Cat repellant

[PHILINFRANCE]

On 07/02/2019 at 01:24, Gazred said:

I own, and i use that term very lightly, a cat and have all of these issues.

Get a dog?

Man's best friend?

I am not so sure.

I don't think even one of my worst enemies would just stare at me brazenly, whilst crouching and defacating on my living room carpet.   

[Major Isewater]

On 04/02/2019 at 21:02, Calculus said:

Lion poo, which you can buy on the internet. 

Bramble or hawthorn trimmings placed under the hedges where cats wait for birds.

Buried deep heat soaked tea bags - similar effect.

Sneak up behing the cat with a cucumber (never fails):

 

Just cucumbers or would courgettes do the trick ?

[Calculus]

2 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

Just cucumbers or would courgettes do the trick ?

This is just typical of what's happening to football. Prawn sandwiches, lobster wraps, smart casual clothing only, inside toilets instead of a slash against a wall and now the good old British cucumber is coming under threat. Yes, I'm sure you could use a courgette if you are that way inclined. I believe Waitrose stock this froggy imposter, which am sure you can get next time you're in there picking up your Waitrose Essential Baba Ganoush.  And to think people are surprised by Brexit....

[Lanterne Rouge]

On ‎08‎/‎02‎/‎2019 at 03:36, PHILINFRANCE said:

Man's best friend?

I am not so sure.

I don't think even one of my worst enemies would just stare at me brazenly, whilst crouching and defacating on my living room carpet.   

I don`t know, I`ve been to some pretty wild parties down the years.

[RedRock]

On 07/02/2019 at 11:07, handsofclay said:

Your forum name is King of Dogs and you are asking for advice on how to rid cats from your garden!

Your posts contain the footing 'Andrea Leadsom is looking hotter than ever' yet you appear to abhor cat poo! 

My cats, for the most part, use a litter tray in my house. On occasion they do their biz outside on some part of this planet as does every single creature on earth, except human beings, and even those have only been using toilets for a relatively short period of their existence. 

In my previous house my neighbour used to take video of my cat pooing in his garden and offer to show it to me. He used to ask what I was going to do about it. I would say that I would have a word with him. I would offer to clear it up but he seemed upset that my cat targeted his garden at all. I found this odd. It was like he thought that my cat knew it was his garden and was deliberately defecating there out of spite. Cats have no concept that us humans possess things such as gardens. He has his territory and maybe, if he could adequately communicate with me, he would moan about the idiot next door laying slabs down upon the grass he loved to lime on in his territory.

Birds defecate in gardens. Neighbours complain if one puts food out for the birds that it is encouraging them to poo more in their garden, or they curse at the pigeons for singling their garden, or car, out for treatment. But the pigeons have no concept of the pride a human takes in their car. The pigeon needs to defecate so it does what it has been doing since the time of the dinosaurs and defecates. Maybe in times past it defecated on the head of a T-Rex so it ain't going to be fussed about pooping on the bonnet of a Citroen C1. Maybe if the birds did know that the car was 'owned' by a human they would be knocking on a few doors and lecturing the occupants regarding the damage their pollution is causing to the planet and the amount of birds killed each year by cars. Polar Bears and orangutans etc would follow up by having a word with the humans about  The loss of their habitat and lives, far more threatening and fundamental than finding another creature's excrement in your garden.

I find Fox poo, hedgehog muck, badger droppings, bird excrement and cat turds in my garden, but hey, ho it is life. We share this planet. It is one of those things. It is a trifling matter in the scheme of things. It is because some grumpy humans want to blame someone and with cats they usually have 'owners'. I am convinced that if all the birds in Britain were 'owned' by Fred Workloads of 7 Blackheath Terrace, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, he would receive thousands upon thousands of letters, emails, phone calls and visits each day from irate people in Britain demanding he do something about his birds who are defecating on their cars or in their gardens. Telling him to change their flightpaths etc.

This is all well and good..... until my dog decides to use a cat owner’s garden to cr@p in, kill their kids bunny rabbit and buries their favourite bone in a prized flower bed.  

One suspects 9 out of 10 cat owners would be demanding the dog owner takes responsibility for the action of his dog. No? 

[handsofclay]

10 hours ago, Moor2Sea said:

This is all well and good..... until my dog decides to use a cat owner’s garden to cr@p in, kill their kids bunny rabbit and buries their favourite bone in a prized flower bed.  

One suspects 9 out of 10 cat owners would be demanding the dog owner takes responsibility for the action of his dog. No? 

