CATS jumping up on the car, I like cats but not on my cars. Any good ideas to keep them off?
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Car cover would be easiest option I think. It'd be best to park in a garage or somewhere where they can't get to it. I'm sure they have like deterrent sprays that could be sprayed on concrete around the car or something, but cats love the warmth of the car and the protection from the elements it also provides. Or put a few pieces of cardboard on the car that could easily be put on top of and removed from the car, but then again some cats like cardboard.
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Originally Posted By: Exhaustgases
CATS jumping up on the car, I like cats but not on my cars. Any good ideas to keep them off?
Remove your catalytic converter? ROFL. Is there a specific scent cats don't like?
CATS jumping up on the car, I like cats but not on my cars. Any good ideas to keep them off?
Remove your catalytic converter? ROFL. Is there a specific scent cats don't like?
I havent found a way to keep cats off cars. I have an outdoor cat that always walks on our cars. We put a cover over the cars that arent driven daily but we had to train her to not scratch the car covers. She walks all over our cars and she has never damaged anything.
Reminds me of the old cartoon Dime to Retire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_to_Retire
The moral is the cat is keeping rats and squirrels from eating your wiring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_to_Retire
The moral is the cat is keeping rats and squirrels from eating your wiring.
Originally Posted By: Exhaustgases
CATS jumping up on the car, I like cats but not on my cars. Any good ideas to keep them off?
Garage the cars all the time. Or stock up on squirrels. Cats and squirrels hate each other.
When our daughter was younger, we had a large blowup pool in the backyard, one of those with an inflatable ring at the top only.
The neighbor's EVIL cats kept jumping up on the top of the inflatable ring, poking holes in it with their claws. By the end of the summer the ring looked polka-dotted with all the patches I kept having to add. Frustrating.
CATS jumping up on the car, I like cats but not on my cars. Any good ideas to keep them off?
Garage the cars all the time. Or stock up on squirrels. Cats and squirrels hate each other.
When our daughter was younger, we had a large blowup pool in the backyard, one of those with an inflatable ring at the top only.
The neighbor's EVIL cats kept jumping up on the top of the inflatable ring, poking holes in it with their claws. By the end of the summer the ring looked polka-dotted with all the patches I kept having to add. Frustrating.
I tried everything up in Sacramento. Shaking this pepper powder stuff that is supposed to deter them, spreading orange peels, all kinds of stuff. Nothing worked. When they would come in my yard I started making a lot of noise or spraying the hose at them. That worked better than anything. But they still climbed on the cars and sprayed them sometimes. I absolutely hated those cats.
If it is parked in the driveway, perhaps some motion-sensors to activate a sprinkler system.
Assuming the cats are not yours, harass them. They are on your property.
I had a neighbor's cat regularly peeing and pooping in the flower bed beside our front porch and front door. Whenever I watered things it stunk like ammonia because of all the cat pee. I spoke with my neighbors and they said they couldn't control where their car went when it was outside.
So, I got some jaw breaker-sized rocks and started hurling them at the cat when I saw it in our yard. After a couple of weeks, and a couple of direct hits, the cat avoids our entire front yard. Now the cat has taken to another house, across the street. Not good, that neighbor will be even less tolerant then I was.
It is irresponsible of cat owners to let cats wander like this. It's also irresponsible for dog owners to let their dogs bark for hours.
Scott
I had a neighbor's cat regularly peeing and pooping in the flower bed beside our front porch and front door. Whenever I watered things it stunk like ammonia because of all the cat pee. I spoke with my neighbors and they said they couldn't control where their car went when it was outside.
So, I got some jaw breaker-sized rocks and started hurling them at the cat when I saw it in our yard. After a couple of weeks, and a couple of direct hits, the cat avoids our entire front yard. Now the cat has taken to another house, across the street. Not good, that neighbor will be even less tolerant then I was.
It is irresponsible of cat owners to let cats wander like this. It's also irresponsible for dog owners to let their dogs bark for hours.
Scott
+1 above. You totally went about it the right and obvious way. I hear so many stories of neighbors not getting along simply because they don't say/ask simple thing.
For the OP, my backyard is a Japanese rock garden and the cats think it's a giant litter box. I also tried two different deterrents. One was designed for dogs/cats, biodegradable and you spread about by hand and it lasted only a few weeks. However one from OSH designed for animals in general, including deer lasts at least two months. It appearently is a mix of a dominate animal blood/pee or a chemical dervitive of it and boy does it smell like it if you spray it on a hot day. Works wonderfully though.
For the OP, my backyard is a Japanese rock garden and the cats think it's a giant litter box. I also tried two different deterrents. One was designed for dogs/cats, biodegradable and you spread about by hand and it lasted only a few weeks. However one from OSH designed for animals in general, including deer lasts at least two months. It appearently is a mix of a dominate animal blood/pee or a chemical dervitive of it and boy does it smell like it if you spray it on a hot day. Works wonderfully though.
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a BB gun????
Put car in a garage. Yeah but not everyone has one.
A simple car cover could be more of an attractant and then they exercise the claws in it and scratch the paint.
I have done a multiple cover deal with layers and padding between. And heavy rubber to hold it all so it would not balloon in the wind. With mouse traps around in areas where they would go I think a few snaps scares them off. But I can't always do the cover thing, because I clean the car before a cover goes on, if you don't then the dirt will just scratch it. Maybe some fake dogs that would move and activated by a motion sensor huh?
A simple car cover could be more of an attractant and then they exercise the claws in it and scratch the paint.
I have done a multiple cover deal with layers and padding between. And heavy rubber to hold it all so it would not balloon in the wind. With mouse traps around in areas where they would go I think a few snaps scares them off. But I can't always do the cover thing, because I clean the car before a cover goes on, if you don't then the dirt will just scratch it. Maybe some fake dogs that would move and activated by a motion sensor huh?
A sling shot lol
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A sling shot lol
Yeah how does that work when your sleeping or at work?
A sling shot lol
Yeah how does that work when your sleeping or at work?
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