Cats pooing in my plants

I've tried pepper but there was still poo there in the morning. I'll have to order the sonic solar power thing and some silent roar and see what happens. Thank you everyone

Lots of white pepper.

Cats these days!
Years ago they would spend ages digging a hole, and they even had the decency to cover it over afterwards.

Pure laziness, I call it.

Prickly holly leaves

A cat leaves it’s poo in the middle of our lawn , nothing deters it ! At least we can see it and not come across it accidentally !

Thank you maytime2

Ethel the Tank. Apologies for being late in replying to your query. I bought mine on Amazon and it cost £19.99.

Silent roar is the only one I think I haven’t used might have to join you notspagetti
I wouldn’t waste your money on the sonic thingy was useless for me ethel

Well I haven’t tried the Silent Roar so maybe I’ll give that a shot, but the sonic things only worked in our garden for about ten days. After that the offender just ignored them. We had three on the go as the garden is bendy and they have a fan-shaped range.

We got a scarer which set off a jet of water whenever anything crossed it’s visual range. It was placed to cover the flower bed that the cat had selected as its personal toilet. It was very impressive, loudly shooting the jet of water over a wide area a bit like a machine gun raking emplacements.
We never did see it in action against cats but it did soak me quite a few times.
It seems to have been successful as lately we haven’t been bothered although I have not seen the cat around so the owners might have moved away.
You do need an outside tap and a hosepipe.

I have had success (finally) after laying twigs on the garden inbetween the plants, especially where there's any bare earth or over where I've planted something. You can't see the twigs very well as they are brown so doesn't look too weird. I crisscross the twigs and the cats can't walk on the garden without getting their paws caught up in them. As the plants grow they cover up the twigs. Next door's silver birch sheds lots of twigs when its windy and I gather them up and use them. Hope this works for you.

I hadn't thought about that!

Have you tried having a proper cat litter tray in your garden? Theory being they will go in that instead. Still a chore to clean it but at least they won’t go in flowerbed.

Thank you Polly

I got mine from Amazon

EthelTheTank

Do you know where I could get one of these solar powered things from? The cat has probably been coming round into the garden for about 3 years now. He's a very pleasant little cat who I've never had a problem with but only recently as in the last few months he's started to poo in all my plants. I'm not sure why it's only just started to happen.

Hi, I've sent a PM with information on the sonic scarer that I have.

My eyes are playing tricks on me again - they keep seeing the thread heading as
'Cats pooing in my pants'!

Ethel save your money I had one of the sonar thingies and sent it back with a photo of the cats bum nearly touching it
Oh Patsy what a wonderful mental picture but I never find it in the same place twice

On one of the radio gardening programmes the expert suggested digging a hole close to the place the cat usually poos and burying a blown up balloon. When the cat scratches, it will burst the balloon and frighten him off.

They are clever little animals aren't they. Very stubborn I think. Rafael is lovely though. I just wish he'd stop pooing!

I have covered my raised bed with netting and some how cats manage to balance on it! ?

I believe there is a spray to deter cats messing on your plants.

Do you know where I could get one of these solar powered things from? The cat has probably been coming round into the garden for about 3 years now. He's a very pleasant little cat who I've never had a problem with but only recently as in the last few months he's started to poo in all my plants. I'm not sure why it's only just started to happen.

I bought a solar powered sonic thingy last autumn to use in my front garden. I have had about 99% success with it, in that I have only had to deal with fouling twice in the year. I should explain that the front garden is now laid to slate chippings so it is quite difficult to clear anything up.
The small back garden has now got artificial grass, mainly because I can longer cut the grass so there is nowhere a cat can go.
Next door's cat is the only one that comes in and I frighten it by clapping my hands and shouting at it. I don't know whether it really works, but it always clears off
now when it sees me.
Don't you think it is unneighbourly to have a cat these days who is not trained to use the cat litter ?

* mrsgreenfingers* not my marauding neighbourhood cats even pure garlic made not a scrap of difference