer to surround the perimeter of her garden with planted onions? (I've
heard it's supposed to keep out wabbits.)

But it's not wabbits she is trying to keep out is it? ;o)

TT