any shrubs or plants that deter cats from fouling in your garden?

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There's a cat who seems to enjoy fouling in our garden and I've tried putting lemons at the spot it keeps doing it at. Not working. I've also tried the Get Off gel crystals. Not working. Am really getting fed up of it and am tempted to put down mousetraps under the soil to catch the cat out but obviously won't be doing this as I'm not sure how legal this is...

Can anyone give me any tips please? Not sure if I am posting this on the wrong board or not.

My mum and dad use a sonic cat scarer. It detects the cat and lets out a high pitched noise only the cat can here. Sorry don't know of any plants maybe spikey ones. :)

I'll ask my sister she very good on plants.

Cats will only foul where there is clear soil - so if you have a good solid mass of groundcover plants all year round, not only does it look better and deter weeds, but you won't get the cats either.

I have one cat and 6 foot high walls round the garden - my cat can't get out, but a neighbour's cat can get in.

I have three strategies

• if it really, really matters (i.e. the veg garden) I net off the whole bed until there's enough plant growth that a can't can't use it.
• if it's my preference (i.e. borders I'm actively working on) I put large thorny cuttings off climbing roses over the area, so the cat can't use it.
• if it doesn't really matter (i.e. borders I've planted up but am now going to leave to grow) I project individual plants against cats and pigeons with little cages, and then leave the rest for my cat.

But really, I think what you need is to improve your groundcover planting.

Planting mousetraps would injur the animal and is a criminal offence. They're just dumb animals and you'd be hurting them REALLY badly for doing what animals do.

A water squirter with a movement sensor works very well. We bought one for our neighbours as our cats stroll around the area. They had taken to throwing shit over the fence, delightful people that they are, despite us proving that actually, it was a fox digging in their beds, not our fat lazy old ladies.

I have to say that if either of my cats were injured and I found out who had done it, I'd sue them from arsehole to breakfast and drag them through every local paper showing them to be the scum they are.