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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: davep on April 27, 2007, 18:49

Title: very upset!
Post by: davep on April 27, 2007, 18:49: so,there i was this aft sat on my patio having a well earned beer after work when i heard a commotion on my veg patch.damn cat has gotten under my (i thought)cat proof nets!to make it worse my other cat has seen the movement under there and jumped all over it!!!!they managed to break a load of stalks off my onion sets.please,please somebody tell me they'll grow a new one!please!i'm gutted!
davep...
Title: very upset!
Post by: John on April 27, 2007, 20:44: Rush out and buy some more sets - cats will be cats - oops!
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Post by: crowndale on April 27, 2007, 20:58: One of my cats did this last year but in the strawberry patch, stupid animal! This year everything looks like fort knox!
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Post by: richyrich7 on April 27, 2007, 21:04: Yeah know the feelin mine likes sleeping on my newly emerged seedlings in the greenhouse, at least he don't use the trays for a loo ! well not yet :lol:
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Post by: davep on April 27, 2007, 23:13: well,yhey didnt get all of them!i have about 100!probably wrecked about 10 of 'em.next time i'm gonna get me a dog!
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Post by: crowndale on April 28, 2007, 07:33: One of my cats walked all over my seed trays a few weeks ago (before anything had emerged fortunately). I think she would have used it as a loo had I not caught her at it! I grow my seeds in the conservatory at the moment as the greenhouse is full of junk and needs a really good clean, not to mention new staging etc.
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Post by: purplekat on April 28, 2007, 09:51: I had a similar thing yesterday in my raised beds - came home to find one onion on the other side of the bed and quite a few that had been snapped and they'd dug up some of my seeds.
I've managed to train my cats to stay away from my beds but unfortunatly can't do the same with everyone elses!
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Post by: davep on April 28, 2007, 10:00: i've had enough!i'm gonnna wrap some rat poison inside some prime cuts of ham and leave them on the onions that'll train them! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

i'm joking of course :wink:
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Post by: ziggywigs on April 28, 2007, 21:12: Mine just sleep between the rows, it's funny but i don't have any cat probs on my veggie bits. It's like they know it's death if they touch it!

Compost lid decapitated some t'other year but they grew back and were ok when i harvested...just a tad smaller than those that hadn't been decapitated.
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Post by: GrannieAnnie on April 28, 2007, 21:14: Quote from: "davep"
well,yhey didnt get all of them!i have about 100!probably wrecked about 10 of 'em.next time i'm gonna get me a dog!

don't do that! dogs dig holes too!!!!
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Post by: richyrich7 on April 28, 2007, 21:31: And the poo's bigger :lol: and my old lab used to dig up spuds and eat em !
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Post by: GrannieAnnie on April 28, 2007, 21:41: I have trained the dog not to dig up my veg patch, but the cat won't listen! If the dog treads on a bit of soil, I say "oi on the path!" And she walks along the path behind me. Shouldn't say oi really, but it just slips out!!!!!
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Post by: richyrich7 on April 28, 2007, 21:43: :lol: bless her
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Post by: slow_worm on April 28, 2007, 22:46: Quote from: "richyrich7"
And the poo's bigger :lol: and my old lab used to dig up spuds and eat em !

What a hungry Lab!! Mine ate the raw spuds I had stored in a sack!
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Post by: WG. on April 28, 2007, 23:22: So ...

(1) you fill a shallow box with soil-type stuff and set in the greenhouse. If the cat craps inside of the box, you go nuts.

(2) you fill a shallow box with soil-type stuff and set in the house. If the cat craps outside of the box, you go nuts.

What has a poor cat gotta do to please you ???
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Post by: ziggywigs on April 28, 2007, 23:51: Ahhh that's the answer then WG....mine didn't have cat litters from a very young age...they were shown the great outdoors, and rough long grass!
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Post by: richyrich7 on April 29, 2007, 20:34: Quote from: "whisky_golf"
So ...

(1) you fill a shallow box with soil-type stuff and set in the greenhouse. If the cat craps inside of the box, you go nuts.

(2) you fill a shallow box with soil-type stuff and set in the house. If the cat craps outside of the box, you go nuts.

What has a poor cat gotta do to please you ???

:lol: thats better WG ! no wonder mine always walks round looking confused or I suppose he just could be stupid. :lol:
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Post by: WG. on April 29, 2007, 20:41: :wink: