In most
town and city gardens even if you do not have a cat, your neighbour’s feline
companions have a tendency to relieve themselves in flower beds and even on
lawns.
They do not
realise that it is unpleasant for their human companions on this Earth and do
not mean any harm. Indeed they usually try to bury it in order to help. But the
fact remains it is absolutely disgusting to discover this in your garden and
indeed get a smell of it rather than the cultivated plants and flowers as it is
particularly pungent and unpleasant.
I have
found a way to discourage cats from doing this without damaging them or indeed the plants. It is not
absolutely foolproof and needs to be renewed over and over again but it does
significantly help on most occasions.
Cats in
general do not like the smell of citrus fruit or indeed garlic. So my suggested
solution involves both these things…
To do this
follow the steps below…
1. Collect citrus peel from eaten
oranges, used lemons and limes.
2. Buy some new or use old past its
best garlic cloves.
3. Collect used teabags.
4. Collect old or broken plant pots,
the terracotta ones are best as they will not take off in the wind.
5. Once you have collected a quantity
of these items place the citrus peel in pot on your stove.
6. Ideally crush the garlic cloves and
add this to the citrus peel.
7. Add a quantity of water to cover
most of the peel.
8. Boil up the mixture until the peel
is soft.
9. Take the used teabags and dip these
in the resulting smelly liquid.
10. Place these teabags predominantly in
the area of the garden affected, under the broken or old plant pots so the
smell does not get too quickly washed away in the rain.
11. If you have too many teabags drop
these on the affected areas although these will lose their smell more quickly
than those under the plant pots. When they start to decompose and are dug into
the soil they will add fertility and structure to the soil.
12. If you have too much liquid which is
likely pour this over stones or bricks which are slightly pourous which will
also retain the smell for longer.
Although
your garden will smell slightly of garlic and citrus at the level of humans
when standing up, it will smell much stronger at ground level where the cats
are thus repelling them without harming them in any way.
Hopefully
this will solve your ‘pussy poop’ problems.
