i hate cats

[smokelessfire]

does anyone have any ideas on how to keep cats out of my yard/garden? they crap in the garden with its litter-box-like freshly turned soil. i have heard of things like bottled panther urine, perhaps bottled coyote pee? lol. any and all ideas are welcome, i didn't plant my crops for them to ruin with their nasty fertilizer. thanks folks.

[Beo]

Yeah, try a dog or .22 and plink them bast**ds.

[trax]

Gotta vote with Beo on that one. Even a pellet gun if you don't want little kitty corpses everywhere.

[Beo]

Cat corpse's make good compund for tilling I too hate cats, domestic kind anyway, they are just nasty and disgusting.
If it don't have a working value then it ain't live'n in my house. Cats walk in there toliets, then run your house climbing on things like the couch and counters and dinner tables and you after having walked in said toilet, and do no work. My dogs are cleaner only going in the back yard in one place which is the only time they're in that spot, work as a crime deterant and will pretty much rip you apart if you come in and they don't know you and I or the wife ain't with you. Buster & Sunny my ADT solution. They play fetch, retrieve game of the duck and foul kind, and do as they're told. Sit, stay, get outta the kitchen, go to your kennel, get away from the window, shut up, get it, get'um, and so on.
Yeah pop a cap in them cats.

[91g-dub]

Yum, yum. Cat = the other white meat

[wildWoman]

I wouldn't start shooting at animals because they crap my flowers, but hey, that's just me...different people have different values.
Try setting up mouse traps 9without bait) in the spots where they go most often, disguise the traps a bit by sprinkling soil on them. Works also for keeping dogs out of things. If you catch a cat in the act, throw a bucket of water at them.

[canid]

well if you don't want to hurt the cat you might be able to scare them off with an airsoft gun.

if you don't want to be waiting up all night on the several to many nights it'll take to get them to fear the area; they make a motion sensor activated sprinkler that is designed for keeping deer out of gardens that should work. they run $20-40. i've seen them online and at one of those mall gadget stores.

[Rick]

There are all sorts of commercial products like Cat Scram or Cat Away that you can purchase. You can also try used tea leaves and/or citrus peels in the garden. Cats don't like either. You can also try bloodmeal or sprinkle black pepper in the area they use.

A machete is also good but you have to get really close.

[Beo]

Skin it and make a cat hat

[crashdive123]

I wouldn't start shooting at animals because they crap my flowers, but hey, that's just me...different people have different values.
Try setting up mouse traps 9without bait) in the spots where they go most often, disguise the traps a bit by sprinkling soil on them. Works also for keeping dogs out of things. If you catch a cat in the act, throw a bucket of water at them.

Wait a minute. You wouldn't shoot at them, but you'd snap their little necks in a mouse trap?

[canid]

these are [hopefully] mature cats, she wasn't talking conibears, just little snap traps that would frighten them away.

[crashdive123]

Modern mouse traps (I use about 5 different varieties) have enough power to break the neck of small or med sized cats. If they step on one, bones can easily be broken, causing needless suffering.

[wildWoman]

Oh really? I didn't know that! We just have these old rusty Victor mouse traps here that half the time have a hard time killing a mouse, so I wouldn't have thought they'd do much more to a cat than scare it. Cancel that idea then!!

[klkak]

A high velocity air rifle or a .22 with CCI .22 CB's. If you don't want to pick up the dead cats form you garden then shoot them low and back on the ribs. they'll run off and die somewhere else. Good way to practice for the fall hunting season and the local bird population with thank you. If you don't want to shoot them then a couple of conibear 220's baited with canned cat food would do nicely also.

[BraggSurvivor]

I'm not much of a cat lover either but we need to have a couple in the barn to rid the mice. What works around here is a cheap box of mothballs scattered in the areas where we need to keep them out of.

[Oudoceus]

I bought a motion-sensor scarecrow from The Sportsman's Guide. You hook it up to a water hose and plant it in the garden. It uses a 9 volt battery. If anything comes into my garden it squirts it with water. The sensitivity of the motion-sensor and the area covered by the spray are adjustable for different requirements. For larger gardens several can be hooked up in tandem from the same faucet. It works for me! My cats avoid the garden by a wide margin! As for the usefulness of cats, I have no vermin problems and the only snakes I ever see are the ones they have killed. The people I bought the place from warned me about the large number of Copperheads they had encountered. Like I said. The only ones I ever see are dead ones!
Oudoceus

[Ole WV Coot]

I use CCI CB Caps also. My son "borrowed" my single shot 22 but I fumble them into the 10/22, too noisy in a handgun. I plant cats vertically. I have a few holes filed already. Post hole diggers and a flat rock as a lid. Recipe is one dead cat, lift lid, dash of lime, sprinkling of dirt, replace lid, remove as needed. Keeps the young rabbits and birds happy and keeps my beagle sane.

[bulrush]

Cover your ground with broken sea shells? It will make their feet sore but will not hurt them otherwise. Or fence in your garden with chicken wire. There's not a lot you can do.

[Ole WV Coot]

Skin it and make a cat hat

Can't do that. One of my closer neighbors would shoot me in the head trying to save me some more scars.

[Beo]

Put a little antifreeze in a dish, they like the sweet taste and then they'll wonder off and croak somewhere, works everytime. Just make sure no other animals will get to it.