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Conference misery::feline

Title:	Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
Notice:	purrrrr...
Moderator:	JULIET::CORDES_JA

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1079
Total number of notes:	28858

1011.0. "How much trouble could a cat be? ..I asked." by POLAR::WAUCAUSH () Thu Jun 20 1996 14:42

    Boy, do I need to be rescued.
    I live in the basement floor of a 4 storey complex.
    I have no balcony, but windows about 3 feet of the floor.
    Now, the bottom of my window as you can guess, starts at outside ground
    level.  For some reason I have what should be a place to plant flowers,
    running the exact same length as my window.  This did'nt bother me
    untill one day I opened the window and discovered (By smell) that this
    was the nieghbourhood cats watering hole.  Now I dont even open that
    window, and with the other 2 out of 3 windows having holes in them
    courtesy Oscar and Taila (RE Note 1009.00)
    I was wondering if any one knew of any non poisonous plants I could
    plant out side my window to keep the cats from visiting my window.
    I would greatly appreciate it.
    
    Quikly getting hot due to lack of windows,
    
    
    Keith

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1011.1		PADC::KOLLING	Karen	`Thu Jun 20 1996 14:56`	6
	Really slosh Nature's Miracle over the area including the wall behind the planting area, which has probably been sprayed. You can buy NM or a similar (enzyme-based odor remover) at a pet store. Then put a bark chip mulch over the planting area. Cats don't like to step on that.
1011.2	what are you still doin' at work after 6:30?	POLAR::WAUCAUSH		`Thu Jun 20 1996 15:39`	15
	Karen: We could just talk all day! Thanks for that info, I'll look into it. Oh wait... What about Earwigs??..EEEWWWWW! Maybe I could buy a plastic dog, you know like the ones of ducks and geese people put on their front lawn? Maybe I could get one of a big German Sheppard, lying down with his mouth snarling open and little plastic cat bone strewn about...Excuse me the Humane Society is at my door...HA! Thanks! A true cat lover, Keith
1011.3		USCTR1::MERRITT_S	Kitty City	`Fri Jun 21 1996 04:41`	22
	How much trouble could a cat be?? Ha ha...I have some kitties who are kind and caring and others that ALWAYS look for trouble!!! I do agree with Karen on the Natures Miracle or some other enzyme cleaner. BUT...the bark mulch might not work because most of my cats love my bark mulch and plants and sleep right in the middle of it all. Is the area where you want to do the planting shady or sunny??? I find my cats do not sleep in the Hosta's or Iris's...but they love hiding in a patch of Lilies!! I have had luck with putting pine cones where I do not want my cats to go...is that a possibility??? Sandy
1011.4		PADC::KOLLING	Karen	`Fri Jun 21 1996 10:05`	4
	Bark mulchs come in different sizes. It's the big clumps that cats seem not to like, as opposed to the comfy smaller ones :-)
1011.5		POLAR::WAUCAUSH		`Fri Jun 21 1996 14:03`	10
	I dont' know, pine cones are pretty scarce up here in Ontario...HA HA Actually the 'spot' is sunny all morning untill about 11:30 I've never seen cats around that area, but boy you can smell them! I was thinking maybe cucumbers would deter them. Cucumbers (from what I remember from Moms garden) intertwine with each other forming almost a cucumber net. I remeber the cucumbers vine also being prickly. The cucumber would'nt grow very high and block the view. Keith
1011.6		SBUOA::ROBINSON	you have HOW MANY cats??	`Mon Jun 24 1996 07:04`	8
	This may sound silly, but is there a hedge right near your window? Boxwood hedge smells very strongly like cat pee, I walk by a large maze made of it in my neighborhood and I don't know how they can stand it. Sherry
1011.7	boxwood hedge/true cat pee odor	A1VAX::CASE		`Fri Jun 28 1996 06:15`	2
	Yes, I agree. One of my neighbors has a boxwood hedge and it stinks! I really thought she had a cat until I mentioned it one day.....