Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How to keep the cat out of the garden...?

Seriously. I'm tired of it scratching up the peas when it poops.

I can't shoot it, because it belongs to my 6yo. Mrs. Tree's already foreclosed on my first option, which was to ask the 12yo to hang out on the roof of the shed and pop it in the haunches with a BB.

So, what do y'all do to deter this? Any kind of cheap repellent? Do they give a hoot about electric fences, or just jump over them?

Do you have access to rose bush trimmings? One other thing might be some fox pee!

Liberal doses of cayenne pepper sprinkled around, especially on it's azz.............

Can't help you with this one, but you've given me one more entry in the NO column when my wife brings up the subject of getting a cat again.

The drawbacks outweigh the bennies, IMO.

Get a litterbox, keep it inside. Inside cats are usually friendlier, and mellower IME. You also don't have to worry about it getting killed, or having flea & tick problems.

Conibear 110.

So far what I'm hearing is:
- sprinkling cayenne pepper
- fox urine
- other

Thanks everyone. I think i'll try in that order. Can't do the "keep it inside" thing, though. Cats in the house drive me bananas.

understood. Depends some on the cat, too. Some cats (usually big tough toms) won't fear foxes, some shy away from them and the smell. I think a lot of pet stores sell cat repellent.

If the gardens are the only places with exposed dirt, that will be where they go. So aside from repellent, make sure they have a place they can go - maybe a patch of sand or similar.

Would rather have a cat in the house than getting cat crap on my food and hands from the garden.

Have you thought about building a 4 ft x 4 ft sand box next to the garden for the cat to use?

Fence charger and a few hot wires, I had to put one up around a particular bluebird box my cat kept hitting.

Never did see him get shocked, but after a couple weeks he hasn't been back to the birdhouse.

Get one of those impulse sprinklers that turn on with a built in motion sensor. Cats hate water. There is a timer on them so they shut back off. I assume they work in the dark??

Put the cat on the watch list. Then pull the cat from the watch list because the president is also a cat and he asked that cat profiling be removed from the process....

Then when the neighbor calls to tell you the cat is about to pizz in your garden, hang up on the neighbor and shower the cat with free toys and catnip.

Then when the cat decimates your garden with no red flags, no warning, no sense to the madness.... chase the cat around the yard with everything you've got! The cat may suffer non life threatening injuries from the chase so you will then need to provide medical care for the cat. Then hire a lawyer for the cat so that he may be tried in a court of law for the charges against him/her. Meanwhile, question the dog and take 3 neighborhood cats into custody for questioning.

Microwave the cat on high for 7 minutes, serve with Bordeaux.

Do they make a cat sized glue trap..?

Huh, I woulda' paired nuked up feline with a nice white, but I like your out of the box thinking on this one.

Yes. Electricity is probably ones best bet.

Surround the garden with a strip of duct tape 3' wide facing sticky side up.

Stake your pet coyote in the garden.

Trip wires tied to a Mossberg 500 (tactical of course).

IED's.

Build a jungle gym for the neighbor kids in the center of the garden, furnish them with willow switches.

Soak a dried corncob in turpentine, raise cats tail, rub vigorously.

Soak the cat in gasoline and threaten him with a lighter when he approaches garden. Arrange a demonstration on the neighbors cat for full effect.

Lay strips of chicken wire on the ground around your garden.

BP...

A 150 with dual springs usually works much, much better.

Spray the cat with mace or OC while it is I the garden. It will not go back in.