How to scare cats off your yard

If you have a summer cottage, you may encounter an unpleasant problem: neighbor cats and cats walk around your garden like at home, leave odorous marks, sharpen their claws on fruit trees, and sometimes even use the beds as a tray. How to drive cats off the site? Here are some humane methods that will scare away stray or stray cats without harming them.

● Chatting with hosts

First you need to find the owners of these cats and talk to the neighbors. Perhaps the owners will take your problem seriously and will not let the pets out of their plots. Advise them to arrange a cat corner: plant catnip (catnip), pour sand nearby. Then the cat or cat will stop misbehaving in other people’s gardens, and instead they will enjoy the smell of their favorite plant.

● Wet ground and automatic watering

Being extremely clean animals, cats will never get their paws dirty in damp soil. Water the beds regularly, and not a single cat will encroach on them. Also, cats are well repelled by automatic sprinklers with a motion sensor. Any cat passing by will get a nasty shower and avoid your yard next time. But be careful: you yourself can get under the water jets!

● Smells that repel cats

All cats have a very sensitive sense of smell, so they try to avoid strong unpleasant odors. To keep cats away from the garden, take a spray bottle and fill it with water mixed with eucalyptus, lavender, or citrus essential oils. Spray this mixture on fences, garden beds, porches, and other areas where stray cats have been picky. You can also lay out the chopped peel of an orange or lemon, scatter dry tobacco leaves or coffee grounds, arrange cups with aromatic spices over the area. Places where cat marks have already been left, pour 9% vinegar or iodine.

Another option for using odors is to plant a special odorous grass. Plants that repel cats: cayenne pepper, dog coleus, lemongrass, allspice. Try also to act “on the contrary”: plant catnip or valerian in a vacant lot near the site. Neighbor cats are guaranteed to forget about your beds!

● Sound that scares away cats

Recently, ultrasonic repellers have become widespread. These portable devices generate high-pitched sound that is inaudible to the human ear, but annoying to cats, dogs, and rodents. In general, this is very convenient: you can immediately get rid of mice and neighbor cats. Manufacturers of ultrasonic repellers claim that their products are absolutely safe and do not harm health.

● Unpleasant surfaces

Cats do not like surfaces that tingle the pads of their paws – marble chips, crushed stones, cones, nutshells. You can make decorative circles of marble chips around the flower beds, mulch the plantings with cones or nutshells, and also make a protective strip around the perimeter of the site – at least a meter wide, so that it is difficult to jump over it.

● Guard animals

One of the most obvious solutions is to keep a dog or large cat on the property. They will protect their territory and expel strangers or homeless animals from your site. True, if the cat is not castrated, he himself can run away, flattered by a fluffy beauty passing by.

●      Nice fence

The best way to protect against the penetration of unwanted four-legged guests is a high metal fence (made of corrugated board, euro picket fence, etc.). Cats will not be able to walk on a thin metal edge, while wooden fences for them are their favorite places to walk.

If you can’t or don’t want to change the old fence, modify it a bit: close up large cracks and holes, stretch a strong thread or fishing line over the top edge. This will make it harder for cats to move around the fence, and perhaps they will find another place to play tricks.

Now you know what scares away cats and how to use it to protect your garden. We hope you can handle the intruders with humane methods and maintain your peace of mind.