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Cats won't go to the toilet in the garden

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Jo - 24 Apr 2007 15:08 GMT
Hi there,
I'm new to this group and wondered if anyone could give some advice.  I have
2 7-month old cats - brother & sister.  They no longer use a litter tray
indoors.  I have a place in my garden (a gulley filled with earth) in which
I grow tomatoes & lettuces each year.  The cats started going in that!
Fortunately there were no vegetables planted there  yet.  In a bid to stop
this my husband made a wooden box and filled it with play-sand in the hope
that we could train them to use it.  The girl cat does, but the boy will
not.  After a few wees it stinks, and I keep turning the sand over, but
don't really want to replace it too often as it is too costly.
The tomato gulley has been emptied out to try to get the boy cat to go in
the sand.  He tried it once, but didn't really like it.  Neither cat seems
to want to try the rest of the garden.
We need to plant our veg this weekend and are frightened that as soon as we
put the earth back in the gulley it will be full of cat-poo again!
Any ideas?
oldhickory - 24 Apr 2007 17:54 GMT
I have the same problem and have had to fashion a barrier over my herb
gardens with plastic mesh held over by stacks of bricks all around the edge.

I made the cats their own garden in a whisky barrel with catnip and
wheatgrass but they still want to dig in the other two beds.

My only idea so far (aside from continuing to keep the beds covered with
mesh of some ilk, is to build them a sandbox of their own and hope they
decide they prefer it.  I haven't decided if I'll use sand or earth.

As we speak they are patrolling the perimeter of the mesh, looking for an
opening....oy!

Shall we share our ideas and the outcomes?

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> Hi there,
> I'm new to this group and wondered if anyone could give some advice.  I
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> we put the earth back in the gulley it will be full of cat-poo again!
> Any ideas?
Noon Cat Nick - 24 Apr 2007 18:03 GMT
>Hi there,
>I'm new to this group and wondered if anyone could give some advice.  I have
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>Any ideas?
>  

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Matilda - 25 Apr 2007 03:14 GMT
> Hi there,
> I'm new to this group and wondered if anyone could give some advice.  I
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> we put the earth back in the gulley it will be full of cat-poo again!
> Any ideas?

Try replacing the play-sand with top soil or gardening earth?

When my cat started "going" outdoors, she used the neighbors' garden. So
when faced with a "not so happy neighbor" I dumped two bags of "earth" in a
corner of my yard and introduced the cat to it. Worked like a charm!

Might be worth a try.
Jo - 25 Apr 2007 08:45 GMT
>> Hi there,
>> I'm new to this group and wondered if anyone could give some advice.  I
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>
>We started off using earth but they didn't like it!
Matilda - 26 Apr 2007 03:27 GMT
>>> Hi there,
>>> I'm new to this group and wondered if anyone could give some advice.  I
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>>
>>We started off using earth but they didn't like it!

Unless anyone has any bright ideas - I think you're on your own.

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