barbaral@tekig1.UUCP (08/25/83)
What can I do to keep the cats from using my nice garden beds for their LITTER BOX????? @#$%^&*!!! Someone suggested putting mouse- traps around the garden, so that when the cats touch them, it will spring and scare them. I'd be afraid that its paw might get caught, or that a bird might get in there? Any suggestions? Do you think mousetraps would harm the the cats, birds?
randyd@tekecs.UUCP (Randy Dietrich) (08/29/83)
I have had a problem with MY cats replanting my garden for years.
It seems they are not stupid, and prefer to dig in the softest
soil in the yard (usually recently planted with carrots). The
best solution I have come up with is to cover fresh seed beds
with 2" mesh hardware cloth until the seedlings are big enough
to defend themselves. Watering also helps as cats do not like
to get their paws muddy. I really do not care if they dig between
plantings, it just makes it grow better next year.
Randy Dietrich
Engineering Computing Systems
Tektronix Inc.
Wilsonville, Oregon, USA
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ARPA: tekecs!randyd.tektronix @ rand-relaylaura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (09/01/83)
this will not do you any good if it is your cats in the garden, but this is how my parents kept the friends of their cat, Sam from coming over to yowl at him at odd hours in the morning. For a week, they took aim with a garden hose (with low water pressure). They did not hurt the other cats, but they did get them wet, and angry. After about a week they learned to fight elsewhere. do this in the summer, for in the winter the water could freeze and kill the cats. (around here, at any rate -- you people who do not know the meaning of SNOW and ICE are very lucky and I envy you a great deal!!) laura creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura