Stop Cats Pooping In Your Rubber Mulch!
April 7th, 2008
One of the most niggling things in life is when cats choose your garden to do their pooping in; it’s even more annoying when these cats are not even yours.
Imagine the scenario you’ve just laid rubber mulch around your prized plants, and play set in your garden and a cat starts using a certain patch of this rubber mulch, for its daily business. It’s not nice for your kids if it’s in the play set area, or you if it’s near your prized plants when you go to tend them.
I think it must be that rubber mulch, as it’s easy to paw up and move, reminds cats of their own litter trays, so they think that areas where rubber mulch is are large litter trays.
So what can you do to deter cats from making your rubber mulch their new litter tray?
One cure is to ask the owner of the cat to buy pheromone spray from the vet, and spray your garden with it, as this would fool any cats in the neighborhood to thinking that the another cat has sprayed the territory and they naturally stay away.
Whoever’s cat that it is ruining your rubber mulch, then another good solution is to put scents into the rubber mulch like citrus or pine. The best recommendation I have tried and used is Pinesol, which both prevent cats doing their business in my rubber mulch, but also cleans and disinfects the rubber mulch (really good for the rubber mulch under the playset).
Other solutions I have thought about, and heard of, are bit extreme like getting sound sensors installed, so that when a cat steps on the rubber mulch a high pitched sound goes off, so they run away.
Or, putting chicken wire over the rubber mulch, which is just a really bad idea, as I wouldn’t want my children falling on to chicken wire, whilst playing on the play set, and I wouldn’t want to have to lift up the chicken wire every time I wanted to tend the garden.
The best solutions for keeping them pesky cats off your rubber mulch are the pheromone spray, or the Pinesol.
