John Savage writes:

John Bill Ranseen
In article , "Tmcl"
wrote:

how do you keep cays out of a vege plot without using a 12 bore shotgun.

John You need something silent???

You might try one of those sprayer-hooked-to-motion-sensor thingys.
Kinda spendy, but every cat I've ever known hated getting wet. Never
tried one myself but the some of the folks in rec.ponds seem to find
them effective for raccoons.

John My understanding is that getting the cat wet is HALF the solution, and the
John other half is to make the solution nasty-tasting so that as the fastidious
John cat cleans itself of the distasteful water the repulsion it feels for that
John part of the garden is indelibly reinforced. A few spoonsful of vinegar in
John with the water should do the trick.

John For a truly persistent trespasser, I might be tempted to add a small
John measure of Icapec Syrup. See whether it returns for more medicine...

John Acting on advice in one of the other threads, you could try planting
John catnip in the middle of any traffic roundabout in your neighbourhood. ;-)

I wish I could get cats back into my garden.

For the last few years our young cat patrolled the yard
16 hours a day, and I had almost no problems. Now that
she was eaten by a coyote the yard is overrun with chipmunks
(seem to be eating my wife's flowers), rabbits (nibble on
the vegies) and the deeply hated woodchucks (ate all the
carrots, snap peas, beans, lettuce, zuc flowers, and most
recently, cuke leaves). I caught my second yesterday,
so I have some hope the zucs and cukes will come back...

Worst year yet. Damn, where are the coyotes when you need
them.



--
Andrew Hall
(Now reading Usenet in rec.gardens.edible...)