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You would need to attach it to your outside tap all year 24/7 . Hozelock are not that reliable and in the winter it will freeze.
Dealing with cat poo in the lawn
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If I remember correctly, you can buy bags of lion **** from garden centres for exactly this purpose
You would need to attach it to your outside tap all year 24/7 . Hozelock are not that reliable and in the winter it will freeze.
Yes, these are other points I worried about, hence dropped idea.
Yes, you need to drain then down in freezing weather.You would need to attach it to your outside tap all year 24/7 . Hozelock are not that reliable and in the winter it will freeze.
Apart from that I can assure you that they do work if positioned and directed properly.
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Nothing really worked for deterring cats coming onto the garden, and defecating on the grass. Cat repellents on sale we have tried are all useless. I have totaled the amount of money spent on the cat repellent devices from Amazon and eBay and Liddle. It came to about £200. But nothing really worked. Today, the next door neighbors cat came to the garden, and left huge mess on the grass. Just wondering how to clear it up. If it is dug up, then the grass will have huge ugly hole for weeks and month.
Leave it to dry for a day or two (if it isn't raining) and it will scoop up cleanly with a spade. Cats can be trained with a bit of determination. A hosepipe with a jet spray near the door and spray them when you see them on your property. After a few soakings or even scary near misses they will go elsewhere.
Unfortunately it has been raining here all day, so clearing up the mess was impossible. Will have to leave it for few days. The forecast is that it will be raining all week.
Yeah, we had the infrared activated water spray too. It was actually the only device that worked in keeping the cats away from the grass. But when the winter came, it froze. It was taken off, and put away to the shed. It was a expensive kit too, but after the freeze in the winter cold, it stopped working. We blocked many part of the garden with the plants and screens from the next door's garden, and it was quiet for a few months.
But today was a surprise attack. There is a little gap between the screen and the wall of about 15cm. That is the space they push through, and get on the grass, defecate and runs away.
I got some old rusty metal pipe, and blocked the gap. Hopefully it will block that path securely.
Please don't waste your money on the cat repellent stuff or devices on the articles and forums which they recommend. We tried almost all of them, but nothing worked.
The only effective method to deal with the intruding and offending cats seems to be physically blocking the path they come in. It is very tricky, expensive and hard task to achieve.
We wish the law will change, so the cats will be kept in the owners house or gardens, not allowed to go into other people's properties or gardens. Cat mess is unpleasant, unnecessarily expensive forced expenditures and horrible clearing chores for the gardeners, and is serious health hazard especially to young children playing in the garden.
Yeah, we had the infrared activated water spray too. It was actually the only device that worked in keeping the cats away from the grass. But when the winter came, it froze. It was taken off, and put away to the shed. It was a expensive kit too, but after the freeze in the winter cold, it stopped working. We blocked many part of the garden with the plants and screens from the next door's garden, and it was quiet for a few months.
But today was a surprise attack. There is a little gap between the screen and the wall of about 15cm. That is the space they push through, and get on the grass, defecate and runs away.
I got some old rusty metal pipe, and blocked the gap. Hopefully it will block that path securely.
Please don't waste your money on the cat repellent stuff or devices on the articles and forums which they recommend. We tried almost all of them, but nothing worked.
The only effective method to deal with the intruding and offending cats seems to be physically blocking the path they come in. It is very tricky, expensive and hard task to achieve.
We wish the law will change, so the cats will be kept in the owners house or gardens, not allowed to go into other people's properties or gardens. Cat mess is unpleasant, unnecessarily expensive forced expenditures and horrible clearing chores for the gardeners, and is serious health hazard especially to young children playing in the garden.
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We are not sure if the next door cats owner has been providing proper litter for their 2 cats in their own house or garden. If they have, then why would the cats keep coming to our garden to defecate on the grass?
All we know is that they let the cats out their house everyday early in the morning, and they come to our garden to mess, or go to the other houses to mess, and go back to the owner's house. They also come out in the evening to do the same. The 2x cats have been doing that for last 12 years in this area. They don't mess their owner's grass at all. And they know that too, it seems.
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No cat ever craps in its own space. They would rather make your life a misery until you put them straight. Stick it in a bag and take it round to the owners. Get yourself a moggie or a big dog but you could also try carpet gripper on the fence.
Our cat definitely has the odd crap at our place, she has no shame and will crap right in front of me in the flower beds. I have no doubt she may crap in the neighbours too, at the rear the fences/hedges here are pretty tight for her to get through I think and despite my interventions she does make the odd voyage into the neighbours out the front/across the road, stupid cat.
Cats are respectful and considerate. They do not crap on their own lawns, nor on any lawn that is owned by a neighbour cat.
They only use unoccupied spaces that have no cat owner.
I befriend my neighbours cat, who treats my garden as his own, and neither he nor any other cat craps in it.
When I had my own cats I taught them to use a forked-over patch of earth in an out-of-the way spot, and they respected my wishes.
They only use unoccupied spaces that have no cat owner.
I befriend my neighbours cat, who treats my garden as his own, and neither he nor any other cat craps in it.
When I had my own cats I taught them to use a forked-over patch of earth in an out-of-the way spot, and they respected my wishes.
Shyte.
If you want that, get a dog.
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