How Do You Keep Outdoor Cats Away?
You may choose not to own cats, but your neighbor’s outdoor cats keep coming into your garden or around your home to dig and spray. Cats spray to mark their territory, and your carefully mulched, loamy garden soil is an attractive toilet for a cat. Other people’s unwanted pets on your property is annoying and can be a source of tension between neighbors. How can you keep their cats out without harming the animals? Remove any bird or squirrel feeders from your garden for awhile, because these animals attract cats, and cats are notorious for killing songbirds. Discourage cats from climbing over fences by nailing 2-inch PVC piping along the top edge of the fence. Cats can’t grip the slippery PVC, and this size pipe is wide enough to create an overhang that’s hard for them to climb over. Nail sheets of tinfoil along the top edge of the fence. Cats dislike the feeling of tinfoil under their feet, and the reflections on the foil scares many cats. Make flags by taping strips of tinfoil to the
