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Right, I've only been living in this new house for 6 months and twice I've had to spend 2+ hours scouring cat crap off my shoes, the carpets and floors. I've just got back in (it's 4am) from cleaning it out of my car, only to ruin a second pair of shoes in the process.

The smell of it makes me want to vomit through my nose and it never seems to come off, even bleach doesn't get rid of it.

How the hell do I stop these little buggers from ruining my driveway, other than camping out and shooting them on sight?
 
You want one of these;

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Cat deterrent i think its called. Install one on your driveway and when an unsuspecting cat walks along ready to do its business, boom, 40000hz through its ears. The little bugger doesn't know what hit him and he scarpers. :)
 
Smithy said:
You want one of these;

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Cat deterrent i think its called. Install one on your driveway and when an unsuspecting cat walks along ready to do its business, boom, 40000hz through its ears. The little bugger doesn't know what hit him and he scarpers. :)
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if thats one of those bloody ultrasound things I'd be smashing it to bits personally or slightly more rationally complaining to the council, they give me a splitting headache from about 50 meters away.

My cornershop had two mounted on the walls and I lived about eight doors away and if the windows were open I had to go and politely ask them to turn it off.

Not the sole reason I moved, but a contributing factor, quite unpleasant.
 
Yeah those ultrasound jobbies are crap. We have had two from two different manufacturers and both of them were distinctly audible. Second one was slightly better but you could still tell when it was going off even from my room, a touch annoying when you are trying to sleep.

Also, the cats get wise to them very quickly and will either learn to crap where it doesn't get triggered [cats learn very quickly] worse still they might just blatantly ignore it once they realise it isn't doing them any harm.

I think the best deterrent is sharp gravel on yer flowerbeds. They don't like walking on it and digging so avoid it. Don't know how effective it is tho, as we managed to solve the cat crapping problem we had before trying it. [lots of shouting :D]

SiriusB
 
Both the next door neighbour and me have had problems with cats. He had one of those ultrasound things, they dont work. The best thing i've found is they dont like the smell of Jeyes fluid, keep spraying it one the areas with they are fowling and it should stop them :)
 
How handy are you with a soldering iron?

Motion detector + solenoid valve from the rear of a clothes washer + hose pipe with wide dispersal sprayer nozzle.

Cat sets off motion detector. Motion detector triggers solenoid valve turning on water to hose pipe. Hose pipe sprays water everywhere dousing cat. Cat scarpers. After two or three times, cat will NEVER return as they absolutely HATE water on them.

I know, I have 8. They all liked to climb up on the counter to drink out of soaking dishes. It had to stop for sanitary reasons (food preparation surface) and for thier health (soap in the water). After one or two of them got soaked with the dish sprayer, none of them will even go NEAR the counter now. I could put thier favorite treat out on the counter and they'll just sit on the floor looking at it.
 
Apparently cats hate snakes and although they are very intelligent they are not clever enough to realise dangerous snakes don't live in the UK. Therefore, buy some toy snakes, the bigger the better, and put them near your driveway, when they see them they will bugger off and crap on someone else's snake free driveway.
 
Mickey_D said:
Cat sets off motion detector. Motion detector triggers solenoid valve turning on water to hose pipe. Hose pipe sprays water everywhere dousing cat. Cat scarpers. After two or three times, cat will NEVER return as they absolutely HATE water on them.
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Unless of course you have an crazy cat like mine who thinks nothing of putting his head under a running tap, and then tries to play with the water as it runs off his face. Or even getting completely into the fish tank, killing the fish (and eating half of its tail), removing the decorations (bridge, plant etc..), removing half of the stones from the bottom of the tank, and soaking up half the water and depositing that around the kitchen floor! I could have been furious with him, but the look of "I'm a cute kitten, it wasn't me" somehow prevented me.
 
AJUK said:
Apparently cats hate snakes and although they are very intelligent they are not clever enough to realise dangerous snakes don't live in the UK. Therefore, buy some toy snakes, the bigger the better, and put them near your driveway, when they see them they will bugger off and crap on someone else's snake free driveway.
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You carn't be serious?

molinari said:
Unless of course you have an crazy cat like mine who thinks nothing of putting his head under a running tap, and then tries to play with the water as it runs off his face. Or even getting completely into the fish tank, killing the fish (and eating half of its tail), removing the decorations (bridge, plant etc..), removing half of the stones from the bottom of the tank, and soaking up half the water and depositing that around the kitchen floor! I could have been furious with him, but the look of "I'm a cute kitten, it wasn't me" somehow prevented me.
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Sounds like a crazy cat :D
 
Wile E. Coyote said:
You carn't be serious?
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I discovered three plastic snakes on our lawn and asked her ladyship wtf were they doing there. She explained the whole cat/snake relationship issue and I must admit, I hadn't seen any cats for several days. My missus reckons it works and for a quite life, I dare not argue. :D

Personally, I would hide near the drive with a hosepipe and deliver a water nuke from orbit on the feline feinds. I hate cats.
 
If you find they are doing their business in flower beds, and such, then get some cocktail sticks and stick them all around in the flower beds. If you push them far enough into the soil for no one to suspect them, but leave enough on the top for a cat to think nothing of it, then it works a treat. Depends how cruel you want to be though! :p

They'll never return after that - it worked for us! :D

Good luck!
 
jackgnic said:
If you find they are doing their business in flower beds, and such, then get some cocktail sticks and stick them all around in the flower beds. If you push them far enough into the soil for no one to suspect them, but leave enough on the top for a cat to think nothing of it, then it works a treat. Depends how cruel you want to be though! :p

They'll never return after that - it worked for us! :D

Good luck!
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LMAO.
I could imagine seeing that..

But i think the idea of the snakes is best :)
 
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