I quite agree with your last sentence with the exception that whereas dogs mostly have owners cats have servants. Any cat 'owner' will tell you that they do not own their cat in that they have no control, whatsoever, of their cat's actions. This is established in law as should any of my cats jump on a toddler in the garden next door and scratch hell out of him or her, nothing will happen to me. But if I had a dog and the dog went next door and bites hell out of a toddler, I, as the dog's owner, will be prosecuted.

On the likes of Britain's Got Talent you will have performing dogs such as Pudsy,or whatever his name was RIP, as they obey instructions. You never get a performing cat or a cat stepping in to the breach if the local sheepdog is unable to fulfil his duties. Cats are domesticated, but like birds, hedgehogs, badgers, wombats etc they do their own thing without accepting guidance from humans.

[RedM]

4 minutes ago, handsofclay said:

I quite agree with your last sentence with the exception that whereas dogs mostly have owners cats have servants. Any cat 'owner' will tell you that they do not own their cat in that they have no control, whatsoever, of their cat's actions. This is established in law as should any of my cats jump on a toddler in the garden next door and scratch hell out of him or her, nothing will happen to me. But if I had a dog and the dog went next door and bites hell out of a toddler, I, as the dog's owner, will be prosecuted.

On the likes of Britain's Got Talent you will have performing dogs such as Pudsy,or whatever his name was RIP, as they obey instructions. You never get a performing cat or a cat stepping in to the breach if the local sheepdog is unable to fulfil his duties. Cats are domesticated, but like birds, hedgehogs, badgers, wombats etc they do their own thing without accepting guidance from humans.

So why do people have cats? I get they are less of a commitment than a dog, more independent etc. I suppose some cats you can play with at times, talk to. But they are on the whole not as ready to please as dogs are, so why bother with them? What if you get a cat that doesn’t like company or human contact very much, seems common in a cat but rare in most dog breeds. 

I don’t have either, but seriously wonder what cats do for people as I honestly don’t get it. I don’t want to be owned by a cat for sure!

[handsofclay]

3 minutes ago, RedM said:

So why do people have cats? I get they are less of a commitment than a dog, more independent etc. I suppose some cats you can play with at times, talk to. But they are on the whole not as ready to please as dogs are, so why bother with them? What if you get a cat that doesn’t like company or human contact very much, seems common in a cat but rare in most dog breeds. 

I don’t have either, but seriously wonder what cats do for people as I honestly don’t get it. I don’t want to be owned by a cat for sure!

I suppose you can say the same about kids, but we still have them!

But to further answer your question, although they are independent they do also show a lot of love and each have different personalities that they bring to the party. One of my cats, who was a stray, introduced himself to me by sitting outside my window and looking in wistfully whenever it was raining as if to appeal to my caring side. It eventually worked. He follows me about outside like a dog and even comes into houses of friends nearby when I'm visiting them and makes himself comfortable there too.

They are a source of fun, company and individualism. They can be fussy buggers too. The stray cat was quite happy to nosh left overs from my other cats that I put out for the hedgehogs when he was living 100% outdoors, but now in the 3 years he has been in my home, demands the food he wants and it is usually the most expensive. He turns his nose up at the fresh stuff that he was happy to eat the leftovers of (i.e. the jelly or gravy licked off) before! My ex partner has 3 cats who we also found as strays and they're exactly the same. 

[RedM]

@handsofclay, I really do think it’s down to whether you are a cat person or not, like you say same with kids. The lady opposite me has on average 4 or 5 cats at any one time, they seem to come and go. She once told me it was because she didn’t have children, she is younger than me but married a bloke quite a bit older who was adement they weren’t having any kids. She very much treats them as her babies, but then again I have another neighbour who treats her dog as her child, often the dog eats better than she does! Some pet owners are bloody weird !

[handsofclay]

3 minutes ago, RedM said:

@handsofclay, I really do think it’s down to whether you are a cat person or not, like you say same with kids. The lady opposite me has on average 4 or 5 cats at any one time, they seem to come and go. She once told me it was because she didn’t have children, she is younger than me but married a bloke quite a bit older who was adement they weren’t having any kids. She very much treats them as her babies, but then again I have another neighbour who treats her dog as her child, often the dog eats better than she does! Some pet owners are bloody weird !

