Keeping cats off garden - ideas?

[mancity68]

Fed up of cleaning up cat poo from my flower bed. Stinky cat repelling powder is ok but - it stinks: so keeps me out of the garden too!

Thinking of getting one of those automatic cat detecting water sprinklers. Has anyone used one? Any other brilliant non-stinky ideas?!

[chuff]

Was going to say lion dung but that probably stinks too. Works though.

[Salsaboy]

Get a dog?

[KalamityKel]

surely that would equal more poo no?

[pommie]

Is it definitely cats and not foxes?

[mancity68]

Yup - definitely cats. A pump action water pistol every time we saw one did the job for a while - but we've clearly let our guard slip. Currently our tiny garden is being protected by chilli flakes, coffe grounds and a liberal sprinkling of ant cat stink powder. Effective but horrid.

Really do fancy one of the motion detected sprinklers....

[Annette Curtain]

Or turn your whole garden into a giant pond

"Cat problems?"http://i00.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/336/095/483/483095336_515.jpg"Not us"

[feuerberg]

look into buying manure from a zoo, specificly, the cats exclosure. This should do the trick. Little cats don't like bigger cats.

[malumbu]

Brought some poo into the house today on my shoes, so not happy. Thought I'd start a thread, but assumed that this would be something that had been aired before. Well knock me down with a feather, what perfect timing!

We use a cat scarer with a laser light and a wailing sound. I then notice a fox in a neighbour's garden who shows a slight bit of interest. Cat's repsond quite slowly but eventually walk away. Obvious problem is that you have to be there. I fancied an air rifle, which I would use against the rats with long furry tails, but they cost quite a lot, and I'd probably get prosecuted for animal cruelty.

We've thought about lion poo for some time, particularly knowing people from ZSL. But hey presto, search it on Google, and plenty of hits, ignore Amazon coz they are scumbags (IMO) and try somewhere like http://www.primrose.co.uk/silent-roar-cat-repellent-05kg-p-791.html?cPath=24_312&source=googleads&gclid=CPPGyoy_irkCFeXMtAodhBEAlA