Keeping cats out of garden

Really fed up now, several local cats think my garden is the local public toilet, f***ing disgusting animals. Its got to the point where I can hardly let the kids out to play in their own garden as we end up with trails of cat **** trodden through the house. Tried a few 'humane' products from the pet shop, none of which seem to work. Anyone got any sensible suggestions how to keep the little bastards away, before I resort to the air gun/bowl of tasty antifreeze options.

Get a dog!

What products have you tried already?

Some pepper dust type stuff and someting called Get Off, that smells terrible to everyone bar cats apparently.

Hire Mrs Bale or get some lion poo from longleat

Force yourself upon it, sexually

Get Off (the green gel stuff) worked superbly when I was borrowing my mates house a couple of years back - def recommend it.

Try an ultrasonic device.

Electric fence? Cats out, kids in. Everyone's a winner.

There's a few on here: http://www.deteracat.co.uk/

Let me know how you get on. I've always fancied an automatic water cannon but the ones I've found all seem to be a bit underpowered.

Cats hate water.

A good squirt from a hose or a complete drenching from a bucket will discourage them.

Shot gun!

shot gun and a wheelie bin.

shot gun and a wheelie bin.

Or forget the shotgun and get that old dear from up north, she'd round them up and fill your wheelie bin.

I use Curry powder, get yourself down to a local Indian shop and you can pick up a large bag for a couple of quid.

I use the high pitch electronic sensor such as "Ca****ch" seems to work in our garden and used to have loads of cat using it as a public convenience but not any more. You can find a solar one available on the internet as well.

put Jeyes fluid around all your borders. They won't cross the line

I have heard a plastic heron can be effective.

We had the same problem - 'thankfully' the main perpretator kicked the bucket a few years ago so it's not much of a hassle any more. We tried all kinds of things, even bought some Lion poo to put in the flowerbeds, which supposedly scares them away. Just a tip re: the lion poo, it doesn't work.

We had the same problem - 'thankfully' the main perpretator kicked the bucket a few years ago so it's not much of a hassle any more. We tried all kinds of things, even bought some Lion poo to put in the flowerbeds, which supposedly scares them away. Just a tip re: the lion poo, it doesn't work.

So all those hours hanging around the zoo with a roll of toilet paper were a waste of time? Thanks for the warning Mikey.

Orange Peel and/or mothballs

Put the mothballs inside containers with holes in the side/top

Six foot high fence or wall around garden with 18in wide wire mesh at right angels at the top, Works a treat, keeps our British short hair in and all the other cats in the block out.

get a cat. it will keep others off your patch and **** on other gardens too

One of those high powered two-handed pump up water pistols.. great fun it used to be. What I wanted to know was why the cat owners on either side put down slabs or gravel leaving me with as the only mug with a garden with any grass or beds?

I actually quite like cats and they like me... but not the neighbours' cats. When they saw me they'd high-tail it at speed!

My neighbour loves his cat but we share a drive and this thing insist on sitting in the middle of it. One day I'm going to reverse in and the lazy mogger is not going to get out of the way in time. The dilemma is, should I tell my neighbour?

Six foot high fence or wall around garden with 18in wide wire mesh at right angels at the top, Works a treat, keeps our British short hair in and all the other cats in the block out.

Don't need it up this end of the M27 though, the chances of waking up to find some cacker has tarmaced me back garden are minimal.

Get a dog!

That's a brilliant idea, except for one minor problem ... they shit too.

Some pepper dust type stuff and someting called Get Off, that smells terrible to everyone bar cats apparently.

The "get off" stuff, green tablets that smell a bit like washing up liquid? Before using them, you MUST give the "toilet" area a good wash down with a hose.... it all based on scent and you need to remove the previous deposits/scents before using a scent based repellent. HTH.

Supersoakers are great fun with cats. We once had one with an ice block to make the water colder. Got a cat right on the ring piece as it tottered along our fence tail held high a few years back. It never returned.

Don't need it up this end of the M27 though, the chances of waking up to find some cacker has tarmaced me back garden are minimal.

Looks like a life time of shovelin sh*t then 4u We tried all the other so called 100% remades with no grate affect

Tack carpet gripper on top of fences.

I've heard stories about methods to bury them alive. Or that bloke in Sholing who put a load of them in his van, and let them out in Portsmouth.

Both a little OTT. I would go for a machine gun type method.

Stones aimed in their general direction (not hitting them of course ) & they usually get the hint I find.

A few I.E.D's in the Geraniums ought to do it.