Male neighbor cat spraying our front door area.. please help

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12.0pt;font-family:Arial;”>I live on the edge of a national forest and we have a huge
problem with mountain lions and coyotes, so we don’t have a problem with
cats running around, all cats and small pets HAVE to be indoors if you want
them to live. What I’ve found with my cat is that just plain water in a
squirt gun does the trick, they hate getting wet (well most cats) and it
surprises them.
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Marie

9.0pt;font-family:”Harmonica Bold”;”>9.0pt;font-family:”Harmonica Bold”;color:purple;”>”Don’t say you don’t have
enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given
to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” –H.

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From: Budget101_@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Budget101_@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Marian Fonseca

Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007
4:12 PM

To: Budget101_@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Budget101.com : Male
neighbor cat spraying our front door area.. please help

Melissa,

I have had that same problem. Caused alot of
trouble with our neighbors. I went to Petco and they have a spay for the
outdoors.

The only problem is you have to spay it everyday around your yard to
keep the cat out. I can’t remember the name of it but if you ask them they will
help.

Also, I hadtwo empty spray bottles. One
had ammonia and the other had colored dye. ( the cat was white).

Every
time the cat came in myyard, I sprayed him with the ammonia. When he came
back the again, I spayed him with the dye. It all washed out of the cat but the
owners had to keep washing him because he smelled and kept getting the wet dye
on their stuff.

Now before anyone says anything, I do have two
female cats (they are fixed), 1 male dog and two fancy rats. I love animals but
owners need to be responsible for their animals.

Also, try bleach to help get the smell gone from your
front door etc.

Marian

DVICTOR1
wrote:

We have a neighbor’s male
cat spraying our flower beds. With it getting warm outside, the smell is
getting really bad and it hits guest when they walk up the sidewalk and at the
front door. I googled and found some suggestions…:

“Citronella works best for cats as well as citrus
scents such as orange or lemon (primarily towards cats), cayenne pepper, coffee
grounds, pipe tobacco, lavender oil, lemon grass oil, citronella oil,
peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil, and mustard oil”

12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;”>Has
anyone had any luck with anything specific? When they say coffee grounds,
would this be used from the coffee maker or new from the can? I
don’t know how I would put oil in the weeds, just spray it on or pour it
over the area?

12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;”>Our
flower bed is a large overgrown weed pit that I have not had time to get
to. I don’t know the first thing about flowers so I am not sure
what all the other suggestions are, but if it works, I can find it and learn
how to plant it. It is really embarrassing to have people come up and hold
their noses until we can let them in.

12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;”>Thank
you for your help.

12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;”>Melissa in OK

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