Stop cats from crapping in your yard
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Do you have strange neighborhood cats crapping in your yard? Don't you hate the stench and cleaning up after someone else's nasty cat? After reviewing a lot of posts on the internet, I decided to try spreading crushed red pepper over my yard. And "voila" no more cat crap, no more stench and no more worries. If this didn't work, my next step was going to be catching one of the buggers in a trap and tying a noose around its neck, to leave it swinging from the branch of a tree as a warning to all the other nasty critters. However, thanks to a $5 bag of crushed red pepper bought at the local Asian (Korean) supermarket, the problem is fixed. It was just too easy!
For background, I learned that some people tried using coffee grounds, with marginal success. Others flamed about crushed red pepper being bad for kitty eyeballs, and that if the pepper gets in their eyes, they may gouge their eyes out with their claws. I guess this would solve the cat crap problem too. I think that cats are damn smart animals, and one whiff of crushed red pepper and they tell all their friends, "Hey, this place is off-limits now, so let's go crap in someone else's yard." Not my problem anymore. Well, almost actually. After about a week, one furry bugger crapped again, so I refreshed the red pepper, and have done so a few more times at about 5-7 day intervals. Now I find the odd poop once a month or so. But I can live with that.
Cat trap
Cat lover's consider this:
An alternative (albeit expensive) solution...
If you are the kind of person who prefers expensive high technology solutions to cheap simplicity, then read on. One of our kind readers pointed me at the "Bird-X YardGard Electronic Pest Animal Repeller." For only $125, you can pain kitty ears with high frequency just when they are searching for the ideal spot to toilet. One may argue that it is money well spent, but I recommend you try the $5 crushed red pepper before rewiring your house to provide electronic deathrays to your yard.
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Kudos, there is a family of discusting cats that made the part of my complex smell like cat piss. I'm going to head to the mexican supermarket and get some red pepper for much less!
I've heard you can spray vinegar and just refresh it when it rains. Then again, your yard will smell like a salad instead of a Korean BBQ...
I love cats, but I keep mine inside. My driveway is beach sand and the neighborhood cats think its the town litterbox! I am so sick of scooping the neighbor's @%#^$& POOP! In the summer I come home to freeking flies from HELL!! If the pepper doesn't work I'm getting a trap and leaving the cat at their door with it's poop!
Does the red pepper harm dogs? The cats in my neighborhood are using my backyard right where my dog runner is. He likes to eat the presents they leave.
Lost a good friend last week over her cat crapping in my yard. Will try the red pepper flakes since the mothballs don't seem to work. Still can't beleive I lost a friend over cat crap....
Great info. I'm trying it out immediatly. neighbor is one of those ferel cat caretakers. each night at about 6pm I can count over 10, yes TEN cats waiting to be fed. I've tried talking to her about not feeding the cats but that went well. Our county animal control has been brainashed by the cat lovers in the community. Kill one and it is a year in jail and $1000 fine. Catch one and drop it off at animal control, well that costs $90. Crushed red peppers here I come.
Feral cats carry twenty or so diseases transmitted to humans via scratch/bite or feces /urine . Several are fatal. Cat ranching is a threat to your community. The "caretaker" cat ranchers are going to kill somebody. Feral cats denude their range of all small wildlife. They catch them and tear them open and eat them alive ingesting all the diseases from the rodents/birds etc. Cat nutters feeding and subsidizing cats are bad for your health. Trap and euthanize and keep your family safe. Keep away from feces. Feral cats are a significant health hazard to any community and it is the municipalities responsibility to maintain public hygiene by trapping and euthanizing.
Hsus.org website has ideas. You are a sick one even suggesting hanging an animal.
Thanks for the great advice!! I can't wait to get these damn things out of my yard. I like cats, I have one in my house that stays in my house and doesn't crap in anyone elses yard. I also have a 1 1/2 year old son who loves to play outside and is very curious. The thought of him touching cat crap.... ewwww. I think I would hang one too!!! Thanks agian for the advice!!!
Hi--
Nice hub, good advice.
Gardening Angel
Does the red pepper hurt dogs?
Great Idea, will give it a shot. Have about 5 of the pests crapping and scrapping in the yard each night. I have a 2 yr old who explores by day. For cat lovers who despise the idea, keep them in your own yard, and no one gets hurt. If the peppers don't work, maybe it will enhance the flavor of cat stir fry !
Trying to get rid of cats in my yard because they are hunting frogs, lizards and birds. Wondering if the red pepper would be harmful to other creatures.
I just read the title and couldn’t stop laughing, great!
Then when I saw you were a canine well I almost peed myself.
I love it you so made my day!
Oh you do know by the way that dogs are the ultimate answer to cat poop right?
They gobble it up, mm mushy mush.
All kidding aside though I am very sorry to hear that other cat owners were so negligent and disrespectful of your right to a poop free property. I swear you dog will never get to eat my kitty’s “gifts”.
*hugs*
Sib
Actully while I find the information usefull, I find the poster a disgusting piece of garbage. Hanging cats to warn others? And while most cat owners keep their cats indoors, the outdoor variety is quite useful in controling the rodent population but perhaps the poster was to stupid to consider that, ie: squirrels and such that do damage to gardens as well.
Chris babbled: "Actully while I find the information usefull, I find the poster a disgusting piece of garbage."
Oh cry us a river of tears about the use of the words by the poster. And thank you for pointing out how it is a good things for domesticated animals to be able to roam freely. Actually that is a great idea. Damn the leash laws too. Let the cats AND the dogs roam free. And god can sort it out.
i prefer the .22 method
Thanks for the comment. I hate this one fucking cat keep on playing on top of my car. I should spray red pepper powder all over near my CAR!!!!!!!!!!
livelonger says:
3 years ago
this is great stuff!
how often do you have to "refresh" the crushed red pepper?
the reason i ask is that we have an ant problem, and black pepper works for a day or two (even thought it's messy) but then I guess the odor goes away and the ants come back.