Indiepath
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How do I keep cats off my roof! One cat has already taken a shine to my car cover I caught it sharpening it's claws in the fabric!!!
Help!!!
Help!!!
Ade B
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They used to do this on my bike cover as well. Now they content themselves with walking paw prints across my freshly polished car.
You could buy a dog
Ade
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Strap a dog to it?
Cat's hate anything citrus. Maybe some sort of lemon spray?
Cat's hate anything citrus. Maybe some sort of lemon spray?
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Not sure how to stop them sitting on the roof but for the claws...
Indiepath
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The alarm going off does not even deter them 
- Maybe I should buy some of that lion urine spray
- Maybe I should buy some of that lion urine spray The G.F.P
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i can rent you my big fat killing machine called ken
he is a cat and kills for fun
might work
he is a cat and kills for fun
might work
IanA2
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A cat that kills cats....Hm sounds a bit like one of mine. She thinks she's a Bulldog....really...a Stoat is nothing but practise to her.....
dino645
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Leave the hood down and replace it with a vinyl sheet covered in extra strong, slow hardening adhesive. You could then wrap up the offending cat in the early hours of the morning, and...release him?
Water is the solution to many a cat problem - keep a washing up bottle full or water, hosepipe, etc to hand. Next time you see the offender you know what to do.
We had problems with a couple of cats who use to get in the open car windows and sleep in the car and also come into the house (and attack the goldfish) if we left the door open. Both were caught by me talking to the nicely whist running a bowl of water that was then emptied on top of them.
Short, sharp and (physically) harmless.
One was obverved six month later creaping around the trees at the bottom of the garden, all I had to do was touch the back door handle and he took off.
We had problems with a couple of cats who use to get in the open car windows and sleep in the car and also come into the house (and attack the goldfish) if we left the door open. Both were caught by me talking to the nicely whist running a bowl of water that was then emptied on top of them.
Short, sharp and (physically) harmless.One was obverved six month later creaping around the trees at the bottom of the garden, all I had to do was touch the back door handle and he took off.
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I second the hose pipe/high pressure water pistol method; it's both effective and rather good fun.
One shouldn't admit to enjoying it
Yup water is the answer.
You can get water pistols that work like a giant syringe ... they are instantly ready to fire (unlike the pump-up variety), and have an excellent range. Being blasted with one of those a few times permanently discouraged the cat that started using my back garden as a toilet.
You can get water pistols that work like a giant syringe ... they are instantly ready to fire (unlike the pump-up variety), and have an excellent range. Being blasted with one of those a few times permanently discouraged the cat that started using my back garden as a toilet.
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Sorry. Once they've discovered it irritates you, there's no stopping them. And, they've told all their friends.
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I used THIS when my kitten took a liking to my living room curtains ( 
), it really worked, and I mean instantly. He won't go anywhere near them now. It may work on a fabric car cover too, although being outside it would need re-applying regularly.
I used to have trouble at my old house with my neighbour's cats using my garden as a toilet, I bought a catwatch deterrent to keep them away. It worked pretty well, as did my desert eagle bb gun...
), it really worked, and I mean instantly. He won't go anywhere near them now. It may work on a fabric car cover too, although being outside it would need re-applying regularly. I used to have trouble at my old house with my neighbour's cats using my garden as a toilet, I bought a catwatch deterrent to keep them away. It worked pretty well, as did my desert eagle bb gun...
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Has anyone seen people putting plastic bottles in theyre garden among plants filled with water. I ofetn wondered what the purpose of these were, i thought there were small holes in them to slow release water into the soil or something else intelligent like that, but no! A little research into this pointed to the fact that cats are afraid of these for some strange reason, dont know the science behind it but, a number of sources have agreed with this.
Strange but apparently true.
Put it to the test, take the label of a 2ltr bottle of coke, fill it with water, put the lid back on a set it on your roof, and if the furry bugger comes back and lyes beside it, take a pic and post it as proof.
As this may all be codswollop, please dont shoot the messenger boy.
Strange but apparently true.
Put it to the test, take the label of a 2ltr bottle of coke, fill it with water, put the lid back on a set it on your roof, and if the furry bugger comes back and lyes beside it, take a pic and post it as proof.
As this may all be codswollop, please dont shoot the messenger boy.
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Indiepath
Your roof has a cover? Then put double-sided sticky tape on it in a pattern dense enough to make it impossible for Moggie to tiptoe through it. They hate such adhesive surfaces.
Otherwise, as suggested above, a squirt of water will do the necessary if you don't mind sitting up all night to catch 'em.
Or you could get a cat yourself. But, remember, dogs have owners, cats have staff. Dogs use mobile phones, cats use answering machines. Etc.
Now, if mine would only stop her tail from sweeping the top half of the monitor, . . .
Your roof has a cover? Then put double-sided sticky tape on it in a pattern dense enough to make it impossible for Moggie to tiptoe through it. They hate such adhesive surfaces.
Otherwise, as suggested above, a squirt of water will do the necessary if you don't mind sitting up all night to catch 'em.
Or you could get a cat yourself. But, remember, dogs have owners, cats have staff. Dogs use mobile phones, cats use answering machines. Etc.
Now, if mine would only stop her tail from sweeping the top half of the monitor, . . .
