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So I have a duplex that I rent one side and live in the other. I've just about had it with these wild cats that think my flower beds are a litter box. I have called animal control on them, but since my neighbor feeds them, they are considered her cats and AC can't take them away (dumbest law ever).
So why am I complaining? Because the flower beds smell awful. I've hired someone to redo the flower beds and instead of going the cheaper route of putting mulch in, I have to go with rocks so the cats will stop spraying. In the end, I'm paying $200 more because I want these cats to not use the beds as a litter box.
One part of me wants to contact animal control and get them to fine this person. She's been asked to not take care of them but she doesn't listen to AC. The next step is she would have to appear in court and I would have to testify that she lets these cats roam free. She also lets her dog roam the neighborhood and he also goes in my yard to do his business. I'm so done.
What would you all do? Ignore her and just suck up the additional costs or call AC again?
Put out a trap at night and take them to Animal Control in the morning.
Just remembered what a friend of mine did with that problem. Put mouse traps around her garden. No more cats.
I may hate the cats but I am an animal lover and couldn't imagine hurting them. There will always be wild cats but if she didn't feed them, it would deter many away from my yard.
I've thought about putting traps out, but if I take them to a humane society, they will most likely die. It's just if she didn't feed them and fixed them, I wouldn't have this issue. It just started to get bad last year and now that we are getting warm temps, the spray is much stronger. If I can smell it I know my tenants can.
Whats the difference between setting out a humane trap and taking them to animal control, or having animal control come out, other than you doing it will be quicker?
I once had this problem and I planted cottoneaster bushes in my front garden bed near the door also a cactus garden in another place. The cats hated the dense bushes and prickley cactus. You might think about holly bushes and other dense, prickly plants that are attractive.
cayenne pepper poweder cats hate it and they sell a power to spread that is made from the same pepper used in pepper spry dose not hurt them but they run from it
If the neighbor who feeds the cats is the same person who is renting the other half of your duplex from you, kick her out.
When the weather stops freezing, get a scarecrow motion detector sprinkler. After getting wet a couple of times, the cats will go elsewhere.
No, the person feeding the cats is not my tenant. The flower beds border the house, so the smell carries into the house after a rain and it's awful.
The lawn guy started digging up the flower beds and it had me thinking...even if I just replace the mulch and put it on top of the previous mulch, there's still going to be spray left in the mulch from all these years the cats have been going in my yard. It just seems worth getting the rocks (it makes me feel better telling myself I will save money in the long run since rocks are permanent and mulch has to be replaced yearly).
I just know others can smell the cats and that's my problem. It's been in the 80s this week and the smell is 100x worse than in the winter months.
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