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Is there any ethical and easy way to keep cats out of my yard? I live in an suburban single family neighborhood where the houses are close together. (5000sq lo
by jld 6y ago
Is there any ethical and easy way to keep cats out of my yard?
I live in an suburban single family neighborhood where the houses are close together. (5000sq lots) There are 3 or 4 different solitary cats I see slinking through my yard from time to time. They all seem like outdoor house cats as opposed to feral cats.
I try to hiss at them and scare them off but they come back. Is there a method that will encourage them to avoid my yard?
- bowlich 6y agoSkunk traps and cat food. If cat's get into my traps, they just get dumped at the pound. Their owners can go pick up their little invasive darlings there. But they usually don't get near my yard due to the hounds guarding the chickens.
- bobmaxup 6y agoYou should just shoot them, as you are halfway there. https://www.alleycat.org/resources/cat-fatalities-and-secrecy-in-u-s-pounds-and-shelters/ https://www.alleycat.org/resources/cat-fatalities-and-secrec...
- hiram112 6y agoI understand it's your right to control your own yard, but if someone trapped my own cat and dumped it off at the pound, I wouldn't be too happy. If it were my cat who kept being dumped off at the pound, after being attracted to the cat food you purposefully left out to trap him, I'm guessing you'd start having some strange issues with your cable / fiber line constantly being cut.
- missedthecue 6y agoDepends how you define ethical...
- theli0nheart 6y agoYes, but it’ll take some work. Get a dog.
- xenospn 6y agoWater. Cats do not like water.
- mindslight 6y agoOpen the door and put down a bowl of food...
- thomk 6y agoAre they causing a specific problem? They are probably keeping your house rodent free.
- 11235813213455 6y agoand any other wild animals free, it's all clean!</sarcasm>
- rhino369 6y agoKeeping them off his small yard isn't going to decrease their bird death count.
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- 11235813213455 6y agoit's a sum of little things that makes it
- youngtaff 6y agoIn my case they crap in my vegetable patch, and it contains toxoplasmosis
- pvaldes 6y ago> they crap in my vegetable patch, and it contains toxoplasmosis Each cat can release toxoplasm parasites once, maybe for less than two weeks in 12 years, if healthy If you have an old cat in your garden is removing toxoplasmosis (killing rodents that act also as hosts and crap also over your kale and under your carrots). If you kill this cat or chase it off your garden, then new cats will apear and refill the territory. Think that you could be increasing the risk, in fact. Not to mention that people can pick up toxoplasm perfectly in a supermarket can of soup / rodent dance-floor. If you want cats out of your vegetables install sprinklers. If you are concerned about the cat effect in birds, just add more natural areas and tall trees
- jfk13 6y agoThere are products that are supposed to deter cats, though I don't know how well they work or whether there are associated risks to other creatures. I remember one that claimed it was based on lion dung, and would make the cats think someone much bigger and scarier already owned the territory...
- droopyEyelids 6y agoI have the opposite of your problem, live in a city where there is a huge rat problem, I let my cats go outside, and they poop in my neighbor's garden. I bought him a motion activated lawn sprinkler, which did work, but he was still angry the cats would come anywhere on his property. There are also little motion activated cans of pet corrector, too.
- lowdose 6y agoYou have to get a number 2 of a big cat. So at your local zoo ask for tiger dump. This will leave your property untouched, I have done this myself several times.
- 93po 6y agoMotion activated sprinkler, or sometimes even just a sound machine, would work very well
- pvaldes 6y ago> Is there any ethical and easy way to keep cats out of my yard? Automatic sprinklers with motion sensors work well