How do i stop stray cats from poohing in my flower beds?

A colleague of mine has a tried and tested way of scaring away cats. Smear a fishy substance like cheap cat food or tuna onto a balloon and tie near you prized flowers, wait for the cat to smell the delicious aroma and lick the balloon with its spikey tongue - BANG!!! Result - cat flees horrible garden never to return OR get a king sized water pistol and soak the little bugger!!

How do i stop stray cats from poohing in my flower beds?
I had the same problem and found something that must be working because my flowers are beautiful this spring! It is a recipe by Jerry Baker, Master Gardener.





2 cloves garlic


2 small onions


1 jalapeno pepper


1 tbsp Tabasco sauce


1 tbsp cayenne pepper


1 tbsp chili powder


1 tbsp liquid dish soap


1 quart warm water





Chop onion, garlic, and peppers fine then combine with remaining ingredients. Let mixture sit and marinate for 24 hours. Strain it through cheesecloth or pantyhose, then sprinkle on areas where cats and dogs are a problem!
Reply:There lots of thing you can do, but there is no real fail safe way of stopping them. Try these.


Mirrors. Cat hate them. Standing them in your flower bed if its near a wall is really good.


Scoot pellets. You can buy them in garden centres.


Old audio tapes. Push small pieces of dowel or sticks around the outer edges of the flower bed and wind the old tape around them back and forth over the flower bed. It can be placed fairly low so the plants cover it.


Plastic or rubber snakes, which look fairly realistic. Lay them around your flower beds.


Orange peel. Not sure if this works. Worth a try though.


Super Soaker/water pistol. If you have the time, it won't do the cats any harm and is a good way of improving your aim. :-)


Buggalugs. That balloon thing is so cool. Must tell my Mother in Law...
Reply:well you can't, nothing will stop them no matter what all the other say, unless you call a animal place like the rspca or something like that to come and take them away so they will have a home. that way your helping two things one being the flowerbed not having pooh in it and two the cats by calling a animal place so that the animal place can find them a home.
Reply:if you have any heathers in your garden your best bet is to remove them as cats are attracted to these plants,


invest in some ground cover plants (alpines etc are good,) and again citrus scented plants, rockery stones and finish off with bark, as a last resort keep a spray bottle or hose attached as the biggest insult to cats is to spray them with water if you see them digging, we have done this and now we don't see unwanted cats digging up our garden, good luck!
Reply:hiya. We have the same problem. I found a brilliant gadget in the local garden centre. Its called 'Scarecrow' and works by sensing when the little buggers (or anything-including you-be carefull) comes into range then blasts out a noisy intermittent jet of water that tracks left and right. scares the cr*p outa them! works on foxes too. you have to move it round the garden cos they get used to it in one spot after a short while. its fully adjustable for pick up range, distance and track of spray. Bit expensive but worth it just to see them run! If you type in scarecrow on yahoo search it comes up about 4 down..www.contech-inc.com/products/scare... and they have a short video of it working. waters the garden at the same time! good luck.
Reply:In your search engine type in "how to get rid of cats". You will get all kinds of suggestions.





I tried pepper, didn't work.


Also planted a Russian Garlic in the landscape. Smells like garlic, looks like ornamental grass %26amp; gets purple flowers. Works at one end of the landscape, didn't want to get more because I have to smell it too.


Bought a Nerf Gun and shot sponge balls at the cat, worked OK for a while.


Likt the cat food on a balloon though. Best be careful with that one though. Don't want it to bust on you.





Good luck
Reply:Sprinkle cayenne pepper on the flower beds ; if you see the cats around when you're out, spray them with water. If you are POSITIVE they are strays and do not belong to a neighbor, you should be able to get an animal trap from your city pound for a refundable deposit...Good Luck
Reply:Bye some pepper dust from a local garden centre, or failing that, just use ordinary pepper and sprinkle in the flower beds. My mum and dad use it and it works great! It is said to be a natural deterrant for cats.
Reply:go to your local nursery and buy a plant called scaredy cat, plant it in amongst your flowers it gives off a smell that cats just hate and it works
Reply:I sprinkled my indoor cat's dirty litter over the area and the outdoor cat never came back. Theory is that the scents will ward it off and instinctly they'll go somewhere else.
Reply:try Get Off - you can get it from Wilkinson's - it's a citrus smelling gel crystals - sprinkle on the soil - it won't damage your flowers. It really works - and it's cheap!





Or try Vinegar.
Reply:Crushed red pepper from the dollar store. Sprinkle that around the garden. It's organic and won't hurt the garden.
Reply:Get the males in the family to wee on it, their strong scent frightens off the cats.
Reply:people say that orange peel will keep cats from your flower beds. don't know if it`s true or not but it it said to work.
Reply:they don't like citrus fruits so throw a few lemons or oranges amongst your flowers.
Reply:bottles of water around them.





or high pitch animal sound device to deter them away.
Reply:Big cat dung. Any safari parks near You? I'm sure the keepers would let You have some.
Reply:Pepper works well, grind it up and distribute.
Reply:buy a dog and cat repelent and spray all over your yard and garden.
Reply:get a big stray dog
Reply:kill them