I had a laugh, especially at your last couple of sentences, but then had to chastise myself because whenever I go shopping I invariably buy more for the cats than I do for myself. I also tend to get supermarket value brands and reduced stuff for myself but the cats usually get top of the range food!! I do try them with cheaper stuff but they either just lick the jelly off or turn their noses up at it (they also do this with top of the range stuff too if I present it to them too often, so I have to mix brands and flavours frequently to ensure more of it gets eaten).

[The Fat Controller]

Some people swear by the urine of an adult human male as a cat repellent  (on the ground not the cats you bastards).

 

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On 07/02/2019 at 11:07, handsofclay said:

Your forum name is King of Dogs and you are asking for advice on how to rid cats from your garden!

Your posts contain the footing 'Andrea Leadsom is looking hotter than ever' yet you appear to abhor cat poo! 

My cats, for the most part, use a litter tray in my house. On occasion they do their biz outside on some part of this planet as does every single creature on earth, except human beings, and even those have only been using toilets for a relatively short period of their existence. 

In my previous house my neighbour used to take video of my cat pooing in his garden and offer to show it to me. He used to ask what I was going to do about it. I would say that I would have a word with him. I would offer to clear it up but he seemed upset that my cat targeted his garden at all. I found this odd. It was like he thought that my cat knew it was his garden and was deliberately defecating there out of spite. Cats have no concept that us humans possess things such as gardens. He has his territory and maybe, if he could adequately communicate with me, he would moan about the idiot next door laying slabs down upon the grass he loved to lime on in his territory.

Birds defecate in gardens. Neighbours complain if one puts food out for the birds that it is encouraging them to poo more in their garden, or they curse at the pigeons for singling their garden, or car, out for treatment. But the pigeons have no concept of the pride a human takes in their car. The pigeon needs to defecate so it does what it has been doing since the time of the dinosaurs and defecates. Maybe in times past it defecated on the head of a T-Rex so it ain't going to be fussed about pooping on the bonnet of a Citroen C1. Maybe if the birds did know that the car was 'owned' by a human they would be knocking on a few doors and lecturing the occupants regarding the damage their pollution is causing to the planet and the amount of birds killed each year by cars. Polar Bears and orangutans etc would follow up by having a word with the humans about  The loss of their habitat and lives, far more threatening and fundamental than finding another creature's excrement in your garden.

I find Fox poo, hedgehog muck, badger droppings, bird excrement and cat turds in my garden, but hey, ho it is life. We share this planet. It is one of those things. It is a trifling matter in the scheme of things. It is because some grumpy humans want to blame someone and with cats they usually have 'owners'. I am convinced that if all the birds in Britain were 'owned' by Fred Workloads of 7 Blackheath Terrace, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, he would receive thousands upon thousands of letters, emails, phone calls and visits each day from irate people in Britain demanding he do something about his birds who are defecating on their cars or in their gardens. Telling him to change their flightpaths etc.

You make some good points.

What you are missing - and appear to be oblivious to - is the issue of disrespect: have you ever stopped and thought about how cats look at you?

It's simply not acceptable in a developed county.

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On 07/02/2019 at 16:45, Slippin cider said:

Some cats are very aloof and unfriendly....a bit like most humans ...but my cat is very personable and intelligent beyond belief...even Mrs Cider (having never liked cats) and always being a dog person absolutely loves her and was very surprised by her affection and overall intellect....her words not mine ..

It's like anything I suppose - shit in the wrong place, and someone is not going to be pleased ............

4 hours ago, Chris_Brown said:

Some people swear by the urine of an adult human male as a cat repellent  (on the ground not the cats you bastards).

 

I find they always move before I can piss in their face.

[Slippin cider]

51 minutes ago, ... said:

 

I find they always move before I can piss in their face.

Never piss on a pussy it’s not big or clever ....

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I ended up buying something called 'CATWatch'.

Sonic scarer - but it actually has worked. Differs from the normal ones as it is plugged into the mains, not running on batteries.

Fluffy b*******ds avoid the garden completely.

Best £62 I ever spent*.

 

* Except porn hub Gold membership.

[wendyredredrobin]

My first thought would be a Stuart Sinclair scarecrow.  If that fails, then cats don't like the smell of Jeys Fluid at all.

[handsofclay]

On 25/02/2019 at 11:08, ... said:

I ended up buying something called 'CATWatch'.

Sonic scarer - but it actually has worked. Differs from the normal ones as it is plugged into the mains, not running on batteries.

Fluffy b*******ds avoid the garden completely.

Best £62 I ever spent*.

 

* Except porn hub Gold membership.

