Cats in your yard?

Help Prevent Cats On Your Property

1. Cats prefer gardens with soft, dry dirt or sand.  Anything pointy or bristly will help deter them. 

Items to use in or on your dirt:

• Pine Cones
• Stone Mulch
• Plastic Carpet Runner, Spiky Side Up
• Chicken Wire Over Top of Dirt
• Plastic Plant Stakes
• Cedar Mulch Covered with Pine Mulch
• Plastic Netting
• Burlap Coffee Sacks
• Straw Mulch
• Egg Shells

2. There are a number of safe, non-toxic scents that cats don't like and will tend to avoid.

• Black Pepper
• Cayenne Pepper
• Dry Mustard Powder
• Coffee Grounds
• Used Tea Leaves
• Orange Peels
• Nature's Wisdom Orange Oil Concentrate
• Shake-Away (cat repellant granules)
• U Scram Cat Deterrent
• Fox Urine
• Plants:
  • Coleus Canin (scardy cat plant)
  • Lavender
  • Rue
  • Geranium
  • Lemon Thyme
• Essential Oils (mix one part oil to 3 parts water)
  • Citronella
  • Orange
  • Lemongrass
  • Lavender
  • Peppermint
  • Eucalyptus
  • Tea Tree
  • Anise

WARNING: Mothballs are toxic to pets, people, and the environment. Along with blood meal, bone meal, and fish meal.

Please do not use these items.

3. Water

• Motion Activated Sprinkler

4. High Tech

• Cat Fencing (spiky strips on the top of fence)
• Cat Stop Or Stay Away or Cat Scram Ultrasonic Cat Deterrent

5. Reverse Psychology

• Build a sandbox to lure cats away from where you don't want them.
• Plant catnip in a location where you prefer cats to be.