How to stop the cat pooing on the veg?

[Snadger]

I've put wooden kebab sticks in my bed with the pointy bit sticking up

Watch you don't trip up one day and put your eye out then!

[rogesse]

A soaker's a good idea if you can catch them at it. My first reaction to your question was air rifle as I'm being plagued by one particular moggie who stomps round my garden as if he owns the place despite me chucking numerous cups of water over it.

It even viciously attacked my own little girl who is very well litter trained and keeps out of my borders because it's beneath her to get her feet dirty!

There is nothing worse than thinking your breaking up a soft clod of soil to discover......yeuhh!

[Gryfon]

Watch you don't trip up one day and put your eye out then!

They're at an angle so if I do trip I should just squash them and not squewer myself!

[toastie]

Have tried various remedies to stop my neighbours cats (at home not on the allotment) -orange peel, soaking tea bags with citronella and citronella candles all had no effect. After removing loads of cat p** (not for the first time) from a large half barrel tried nailing a mesh to the top of the barrel - thankfully the bulbs/flowers can grow through the holes in the mesh but the cats cannot get in to dig another hole and use it as a loo.

[Lemon]

we suffer from same probs with neighbourhood mogs...

hubb made a knee high frame 2m long (same as veg beds) for all four sides of veg bed. these frames have netting (we had some green plastic netting left from prev owners) they can be tied to a wooden corner post or you can put those hook and eye fasteners to make it easier when removing panels. We throw pea/bean netting over the top and pin it down. These keep the cats out of veg beds and the chickens out (didn't have chickens last year!) Only ting I would do differently is get a finer mesh as the cabbage white can fold up wings and squeeze through netting.

got two super-soaker type guns from toy shop in prep for keeping cats out of garden as chickens get upset by them in garden

[srodders]

Ive got a good mind to take Harry's nappy off and send him into the owners gardens and let him poo there, see how they like it lol!
Chelle x

Love it!!!

Guess what my littl'un will be doing later

[bargainhunter]

My chooks attack the local cats, which seems the best deterant, but then saying that i do have 17 and an angry cockeral!
I wouldnt know how else to keep the cats away as the garden is rather large and they used any area they fancied.
I shall be buying some water pistols, sitting on top the shed waiting, so if the cat cant see me all the better i think!
Good luck everybody

[Bramble_killer]

Lidl are doing lots of different garden netting cheap this week for all my fellow sufferers.

Why does cat poo smell so rank as well?

[apaj4]

I like the shovel idea but realise it's not a particularly neighbour or cat friendly way of dealing with the problem.

The whole local cat population were using my garden as their toilet. Nice.
I've tried oranges, lemons, tea bags, chemical deterents, you name it I've tried it with no effect.

Until........ a friend recommended a 'SONIC CAT REPELLER' ..... the best 15 quid I've ever spent (on ebay). It's activated by movement and emits a sound that really bothers our feline friends. Now they sit on the fence with their ears pricked but don't venture in to poo - YES!

No chopping up fruit, tea bags or the like anymore for me. No poo for my 2 year old to pick up or tread back in to the house either. My garden is now a cat poo free zone.

Good luck!!

[crichmond]

If you are going for a trip somewhere then keep an eye out for bramble and cutt a lot of particularly prickly stuff then fasten all round the top of your garden fence, the cats will soon learn that it hurts to jump on your fence..

[sauzee]

I tried carpet gripper on the top of my fence they just walk along the fence without even noticing it being there

[onefivenine]

I tried carpet gripper on the top of my fence they just walk along the fence without even noticing it being there

Is that legal? Couldn't you get sued by a burglar if they cut themself? The laws in Britain tend to be a bit mis-directed a lot of the time

Anyway. Darn it. Overnight my cat(s) have broken into a raised bed that I made on Easter Monday and planted up with Kelvedon peas
I now have a nice little arrangement of germinated peas and mounds of soil/compost. Guesss I'll be sorting that out and re-planting them at the weekend and geting some wire mesh to cover with until they've populated it.
At least my Good Friday bed is unscathed and sprouting along with another bed with Broad Beans.
Oh well at least I'll now have a 2nd successional batch sown a fortnight later. Every cloud I suppose.

[IgglePiggle]

Is that legal? Couldn't you get sued by a burglar if they cut themself? The laws in Britain tend to be a bit mis-directed a lot of the time

You take them down or pull the barbed wire off them after its hurt them

[Lemon]

Anyway. Darn it. Overnight my cat(s) have broken into a raised bed that I made on Easter Monday and planted up with Kelvedon peas
I now have a nice little arrangement of germinated peas and mounds of soil/compost. Guesss I'll be sorting that out and re-planting them at the weekend and geting some wire mesh to cover with until they've populated it.
At least my Good Friday bed is unscathed and sprouting along with another bed with Broad Beans.
Oh well at least I'll now have a 2nd successional batch sown a fortnight later. Every cloud I suppose.

Bad news there onefivenine - but you know that under those mounds could be lumps of cat poo?
I know what you mean about having to re-plant...last year before we built the veg bed panels (we have raised beds) I had nice stripes of sald crops, lettuce, radish and carrots til the cat got in and messed and poo'd! No chance this year! Gotta keep chickens out too!

[Sweepster]

Anyway. Darn it. Overnight my cat(s) have broken into a raised bed that I made on Easter Monday and planted up with Kelvedon peas
I now have a nice little arrangement of germinated peas and mounds of soil/compost. Guesss I'll be sorting that out and re-planting them at the weekend and geting some wire mesh to cover with until they've populated it.
At least my Good Friday bed is unscathed and sprouting along with another bed with Broad Beans.
Oh well at least I'll now have a 2nd successional batch sown a fortnight later. Every cloud I suppose.

I've got a couple of litter trays outside with some old potting compost in (I made drainage holes in the bottom so they don't stay waterlogged when it rains), and my cats have taken to directing their bums there instead of in the veg/flower beds - though I still cover the veg to prevent them getting trodden on by cats, pigeons, squirrels, clumsy-footed men...