The sun shines on the porch in the morning and when you walk out the front door, the smell will knock you over. Please help !!!

Have you come up with a solution Alice? It seems to be alot of people deal with this (me too) because of the increasing feral cats. I think besides doing TNR programs with the help of the Humane Society and my neighbors the best thing I found was replacing the mulch with stone. I used medium pea gravel in one area and lava rock in another and they don't like it as much as the wood mulch.

Get Kabob skewers and place them inside your boxes every 1 to 2 inches the cat won't be able to bury their business and will get the point, literally and begin to go elsewhere

Some folks recommend putting plastic forks upside down throught garden bed.

Spreading Citrus Peelings around helps, but you do need to put out fresh ones regularly. Has worked in the past for me.

Try sprinkling some paprika around your plants to help deter them from digging.

The neighborhood cats are using my flower beds as their litter box!

Janet Pizaro
on Apr 18, 2018

https://www.alleycat.org/resources/how-to-live-with-cats-in-your-neighborhood/

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Andrea Zack
on Apr 18, 2018

https://davidsuzuki.org/queen-of-green/keep-cats-garden/

several great suggestions here!

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Joy30150932
on Apr 18, 2018

Try sprinkling some paprika around your plants to help deter them from digging.

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Genalady
on Apr 18, 2018

Spreading Citrus Peelings around helps, but you do need to put out fresh ones regularly. Has worked in the past for me.

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Jcraw
on Apr 18, 2018

Some folks recommend putting plastic forks upside down throught garden bed.

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Stacey Carder
on Apr 18, 2018

Get Kabob skewers and place them inside your boxes every 1 to 2 inches the cat won't be able to bury their business and will get the point, literally and begin to go elsewhere

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Kelly-n-Tony
on Nov 5, 2018

Have you come up with a solution Alice? It seems to be alot of people deal with this (me too) because of the increasing feral cats. I think besides doing TNR programs with the help of the Humane Society and my neighbors the best thing I found was replacing the mulch with stone. I used medium pea gravel in one area and lava rock in another and they don't like it as much as the wood mulch.

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The neighborhood cats are using my flower beds as their litter box!

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