Bloody Cats In Garden

[Strungout]

What is the best way to keep my neighbours cats out of the garden (and fish pond).They Sh___T all over the place .

The neighbour doesn't want to know about it.

[Wongo]

What is the best way to keep my neighbours cats out of the garden (and fish pond).They Sh___T all over the place .

The neighbour doesn't want to know about it.

A bullet.

[Geoff Dean]

Borrow my dog.

Get Wongo to come around, apparently he likes them....with a nice sweet and sour sauce

Other than that, about 6 disprin in a bowl of milk....no more cat problem.

[Ron Dunn]

Do you see them? If so, get one of those big water pistol (cannon?) things that kids use to put each others' eyes out.

[Eli]

Trap it a few times and tell your neighbor he can pick it up at the pound.

[DJ’s Timber]

Ring the local shire or council office, check the regulations for your area and if it states that cats must be keep within the boundary, lodge a complaint which should result in a visit and possibly a fine from the local bylaws officer. Take timestamped photos every time you see them if possible.Or as Eli says pick it up and ring the Ranger stating that you have a stray animal.

I use to have visits from some of the local dogs here harassing my dogs through the fence, so I just let them on to my property by opening the gate and then called the Ranger who would come out and pick them up within the hour and take them to the pound. Owners then had to pay a release fine plus another one for allowing the dogs to roam. The visits dropped off dramatically after that.

[Waldo]

What Wongo said.

I'd happily wait for the cats to show up around here, the mynah birds too, take careful aim and phfft (sound of target air riffle shooting) they're dead. Except the bleeding hearts made it illegal.

now that my little girl has chooks I wonder if I'm allowed to protect them?

[Gra]

Border collie X husky..

Never had a cat problem never seen a cat here

PS a german shepard works just as well

[Colin Howkins]

Now there Strungout, don't get strungout about these cats.

Here is a system that works well.

Electric Fence.

String it around your fishpond/garden, but it must be of a height that the offending critter has to crawl under it and be in contact with the hot wire..

I have them rigged up around gardens and the like, and it keeps out dogs [my own] possums that raid the water melons, rock melons and anything else that takes thier fancy.

They will bump into it once, if they are really dumb twice. AlI have to do these days is just string up a white cord and that's enough.

When the cat/dog/possum walks into it for the first time you will hear about it

Give it a go

[Bob38S]

Shanghai + Jaffas, failing that a trap and some turps/kero spotted under the tail - they'll never be back.

[bsrlee]

Have to agree with Eli here - get a possum trap or something similar, bit of fish paste or whatever. Then take the offending moggie to the RSPCA/pound - if the neighbor is a real dweeb then pick one far away to visit.

The air gun and the Panadol treatments are far more personally satisfying & permanent, but the RSPCA do not approve, but they will put the cat down themselves

[neilb]

Mr Howkins , please please tell us how you set up this electric fence ! I have a wayward possum who S--TS and C--PS all over my tools in the shed and loves to make herself at home inside MY home as well as all her offspring. It has been there for a few years coming and going and has chosen MY shed as her materity ward. Would this be an alternative other than sending her to the Pearly Gates when and if I can ever catch her.

Neil.

[jow104]

Cats, I could do with one right now, got mice in the workshop, keeps leaving his whatsits all over my bench, must remember not to eat up the chocolate biscuit crumbs left over myself the next day.

[Colin Howkins]

Neil,

You can usuallly pick these things up at a Produce Merchant and can either be run by batteries - usually 2 D cell - or plug into the mains. They operate on high voltage/low amperage, from memory the one I use operates art around 40,000 volts.

They do come with instructions, but this is how it works.

The electric wire when set up is a complete circuit. When an animal comes in contact with the wire, it must also be in contact with the ground [earth] when this happens the circuit shorts to earth via the body in touch with the wire and the ground.

This could present a problem for possums that enter via wires, trees etc.

For a ground based application, put star pickets, along or around the circumferance of the area you with to protect. You can get hard plastic star pickets and, of course, the steel ones. If you are using steel star pickets you have to get insulators to insulate the hot wire from the steel.

The energizer is connected to the wire and also to earth - generally by a stake and a connecting wire, and the whole thing is ready to go.

The possums I have kept at bay travel over ground to get to my veggie patch etc, and so this system works. If they were dropping in from the trees, I would have to hope they would walk out and I'd get them then.

Like I said.....works for me

[Geoff Dean]

some turps/kero spotted under the tail - they'll never be back.

Don't forget to tie an old milo/coffee tin with some stones in it onto their tail. Best to use elastic, cos with string they will eventually stop, with elastic every time they leap forward the elastic stretches and then the tin whacks them on the bum, they can run for miles.