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I had some "Pee Off" plants last year. The neighbourhood cats took smug
delight in pooping right on top of them! I won't bother buying any this year. My brother also found they didn't work. YMMV. "John Griffiths" wrote in message ... I have just ordered 6 "Scaredy Cat Plants" Coleus Canina from Thompson Morgan Cost £7.99 I will see if that works . Supposed to scare the hell out of cats - a smell that cats can detect but we can't. http://thompson-morgan.com -- John Griffiths Baxenden Lancashire http://www.johngriffiths.net |
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In article , Jack
writes I had some "Pee Off" plants last year. The neighbourhood cats took smug delight in pooping right on top of them! I won't bother buying any this year. My brother also found they didn't work. YMMV. Carpet gripper along the tops of fences and under gates :-))) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forthcoming reunions. Royal Navy Social Weekend Sussex May 2nd - 5th. H.M.S.Collingwood Association Chatham May 30th - June 2nd British Pacific Fleet Hayling Island Sept 5th - 8th Castle Class Corvettes Assn. Isle of Wight. Oct 3rd - 6th. Plus many more |
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In article , Harry Web
writes "julie manns" wrote in message ... can anyone offer advice on how to keep them off plants. I don't know about the plants, but I'm having some luck keeping them from defecating in the soil having buried wire mesh just below the surface. Its the type with 20cm squares. A few have had a paw at the soil, but having found the mesh didn't stay around. It's supposed to be good for squirrels too. You can also use it hooped in a slightly raised position around the top of a wall to stop them getting into the garden that way. baiscally they can't tip-toe through it. HTH I have just ordered 6 "Scaredy Cat Plants" Coleus Canina from Thompson Morgan Cost £7.99 I will see if that works . Supposed to scare the hell out of cats - a smell that cats can detect but we can't. http://thompson-morgan.com -- John Griffiths Baxenden Lancashire http://www.johngriffiths.net |
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Today, I've just "planted" a load of unwanted CDs, hoping they might reflect
and scare off the cats. I'll keep you posted as to whether or not it works, although I don't hold out much hope. "Mike" wrote in message news Carpet gripper along the tops of fences and under gates :-))) |
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from John Griffiths contains these words: I have just ordered 6 "Scaredy Cat Plants" Coleus Canina from Thompson Morgan Cost £7.99 I will see if that works . Supposed to scare the hell out of cats - a smell that cats can detect but we can't. ......unless you touch it, according to T & M's catalogue. -- AnneJ ICQ #:- 119531282 |
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Warwick wrote:
In article , says... In article , Harry Web writes "julie manns" wrote in message ... can anyone offer advice on how to keep them off plants. I don't know about the plants, but I'm having some luck keeping them from defecating in the soil having buried wire mesh just below the surface. Its the type with 20cm squares. A few have had a paw at the soil, but having found the mesh didn't stay around. It's supposed to be good for squirrels too. You can also use it hooped in a slightly raised position around the top of a wall to stop them getting into the garden that way. baiscally they can't tip-toe through it. HTH I have just ordered 6 "Scaredy Cat Plants" Coleus Canina from Thompson Morgan Cost £7.99 I will see if that works . Supposed to scare the hell out of cats - a smell that cats can detect but we can't. We went to visit my sister on Saturday and I can iterate once again that those "ultrasonic" cat scarers don't work. Our dog seemed a *bit* uncomfortable up close to them, but a few cats wandered through the garden happily. um. Just to counter that, for some years we had the model sold by the RSPB and it certainly did work -- we tested it on our own cats[1] to be certain. The slightly deaf (many are) cat approached within c. 2m before looking perturbed; a younger cat with (presumably) better hearing actively avoided an area of about 4m around the thing after setting it off. I can't remember what area it's supposed to cover, but that was adequate for our purposes. It's important to site the device correctly, and to move it about, but I found it effective in preventing cats using their normal routes into the garden. In addition *I* can hear them. They're at the extreme end of the frequencies I can hear, but standing in a garden with a loud high pitched whine irritated the hell out of me. Mine started whining -- and failing to deter cats -- during a very wet winter after about 3 years of constant use. I assumed it was broken, but have not bothered to replace it as the main nuisance cat has disappeared. FWIW I used the mains adaptor rather than batteries. regards sarah [1] House cats, allowed into the garden under supervision. -- "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." Aldous Huxley |
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