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ann123

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Re: Calling all cat owners.
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2013, 09:39:06 PM »

I have 2 cats and they come and go as they please, I wouldn't keep them in as they are used to going out when they like.
You can buy fake cats that you can stick in your garden, a friend had a few around her garden and it kept cats away!!!
I do understand how horrid and expensive it is, but a difficult one. I hope the citrus fruit works!
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honeybun

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« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2013, 09:42:09 PM »

I would suggest toothpaste but they are normally beef flavoured.   ;D

It's not a nice habit but it reminds you they are just dogs and don't know any better.

Heck was mine sick though....and then three days of the runs.....bl***dy cats.

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Hurdity

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Re: Calling all cat owners.
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2013, 10:00:48 PM »

Oh dear - this thread has made me alternately laugh, disgust me and confirm I never want a dog! Sorry honeybun! I sympathise with the illness and vet bill though.

Being a cat person - yes they are free to roam - we can have no jurisdiction over what they do or not do elsewhere, unpleasant though that may be. Mind you our cats poohed everywhere too (on our land), including the grass, especially when old and we spent our time shovelling it up....

This is the end of Rudyard Kipling's "The Cat Who Walks By Himself" . I love the piece. It really sums up cats....

He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just as long as they do not pull his tail too hard..... but when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes,
He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
Then he goes into the Wet Wild Woods
Or up the Wet Wild Trees
Or on the Wet Wilds Roofs
Waving his wild tail
And walking by his wild lone.

Hope the lemon works!!

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Taz2

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Re: Calling all cat owners.
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2013, 10:38:54 PM »

... and after he's walked in the Wet Wild Woods and climbed the Wet Wild Trees he makes his way across the Wet Wild Roof silently slides through my open bedroom window and puts his Wet Wild and Muddy paws all across my snowy white newly washed bedding....

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Scampi

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Re: Calling all cat owners.
« Reply #19 on: June 26, 2013, 06:37:00 AM »

Lion poo!  You can buy it from some garden centres and on-line - it's sold as 'Silent Roar' and is marketed as a plant food/fertiliser as the EU testing rules mean it can't be openly sold as a cat repellant, but if you check out the website, that's it's primary purpose!  It's made from real lion poo, but is totally safe and sterile - it smells of big cat, so makes small cats (ie - domestic cats!) think twice about using your garden as a toilet ... they think a cat rather bigger and fiercer than them already has it as territory!  It costs about £10, so has got to be worth a try?
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Taz2

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« Reply #20 on: June 26, 2013, 07:23:10 AM »

I think it depends on how brave the cats are. One friend had success with it but her friends didn't - she then found out that the cat in question had moved away  ;D

You can read about the lion poo here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1909229.stm

It must be worth a try - you may have wimpy cats visiting you Honeybun!

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Pennyfarthing

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« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2013, 07:46:47 AM »

My neighbour moved and took her 2 cats with her (thankfully!) a few months ago.   She'd only had them about a year and this last winter I had SO few birds in my garden thanks to them.  Bags of seed and suet just hung there forlornly but within days of them moving, all the birds were back. I was so pleased.

There is a potion I used several years ago and it works.  It's a mixture of detergent and castor oil and you water it around your garden to keep cats away.  It worked for us on fresh gravel when holly, bleach, pepper and 101 expensive potions from pet shop failed.  I will see if I still have the correct "mix" somewhere.  :)
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Pennyfarthing

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« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2013, 07:49:29 AM »

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littleminnie

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« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2013, 07:49:44 AM »

http://www.wilko.com/pests-control/defenders-cat-repellent-500ml/invt/0299829?VBMST=&VBMTC=6cb77b9189b0241fe70aa8eff117f366

You spray it in the place they keeping 'going' until they get out of the habit of going there. 
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Taz2

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« Reply #24 on: June 26, 2013, 07:59:00 AM »

This has reminded me... I once had a neighbour who owned a cat and she used the cat repellents in her own garden and then complained when they didn't work ;D

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Rowan

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« Reply #25 on: June 26, 2013, 07:59:40 AM »

Think I will stick to youtube cats  ;D ;D
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CLKD

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« Reply #26 on: June 26, 2013, 09:55:07 AM »

NO dog should have bad breath  >:( - lack of oral hygine.  My spaniel ate raw carrots several times daily.  I threw the first one on the floor which the cat sniffed, no way was she allowing the cat to have anything she might eat - from that day, aged 7 months, she had raw carrots as well as anything that DH was preparing - cabbage stalks, brocolli heads, garlic ........... she also had what I termed as 'bricks': very large, 4" x 4" hard dog biscuits which would take her about half an hour to get throw whereas I couldn't even break one!

Cats are free roaming 'wild' animals and not covered by many UK Laws.  What I have done in the past is to put a filled litter tray into one corner of the garden, particularly in snowy weather or when the ground is hard due to drought.  Cats eat meat-based grub, either caught or from a tin.  Because most are fed from tins then there is a lot of 'waste' matter to pass as even with cat 'crunchies' they don't absorb much of what they are given.  No fur, bones, innards to help digestion.  Dogs will eat rubbish, it's how they are 'built'.  Savanges.  Cat pooh is the least of what they will swallow down!

Another way is to have a spray of cold water .......... but don't let them see you aiming at them.  A quick burst several times will stop them in their tracks  ;)
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Elena

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Re: Calling all cat owners.
« Reply #27 on: June 26, 2013, 01:10:37 PM »

My dog loves horse poo  ::)

The cats round her poo in the front garden so luckily I dont have the problem of dog eating it, but as an ex-cat owner I can see both sides of this problem.

Fake cats, orange peel, lion poo, the stuff from Pets at Home.  All worth a try I guess.  Several houses round my way have the fake cats.  I did ask whether they worked and they THOUGHT that they did but I did see one of the local cats saunter straight past one once.. :o

We have an awful lot of cats in this road. My OH hates them with a vengeance...it's a bone of contention as he would happily kill the lot of them with his bare hands   >:(
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honeybun

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« Reply #28 on: June 26, 2013, 01:30:07 PM »

I bought the castor oil and made up the spray mix. I have had a good spray round. Hope it works.

I did think of lion poo but I suspect my little monster would eat that too.

My hubby hates cats and would happily hatch nasty plans if I would let him.

My dog also eats carrots and apples and has never had bad breath. She also has dental chewy sticks which keep her teeth clean. She is ten now and her teeth are great.

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Elena

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« Reply #29 on: June 26, 2013, 02:21:36 PM »

I give my dog Logic Oral gel, have done since she was a puppy.  She is 5 and has good teeth which the vet always seems surprised about!
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