How do I keep cats from using my flower beds as liter boxes?

You can mix up sprays at home that contain hot pepper or oil of mustard and spray around flower gardens .


Vinegar is a good deterrent and is all-natural. Most animals don't like the smell and will avoid it. Spray juice from store-bought peppers onto the plants and this will also encourage animals to go elsewhere.





If you have a sprinkler it's a good way to deter cats from the flower beds. Set the timer to go off at random times. The flower beds will stay damp and cats hate wet dirt.





If you don't have kids you can keep an outdoor sandbox made strictly for the cats. Cats love sand and will be pleased to use the area for their outdoor bathroom. And with a scoop it'll be easy to keep the area cleaned.





If you have kids and want to use the sandbox method, make a small vinyl roof, attached to four skinny metal poles, to place over the sand box. Cats love to explore and will be immediately drawn to the area, and the roof can be placed close to the sandbox to deter children from getting into the box. The roof can simply be lifted off for cleanup.





Some gardeners use chicken wire to keep cats away from flowers. Lay the chicken wire around the flower bed, cover with soil, then worry no more. When cats try to use the bathroom, and they start scratching at the dirt like cats do, they will not like the chicken wire catching their claws and will go elsewhere.

How do I keep cats from using my flower beds as liter boxes?
I was only reading in a garden magazine this morning that both dogs and cats hate citrus peel, they apparently can't stand the smell. Can't hurt to try its organic.





Also if you lay garden mesh (fencing/chicken wire) down in areas they are using when they dig they get their claws caught on the wire, which they don't like it and go elsewhere. Good luck. I think all cats should have a cat run.
Reply:leave them alone, cats rule and they need to poo too
Reply:Put out a box with cat litter..
Reply:you have to make your garden unappealing to cats. Cover the top with a 2 inch layer of rocks or wood chips. The peices of rocks or wood are too big for a cat to dig through to do its buisness.
Reply:I would also add, cayenne pepper sprinkled in bed deters them too.
Reply:Sprinkle moth balls around your garden,they deter the cats and they don't like the smell.If that doesn't work try hamburger and broken glass in it,thats sure to get rid of them.Sorry cat lovers I can't stand cats.
Reply:Teach your cats not to. Reward them (with a treat, etc) when they make any movement to a litter box (or whatever you want them to use). Once this is accomplished, only award them when they're even closer to this litter box (and this might be only the next day). After this, only award them when they touch the box. After touch, it's after they attempt to climb in. Then, hopefully they'll happen to need to answer nature's call out of chance once in the box, and this is where you reward them once more.





Likewise, you can punish them for using the flower beds, but this is not as effective as using the positive operant conditioning technique.

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