My raised beds have become the local litter box for a few local cats. What's the best way to deal with this headache (short of shooting or trapping - though both options are beginning to appeal to me as I see more of my plants being killed!!!)?
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Gardening - HELP - CATS!!!
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I was looking to repel cats from my front flower bed and ran across this: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/...205302836.html
It has a bunch of ideas!"If Howdy Doody runs against him, I'm voting for the puppet." - SkyOwl's Wife, 2012
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My friend had the same problem so he pepper sprayed the cats then sprayed some on the fence around the garden. They came back once and smelled the spray and ran. He never had trouble again. It's kinda cruel but better than killing them I guess.A government that can give you everything you need is also strong enough to take it away!
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Thanks for all the great ideas and leads.
Shopping trip last night yielded:
- Plastic Poultry Netting (flexible and pretty cheap)
- Cayenne Pepper
- Tack Strips
Lost an entire section of peas, much of my carrots, all but 1 row of beets, and half my melon plantings to these over-sized vagrant rats. They're lucky I don't shoot them. (for the animal lovers out there - I think cats are okay indoors. "Domestic" cats left to wander out doors in a suburban setting... I consider wild, and their owners lazy and intentionally oblivious to any damage they create).
I'd approach the owners for help, but what's the point... if they were going to keep indoor cats, they'd already be keeping indoor cats. Besides, they're too busy with their boats and vacations to care. Wonder, if I sent my dog over to take a dump in their new inboard and dig up their front yard... if that would breech any barriers of understanding with them. Probably not.
I guess half a garden is better than none this season. Lesson learned.
Anyways, thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it.
RA
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