Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: 3759allen on October 03, 2014, 08:59
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i'm having trouble with cats leaving their calling card everywhere. i find it on the drive, paths, beds, pretty much anywhere.
i use ground pepper around the beds that i have just dug and sown/ planted in and that seems to work until things grow enough so there's no room to do their business. but i can't really apply pepper everywhere.
this seems to be getting worse and worse. to the point now where when you walk up the drive there's a good chance you'll stand in it, and in the morning it always stinks with that awful aroma.
any help and ideas appreciated.
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unusual for cats to do it on driveways and paths as they normally try to cover it over. On the beds, I lay a number of stuff on top to prevent them from turning round on the spot - old trellissing stretched out, canes criss crossed. Last year I used some pea/bean netting stretched across the top about a couple of inches off the ground for the garlic bed which worked very well ... may I recommend it as a temporary measure as I did find the weeding a bit difficult LOL
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Peashooter at 10 paces :ohmy:
Edit: 'Shotgun' changed to 'peashooter' - please keep it 'nice' or this thread will suffer the same fate as most similar topics in the past.
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Peashooter at 10 paces :ohmy:
Edit: 'Shotgun' changed to 'peashooter' - please keep it 'nice' or this thread will suffer the same fate as most similar topics in the past.
judging by your response you've had or got similar frustrations over blighters.
i think there should be a law to make cat owners come and clear the mess up from their cats, if i had a dog and let it do it's business over peoples drives, paths and gardens i would have the residents and police round. why is it different between cats and dogs. maybe cat nappies should be made compulsory.
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My problem is Foxes on the Allotment - at least they keep the cats away :nowink:
Can we suggest a Catapult which could be how it got it's name :wub:
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I've just ordered one of the PIR activated sprayers for the back garden as I'm sick of cats using my strawberry bed as a little tray. I've got an infra red camera to set up too so I can see how it works.
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Can we suggest a Catapult which could be how it got it's name :wub:
No it didn't.
The word 'catapult' comes from the Latin 'catapulta', which in turn comes from the Greek καταπέλτης (katapeltēs), itself from (kata), "downwards" + πάλλω (pallō), "to toss, to hurl".
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Oooh - didn't know that - would have had a guess at Indian for some reason, like shampoo. Anyway, back to topic. I would be annoyed if any of my cats caused such a problem to someone else, and wonder if they are feral cats and/or toms because they are not hiding their businesses. I believe cats don't like the smell of citrus like orange or lemon peel.
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Why do some members always become red-necked on the topic of cats and so cause me to lock what could otherwise have been a useful and constructive topic >:(