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- 10 humane ways to keep cats away from beds
- A tree instead of a scratching post
- Re: How to keep cats away from beds
- Re: How to keep cats away from beds
- Ways to deal with cats who set the toilet in your beds
- Methods to deal with cats that use your beds at will
- Video
- The most effective ways
- Is it worth the struggle?
10 humane ways to keep cats away from beds
Cats and cats are cute animals that soothe and heal us with their purring. Real hunters, saving the house from mice and rats. But they can be naughty, especially in the garden. How kindly to wean the neighbor's fluffy from his area and teach your own pussy the rules of decency?
On suburban areas from cats, cats can be a lot of problems that spoil the life of the owner and the neighbors. Because of the pets, scandals break out. Here are some of the cat's mischief.
A tree instead of a scratching post
Purrs love to sharpen their claws. For this activity, they choose a tree on the property and use it as a scratching post. Young trees with thin bark especially suffer from bullying. If you do not scare off the "robber", the plant with a torn trunk may die.
Cats love to mark their territory with the "scent" tag. But cats do not refuse either. The animal warns others: the place is occupied. Fluffy is not interested if it is your or the neighbor's place.
He doesn't care if the potatoes and carrots are growing there. Cat urine will scorch the plants and nothing will grow there next season. Once they've taken a shit, they fill up the "goodness" with earth, while digging up the seedlings and seeds they've sown.
Cat excrement will not make you happy: it can be the source of toxoplasmosis, a disease especially dangerous for pregnant women. A child can catch worms if he eats an unwashed vegetable from a labeled bed.
Re: How to keep cats away from beds
Get grass leaves, sprinkle them on the beds. Buy cheap cologne or some other toilet water and sprinkle it very liberally on the grass, and do it for 2-3 days. Cats just hate harsh smells.
Cologne and perfume are expensive! It is necessary to get a dog, then it will scare away the cats But the dog causes even more damage in the beds: digging, trampling flowers and vegetables. Although if you put a low fence – all problems are solved: the smell of the dog scares the cats and the dog walks only on the sidewalks. And if you want an easier option, cats can't stand the smell of vinegar, garlic, onions and mustard. These are cheaper options!
Re: How to keep cats away from beds
The surest, cheapest and easiest way to wean cats is to remove the cat.
Any available method. You can do it this way and all problems will be solved.
Ground red pepper – definitely! My co-worker sprinkled both the pathway near the fence, which the cats from the neighbor's yard came on, and the beds, and even near the front door on the porch, that they stopped its tagging without end. A couple of times the cats burned her paws, began to lick the tongue – burned more, so after that the way to the neighbors forever forgot. Do not come even after two years. But don't sprinkle in rainy weather – it won't do much good.
Ways to deal with cats who set the toilet in your beds
Good afternoon, my reader. Cats are cute, affectionate creatures, from which there are many benefits, because they catch mice. But sometimes these creatures do harm, such as choosing to toilet in your beds. Digging up the soil, they spoil the root system of plants, leave their excrement, which can contain microbes and worms. How do you fight this plague? There are several effective ways.
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Methods to deal with cats that use your beds at will
- Cats don't like the smell of citrus fruits, so you can place orange and tangerine peels between beds or use essential oils.
- They also can't stand the smell of peppermint, cinnamon, and eucalyptus. Essential oils with these scents can be applied to rags and put near the plants.
- Many gardeners put onions and garlic between the beds, as well as ground black pepper or mustard.
- Cats do not like the smell of vinegar either.
- Neither do whiskers like the scent of velvets. Plant them near beds and you will achieve two goals at once: chase away not only cats, but also scare away insects that don't mind eating your carrots or cucumbers.
- Cats like to dig in soft soil, so your vegetable garden is the best place for it. If you put gravel next to the beds, they will not be so attractive to the fluffy.
- Many gardeners stick branches near the beds, which as a palisade protect vegetables from uninvited guests.
- You can use homemade windmills, constructed from improvised materials, such as plastic bottles, which by their noise will scare away not only cats, but also birds.
- It is good if you have a drip irrigation system. Having spotted a four-legged terrorist, turn on the water. Cats really don't like showers, so they are unlikely to come to you next time – because they have a very good memory.
- Well, the most modern method is the chemical products offered by veterinary stores. "Antigadine", "Antikot" and other sprays can be used to protect crops from cats. These products in pellets are more effective, as the sprays weed out quickly.
- Retailers offer ultrasonic devices that repel cats with high-frequency sounds that humans cannot hear.
- You can use nets that are stretched over seedbeds to protect your crops. This method will keep vegetables and berries safe not only from cats, but also from birds.
Video
Advice from experienced gardeners who have tried different ways of discouraging cats from garden beds, we offer in the following videos:
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Tomatoes have no natural protection against phytophthora. If phytophthora attacks, any tomatoes (and potatoes too) die, no matter what the variety description says ("phytophthora-resistant varieties" is just a marketing ploy).
Both humus and compost are rightly the basis of organic farming. Their presence in the soil significantly increases the yield and improves the taste of fruits and vegetables. Their properties and appearance are very similar, but they should not be confused. Muck is decomposed manure or poultry manure. Compost – decomposted organic residues of all kinds of origin (spoiled food from the kitchen, the haulm, weeds, thin twigs). Muck is considered to be a better fertilizer, compost is more accessible.
Compost is decomposted organic residues of a wide variety of origin. How to make? In a pile, pit or a large box put everything in a row: kitchen residues, the haulm of vegetable crops, mowed to flowering weeds, thin twigs. All this is interbedded phosphate flour, sometimes straw, earth or peat. (Some gardeners add special composting gas pedals.) Cover with foil. In the process of composting, the heap is periodically turned or poked to get fresh air. Usually compost "matures" for 2 years, but with modern additives can be ready in one summer season.
The most effective ways
Immediately after planting crops, place disposable knives and forks across all beds, up with a sharp edge. So that the cat can't "get attached".
I sprinkle red and black pepper on the side of the plot where the cats come in. Pepper I buy in Traffic Light, there is a large package of 50 grams for about 10 rubles. Blago from three sides we have a blank fence and only one side there is an opportunity to "seep".
Before leaving home, abundantly sprinkle all seedbeds – the cats do not go to the wet, too. We go to the cottage every other day, so this method is effective for us.
We just scare the cats. We have "property" behind the fence – sand, boards, etc. So we periodically stay at the property line and at the slightest creep we throw a pebble or just "burp".
Together, these methods have worked, and I no longer meet unpleasant surprises in their beds.
Interestingly, while I agonized choosing options, my neighbor solved the problem very simply – got a dog (sheltered abandoned).
Is it worth the struggle?
Many people see nothing wrong with cats going to the bathroom where cultivated plants grow. But in fact, cat feces are very dangerous for people and especially children (we have two of them).
You can get bartonellosis, toxoplasmosis, toxocarosis, scabies and even fungi from cats. These are so-called zoonotic diseases – infectious or parasitic diseases of animals. In humans, infection usually occurs through direct contact with a sick animal or its feces.