does citrus cat repellent work for dogs too? i am anticipating that my new dog will get into all sorts of trouble come x-mas season. we have that bitter yuck spray, but he does not seem to be too repelled by that.

Cook them.

They are a delicacy. Taste like chicken!

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black pepper works for me, but u need to keep reapplying. red pepper too, but the seeds sprout. try minimizing your exposed soil with ground cover like pachysandra or stones. i used to put out a litterbox in the alley. i'm not sure if it helped thou.

The cats you are talking about are ferrel(sp?) or wild, non-domesticated. They poop in my back area too and have wild cat battle royal and/or orgies. I put pepper everywhere and it does work but once the rain comes so do the cats. I am at wits end with this. Cat poop stinks and I have it by the pile, literally.

So here's what doesn't work (because I tried): BB guns, antifreeze, rat poison in tuna (they eat that right up), sprinkled pepper, forks, those bird pirch spikes, and dogs (mine are afraid). Clearly I am not as smart as the cats. Oh, and the city and the SPCA do not care. For those that think these methods are mean see below.

To the bleeding hearts: you are more than welcome to come get the 20+ wild, mangey, pooping, fighting, poor innocent cats before I do kill them. They are no better than rats, mice, or other vermin. Maybe you should be an advocate for them as well. No? They're not as cute you say? Well niether are these vile creatures. I have cats as pets and these things do not compare. So please come get Fluffy and her 20 studs so I don't end up with another couple litters this year and more poop than I can handle.

I put small stones, marbles and seashells all around my plants. They can't dig in the dirt that way and it's uncomfortable for them to crouch down to poop.
I liked getting the dog to eat the poop idea, though. LOL My dog LOVES cat poop! Maybe you can hire him to clean up for you instead.

Ps, They have marbles and stones at the dollar store in the shopping square with Shop Rite. I forget the name of the shopping center.
Duh.

The cats are there because there's a food source and a nice garden to poop in. When strays are poisoned or killed, another group of cats just moves right in. It doesn't solve the problem.

To reduce spraying, marking, yowling, and ultimately the whole stray cat population, the only solution is to spay/neuter. There are low cost clinics at PACCA and PSPCA for this purpose. It's time-consuming and requires initiative on your part, but then those 20+ cats won't turn into 40+ cats pooping in your garden next spring. After all, a female cat can have 8-10 kittens in a single litter.

You could even get a group of neighbors together to chip in on the cost and the work. One of the neighbors might be feeding the cats without realizing they're increasing the cat population in the neighborhood. Or maybe there's a neighbor with an indoor/outdoor cat who isn't fixed yet and is making the problem worse...you never know what you might find out.

www.alleycat.org
www.phillycats.org

I had the same problem. Take old orange peels, boil them. Spray the resulting liquid in your garden. Viola! the cats stay away.

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.
True, and they have many other fine qualities as well."
--Missy Dizick

I'm not paying to get the 20 cats in my alley way spayed... but I'm glad someone told me antifreeze doesnt work... because my problem with strays, besides the fact that whenever I let my puppy out back, I have to chase two or three out of the yard, is that one of them has decided my front step is a litter box, I've had poop tracked into the house about 3 or 4 times this month because a cat keeps pooping on the mat on my top step, and it's usually at night, so no one notices it until they get it all over my floor! I was gonna douse the mat in antifreeze... now maybe I'll try the pepper thing instead... I did buy that bitter stuff for my dog, I spray it on stuff she shouldn't bite... and instead she licks all of the bitter off, then bites! damn her!!

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Towlie, that picture has unexpectedly influenced me to beat the hell out of one of my cats. But not the other one. Yet...

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