Cat spraying - how to deter?

[Peter Crosland]

Joking apart a pressure washer, or even a large water pistol can be very effective.

Peter Crosland

[Huge]

I suspect Peter means about an ounce of it, finely divided and travelling at approximately 1000fps.

[Toom Tabard]

As well as lion shit, garden shops also sell large containers of pepper dust - one of the items mentioned in the diyfaq. Try spreading that around regularly (assuming you don't have your own dog/pets which use the garden). And strictly, according to the law ands as explained on the tin, its use has to be confined to your own private property.

Toom

[Bruce]

You need to get out more.

[Peter Scott]

The bravest of my cats, capable of seeing off a large German Shepherd dog, had one phobia. Couldn't stand the eyes of a predator bird. I found this out with a card model owl that I hung from the ceiling (don't ask!). The cat was terrified and refused to come out of hiding until I got rid of the model. I wonder if you might be able to get a plastic version to hang over the target? It needs no attention or repeat doses.

Peter Scott

[Mark]

Anything like this is only going to last a short time. A day or two at most.

If you can catch the cat then scaring it out of its skin is the only long term solution IME.

Trouble is you get rid of one cat an another will appear in its place.

[Huge]

IME, the cat ends up scared of *you* rather than the place. Our neighbours semi-feral cat likes our bird table, but flees at a rate of knots when it sees me (catapult+gravel saw to that). But ... it still comes back when it can't see me.

[Toom Tabard]

That makes it a two-stage process. Local cats have learned to flee at a rate of knots when my wife enters the garden, and later throw themselves under the wheels of buses when she walks down the street.

Toom

[Bruce]

Does she have a similar effect on people?

I ask because she could be deployed to solve the immigration problem.

;-)

[Dave]

I was told any years ago, that that was what an ear tablet was :-)

Dave

[Huge]

Blimey, despite shooting clays for many years, I've never heard that before. That's todays thing learned - I can go for a beer now.

Cheers.

[Dave]

I sometimes drink with a couple of clay shooters, but I didn't pick the expression up from them. It must have been about 1981 when I first heard of it, but the person who told me lives in Oz now and when I knew him, he didn't have a local (Lancashire) accent.

Dave

[Toom Tabard]

large fly in the ointment - she's an immigrant :-)

[Bruce]

Oops.

[Roberts]

Angle grinder works well but by the time you have put the cat in a vice to hold it steady, it is just as good to clamp its head very securely. They preferred my lawn which I criss-crossed with fine green fishing line. This drove them onto my neighbours area so they have the smell. Anybody tried rabbit snares? >

Robbie

[nabil]

I'm sorry for bumping this old thread, but I really feel like I have some advice to offer you - and you seemed to really need it at the time

One of my 2 cats (both neutered males) had taken to painting all of my walls, furniture, and anything else he could reach. I was horrified when I got a UV light. He never did that in all of the 9 years I've had him and didn't when I got him a buddy (they love each other and did so right away) but when a strange black cat started showing up outside both of my cats went nuts and the older one (9) started his wall painting, as well as the curtains out in the kitty room. I couldn't keep up with it.

My cats are indoor cats so it's not like the stray is actually going to get in here but they both hate him (and he is weird...my neighbor's cats hate him too). I've tried cleaning with a pet urine enzyme and then spraying some "No More Spraying" but that hasn't worked. He's a sneaky little bugger too; he waits until he thinks I'm not looking and then does it. He's learned that the minute I see him backing his butt up to something he gets yelled at.

It wasn't until I found "Cat Spraying No More" that I was able to finally get rid of this tiresome behavior.

Now my house doesn't smell like a litter box anymore :)

Here's a link the their site if you're interested in checking it out: NoMoreCatPee.com

I hope you guys don't mind me sharing this. Cheers!

[The Natural Philosopher]

Spam

[alan_m]

Yes but the spammer is only advocating replacing a cat pee with artificial pee that he sprays out of a bottle!