Brok
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- Dec 26, 2011
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As for cats . . .bit of friendly fire . . . air pistol pelet up the backside got rid of our neighbours cat . . he never came back.
And then do a Zooma and give it a good kick? ****
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As for cats . . .bit of friendly fire . . . air pistol pelet up the backside got rid of our neighbours cat . . he never came back.
Seeing some of my prized plants eaten to bits, I went out into the garden after the rain last night looking for the little b*ggers responsible. I stopped counting at ~40, I’m amazed there was anything left growing if that’s what I can easily find in 10 minutes!
They seem resistant to the pet friendly pellets too!
I use empty Hummous/Olive plastic pots with lids.
Never mind the slugs it's the neighborhood cats dumping on my lawn that's getting silly. I tried one those ultrasound devices that supposedly scares them off and one virtually dumped right next to it . Tried orange peel as they are not meant to like citrus smell but that too was a miserable failure. It's not that I'm remotely precious about the lawn and I don't like gardening. However, I have two young kids who like to play out and the cats particularly like the area underneath their trampoline.
Aside from bear traps and gun turrets any suggestions please from the NSC garden experts?
They do my box.
Everything seems fair game for the molluscs...except the palms. However, to save my dahlias, cannas, zantedeschias and the like, I'm reverting to the beer method. I have loads of stuff visit which is meant to eat gastropods, but not in the numbers required to have a noticeable effect. I've tried the garlic treatment with mixed results.
I really miss metaldehyde
Beer traps for slugs/snails, water pistol for cats
But crap on the lawn as [MENTION=21158]Weststander[/MENTION] says, is nearly always foxes and they are craft little buggers (Although I do find chucking fat/skin/carcasses from meals over the fences seems to keep it off my lawn)
Shovelling the fox poo over the fence, helps the lawn and gets rid of the stench. Job’s a good ‘un.
Oh darling, we just MUST meet up.
Tarquin sends hugs.
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I have no problem with cats in the garden.
I've found a very simple solution is to simply place wooden skewers in ground (with a few inches exposed) in the ground where they go.
Unlike a number of MPS, they simply don't like being stabbed in the arse whilst emptying their bowels.
Thank goodness one side of my property is side onto a few feet of council wildlife verge. I guess yours is exactly the same