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Hi

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 everywhere.
I have tried:
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?

I don't want to hurt them.

Appreciated

Steve

Mr Pounder wrote:
Hi

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 everywhere.
I have tried:
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?

I don't want to hurt them.

Appreciated

Steve

Mothballs? (I've never tried it myself, but I've been told scattering
them among the plants works.) When one of my California landlords
complained that my cats were digging in his garden, I bought some
"cat-proofing" pellets from a catalog, which he said worked like a
charm. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got them, or the name of
the product. (Also it was nearly twenty years ago, and in my
experience, most products I actually LIKE are promptly taken off of the
market!)

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

Mr Pounder wrote:

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 everywhere.
I have tried:

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Mothballs? (I've never tried it myself, but I've been told scattering
them among the plants works.)

Aren't mothballs poisonous?

Joyce

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Old expression: What goes around comes around.
New expression: Fw:FW:Fw:Fwd:FW:Fwd:FWD:Fw

"Mr Pounder" wrote in message
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Hi

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
everywhere.
I have tried:
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?

I don't want to hurt them.

Appreciated

Steve




I saw some plastic matting in a garden catalog yesterday that you
supposedly put in the ground around special plants to keep the cats
away. It has soft plastic spikes that stick up out of the ground.

I suspect most cats would think it was a funny as I did.

(They were also attempting to sell a fold up wooden clothes dryer
like the one I paid less then $10 for at Kmart. "Still made in
Maine from real white pine!" for $79.95 plus shipping and handling)

Jo

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Mr Pounder wrote:
Hi

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 everywhere.
I have tried:
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?

I don't want to hurt them.

Appreciated

Steve

Mothballs? (I've never tried it myself, but I've been told scattering
them among the plants works.) When one of my California landlords
complained that my cats were digging in his garden, I bought some
"cat-proofing" pellets from a catalog, which he said worked like a charm.
Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got them, or the name of the
product. (Also it was nearly twenty years ago, and in my experience, most
products I actually LIKE are promptly taken off of the market!)

Thanks for that.
Will give it a go........... any port in a storm.

Steve

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"Mr Pounder" wrote in message
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Hi

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
everywhere.
I have tried:
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?

I don't want to hurt them.

Appreciated

Steve




I saw some plastic matting in a garden catalog yesterday that you
supposedly put in the ground around special plants to keep the cats
away. It has soft plastic spikes that stick up out of the ground.

I suspect most cats would think it was a funny as I did.

Hmmm.
Yes, the cats would be amused.

(They were also attempting to sell a fold up wooden clothes dryer
like the one I paid less then $10 for at Kmart. "Still made in
Maine from real white pine!" for $79.95 plus shipping and handling)

Yup.

Thanks.

Steve
Lancashire England.

In . com,
Mr Pounder typed:
Hi

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 everywhere.
I have tried:
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

Perhaps a motion-activated sprinkler?

http://www.amazon.com/Contech-Electr...recrow-Motion-
Activated/dp/B000071NUS

This way the cats (and other varmints) help keep your garden properly
watered.

"Yowie" wrote in message
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In . com,
Mr Pounder typed:
Hi

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 everywhere.
I have tried:
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.
A dog would make marks on the wonderful spotlessly clean wooden floors:-(

Where would one buy orange oil?

Steve

"ScratchMonkey" wrote in message
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Perhaps a motion-activated sprinkler?

http://www.amazon.com/Contech-Electr...recrow-Motion-
Activated/dp/B000071NUS

This way the cats (and other varmints) help keep your garden properly
watered.

Hmmm, page don't work.
BUT, that is a hell of a good suggestion!
Thanks.

Steve