I would advise you to monitor the health of your family as sonic devices are increasingly being associated with ill health in those within range of  them. Just because humans cannot hear something it doesn't mean that the brain isn't impacted. There are certain gases that we cannot smell that are detrimental to our health if we are exposed long term to them as well as electric currents that we cannot feel. The cats, initially, run away for a reason, just as animals pack their bags and head for the hills when they sense a tsunami while the humans are oblivious to the danger.

Put it this way. Being regularly exposed to a sonic device is scarier than Brexit!!! It has been linked to all sorts of health issues. Legal firms in the States are already touting for business amongst ill people blaming their condition upon a neighbour's sonic device.

The daft thing is, tests have shown that the sonic devices only work short term anyway. Cats get used to them and enter the garden long enough to do their biz and get out before the sonic scarer can do long term damage.

[Med/MadHatter]

I have a water sprayer ( more like a cannon) that is triggered by movement, very accurate and the cat's don't like it at all, unfortunately the cannon doesn't discriminate between cats and anything else, so humans have to take a hit too :laugh:

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4 hours ago, handsofclay said:

I would advise you to monitor the health of your family as sonic devices are increasingly being associated with ill health in those within range of  them. Just because humans cannot hear something it doesn't mean that the brain isn't impacted. There are certain gases that we cannot smell that are detrimental to our health if we are exposed long term to them as well as electric currents that we cannot feel. The cats, initially, run away for a reason, just as animals pack their bags and head for the hills when they sense a tsunami while the humans are oblivious to the danger.

Put it this way. Being regularly exposed to a sonic device is scarier than Brexit!!! It has been linked to all sorts of health issues. Legal firms in the States are already touting for business amongst ill people blaming their condition upon a neighbour's sonic device.

The daft thing is, tests have shown that the sonic devices only work short term anyway. Cats get used to them and enter the garden long enough to do their biz and get out before the sonic scarer can do long term damage.

My local pussies have completely changed their behaviour:-

- zero shit in my garden;

- no disrespecting looks from the bottom of the garden (what is your problem??);

- they have started fighting with each other;

- one sits in the road apparently waiting to be run over.

Quadruple win.

46 minutes ago, Med/MadHatter said:

I have a water sprayer ( more like a cannon) that is triggered by movement, very accurate and the cat's don't like it at all, unfortunately the cannon doesn't discriminate between cats and anything else, so humans have to take a hit too

Do you have to run it on plain water??

[Mike Hunt-Hertz]

1 hour ago, ... said:

My local pussies have completely changed their behaviour:-

- zero shit in my garden;

- no disrespecting looks from the bottom of the garden (what is your problem??);

- they have started fighting with each other;

- one sits in the road apparently waiting to be run over.

Quadruple win.

Do you have to run it on plain water??

Come the warm weather, they'll be in through your French doors, pissing over your curtains.

[Son of Fred]

On 04/02/2019 at 16:44, ... said:

WTF works to get this hairy piss-takers out of your garden?

I don't like:-

- cat s**t in my borders / lawn;

- cat p**s on the fence / deck;

- them scoffing the local birds, including ROBIN'S;

- general way they look down their noses at you / disrespect you.

Prefer something electronic, but what actually works??

"HELP".

 

 

Bit of patience...if you can bring yourself to befriend the creature-enough to gain it's confidence..then let the fun begin.

'Nice big bucket of water..'whoosh..a proper drenching,off on his way like a drowned rat-not just a squirt from a hosepipe.....won't do him any harm & as a bonus should be fun for someone such as yourself with a dislike for felines(I like 'em meself)-'but he'll be scarred for life mentally about your garden!!

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On 02/03/2019 at 11:27, Robert the bruce said:

Bit of patience...if you can bring yourself to befriend the creature-enough to gain it's confidence..then let the fun begin.

'Nice big bucket of water..'whoosh..a proper drenching,off on his way like a drowned rat-not just a squirt from a hosepipe.....won't do him any harm & as a bonus should be fun for someone such as yourself with a dislike for felines(I like 'em meself)-'but he'll be scarred for life mentally about your garden!!

I do not - in particular - dislike cats.

I dislike a garden full of cat shit.

Whilst I accept horses have a licence to shit in the street, the same does not apply to cats & my garden.

It's not the cats fault, but neither do I have to put up with it.

If they had ceased activity nicely when first asked, it would not have come to this. Now they have taken their arses, and what comes out of their arses, elsewhere, I am a happy man.