Do anti-cat spikes work?

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My neighbour has a new cat. I want to keep him out of my garden.

Do anti-cat spike like these actually work?

I know all about lemons and pepper to stop cats shitting in the garden. But this isn't what I'm after. I want to stop the cat coming in at all.

If they did eat poison or something that had recently eaten poison, such as a rat, who's fault is that?

It's your job as a pet owner to keep your animal safe.

If you don't want your cat to get runover, poisoned, eaten by a fox/dog, etc, the simple solution is to keep it safe on your property.

You can't blame anybody but yourself if your cat gets injured whilst roaming.

I can't leave the door of my garden office or house open w/o my neighbour's cats wandering in. I don't mind cats, but 1) I don't really want the moulting one in my house and 2) they could easily get shut or locked in.
One of them dug up one of my patio pots.
They scare the garden birds away. That makes me sad.
I trip over them if I go outside at night.

Yes as a PP said that's legally dubious, but there is a harmless alternative - poles that spin, so the cat can't grab on for purchase. More complicated to fit though. A company called Katzecure came up with this.

That said, a young athletic cat will get in if they're determined to.

My cats don't like the spikes but the cat that lives at the back of us who is the reason the neighbours put the spikes up just ignores them and shits in their garden anyway

Please don't Jeyes fluid can kill them. I'm not a cat person but I don't want to kill them.

When we had a fox issue i sprayed white vinegar and hot chilli powder around the garden for a week. They never came back. Ddog didn't like it either so imagining it might work on cats.

Plenty of people object to cats. Mainly because they shit all over someone else’s property.

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No they aren't doing your plants a favour, you skank. Cat shit contains all sorts of bacteria and parasites including toxoplasmosis (which is really nasty to small kids and if you are pregnant).
I don't hate cats, I have a cat that uses a litter tray in the garage. They are easy to train, just the lazy owners who can't be bothered.

I put bottles of water in various places to deter the horrible things coming into my garden. It seems to have worked.

I did exactly as per your photo. Cats just walked over them.

Put cayenne pepper in the flower beds
put little sticks in the flower beds
get a super soaker and spray cat for fun whenever you see them.
also an automatic sprinkler

not tried the Jeyes fluid as the above keeps the cats out.

@PadstowGirl Did she really say they 'do our plants a favour'?! Yeah @brightyellowflower They did my expensive David Austin roses that my mum gifts me every birthday the world of good when they break them and dig them up to bury their shit. Your cats are not welcome and if you can't see why people don't want your scabby wandering cats on their property then you're a seriously piss poor pet owner.

Cats occasionally make a half hearted effort to bury their poo, which us poor gardeners stumble upon when weeding.

Most of the time they just leave it as it is, causing a stench and a health hazard. I wish cat fouling was seen as anti social as dog fouling. Cat owners are entitled fuckers when it comes to this!

You don't need signage for these kinds of spikes - they are not going to harm anything at all. No more than stepping on a hairbrush might.

I know, because I use them to stop cats raiding birdboxes and, before installing them, stood all 70kg of me, bare foot, on them They are mighty uncomfortable but they did not wound or cause any harm. That is literally the point of them.

When legislation talks about anti climb spikes, they are talking about something much more hardcore:

I use the spiky matting in your OP over my flower beds before they’re filled with plants / before the bulbs sprout and it works really well to stop them crapping in the soil. Our neighbours have loads of cats and they all shit in my garden with impunity. I have tried loads of things but the spiky mats are the best so far.

I didn't say spray them with Jeyes fluid. Just splash it around where they shit because they hate the smell.

We've had success with the sonic repellers.