Cats

[HugePilchard]

The problem with statements like "Cats hate x" is that people leave out the word "most" from it.

Cats hate water. Apart from ours, one of whom was once found sitting quite happily, up to his neck in a bowl of dirty water in the kitchen sink.

 

[MrC]

Another option is to get your own cat. Cats are territorial and will generally chase other cats out of 'their' territory. Course you then have to train your cat where you want it to crap

 

[HST Power]

Another option is to get your own cat. Cats are territorial and will generally chase other cats out of 'their' territory. Course you then have to train your cat where you want it to crap

The simplest conclusion, and the simplest answer! Cats can be trained to do their business in trays, so if you get that part right you'll be fine!

 

[LE Greys]

Cats have the most annoying habit of staring back at you and not moving if you see them from your window and knock hard on it. They don't even move when you rattle the door handle. Unlike the Cheshire Cat in "Alice", in this part of Cheshire, all they do is glare at you.

That's actually because their eyes can go on a kind of sensory overload. They notice the movement, see that it's nothing, then end up staring into space with you in the way. If you bare your teeth at them, they interpret that as a giant cat threatening them, unless they get used to it (which is all too easy).

If you really want to get rid of them, other than spraying Tiger urine all over the place (this scares any cat, but stinks) then ultrasonics tend to work, and failing that a water pistol would be very effective.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

If you really want to get rid of them, other than spraying Tiger urine all over the place (this scares any cat, but stinks) then ultrasonics tend to work, and failing that a water pistol would be very effective.

Thanks for that. I suppose that Chester Zoo will have a selection of some strong "big-cat" urine to choose from

Another annoying habit is that cats seem to regard wooden fence posts as their own personal scratching posts. I have found the use of strips of chicken wire, cut to shape and nailed on, solved that particular problem.

 

[HST Power]

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Another annoying habit is that cats seem to regard wooden fence posts as their own personal scratching posts. I have found the use of strips of chicken wire, cut to shape and nailed on, solved that particular problem.

That really annoys me too. Whats worse is when they invade your garden and spray all over the bins and the fences. It's a party invite to the rest of the cat neighbourhood.

 

[chris89]

That really annoys me too. Whats worse is when they invade your garden and spray all over the bins and the fences. It's a party invite to the rest of the cat neighbourhood.

Cats take legs and anything as scratching posts :/ even climb up your legs what hurts like anything.

I don't understand why people don't neture their cats it is irrsponical, and it makes living with rather Male or Female cats so much easier.

Chris

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A very good idea, I've seen hundreds of people do it, even a few companies hang them outside on trees to deter the birds

Yes, but do they do this in Letchworth? It is a Garden City so they must attract cats by the hundreds...the only ones not to read of this area, according to the advert will be the IAMS cats, because they cannot read. I thought that Hertfordshire only had well-educated and trained cats.

 

[HST Power]

Cats take legs and anything as scratching posts :/ even climb up your legs what hurts like anything.
Chris

I had that experience on multiple occasions with my Grandparents old cat!

Yes, but do they do this in Letchworth? It is a Garden City so they must attract cats by the hundreds...the only ones not to read of this area, according to the advert will be the IAMS cats, because they cannot read. I thought that Hertfordshire only had well-educated and trained cats.

I'm not a cat owner, so I wouldn't know. Thankfully, they do seem well trained.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The problem with statements like "Cats hate x" is that people leave out the word "most" from it.

Cats hate water. Apart from ours, one of whom was once found sitting quite happily, up to his neck in a bowl of dirty water in the kitchen sink.

Do you remember the television series a few months ago, concerned with tiger protection in the Himalayan belt north of India. The cameraman set up hidden cameras along a river bank and one family, mother and partly grown young, were happily playing in a wide stream.

 

[Bevan Price]

Oranges.
Cat hate the smell of them.

Sadly, a myth. At least it does not work with the local cats. Nor do many of the other reputed legal cat deterrents. Prickly shrubs near your garden boundary reduce the number of cat access points. A dog helps to deter cats, but creates its own problems, especially with some breeds. A relative had a golden labrador that got bored when left alone in the house, and chewed everything - furniture, wallpaper, etc., etc.

Bevan
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[LE Greys]

Sadly, a myth. At least it does not work with the local cats. Nor do many of the other reputed legal cat deterrents. Prickly shrubs near your garden boundary reduce the number of cat access points. A dog helps to deter cats, but creates its own problems, especially with some breeds. A relative had a golden labrador that got bored when left alone in the house, and chewed everything - furniture, wallpaper, etc., etc.

Bevan

Works on our cat, but maybe not on others. Alcohol also seems to make cats sick, and my explain why so many people who get attacked by big cats are coming home drunk.

 

[HST Power]

Works on our cat, but maybe not on others. Alcohol also seems to make cats sick, and my explain why so many people who get attacked by big cats are coming home drunk.

The cats probably look like tigers after a few bottles of Vodka!

It's common sense not to give an animal alcohol. It really, really annoys me when you hear stories of how people have got their animals drunk, filmed it and put it on YouTube. They shouldn't be allowed to keep pets. That sort of behaviour is completely ridiculous.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Well, it was back to the wooden sticks with black cotton wrapped between them today. It decided to stop rainiing for the first time in days, so it was in with the last of the later bedding plants. The black cotton seems to keep the cats off that section of the front border.

P.S. Please be careful when installing the cotton. Keep it about three inches only from the soil area, as birds have been known to be hurt when the cotton is put too high.

 

[chuffchuff]

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[HST Power]

Hours of fun

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The best solution!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hours of fun

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I would be very careful when using such items, that the pressure exerted does not pose a hazard to anything hit by a jet of water from them.

Some imported items do not meet British health and safety standards.

 

[T163R]

Keep the cats and send them to me