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woodelf | 12:55 Tue 29th Sep 2009 | Home & Garden
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How do I keep cats away from the flower beds?...but I don't want to use Cat Shoo as it stinks!...can anyone recommend anything else, apart from orange peel which doesn't work. Ta Muchly.
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Kids' water pistol - the type you pump up under pressure to squirt. They soon get the message after a couple of good soakings.
"Silent Roar" - a fertiliser based product with a Lion "ingredient" for want of a better word.
We have had terrible problems since started clearing back an overgrown garden and freshly turned soil is a magnet for the local moggies - this product has been most successful yet.

Have also used a couple of the battery powered motion activated ultrasonic scarers - which we have moved about the garden, seem to help too. Other thing we tried which is based on the orange peel theory is plastic rods which have a citric essence in them, they last for a few months - again couldn't say whether realy that effective. Water pistol was also added to our arsenal - told you we had problems!

Sourced all of the above items were from various sellers on Ebay.
there is a plant called scardy cat it repels dogs and cats easy to keep we got ours at our local garden centre your cat wont go near it xx
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Many Thanks guys, but rather than plan a 24 hour vigil to waterblast the little ****, I think I'll try Scardy Cat and/or Silent Roar and oh, I've just been told another thing...it's summat like a fake cat which you just stick into wherever; the cat has shiny green eyes!...but Ta Muchly to all of you.
An aquaintance says that a suitably baited old-fashioned mousetrap works womders. You may want to weaken the spring a little, (he says) - you wouldn't want to break the dear creature's nose, would you? Once it's been sprung, just leave it in view. The cat will give it a very, very, wide berth, or hopefully stay off your property altogether! (Of course, I would never use such a dastardly device myself). Oh. And please, please, don't ever use it if you have any hedgehogs around.
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Okay Heathfield...but do they make mouse traps anymore or even the ironmongers who used to sell 'em? I promise not to hurt any hedgehog...if I wish I was a tree or a robin, I would also like to be a hedgehog!...but I'm a woodelf at the moment and I see loads of the little felows!

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