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[Paralytic]

the kids can hear them and they are apparently very loud and annoying!

Most are, but they grow out of it.

[xoggoth]

Yeh, my son found them loud, I just heard a faint noise. It's an old farts thing! Maybe that cat I mentioned was an old fart cat! That could explain it.

[Fraidycat]

Don't waste money on those expensive sonic things. I brought one and saw a cat in front of it just staring.

I have a couple in my front garden, they seem to work very well. Maybe you didn't set the right frequency as they have different frequencies for different animals, foxes, birds, cats etc.

I was a bit shocked when my 16 year old asked me why they were so loud they made her ears buzz!

My wife and I cannot hear a peep out them, frequency is well below our hearing range, but the kids can hear them and they are apparently very loud and annoying!

These are the ones i have, not that expensive:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[OwlHoot]

some of you hate cats but this is just mean.

Who lives in or near Coventry?

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/26/coven...sing-15491444/

Cat owners in Coventry are on their guard after a spate of incidents where pets have returned home with missing fur. ...

To be fair, maybe the perp has nothing against cats and this is a campaign against his or her real targets - cat fleas!

After all, with no fur to snuggle into, or clothes to hide in, a cat flea has nowhere to go.

[SueEllen]

Probably you are right. Who needs a cat when they have husbands/boyfriends ...

Does that include men who are cat owners?

(Can only find data for 2017 but 2/3 of cat owners are men - https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a7659926.html )

[BigDataPro]

*There are some statistics somewhere that indicate perpetrators of animal cruelty like this are more likely to be male than female.

Probably you are right. Who needs a cat when they have husbands/boyfriends ...

[SueEllen]

I'm not far from Coventry. 2 points. This muppet has no chance of getting to that to my cat and its owner will go absolutely ape and find the perp if it happens and....

I think you should help out in the hunt to find him* and give him a good shaving.

*There are some statistics somewhere that indicate perpetrators of animal cruelty like this are more likely to be male than female.

[courtg9000]

some of you hate cats but this is just mean.

Who lives in or near Coventry?

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/26/coven...sing-15491444/

Cat owners in Coventry are on their guard after a spate of incidents where pets have returned home with missing fur.

There have been several incidents of animals apparently having been shaved, according to people living in the area.

It has been going on for over a year, one resident claimed, and it’s left people shaken up.

One cat owner, Andrea Wilson, turned to Facebook to ask if anyone else had come across the bizarre phenomenon after her feline Daisy came home with clumps of hair missing.

She was stunned to find others saying they had come across the same thing, CoventryLive reports.


It left her ‘devastated for [her cat] and angry that anyone could do that’, adding that there are ‘cruel people around.’

The mystery deepened two days later when another cat owner came forward to say what happened to her.

Rebecca Keogh, who lives in a neighbouring part of the city, said it had been a long-running problem.

She said on occasion the animals have been left with cuts from close shaves.

I'm not far from Coventry. 2 points. This muppet has no chance of getting to that to my cat and its owner will go absolutely ape and find the perp if it happens and....

[OwlHoot]

I'm trying to (cough) disuade a cat coming in to our garden and stalking the bird table. Currently trying a chemical repelent. Put it down a few weeks ago and only just noticed it in today so need to re-apply again.

Black-painted metal cat sillouettes planted at strategic points are supposed to be good as "cat scarecrows", although I haven't tried them myself.

[ladymuck]

Horrid little birds scatter it all over the path looking for worms.

Not if the cats have eaten them all

[xoggoth]

I did try chipped bark on the exposed dirt of my borders when I had a garden

Horrid little birds scatter it all over the path looking for worms.

[ladymuck]

I did try chipped bark on the exposed dirt of my borders when I had a garden. I only put it on the border out the front of my house that was underneath the living room window as the waft of fresh tulip through the window on a summer's day was disgusting. It did work quite well but you do need a decent coverage (a good inch deep) and then keep an eye out to make sure no gaps appear.

As a bonus, it also helps maintain moisture in the soil and dissuades slugs and snails.

[Gibbon]

I used that for a bit.

Then realised one of my neighbours cats was friendly towards me, didn't spray, didn't poo where it annoyed me, could hold his own against the other local cats and chased other wildlife. So I just let him lie on the grass in the sun.

Unfortunately he got run over.....

Probably by a neighbour whose garden he was tulipting in!

[DoctorStrangelove]

I'm trying to (cough) disuade a cat coming in to our garden and stalking the bird table. Currently trying a chemical repelent. Put it down a few weeks ago and only just noticed it in today so need to re-apply again.

Tried that stuff to stop an ancient (25 year old) raddled old cat from tulipting outside the living room window.

It had absoluckingfutely no effect whatsoever.

Happily enough Pamela (the cat) is now in kitty heaven thank feck and not a moment too soon, predeceased by the even more raddled litter mate that also shat everywhere in a particularly disgusting way: semidigested liquid tulipe.

Sales of Domestos(tm) were quite high prior to their combined decease.

[SueEllen]

I'm trying to (cough) disuade a cat coming in to our garden and stalking the bird table. Currently trying a chemical repelent. Put it down a few weeks ago and only just noticed it in today so need to re-apply again.

I used that for a bit.

Then realised one of my neighbours cats was friendly towards me, didn't spray, didn't poo where it annoyed me, could hold his own against the other local cats and chased other wildlife. So I just let him lie on the grass in the sun.

Unfortunately he got run over.....