Help! These stray cats are peeing at my front door, patio, and lawn. How can I get them to stop and go away? The neighbor across street feeds them and they seem to come on my side of street and do there business and lay on patio and steps. I have allergies. What can I do to get them to stop?
By Anne
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Cat hate the smell of lemons. Cut some up, let them dry for a day and put them out. Citronella is good too, but they cost more. Either way, they hate it and will most likely stay away.
Ask the animal shelter in your area for traps. Lure the cats in with cat food and then take them to the shelter. Stray animals spread disease. Your neighbor is aggravating the problem by feeding them. Feeding is easy. Is she willing to adopt them and take them to a vet for the necessary inoculations and care?
For around your patio and door try using T-lights made out of Citronella bought at Cdn. Tire in a bag. Just put them around the area as they are and not lit.
Cayenne pepper. Sprinkle it everywhere you don't want cats to be. You see they love to lick their paws and when they step into it they will get a hot tongue. You may have to repeat after it rains but continue it until they get the message which won't take long at all.
The cayenne pepper is very cruel to the cats. There are various cat repellants for sale, but I would certainly try the citrus (orange or lemon, either is supposed to work) first. When I had stray cats spraying the front of my house in the winter when it was too cold (-30 C) to go out and wash off the scent, I splashed the spots full strength with lemon scented Mr.
I do not know that cayenne is 'cruel to the cats'. And I do not know that they will step in the pepper, lick their paws, and get a hot tongue. It sounds logical but probably isn't. Unless someone has witnessed cats walking in pepper, licking their paws and then showing signs of discomfort or pain, I don't believe it.
Chickens and other birds can eat hot peppers and show no signs of discomfort. Dogs can do the same. For all I know, pepper may not cause any burning sensation in cats, at all.
Cats do have a keen sense of smell. It maybe that pepper is a good cat deterrent (if indeed it is), because the cat does not like the scent of pepper. In which case, they would smell the pepper as they approached it and not walk in it in the first place.
I put out a pepper concoction much hotter than cayenne. It is to keep squirrels away. I have seen absolutely no evidence that the squirrels have eaten, stepped in, or otherwise came into physical contact with the concoction. But, they stay away, far away. I can only conclude that they smell the pepper and simply choose not to go near it.
And I don't need to hear the squirrels will get the pepper in their eyes and claw their eyes out. This is sensationalism and rumor. Unless I see documentation of same, I refuse to believe it. Animals are not as stupid as some would believe.
I am sorry just feeding a stray is cruel.take the cat to get spaded or neutered and vaccinate I can't stand people who just think feeding a stray that are being very helpful you are not. You are doing a disservice to the community by just feeding the strays and not neutering or spading.So put that chilli powder down better that then a bunch of unwanted cats and unwanted kittens to be put down or ran over by cars So STOP STOP JUST FEEDIND THE CATS SPADE OR NEUTER.
Thank you! My sister in law used to live with us. She would put food out for stray cats. (This burned me up!) She thought it was cute till her granddaughter caught some sort of rash on her face from petting strays.
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