Posted on 04/10/2010 3:50:39 PM PDT by SandRat
I've used commercial cat repellent, cayenne pepper, and now just put out an electronic device that's supposed to detect motion and emit an ultrasonic sound to repel them.
I'm furious, I spend 2 wasted hours every Saturday to just clean up the cat scat in my front yard.
Any suggestions out in Freeperland for chasing away the cats without hurting them that I haven't already thought of.
Great commercial. I don’t know how they did that but it is pretty amazing.
Live traps are the most painless way to get ride of cats...catch and take to local county shelter...you will also catch coon, possum, ground hog and an occasional rat.
I'm seriously thinking of buying pidone, a rat poison type of formula targeted for rabbits.
Buy a dog or even maybe a rooster.
Our yard is a cat party zone too, but we have two cats, so it’s OK that they have their boyfriends and whoever over to play.
I apologize for the cats of this world. I wonder what is so attractive about your house. Maybe their owners have dogs. That is why one particular cat likes to hang at our place. To get away from his folks’ dog.
Why...because I take steps to protect my birds?
You're an idiot.
Is your yard concrete? Maybe if you provided a pile of loose dirt they would bury their poop like most cats. Then you would have to pick it up.
Actually sometimes they are great. We had palm trees in our front yard in CA and the two feral cats in the neighborhood came them rat free. Rats love palm trees.
Should have said kept them rat free.
And blue jays, frogs, crows...so now you’re talking humane?
Myth alert! I can state unequivocally that cats will dutifully dig their little hole in your lawn, but then sh*t about six inches from it, sneer and strut away.
They don't even carry Walmart bags like the PC dog walkers (thank goodness) do these days.
What did you use for bait to catch the skunks? Every 2 weeks or so a skunk sprays my front porch. I want to catch that sucker and do bad things to him before my dogs catch him and he does bad things to them.
West TN, near Memphis. They bloom in spring but they are green year round. If you are infested, I doubt the violets will keep them busy for long.
That is only way a cat has of telling you that he needs a pile of soft dirt to poop in. You’re not listening!
That’s what happens with irresponsible ignorant people don’t get their pets fixed. You can’t blame the cat....shoot the people who let it happen.
I sympathize. Hundreds of feral cats plague our area because of all the old ladies who feed them.
My solution to keep my acreage cat free? About nine years ago I saved from the pound a fiesty Rottweiler/Doberman mix who the pound would only give to someone who did not have cats. She had killed a few during her stay at the pound. She was a year old and has spent the last nine years decimating any cat that was dumb enough to get near our property. She also had killed her share of raccoons, possums, moles, and gophers. When she was younger it was a daily occurrence for her to come in from outside and drop a dead gopher at my feet. Only one problem, at least three times a year she decides a local skunk should get the death penalty. I keep plenty of Dawn dishwashing detergent on hand. Small price to pay for being cat free.
The FedEx and UPS drivers just stay in their trucks and throw my packages through their window onto my porch. The electric company makes me read my own meter. I can’t wait for the Census idiot to come on my property to try to get the information I refused to fill in since I only gave the number of people at my abode! :-)
I never understood cat people until I read this article - explains it all.
Study: Cat Parasite Affects Human Culture
A parasitic microbe commonly found in cats might have helped shape entire human cultures by manipulating the personalities of infected individuals, according to a new study.
Infection by a Toxoplasma gondii could make some individuals more prone to some forms of neuroticism and could lead to differences among cultures if enough people are infected, says Kevin Lafferty, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In a survey of different countries, Lafferty found that people living in those with higher rates of T. gondii infection scored higher on average for neuroticism, defined as an emotional or mental disorder characterized by high levels of anxiety, insecurity or depression.
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http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060803_tgondii_culture.html
And a BB gun does not kill a rabbit unless your close enough to it to catch it with your bare hands...Nailed a few rabbits and never found a dead on in ten years....lots of dead deer, but that is because of the road I live on...get hit by cars alot in Michigan. Also watched a hawk eat a rabbit in my back yard...and occasionally find chunks of fur around with was probably the result of some coon out hunting or some hawk that left the fur behind....
Nature ain't Bambi unless your 6 or 7 years old.
The only dumb person in the area was the one that declawed her cat and then let it loose outside with no claws to use even to climb a tree....thats the one that I use to feed and it would sun itself on our patio.....if this offends you, thats your problem not mine...
I live in a small town (suburb) of Dallas. Actually it was once a small town but is now the multi-cultural center of the universe.
Anyway, I’m glad we have the occasional roaming cat. They do no harm that I can see and I think they’ve helped the rat problem we have in this area.
Bad, bad roof rat problem. They get in somehow and get in your attic, etc.
Anyway, since we’ve stopped feeding birds and had a few cats around, we haven’t had that problem.
Better cats than rats.
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