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So today I saw Milky Spore at the ACE. Yippee!! Then the Fed Ex guy came with my nematodes!!! Heavy rain expected for the next 24 hours, so I mowed the lawn, mulched the veggies, got about 3000 sf of Milky Spore treatment done, and got some nematodes down where the grub and mole cricket damage has been out of control!
5,000,000 nematodes in the fridge waiting for their liberation tomorrow. God, I hope this works...
And about the cats messing with everything!!! Does sprinkling cayenne work? If not, I'm tempted to start baiting rat traps with tuna... Diana
Oh good, a diss Cats thread! It's been too quiet around here lately....
Cats. Another white meat...
My bestest mostest favorite way to deal with cats is to mess with their minds. I stoll around with a Rival Crock Pot and a wooden spoon, gently tapping the lid and crooning "here fuzzy! here pusspuss! C'mon Fluffy!"
Amazing how quickly they leave...
Cayenne works. Cats not being stupid, they land in it, sniff it and promptly go elsewhere.
i think maybe you need to talk to kj. i think several people came up w/ ideas to his delema. sorry i don't have the answers. but i might be looking for them when i move into the house.
all: did a lot of feeding the chipper today, no mishaps!!! yea!!!
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Well, Diana - I can tell you this much. Cats don't like the scent of citrus. I have 2 cats and a favorite chase lounge that I do not want covered with cat hair. I put a few drops of orange essential oil on a napkin, put the napkin in a small glass bowl and lay it on the floor by the lounger. It's hysterical to watch them. They sniff it - arch their backs and jump backwards and run away. Maybe some citrus peelings sprinkled in that area would help keep them away? I also read elsewhere that in the 'old days' people used to plant catnip near their gardens...saying the cats would go to that rather than their garden. Maybe it's like setting out a can of tuna so they'll leave your steak alone???
Orange peels. That's a good idea. I would go the catnip route, but there are SO many cats around here (ferrel and plain 'ol runaways) that I'm not sure it would help the territory wars...
Cats in the garden are the horticultural equivalent to grubs to me...I'll try citrus AND pepper.
Gone to liberate my nematodes before the next rain!
*Zen mode on here* er, uh......make that *Extreme Zen mode on*.....
Tryin to generate as much energy into healing myself, calming my mind and recalling all I learned in recent "Rant Therapy" program! (Think I need a sponsor at times like these to "talk" me through! :_|
And................Have decided...............I'm staying out of this one!
Anyone familiar with my track record on this, knows of what I speak!
We live by the water -- salt water -- so we have squirtguns. Have you ever seen a cat trying to lick saltwater out of their fur? They will spend hours....lick...make face...shake head...flutter tongue...gather courage...lick...repeat. And every second of that is deterrant.
Gee, what a novel and civilized approach to citrus vs feline...I have always thrown my extra lemons at the invaders, just the semi-rotten ones so they would not hurt, in case any PETA people are watching! I love the squirt gun idea...my actual solution to keeping them out of the garden was to build a primitive enclosure. Three foot chicken wire, ten foot 2x2's and bird net draped over the entire frame. Makes me look like a nutcase, but keeps the blood pressure down. Of course, my garden is only 10x20. I realize this would not be practical for bigger plots. I am going to have it rebuilt in Trex to match our new deck in the fall so it won't be so tacky. A third option: www.bonsaikitten.com :-)
the jury is still out on the orange peel thing here,hard to say around here though we get a new crop of cats every year as most people around here concider them "targets"and are as fed up as you with roaming animals of any kind except wild(rabbits,squirels and such)
