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disuading cats from yard?

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muffin - 23 May 2004 17:45 GMT
Is there a way to discourage cats from visiting our yard?  Is there a spray
or something one can use on fencing or perimeter to discourage them from
visiting?  We dont want to take a chance with them hurting our indoor cats
if they happend to get out..

Any thoughts welcome.
Mary - 23 May 2004 20:26 GMT
> Is there a way to discourage cats from visiting our yard?  Is there a spray
> or something one can use on fencing or perimeter to discourage them from
> visiting?  We dont want to take a chance with them hurting our indoor cats
> if they happend to get out..
>
> Any thoughts welcome.

Keep your cats inside. You are the one with the opposable thumbs and the
large cerebral cortex, after all. I know you can do it.
topsider - 23 May 2004 21:28 GMT
well...thats really fuckin helpful!   wadda bonehead......LMFAO!!!!!!

> > Is there a way to discourage cats from visiting our yard?  Is there a
> spray
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Mary - 23 May 2004 21:45 GMT
> well...thats really fuckin helpful!   wadda bonehead......LMFAO!!!!!!

*bows*
Mary - 23 May 2004 21:58 GMT
> well...thats really fuckin helpful!   wadda bonehead......LMFAO!!!!!!

*deep bow*
Karen Chuplis - 23 May 2004 22:48 GMT
>> Is there a way to discourage cats from visiting our yard?  Is there a
> spray
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It sounds like they mean keep *other* cats out. They say that their cats
*are* indoor.

To the OP, you might try motion detection sprinklers on the perimeter.

karen
Mary - 24 May 2004 02:20 GMT
"Karen Chuplis" <kchuplis@alltel.net> wrote> >

> It sounds like they mean keep *other* cats out. They >say that their cats
*are* indoor.

Yes. The OP said "We dont want to take a chance with them hurting our indoor
cats if they happend to get out."

Here is the rest of my thought process:

1. It would be much easier to keep their cats in than to keep others out of
their yard.

2. It is definitely possible to keep one's own cats inside. I do it and have
for years. If I don't want them to get out I make sure they don't get out.
It isn't rocket science, as they used to say. I have a particular *seething*
thing going on for idiots who let their cats get out and then say, "I
couldn't help that he got killed by that dog, I mean he just got OUT." It's
bullshit. Therefore in my opinion the OPs post was too.

> To the OP, you might try motion detection sprinklers on the perimeter.

This is a good idea. All the others I have heard have to do with noxious
substances and pointy things.
Steve G - 24 May 2004 22:58 GMT
(...)

> Keep your cats inside.

You mean that the OP should keep their indoor cats inside the house?
My, your large cerebral cortex must've been working overtime to
generate that polished pearl.

> You are the one with the opposable thumbs and the
> large cerebral cortex, after all. I know you can do it.

Mary, think with your cortex, type wi' your thumbs, not the reverse.

In The Real World, things don't always go right - and even a careful
person's cats might escape.

The best solution to the OP's problem, of course, would be to fence in
their yard so that their cats have safe access to the outside and so
that other cats cannot get in to said yard.

Failing that, zapping any frolickling felines with water or similar
might dissuade 'em from visiting. Could also try scattering citrus
peels or similar round the perimeter. There are commercial anti-animal
sprays available too (Deer Off and the like), and some do include cats
in their list of victims.

Or you could set up an elaborate, automated missile-defence system
that fires rottweilers at straying cats through a Patented Iraqi
Supergun.

S.
Mary - 25 May 2004 18:56 GMT
> (...)
> > >
> > Keep your cats inside.
>
> You mean that the OP should keep their indoor cats inside the house?

No, Einstein, I changed my mind. I think it is MUCH easier for them to keep
each and every stray animal that might come into their yards OUT than it
would be to keep their cats in the house.
Steve G - 26 May 2004 19:04 GMT
(...)

> No, Einstein, I changed my mind. I think it is MUCH easier for them to keep
> each and every stray animal that might come into their yards OUT than it
> would be to keep their cats in the house.

So, in Maryworld you can EITHER keep your cats indoors, OR dissuade
other cats from entering your yard, but you cannot do both. Strange
place, wonder what would happen if Schrodinger's cat tried to get into
the yard...

S.
Mary - 26 May 2004 19:15 GMT
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>
> S.

If you keep them in there is no danger from other cats in the yard, you
dense little man. Please try to keep up.
Steve G - 27 May 2004 22:24 GMT
(...)

> > So, in Maryworld you can EITHER keep your cats indoors, OR dissuade
> > other cats from entering your yard, but you cannot do both. (...)
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> If you keep them in there is no danger from other cats in the yard, you
> dense little man. Please try to keep up.

Mary's Land of the Mutually Exclusive rides again. I would try to keep
'up' with you, but alas, that would require me replacing my brain with
suet to maintain us at parity.

S.
JaneK - 26 May 2004 21:42 GMT
its not Mary's world...there are lots of residents there though....its
called Retard World....you know, that gated community, they take the happy
bus to the mall every weekend for the retard walk.....that world.......get
it right!

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> S.
MaryL - 23 May 2004 23:31 GMT
> Is there a way to discourage cats from visiting our yard?  Is there a spray
> or something one can use on fencing or perimeter to discourage them from
> visiting?  We dont want to take a chance with them hurting our indoor cats
> if they happend to get out..
>
> Any thoughts welcome.

I posted a response to your question in alt.cats.  The link I included may
provide a possible solution.

MaryL
 
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