How do I keep a cat away from my yard.

Will wrote:

wae wrote: left my name, number, and address and, viola, no more cat problem.

I blame my phone's autocorrect feature for that.

I have a cat. I love my cat. Cats are fun. They are also domesticated animals that can have have detrimental affects on the local native animal populations like bird and food animals for larger predators.

Many cat owners, despite hating dogs, think its perfectly acceptable to allow their cats to roam around the neighborhood. If dog owners did this...well, there'd be no more cats roaming around the neighborhood.

I don't like the double standard. Keep your pets inside, on leashes, or restrainted with an invisible electric fence.

PHeller wrote: Many cat owners, despite hating dogs, think its perfectly acceptable to allow their cats to roam around the neighborhood. If dog owners did this...well, there'd be no more cats roaming around the neighborhood. I don't like the double standard. Keep your pets inside, on leashes, or restrainted with an invisible electric fence.

I understand your point, but I think the main reason for the double standard is fairly obvious: there are far fewer cat attacks than dog attacks.

Will wrote:

PHeller wrote: Many cat owners, despite hating dogs, think its perfectly acceptable to allow their cats to roam around the neighborhood. If dog owners did this...well, there'd be no more cats roaming around the neighborhood. I don't like the double standard. Keep your pets inside, on leashes, or restrainted with an invisible electric fence.

I understand your point, but I think the main reason for the double standard is fairly obvious: there are far fewer cat attacks than dog attacks.

This reasoning is why people say "but my dog is harmless, so I'll just let it run up to you while I'm out raking leaves."

My wife cannot read dogs. She regularly misinterprets a happy dog as an aggressive dog. She has been approached many times in our neighborhood by dogs that are let off leash or are running around the yard and out into the street because the owners believe their dogs to be harmless and therefore able to greet anyone who walks by.

Let me know what works. My cats roam everywhere and while the neighbors appreciate the lack of vermin in their yard (no moles or voles or mice anywhere) their dogs often do not appreciate them as much. I have no idea how to keep them away from the neighbors yards, so I told the neighbors to turn the hose on them often and maybe they will take the hint and stay in my yard.

PHeller wrote:

Will wrote:

PHeller wrote: Many cat owners, despite hating dogs, think its perfectly acceptable to allow their cats to roam around the neighborhood. If dog owners did this...well, there'd be no more cats roaming around the neighborhood. I don't like the double standard. Keep your pets inside, on leashes, or restrainted with an invisible electric fence.

I understand your point, but I think the main reason for the double standard is fairly obvious: there are far fewer cat attacks than dog attacks.

This reasoning is why people say "but my dog is harmless, so I'll just let it run up to you while I'm out raking leaves." My wife cannot read dogs. She regularly misinterprets a happy dog as an aggressive dog. She has been approached many times in our neighborhood by dogs that are let off leash or are running around the yard and out into the street because the owners believe their dogs to be harmless and therefore able to greet anyone who walks by.

Our dog is an shiny happy person. We have lived here for almost 4 years, always have to take him out on the leash. The yard already has the electric fence around it, I would love to be using it. We dont use it because we regularly have OTHER peoples dogs wandering into our yard that of course WE have to worry about. Drives me nuts....

z31maniac wrote:

Nick_Comstock wrote: In reply to EastCoastMojo: I have some of that so that's the first thing I'll try. I've never seen the cat but there is no denying it's there.

If you've never seen the cat, how do you know it's a cat? Also, that's some ridiculously sensitive allergies if a cat sitting outside on furniture gives you that kind of a reaction. I'd be inclined to keep the cat off the furniture but in they yard, they are good at keeping away rodents and other things.

The odor plus the paw prints on my wife's car.

The smell is unmistakable, I am extremely sensitive to it. The mildest reactions are a massive splitting headache and mild asthmatic issues. The worst reactions are my eyes completely swelling shut shortly followed by not being able to breathe at all. I have never been around a cat that didn't give me a reaction. If I can smell it and don't leave immediately, within five minutes I'm blind as a bat and can't breathe.

I had a guy that worked with me that had a cat. I couldn't even ride in the same vehicle with him without having a full blown headache after ten minutes.

There's one surefire way to make sure kitty never comes back. Air rifles have come a long way since I was a kid. Paintball guns are less lethal and more fun.

Have you tried screaming at the cat then doing a huge burnout in the driveway?

In reply to Bumboclaat:

LMFAO!

Two ways to certainly learn a cat something, you either inflict pain, or scare the hell out of it.

Then complain that the free pet which came with the house is aggravating your allergies.

Be sure to bring up the "no pet" part of the lease.

Nick_Comstock wrote: No pets allowed per the lease.

Kenny_McCormic wrote: Two ways to certainly learn a cat something, you either inflict pain, or scare the hell out of it.

Can't it be both?

I thought the best way to make a cat leave was to ask it to come closer

pinchvalve wrote: My cats roam everywhere and while the neighbors appreciate the lack of vermin in their yard ........ I have no idea how to keep them away from the neighbors yards,.........

Here is a thought...keep the cats inside!!! If I have to keep my dog in the fenced yard or on a leash why do you get to just let your cat roam free and leave it up to your neighbors to deal with it? I can tell you how I would deal with stray cats in my yard but you wouldn't like it.

2.0dohc wrote:

pinchvalve wrote: My cats roam everywhere and while the neighbors appreciate the lack of vermin in their yard ........ I have no idea how to keep them away from the neighbors yards,.........

Here is a thought...keep the cats inside!!! If I have to keep my dog in the fenced yard or on a leash why do you get to just let your cat roam free and leave it up to your neighbors to deal with it? I can tell you how I would deal with stray cats in my yard but you wouldn't like it.

The cats owner might not like it either.... And they may be a little crazier than you are. There have been lives ruined from people messing with other peoples animals especially when emotion gets the better of either side.

If you can't control your animals and they are on my property I will help you control them. There is a difference between my dog/cat/bird ran out the door and "My cats roam everywhere".

2.0dohc wrote: If you can't control your animals and they are on my property I will help you control them. There is a difference between my dog/cat/bird ran out the door and "My cats roam everywhere".

That attitude would get you messed up around here, so good luck with it. Don't get me wrong, we keep our pets contained, but we live in farm country and some of our neighbors don't. If we went around killing everything 'on our property' things would get pretty berkeleyed up.

Ha... you mocked Bend Oregon (Bent Organ)... but just about anywhere out here there are coyote... even in the heart of Portland!!!

Needless to say, strays often disappear in a few days...

In reply to oldeskewltoy:

There are coyotes all over Texas as well. But I live in the city in a subdivision. And I have a six foot tall privacy fence all around my yard. The cats would just use my yard for protection more than likely.

I knew a crazy cat lady once who used a squirt bottle full of vinegar and shot her cats in the face when they misbehaved. The cats would even hiss when she just grab the bottle.