Cat Repellent or How to Keep Cats Out of Your Garden

Article by: Hugh Harris-Evans

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The first line of defence is to ensure that your yard , Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt boundaries are secure. Any gaps in your fence should be blocked to deny low level access. But cats can jump so fix a taut wire or string some six inches above the top of your fence to deter this approach.

Once inside , Landscaping Tips: 6 Basic Steps To Building A Garden Pond your garden , A Beautiful Rose Is Nature's Gift many people say that the best cat repellent is a dog who will soon see off any feline invader. If you are not a dog lover then you will have to resort to more passive methods. Since cats like to lie on freshly dug soil , An Autumn Garden for Halloween you should lay mulch on your borders so that no bare soil , Growing Roses - The Guide for Fans of Roses is left exposed. Seed , A Beautiful Rose Is Nature's Gift beds should be covered with wire netting or twigs arranged as a barrier.

Young trees , Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt should have plastic , Landscape Lighting guards fitted around their trunks to protect them against use as a scratching pole. Your garden , History of the Adirondack Chair pond should be covered with netting to keep your fish , Science Can't Explain Everything! safe.

Cats are generally known to dislike water , Growing Roses - The Guide for Fans of Roses so a well aimed bucketful or a squirt with the hose will certainly make an intruder run. After one or two dousings it may learn the lesson and stay away.

To protect plants , Online Florists and borders both mothballs and citrus are said to be effective deterrents. Place , Landscaping Tips: 6 Basic Steps To Building A Garden Pond the mothballs, orange peel or lemon rind in the borders. Alternatively spray cloths with orange scented air , US Flag History freshener and place , Do It Yourself: An Attractive Rock Garden Anyone Would Be Proud Of the cloths around the plants , Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt you wish to protect. Other known cat repellents are cayenne pepper, , Growing Roses - The Guide for Fans of Roses coffee grounds, pipe tobacco, lavender oil, lemon grass , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest oil, citronella oil, eucalyptus oil and mustard oil.

Certain herbs , Healing Aloe Vera Plants Are Easy To Grow and Provide Health Benefits are said to deter cats. In particular rue but not catmint which has the opposite effect. Coleus canina is another plant , Gardening - Growing Cacti At Home which is marketed by one merchant as a cat repellent.

The broadcaster Jerry Baker has suggested treating your yard , Adirondack Chairs - The Proper Way to Care for Them with a tonic made from chewing tobacco, urine, birth control pills, mouthwash, molasses, detergent and beer. A smallholder has reported success using dried rabbit blood but you may feel that the ingredients listed in the previous paragraph should be tried first.

If you visit your local garden , Wooden Benches center or hardware , Spring Rose Care - The Easy Way store you will find several cat repellent products , Patio Awnings Add to Your Outdoor Fun on sale. These range from electric water , Boxelder Bugs (Maple Bugs) Invade Homes in Fall sprinklers and ultrasonic devices to sprays and granules.

Motion activated sprinklers act in the same way as a burglar alarm , Online Florists using an infra red detector. When the cat enters the area covered by the detector the sprinkler shoots out a jet of water , Forever & Ever Double Pink Hydrangea to scare the animal away. It is claimed that, after one or two encounters with the jet, the cat will learn to avoid the area.

Ultrasonic devices emit a high frequency sound which is annoying to cats (and dogs) but is not audible to humans. There are various different models some of which operate continuously and others which have an infra red detector and only emit a pulse of sound when the cat triggers the device. To be successful you need to ensure that the model is powerful enough to cover the area you wish to protect. In addition make sure that the sound frequency is designed for larger animals since some models are intended to deter insects and so would be no use for cats.

There are also commercial scent cat repellents. Those that use chemicals should be kept away from any food , Do It Yourself: An Attractive Rock Garden Anyone Would Be Proud Of crops but the essential oil based granule varieties act in the same way as orange and lemon peel mentioned above. Another way to keep a cat out if the garden , A Guide for Servicing Your Chainsaw is a repellent evaporator which consists of a container holding puffed rice which has been impregnated with essential oils. These are effective for three to four weeks and can then be refilled for a further period. Another natural , Healing Aloe Vera Plants Are Easy To Grow and Provide Health Benefits product which many people claim really keeps a cat out of the garden , Adirondack Chairs - The Proper Way to Care for Them is lion's dung. You may need to visit your local , Spring Rose Care - The Easy Way zoo to obtain this although some stores do stock zoo poo.

In Ontario, Canada the local , Tips On Growing And Caring For Orchids township provides a cat trap service. Once the animal enters the cage it cannot escape but is completely unharmed. The owner has to pay to recover his pet and so should be encouraged not to let the cat stray in future. Apparently few owners bother to reclaim their cats but just obtain another kitten. However this sounds like a good way of dealing with a cat that cannot be deterred by any other method. If there is no such scheme in your area, just buy your own trap.

So, to recap, the first priority is to secure your boundary fences. Then you have the whole selection of suggested cat repellents ranging from homemade recipes to expensive commercial gadgets. I would suggest that you try the orange peel and prickly twigs for a start. If you are around when the intruder appears, try the bucket of water , An Autumn Garden for Halloween or hose. Even if you miss, the shock may be a sufficient deterrent. If these do not do the trick, then you may have to consider the commercial alternatives.

Hugh Harris-Evans is the owner of The Garden , Bamboo Plant Information and Care Supplies Advisor where you will find further articles, gardening , Landscaping Tips: 6 Basic Steps To Building A Garden Pond tips and product , Spring is Around the Corner - How is Your Garden? reviews.

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