I do not know which one you are
I hate you all the same.
You make my mornings miserable
Is this some kind of game?
A morning gift you leave for me
It brings me much surprise.
Most other cats will bury shit,
but you’re attracting flies!
I’ve got a plan to deal with you,
I’ll do some work, and then…
We’ll see how much you wail and screech
when shitting on 110.
Thank you.
I hate this cat. I can’t find it, I can’t catch it. I have no idea why it decided, pretty much exactly when I put my house on the market, to start shitting in my flowerbox. I would like to catch it, cut its head off, and stick it on a post in the yard to frighten off any other cats with similar ideas.
If anyone has a home remedy, a way to repel cats aside from buckshot, pease pease lets me know.
Little bits of tinfoil tied to the flowers might repel the cat. A mousetrap? There’s stuff you can buy from the hardware store which is supposed to repel them. Mild electric shock?
Catnip would be useless (but you knew that already ). Even if you did plant it to entice the cat elsewhere, it still would bog away from the catnip.
Apparently the cats using my flower bed were inoculated.
They just dug and flung the soil around until their spot was apparently free of contamination. I tried soaking the area with an entire bottle (that’ll show 'em whose boss). They tore up the plants in another section and made that the spot.
I tried about a half dozen other “sure cures” without much success. I think many of these simple solutions require a less than dedicated cat, or a very small area to control.
Providing the cats with a bad experience when I could catch them in the act seemed to help. Though the hose would only dissuade them for a couple days (couldn’t catch them at it regularly enough). The final solution: Paintball Gun. Only hit one of the two, but haven’t seen either in over 9 months now. Either it was painful/scary enough, or the mess of red paint convinced the woman across the street who let these cats roam at night that it might be a good idea to keep them in the house.
If the flowerbox isn’t too big, you could try making a chicken wire cover for it. that way, the plants could still get sun and water, and the cat’s couldn’t do their business.
Part of the problem may be that they can smell their previous offerings, and therefore recognize your flowerbox as a bathroom they’re comfortable with. Vinegar supposedly masks the smell from the kitties. (at least it’s supposed to on carpet. Let’s just hope that doesn’t become a problem.)
Hey, finger nail polish remover always makes my kitties run away!
