How to stop cats S"""ing in my garden

[MummaL24]

Hi guys I'm at my wits end I've got two neighbours cats in competition to poo in my flower bed in my garden and the other goes on my front lawn! I've tried the pepper trick and sprayed with water nothings working I got the cat eyes sprays I have a massive dog and even that's not bothering them but I've grown a whole flower bed full of flowers which I planted last year and now there started to bloom but this cat is pooing and then digging them up to bury it

Has anyone else been through this what worked ?'

*A friend of mine had a cat that would come into his back garden via next door and hunt birds in his garden. He got very fed up and put sharpened bamboo canes pointing up to the fence panel the cat invariably used to jump down into his garden.

Lets just say.... the cat did not see the canes before it jumped down. My friends neighbours cat went "missing" and my friend had to do some late night digging*

That’s fucking evil.

The high-pitched sonar repellent does not work through fences or walls so it will not have any impact on neighbouring animals or children. I have children and neither are affected by the sound, we have children living next door to us on either side too and they are not affected nor are their dogs. One of ours is situated right by the fence which separates my garden from my next door neighbour's patio. They are completely unaffected and cannot hear the sound at all. Our neighbour over the road has the same ones and recommended these particular ones to me.

The idea is for the cats to be repelled from entering the garden with them being motion activated. Unfortunately our neighbours cats decided to defecate on top of the lion poo I put down and all other repellents. It is the lesser of two evils as our toddler was trying to pick up cat poop which is toxic.

A friend of mine had a cat that would come into his back garden //snip//
Lets just say.... the cat did not see the canes before it jumped down.
My friends neighbours cat went "missing" and my friend had to do some late night digging

Is your "friend" the M25 animal killer?

OP, as I'm sure you're not planning on such psychopathic measures; blunt sticks stuck in the soil, stones, and using ground covering plants leaving no bare soil all help - basically anything that makes it less inviting to dig. I leave a dedicated area of freshly dug over soil for my litter tray refusing cat. He's been very compliant (for a cat) and doesn't dig around my plants and happily uses his "Pooh Corner". I understand that one may not want to do that for interloping cats though.

I read something recently about burying used tea bags in the flowerbeds?

We have two cats and the neighbour's cats still poop in our garden.

We had a neighbour who put down broken glass to stop cats pooing in her border😱

My DM made her clear it up👍🏻she's not from England but she didn't see what was wrong with it😱

Tales of pet murder and casual xenophobia on a gardening thread! Hurrah!

I have put carpet grippa rods along a fence to deter burglars (possibly you could be held responsible if burglar hurts himself-I’m not sure of law) which might deter, or that awful black nondrying paint on top of fence.
Another idea from a few years ago was filling large clear lemonade bottles with water -cats didn’t like seeing their reflection. Maybe old mirrors would do the same.

Nothing worked for me, except for tin foil. Could be a coincidence i suppose but cats still crapping in my side garden where I didnt use it.

I have spikes on the fence at the end of the garden there really sharp not for cats they was put there because I back onto a main toad and if anyone wanted to try and jump over it would be some sort of deterant

This doesn't even stop cats and I don't even want to put my hands on it yet they still find a way to walk along it. It's driving me bizzurck as I've got some beautiful flowers growing this year which every other day are being dug up. I don't really like cats I've always been a dog lover and I have a massive dog but that doesn't even scare them off this cat in particular is a bit of a bully and will attack other neighbours cats for no reason and it feels the need to want to shit in my front and back garden pepper worked for a week then stopped now my own dog won't go down the end of the garden as he is sneezing like crazy it makes me feel really bad for him just wish they would clear off somewhere else