Cat Repellents for Gardens
How frustrating it could seem to be to keep cats away from your garden. Fortunately it is not a mission impossible there various methods to help protect your cats from your garden. However, here are not only workable but safe and effective methods. This will keep your cats safe and away from the garden too.
Keeping Felines Out of Your Garden
These simple tips and solutions will help to keep your cats away from garden:
Ultrasonic Cat Repellents
This method is done by introducing a device that emits ultrasonic sounds. This device emits sounds that prevent cats from entering a particular area. This device produces high frequency sounds which are not audible to humans but very unbearable to cats. Only cats with hearing problems cannot be deter from entering an area by this method.
Electric Fence
Another method to deter cats or any other animals from entering your garden or any particular area is to institute an electrical fence. But with this method much care should be taken into consideration so as to moderate the voltage as low enough not to cause any significant harm to your cats or any other animal you intend keeping away from your garden or particular area.
A Squirt Gun
Though expensive this is one of the simplest ways to keep cats away from your garden. It is very certain cats so much dislike being squirted with water. Getting a squirting gun or a motion-sensing gun will perfectly serve the purpose.
Natural Repellents
Natural cats have a strong sense of smell and some scents repel cats. Some of the natural scents that repel cats include scent of citrus fruits like orange or lime. With this all you need to do is peel them around your garden and the scent will keep cats away. Other natural scents that repel cat include cayenne pepper, blood meal and ginger. These too require just sprinkling around every possible entry to your garden.
In addition, you can grow cat-repelling plants in your garden. Examples of good cat-repelling plants are coleus canina, lavender, citronella, lemon, and thyme
Some plants could be very dangerous to the cat and garden as well. For instance some people buy or plant moth balls to repel cats from their garden but this instead repels some insects which are very beneficial to the garden. An example of such insects is ladybugs. So it is very crucial to always make sure that the repellant you intend to buy or plant is very eco-friendly and non-toxic.
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