Cats

[leighb]

We have 3 cats, How do I stop them crapping on the vegetable patch I intend to dig soon ????

[NORMANTHEDOG]

shoot them

[Fieldmouse]

Almost impossible, I'd say (as a previous cat owner with a veggie patch). They always go straight for the best patch of nicely dug earth, so perhaps if you can prepare a little patch of losely dug earth near your kitchen door, your cats might be lazy enough to poop there. But knowing cats, don't bank on it ! My cat often pooped on my veggie patch and I'm here 20 years on without having been poisoned, so maybe you have to be a little pragmatic about it, or buy a pooper scooper and do a daily collection. The alternative is to have lots of regularly changed litter trays indoors, and that isn't always pleasant either.

[leighb]

Great answers, Thank you, At least I am Smiling !!!!

[jonukas]

Thompson and Morgan sell a plant called Coleus Canina (Scardy Cat) @�7.99 for 6. It's supposed to keep cats away but I don't know whether they work or not. They are annuals so would have to be renewed each year, maybe you could grow them on from cuttings. best of luck anyway Leighb, hope you can get rid of the problem.
Jonukas

[Lonnie]

The method I used in my borders worked, not had a cat in my garden for a couple of years, must have good memories.

Buy a few bottles of 'smelling salts', take the caps off, and bury them with just the necks showing.

The amount you buy would depend on the size of your veg patch.

[SlackAlice]

Only one answer.

Nappies for cats!!!!

[tufty7]

Get rid of the cats , not only will the veggie patch not get poop on it , the birds that they won't now kill will eat the caterpillars off your veg, everyones a winner you could also make some fur gloves and perhaps a hat ....

[perigra]

yup. shoot them! if they're not sh1tt1ng in your garden they'll be doing it someone elses and they might have children playing in the garden.

[RickyRyda]

try mixing some of their used litter from the tray into the soil in an area of the garden they can poo in!

never tried it, but its supposed to encourage them to use that area!!

mine just cross there legs when outside & let rip when they get back in!!! :-) dirty *******!

[blu3wave]

leave them alone, what more important, a happy and healthy childhood and upbringing of your cats or some veggie patch with some potatoes and leeks that you can grow any time of the year? Have a good think about it.

[shylock73]

I think I have the only solution that I find works. Get plenty of short canes and poke them in the soil at all angles where you wish to plant so that they make it awkward for a moggie to find room to `coopy down` to `poopy` without getting a cane up its `shooty`. It works and when your produce it up and growing nicely pull up and stow away the sticks till next time. Good luck.

[mikkin59]

I agree with Normanthedog........ the only answer is to shoot them!!