to want to prevent my friend from killing these cats????

[FickleFairy]

My friend lives on an Estate that is rife with cats and they are intent on constantly doing their business on his lawn.

He has spent quite a bit of money on preventative measures such as Get Off Spray, Lion Poo, Citrus Peel and even a Big Cheese Ultrasonic thing which apparently omits high pitched squeeling to deter them but none of it has worked.

He has even tipped water over one of them but they still come back for more!

No he is threatening to do serious harm ( a threat which he won't carry out but proves his frustration ). Now I'm no cat lover but I really need to help him keep them away.

Any ideas??

P.S the only other place I could see to post this was under PETS but didn't they would be much help at keeping cats away whereas AIBU MN's always have an answer for everything

Apparantly (according to a woman that also hates cats), a tea bag that has been soaked in jeys fluid deters them.

There's no point in bunking them off as more will follow.

He needs to get a cat.

His own cat will generally not shit in its own garden (hence his current problem), but will fend other cats off its turf...

My cat always shits in our garden, never in anyone elses. I think thats a myth tbh.

There isn;t a lot he can do, unfortunately if you live in cloes proximity to others and their pets it will have some impact.

The lion poo thing always makes me laugh - I thought the point was to avoid cat toilet in your garden!

I hate to disagree with Sloany but I thought that too......til my 2 cats started crapping on my lawn and get chased around by the neighbourhood bully! The bully doesn't come round any more (copious soakings and being shaken out of my tree whilst chasing my cats above him seemed to do the trick eventually) but the cats still poop.

...apparently his own urine should work though so get spraying/sprinkling!

A moat
A barbed-wire fence
A grumpy, drooling, woofing dog on a chain

Sorry, couldn't help it. Cats don't like pepper - could you somehow spray it around?

Cats usually cover up their business. Are yu sure it's not dogs or foxes?

Cats don't like citrus smells like lemons so he could spray some water/lemon juice mix around his garden.

Does he harbour the same hatred for birds that crap in his garden as well?!

I don't trust anyone who doesn't love kitty cats !

I suggested it might be foxes but he has witnessed the cats doing it on many occasions and when they do it in the gravel borders they do "try" to cover it up lol.

Belle - will pass this on.
Shush - eeuuurrrggghhhh but thank you!
RJ - I could lend him my dog but he isn't grumpy, drooly or woofy and he's scared of acts!!!

Keep them coming!

A big pump-up water gun might do the trick...

If his garden is gfenced he can try putting some strips of spikey stuff across the tops of the fences (barbed wire for suburban gardens ) I feel his pain though - it's vile!

No advice, sorry, but watching with interest!

The cats round here don't bury- the antisocial buggers!

It was only when our cat died that we were besieged by cat poo. So in our case, she did put off the neighbour's moggies.
I spray water on them when I see them, that does tend to stop them for a while. I've a squirty bottle I use.
As I work from home I can do that more often though.
It really annoys me as the boys play in our garden, DH won't let us get another cat though.
There is a house near us that made this very pretty gravel front garden with grasses etc, absolutely covered in cat poo within days. Now they have covered it in plastic knives, sticking up in the garden. What is the point of that? Defeats the purpose of an aesthetically pleasing garden with plastic cutlery all over it!

We had a larchlap fence around our backgarden but one part behind a large tree was easily climbed.

After being burgled (probably by climbing the fence) someone suggested putting carpet grippa rod along the fence. Apparently we could be sued if a burglar hurt himself on it but I was willing to take the chance.

Anyway after nailing it along the top we were burglar free.

That stuff is deadly and would probably deter moggies too.

My Mum and another friend of ours say that you can keep them off by filling empty lemonade bottles with water then placing them here and there around the garden. The way the light shines off the water is supposed to spook them a bit. Apparently you have to keep moving them around at regular intervals so the cats don't get complacent though.

My own preferred method is to rush out like a crazy thing when I see one. I run straight at the cat yelling and waving my arms about and I also have this stick thing that makes a loud rattly noise when you shake it ( I think it is called a rain stick - someone bought me it as a present) Anyway, it scares the hell out of the cats and they run away and rarely come back.

It might surprise the neighbours though.

We had problem with a big, nasty looking cat stalking my dcs bunnies. They have a large run, which we couldn't cover as it has a tree in the middle of it, they also have the run of the garden when we are about.

I chased this cat out, every time I saw it, loudly and scarily I used to leave bowls of water ready filled to chuck at it and sometimes threw the bowl at it too!
I covered the tops of my fences in spikes...
We have a large dog, but she didn't care.

I was really worried we'd come home to a mauled bunny or two one day.

I asked around the neighbourhood to try and find out who owned it, but only found out it was pain for alot of people, beating up their cats etc.

I phoned the cpl to see if they had any ideas (long shot I know)

I was tempted to try and catch it and take it for a holiday somewhere! But my cat loving friends said that was illegal...

So I don't think there's anything you can do really. It would be nice if some cats where confined to their own gardens.

Don't use Jeyes fluid, it's poisonous to cats. It's a territorial thing for cats to leave poo uncovered, so it's difficult to stop them. If you see one doing it, use a water pistol on him. Or borrow a dog to hopefully deter the cats. They supposedly dislike eucalyptus oil and menthol - sprinkle essential oil?!

Jeyes fluid or flash lavender sprayed in the areas where they congregate does the trick. Jeyes is poisonous and cats apparently don't like the smell of lavender. Failing that my father has found a catapult and a mound of small stones usually does the business.

Can you tell i don't like cats....?

Oh bum. Why then does my cat come inside from the garden to crap in her litter tray and not our garden? The diva.

Right scratch that idea then, go with the moat. Is he an MP? He can claim for the repairs.

lol @ 5foot5

What about one of those metal garden ornament cats with shiny eyes - aren't they supposed to scare cats? Also, what about playing some cat sounds or dog sounds in the garden. Failing that, i like the throwing water at it, flailing hands, shouting and stomping method.

The best suggestions seem to have been;

A moat (with or without the duckhouse)
A catapault (I tried that too, but I was a crap shot)
Or, a wall of lions poo

oh memudmagnet i forgot this one. plant your left foot firmly up the cat's arse in full view of its owner then tell them the next time you catch it in your garden you will tell them where they can find its body.

worked for me - cats haven't been back since. And in my defence it went for my DS2 who is only 3 and was in his fecking garden at the time.

Not sure if someone's suggested this but my dad goes out at night and "waters" the garden himself. Cats stay away as he's marked the territory himself. Mind you he lives in a bungalow and noone can see him. Might be worth using a watering can to do the watering bit.