On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:12:38 -0500, Sheldon Harper
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"stevej" wrote in :

Hi

Does anyone have any experience with sonic cat scarers ? - any other
suggestions welcome

cheers

The absolutely best cat scarer is a dead cat. They
won't go anywhere near it.

They attract corvids and noisy squabbling crows and the like are not
an attractive garden feature either.

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:09:36 GMT, "someone here"
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"stevej" wrote in message
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Hi

Does anyone have any experience with sonic cat scarers ? - any other
suggestions welcome

cheers

Yes I have an ultrasonic scarer.
My sons can hear it as a whine, giving them a headache.
The cats just poke their nose into the speaker and treat it with total
disdain.

YMMV

Dave

One works for me and no-one of any age has said that they can hear it.
Mine's combined with a detector so it doesn't sound continuously. I
watched a cat venture on to one of my seed beds, look up very startled
and rapidly depart.

someone here wrote:
Latent toxoplasmosis, conjunctivits, salmonella and worms are all carried by
animals
and are capapble of being transferred to humans.
That is the problem I have.
Protecting the children I look after from this problem is my difficulty.
Oh yes and there is the smell. I can't stands the smell.

You know that all the above 'problems' that cat feces bring, you also
get by eating raw meat, old eggs and sharing make up. To reassure you,
I've had children for 16 years, and I have 3 cats, 5 at one point, and
two dogs, 3 at one point, and none of my children nor their friends
have had problems. There's no allergies, there's no ahsma, in fact I
beleive that the more you live with pets the stronger your immune
system. I'm not house proud, nor I vaccum everyday, nor dust, nor spray
chemicals cleaning products all over the place etc. I collect the cats
pooh around my property when I see it and just bin it.

Get these plants - they seem to work a treat according to many people
here. You could put them around the boundaries you're mentioning. And
good luck )

http://www.buckingham-nurseries.co.u...uct_54609.html

In message .com, La
Puce wrote

. I collect the cats
pooh around my property when I see it and just bin it.

Including that your cats leave with the neighbours?


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Alan
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"La Puce" wrote in message
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in fact I beleive that the more you live with pets the stronger
your immune system.

Indeed. It's believed that it was the European's close proximity to
domesticated animals in a farming environment back home that turned
them into immune carriers for the pathogens with which they infected
the more nomadic Native Americans Indians, to such devastating
effect. *

Although on the other hand, IIRR animals have also been the carriers
for the all the plague vectors and viruses responsible for the
most deadly pandemics in human beings.



michael adams


*Guns and Germs and Steel Jared Diamond.

** stretching a point, fortuitous immunity in a first generation
may have become a selective genetic trait.

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"La Puce" wrote in message
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I collect the cats
pooh around my property when I see it and just bin it.

Don't move to Shropshire then.
pooh is a prohibited item in dustbins.
And yes the bins are checked for smell
and yes people lose the 'privilege' of having their bins collected.

Dave

"Jupiter" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:09:36 GMT, "someone here"
wrote:
snip sonic alarm stuff
One works for me and no-one of any age has said that they can hear it.
Mine's combined with a detector so it doesn't sound continuously. I
watched a cat venture on to one of my seed beds, look up very startled
and rapidly depart.

Motion detector sounds like a good idea.
Mine is/was a constant.

I can't hear it, but I have lost a lot of the top end of my hearing
over the last five years.

Dave

You could also try pruning some bits of really prickly shrubs (like berberis) and sticking them in the soil. This seems to work as well
Good luck
Cheers
Alison

"stevej" wrote in message
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Hi

Does anyone have any experience with sonic cat scarers ? - any other
suggestions welcome

Run out into the garden waving your arms and shouting when you see them,
works every time!(:-)

Alan

Alan Holmes wrote:

Run out into the garden waving your arms and shouting when you see them,
works every time!(:-)

Ah! This is called testiculating: waving your arms around and talking
bollox )

I've used a cat scarer like the one on the cat scarers website. It worked well eventually, but for a time I was tempted to get rid of it because it didn't have any effect. If you try one out, I would persevere with it as apparently it can take a while for the unwelcome cats to get the message!

You can always buy one of the large water pistols that fire 30 feet this would scare them off.

I have tried these bont find they do not work to well. I still get cats in my garden maybe there are different types available but the one i have bought dont seem to do the job