Quite, or old like ours.

She will happily (at the age of 14) still fight off any intruders but is too elderly to go into other peoples gardens to poo!

What if you end up with the poofy one who the neighbour's cats come round to beat up?

Clearly you have never owned a Bengal!

Dunno, give up and call it a house cat or get reinforcements.

Got 2 FYI ! Yes they do like water,(well 1 does) and yes they play fetch
But the op said nothing about a Bengal coming into the garden!

I never said what I put was true,it is just something the girlfriend has always known..an old wives tale but proven aparently.

Hey micky, bust a bit on banter mate. Ours loves water, players fetch and can open doors, this is the least desirable of his traits.

My Grandad has potatoes with nails sticking out of them - as soon as he sees a cat in his garden he runs out and launches a ninja potato at it.

That'll learn 'em.

My Grandad used to shoot 'em with one of those Super Soaker water pistols.

My granddad used his Luger......he was a Nazi!

A leopard dpesn't change it's spots!

unlike some of the other suggestions that is not a bad idea.

totally harmless to the cat, though will annoy it i am sure, and you get to have a little fun at the same time

True, I used a Glock......or a Taser






Ps. Only because cats ignore Fixed Penalty Notices! Thought I'd better add that for any animal lovers out there......

Enforcer had this problem a couple of years ago and he bought one of these .

I also bought one based on his recommendation and it does seem to work

Mine broke a few months ago and am now getting cats back in the garden
I'll be buying another one as soon as I get some spare cash though.

Definately get one that can also plug into the mains power, as it'll probably kill off batteries pretty quick.

Annoys me that I control where my dogs go to the toilet and have an area of the garden for them, yet cats just roam free and crap anywhere

Isn't a decat bad for your turbo.......?

I hate those things. i can f'ing hear them, and there's nothing more annoying than walking round someone's garden with a constant tinitus going going on.

Advice - though not terribly helpful - from Wrexham Council.

http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/assets/pdfs/env_services/env_protection/L13_advice_on_stray_cats.pdf

It fails to include electrocution, immolation, submersion, orbital insertion, nuking...

Lol, that's because you're young My daughter can hear it too

If that's in relation to my turbo failing, then my car has never been decatted and never will






No, those plans are in the pipeline for annoying neighbours and the kids they claim to have control of!

I don't want a cat.
I don't want *any* animal digging holes in the garden.
I don't want *any* animal crapping all over it.
I don't like cats.
I don't like the fact that while I have legal redress if an owner allows his dog to do it, there's nothing that constrains a cat owner.
Cats are not nice.
Cats are parasites.

Better shoot all them pesky flying things then Neil.

They at least have the advantage of being (usually) pretty and (often) entertaining, neither of which attributes applies to cats.

The sight of a pigeon trying to hover so it can eat at the feeder is something amazing...

Yes and that's the reason why I found it so hard to have lunch at your place.......I couldn't hover properly!

Sorry you feel like this Neil - I love cats

They hate water. So, some kind of sprinkler system?

Or...I had an issue with my cat scratching my new sofa. I bought some repellent http://www.petsathome.com/shop/pet-behave-training-spray-by-canac-35801

It's worked an absolute treat. They hate the citrus smell. It lasts for weeks on my sofa, but probably won't outside. Might be worth a go though.

You can also get pepper, not sure how effective this is.

Nothing against them really, except that they're effectively wild animals using my space as their territory. If that was all they did, no problems. It's the stinking marking that concerns me - and the fact that I have a two-year-old who I do not want exposed to toxoplasmosis.

i have the same problem with cats and have tried all sorts, the only thing that has had any effect is when i go out and piss in my garden (this was advise given to me) epically first thing in the morning after a night on the beers, that keeps them away for a while......don’t worry about your neighbors seeing you, they get more embarrassed than you lol. pissing in a bottle then going to the garden is a wiser idea.

Ive also put a layer of white grease all along the top of my fence they climb over, it doesn’t stop them but at least i know they are returning to the owners house covered in grease.

Yessss. I'm thinking of some wire six inches above the fence top.

Electrified wire?

In flight refueling for the flying guano factories then?