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cats?

Charles

2005-12-27, 4:21 pm

Mid-October I built four 4x8 raised beds that've been doing mostly
pretty good so far. Unfortunately, over the last month the neighbor's
cat has decided that what I really built was four giant kitty boxes. I
catch the cat in a bed several times a week, and find it's scat all
over now. It's dug up a lot of seedlings. Any recommendations on how
to prevent that?

Between this and them letting their dogs free in my yard to crap every
day, I'm starting to build up some unneighborly resentment.

Thanks.

Kathleen Vaughn

2005-12-27, 7:21 pm

a garden hose and some plants that cats don't like such as citronella,
perhaps a companion plant ground cover.
aloha,
davon96720

"Charles" <lockhart@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote in message
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> Mid-October I built four 4x8 raised beds that've been doing mostly
> pretty good so far. Unfortunately, over the last month the neighbor's
> cat has decided that what I really built was four giant kitty boxes. I
> catch the cat in a bed several times a week, and find it's scat all
> over now. It's dug up a lot of seedlings. Any recommendations on how
> to prevent that?
>
> Between this and them letting their dogs free in my yard to crap every
> day, I'm starting to build up some unneighborly resentment.
>
> Thanks.
>

Charles

2006-01-24, 11:21 pm

As a followup, I found a solution that works pretty well. I bought a
YardGard ultrasonic emitter. They're designed to emit a high frequency
buzz that we can't hear but that irritates animals, birds, even bugs
depending on what you set it to (though as I changed the frequency to
include bugs I could hear it as well). It works for a limited area,
but that area provides pretty decent coverage. The cat and the dogs
now avoid my yard.

Interesting side note, I'd read an article about how they're used to
drive off unruly teens. Stores with parking lots where teens
congregate at night buy them and tune them so that adults can't hear
them (we lose our higher frequencies) but it irritates the kids.

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