Cats As Garden Pests

[Birdfeeder]

Help!!!please. Does anyone know if the solar powered animal repellers work and if so do they also deter hedgehogs (I don't want to do this)? Recently each morning I go out to find that I have been "gifted" a large pile of cat poo on my lawn. I would be very grateful for any other successful suggestions. The liquid I have used in the past is no longer on the market. Yours in desperation.

[Buenchico]

Advice from the RHS:
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=486

[ladybirder]

Sounds like it's a fox not a cat if it's a large pile on the lawn.

[tonyav]

That's what I thought to, lb. Cats usually like soft (ish ) soil and they usually bury it.

[Buenchico]

. . . in which case . . .
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=511

[ladybirder]

High five tony, great minds and all that.

[ladybirder]

Or if they don't bury it they toss it around a bit LOL.

[Patsy33]

Are you sure it's not the hedgehog??

[EDDIE51]

I take it shooting them is considered a bit 'Non PC' these days? ;-)

[Birdfeeder]

definitely a cat as I have seen it in the act so to speak and chased it off. It belongs to people who have recently moved nearby and I see it sat in the window all day long. I am not sure that could do anything to stop it even if I manged to catch them at home, they seem to leave early in the morning and return very late at night which is when they let the cat out. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Also thanks ladybirder I have looked at the link and will follow up the plant idea.

[EDDIE51]

Never had a cat in our garden my dog Ozzie the big black Labrador sees to that! Both sides of us also have a dog and hence no cats!

[Birdfeeder]

Seems I am not alone with this problem.

[Trishy]

Try Silent Roar cat repellent. It's Lion pooh!

[Buenchico]

Get your own cat! It will scare the other one off and mess in someone else's garden ;-)

[I've got four of the little darlings and there's never any cat poo in my garden!]

[Old_Geezer]

I really don't know where this myth that cats bury their poo comes from. Experience tells one that it's blatantly untrue. At least for most; maybe there's the odd one that doesn't just leave it on the lawn.

[Old_Geezer]

Try scooping it up and sending it registered mail to the cat's owner. I don't think you're allowed to keep their poo.

[ladybirder]

OG cats usually like soil or gravel/chippings. That's why cat litter is the way it is. I have a fox which leaves its calling card on my steps for me. It's poo is nearly black and in this link it tells you it leaves it in the middle of the lawn.
http://www.downthelane.net/garden-wildlife/identifying-animal-droppings.php

Bird feeder it was Buenchico not me who left you the link. x

[scrambler]

Contech electron cat scarers work, uses 9v battery - I've tried a few but they don't seem to work but his Contech does definitely work. I also have the Contech Water Scarecrow - which also works but is indiscriminate!!

[scrambler]

p.s. I've tried the pellets as well - What a Pong ! and i'm not sure of results