Keeping cats out of the garden?

[Keitai]

Had a problem with cat poo getting on my mower and also have a five year old running around in the back garden. I assume it's cats doing it. I've looked into different methods . Seems u can get a detector which when sensing a cat moving past sets off a high pitched noise which cats hate but humans cant hear. Also spikes on fences and walls any good?

Uploaded pictures of garden. Lot of fence and done brick wall and two garage roofs which a cat could jump off into garden.

 

[vonsworld]

I have a couple of the sonic cat detectors you mention and they seem to work quite well. They also like long grass and soft earth to mess in, so I would always keep the grass cut short if you have time.

 

[sodthisforfun]

My old cat hated the sonic things but my new younger cat doesn't mind. Goes up to them and sniffs em. My dad in law has a couple in the garden too and made no difference to next doors cats.

The spikes work quite well and you may be able to get them cheaper if you have a look around - I've bought them for less when marketed for intruders to keep our cat out of next doors garden on her request. Oh, you may have to move your bins coz cat's a very good at working their way around the spikes and probably could clear most spikes using your bins!

The only real good way though I know to stop cats is to get your own cat...

 

[spader]

Had a problem with cat poo getting on my mower and also have a five year old running around in the back garden. I assume it's cats doing it. I've looked into different methods . Seems u can get a detector which when sensing a cat moving past sets off a high pitched noise which cats hate but humans cant hear. Also spikes on fences and walls any good?

Uploaded pictures of garden. Lot of fence and done brick wall and two garage roofs which a cat could jump off into garden.

Someone suggsted to shoot them with the toy water pistol whenever they enter your garden. I wonder if it would be effective solution.
I had tried it long time ago with the water gun shooting at them. But the problem was the cats used to come in do the messing on the grass when I am not around in the garden.

 

[JohnD]

Get your own cat.

Cats are territorial and houseproud. Provide it with a patch of forked-over earth in a safe place, and encourage it to use that. It will patrol its home turf and keep intruder cats out.

cats will avoid a garden which is the home of another cat.

 

[spader]

My wife hates cats, so it is a no-no. She hates even smell of cats. Indeed when I go out into the garden, even I can smell very strong cat urine from all over. But the cat mess on the grass is just sheer vandalism we do regard them as. It is quite serious problem here.

 

[Why Not Indeed]

You can get water squirters with an IR sensor on. Can't tell you if they're any good but I am quite sure they will squirt randomly as well as squirting cats.

 

[mattylad]

cats will avoid a garden which is the home of another cat.

Dogs however will go and p_iss all over the place next to or in the garden of another dog.

 

[Mike13]

could it be foxes? cats usually like to bury their poo

 

[spader]

I have never seen a fox in this area or in our garden for all my time living here in this area, and that is about 36 years.

 

[spader]

They are the 2 cats from next door neighbours. Did set up a security camera in the garden, and the cats are in the videos messing and running away. When they mess on the soil, they tend to bury their mess. But when they do on the grass, they just leave them there and run away. Cats can't dig grass.

 

[spader]

No, we would never own cats, knowing what they will exactly do to the neighbours garden and grass. We would never feel right if neighbours houses and gardens are messed by our cats, and they will start hating us. No way.
If we had cats, we will never let them out the house, or we will not have them. Anyway, wife doesn't like cats, so we never had cats in our whole life, and will never have them.

 

[JohnD]

could it be foxes? cats usually like to bury their poo

They will do that in their own territory.

But in abandoned wasteland, owned by no cat, they will not bother.

 

[Koolpc]

Land mines are good....

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

No, we would never own cats, knowing what they will exactly do to the neighbours garden and grass. We would never feel right if neighbours houses and gardens are messed by our cats, and they will start hating us.
If we had cats, we will never let them out the house, or we will not have them. Anyway, wife doesn't like cats, so we never had cats in our whole life, and will never have them.

So you wouldn't consider having cats then?