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Thanks I like the thorns, stick, and cones ideas. No thanks to tanks guns
etc!!. Problem being I own a cat!

The stick idea works. I've done it in a container newly placed this year
right in the path of oncoming & outgoing cats between here & next door.
They don't even bother trying to go via the table it's on any more ...
just take a flying leap from ground to wall.
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Judy
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