I have the same problem and they are making a mess out of my yard. Log in | Google Answers Home . View Question . Ask a Question . . . . Q: Keep stray cats out of my yard ( Answered, 1 Comment ) . . . Question . . Subject: Keep stray cats out of my yard . Category: Family and Home > Pets . Asked by: catladyfl-ga . List Price: $4.50 Posted: 12 May 2005 16:11 PDT . Expires: 11 Jun 2005 16:11 PDT . Question ID: 521070 . . I have neighborhood cats that come into my yard, spray, dig up my. garden and track over my car. Id like to keep them out, but I dont. want to do anything that may harm them or make them sick. Can you. tell me how to keep cats out of my yard without harming the cat?. . . . . Answer . . Subject: Re: Keep stray cats out of my yard . Answered By: tlspiegel-ga on 13 May 2005 10:02 PDT . . Hi catladyfl,. . Thank you for your question. I've posted a lot of ways to deter cats. from coming into your yard.. . .
http://parents.berkeley.edu/advice/pets/catpoop.html. . "- Scatter pinecones in the areas the cats like to visit, especially. under bushes. Ponderosa or other prickly cones work best.. - Buy a commercial cat repellent and scatter or spray it in the. places where the cats are doing their business.. - Sprinkle heavy coats of pepper in those areas (I use about one. 4-ounce can) where they are leaving their calling cards.". . . "got a motion sensor sprinkler and the cats were gone in 3 days. I. couldn't recommend it enough. We move the sprinkler around our yard. every few months to keep the cats on their toes but, in general, the. cats don't come around. The one we got was a scarecrow from. www.frontgate.com and cost about $ 100 (you could probably find. something cheaper if you shopped around).". . . "discouraging cats from using the garden as a litter box. I've found. that plastic forks stuck into the ground with the tongs up are very. effective because cats find it impossible to dig around them. Also. I've heard that cats dislike walking on aluminum foil. The best. permanent solution is to plant something thick where the cats usually. dig, possibly something low-maintainence and drought-resistant. Use. the plasic fork plan while the plants are becoming established. You. didn't say if the cats are your pets, so I don't know if you're trying. to banish them from your garden or just preventing them from using it. as a sandbox. If you want them out of the garden all together you can. purchase a motion sensor sprinkler that will startle them away. Pepper. powders, as you've found, don't always work. They can also be harmful. to a cat, especially if it gets in a cat's eyes.". . . "To the person who wanted help with cats pooping: we've used chili. pepper flakes successfully in our backyard. The drawbacks are that you. have to put it out every coouple of days and that you have to wait. until your child doesn't eat everything she comes in contact with.. Also, I've seen machines in catalogs that emit sounds that cats, dogs,. mice etc get annoyed by. I've never seen them in stores though.". . . "A few years back Times columnist Gary Bogue had advice about putting. a wobbly fence on top of your fence to keep out cats.". . . "One way to keep the cats out is to put down chicken wire. Apparently,. they hate walking on it."