I Don’t (heart) Your Cats
It’s that time of year again. The time when I complain incessantly about the neighbors’ cats.
Let me just say, before the fur starts to fly, that I happen to like cats. I grew up with cats and had one at my house for 21 years. Yep, an old cranky Siamese that I adored. When he passed on, my whole family was devastated. So I don’t loathe cats. I loathe bad cat owners.
I live in the city. I don’t get cat owners who allow their cats to roam in the city - especially without tags and double especially without being spade or neutered.
There is a horrid black and white cat that sits on my porch when the weather begins to turn. He sprays my porch with his nasty cat stink. Nice, huh?
This morning, there he was, sunning himself on my porch. And yes, he stunk the joint up.
Any thoughts on this? I mean, besides shooting the cats which is neither humane nor legal. Plus I don’t have a gun.
I can’t take the stink. I can’t take the fur (not to mention, hubby is allergic to cats). And it freaks my dog out - my dog which I keep nicely inside or in the gated back yard.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Try shooting him with a water pistol. That’s how I discourage my neighbors’ similarly ill-behaved cats from hanging out on my porch.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
I hear orange peel works bc they don’t like the bitter smell. There’s a thing called bitter apple in pet stores that is a spray to keep them away, or sprinkle cayenne pepper around. I agree with the spray bottle of water to spray him when you see him out there. Hopefully that helps some.
For the smell, try a vinegar mix to clean the areas he sprayed. As long as he can smell his scent, he’ll never ever leave! I’d bet the local pet store would have some good products to help with cleaning too.
Good luck.
March 1st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
You don’t even need a water pistol - just a spray bottle of water. Cats hate water so much.
The problem is, though, that you clearly aren’t on your porch all day and all night. Something tells me you have other things to do with your time than keep vigil on your porch with a spray bottle. I’m picturing tubs of water lining your porch for a few days. Just to break the cat’s habit.
There must be some cat repellants out there ….