Stray cats

My sisters next door neighbor used lime. She covered the whole surface of the garden with a thick coat of the stuff. It stopped the neighbor cats from using it. Dont know if you can use this once the flowers planted.

Heres something my grandmother did in hers tho. Its not pretty but it works. She collected tin cans and drilled holes in them, one hole on each side of the bottom of the can. She then threaded a string through the holes and knotted it to keep the cans from being to close together, creating a gape. The cans were about 2 inches apart on the string. She then used wooden rods from the craft store and drilled holes thought them threading the string through. The cans were about 1 to 2 inches off the ground. She threaded the strings of cans through the rows of veggies and herbs, in a grib pattern. When ever a cat ,rabbit or whatever would try coming into her garden, it was cause the can to hit each other and make a racket, scaring them off.

She did this in her corn and pumpkin patch too but instead of drilling holes on two sides, she drilled a hole in the middle if the bottom and knotted the string inside....like a bell. She siad it swung better that way.

Just a thought.

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dooley wrote:

What can we do about stray cats? The shelters have so many they won't take them anymore. I just spent two hours putting netting over the new flower bed. I had put oranges all over it. The first night, before I put the seeds in it they didn't dig. I thought the oranges were doing the trick. But this morning when I went to water it was dug up in a couple of places. So, I put the netting on it. Now DR is out staking the fence down in places where I sort of stretched the netting too tight. Stray cats, why don't people take care of their pets or at least do something with the kittens. Kittens are easy to foster out, not so cats. Dooley

Yep thats a difficult one, im a cat lover, but i totally understand.My cats do their business in my garden, so my neighbours are ok, im not so happy about it.I bought some cat repellent for my new border, because elvis kept doing it in there, it didnt work at all, he sniffed the earth, then carried on regardless and it cost me £3.Some people put barbed wire on their fences, but that may not be legal.Not much help am i, why did i answer this post even? Laughing