Problem Cats

[max26758]

Does anyone know the best way to stop cats using our flower borders as a toilet. My husband watered the soil with diluted disinfectant but they have still been back.

[tonyav]

One deterrent I have heard of is to spread some Orange / Lemon peel around your flower beds, cats don't like the smell of citrus fruit.

[tonyav]

Or there are some deterrents here.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1311.R1.TR4.TRC1.A0.H1.Xcat+detera&_nkw=cat+deterrent&_sacat=0&_from=R40

[ubasses]

I get some granules from the garden centre, they work but the down side is they need replacing everytime it rains

[woofgang]

Pepper dust works but you need to use loads and top it up just about daily especially when it is wet weather.

[max26758]

Thank you all for your help. We have tried orange peel but will give ebay a try.

[Daffy6543]

Plant eucalyptus plants.

[Sycamore3House]

In our local 99p shop (the ones that took over the old Woolworth stores) they have a product you add to water. It is displayed in the pet section. Even after a shower it seems to last a few days. And it was the cheapest.

[boxtops]

Lion's Roar is supposed to put them off - but the best deterrent is a water pistol......

Look also at Related posts at the bottom of this page - this question gets asked pretty frequently.

[Jennykenny]

Water pistol.

[grasscarp]

http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/gardening/unwantedvisitors/cats/catdeterrents.aspx
From this list of suggestions I know the plastic bottles with water in works

[Tuvok]

Cats keep pinching my hedgehogs food. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[MichaelZZ]

I have answered this question on several occasions in the past but each time my answer gets removed.
Boxy's idea of a water pistol has a certain appeal but why not try ebay for a Kalashnikov AK47 ?
(In case the good ABers who usually report my answers to this vexed question are going to react in their usual po faced manner, this is a joke.)

[Wak]

Prune your thorny rose bushes and scatter the thorny off-cuts wherever the cats tend to go.

[vulcan42]

I have just this minute come in from spraying "get off" cat repellent,there are three cats determined to convert my garden to their toilet. This works very well but, like all sprays, is diluted by rain and the garden has to be resprayed often to be effective.

[Wak]

You can also put bits of stiff wire or twigs in the soil pointing about three inches upwards and about three inches apart. The cats don't like it up 'em when they stoop to Poo!

[Hopkirk]

Just call it organic soil improver

[Taqov]

I have the same problem and tried citrus fruits and it works.