Help!cats using my garden as a loo (merged threads)

A question about : Help!cats using my garden as a loo (merged threads)

I have just moved here 8 weeks ago.

Anyway to my delight I discovered that the local cats use my grass as there personal toilet.

Hubby goes out a couple of times a week to clear it up.

Please don't tell me cats don't use grass as there loo. As I use to live in garden with a 6ft fence around it and they used that grass a toilet as well.

I have tried the gels and the pepper dust. Any ideas.

And no I don't want a cat or a dog.

Many thanks in advance.

Yours

Calley

Best answers:

• I believe leaving large bottles of water round the garden helps
• I have heard that.
  But does it really work.
  Yours
  Calley
• Doesn't orange peel deter cats? Or is that something else?
• Lots of ideas here at the RSPB:
  https://www.rspb.org.uk/gardens/advic...deterrents.asp
  You can buy electronic scarers. Basically they operate at ultrasonic frequencies that annoy the cats (and other animals so check use first if you have a dog).
• I did a google too and it was scary but as for the cats .............they also don't like rustling noises,bits of tinfoil flapping in the breeze scares them,those kids windmills too.
• My old cat (now gone to cat-heaven) used to run a mile from rustling poly bags. Not very tidy in the garden though....
  Thanks for this thread. I have just created a gravel patio and KNOW cats are going to start using it, so I will be borrowing all advice - and hoping to avoid rather messy flapping poly bags.....
  Can I be foolish and ask....what do you do with the large bottles of water???
  Cheers
• Pepper! Sprinkle your lawn with lots and lots of pepper!!!!
  Even if it doesn't *deter* the cats, you'll hear them sneezing soon enough to chase them off.
• I tried a different way of Googling to traf but we seem to have ended up at the same site somehow :confused:
  Orange scented essential oils and candles work too apparently