Even with a fence, a neighbour’s cat can still sneak into your garden.
While they can just lounge and provide you with company, they may instead choose to chase and kill songbirds and use your garden as a litter box.
This video will show you how to stop cats from coming into and pooping in your garden.
Cats often use the garden as a bathroom because it looks like a giant litterbox! Any parents who’s had a sandbox in their garden will quickly know what I mean here.
By law, cats have the right to roam, which means they are legally allowed to wander into neighbouring gardens.
To prevent them from doing it in your garden, there is a little known oil that cats will take one sniff off and run away.
Cats have noses very different from ours, so any smell that may feel ordinary to us could feel unbearable and nasty to a cat as their sensitive noses react strongly to intense smells. Cats dislike many smells and will avoid areas where one of those smells is coming from.
This oil is quite cheap and it only takes a few drops to apply it.
The oil is called olbas oil.
Cats simply hate the smell of it. Its easily purchased online or in pharmacists.
There are several ways you can use it.
Just keep adding a few drops every other day, to the area where the cats are doing their business will work. You will need to reapply the oil after heavy rain, but cats will soon get the message and not return.
You can also dilute it in water and spray it. This particularly works well on gravel areas.
Another good idea is to spray the diluted oil on the paths they use to pass through, and areas they use before or after venturing in your garden.
The third way of using olbas oil is to combine it with tea bags.
Tea bags and tea leaves have strong smells and is another smell that repels cats. Teabags are good way to secure your garden from cats and other pests like foxes.
Bergamot, lavender, ginseng, citrus, spearmint, and cinnamon are some of the types of tea that many cats hate, but normal teabags will work as well.
When you have acquired a number of used tea bags and have allowed them to dry out a little, add 3 to 4 drops of olbas oil.
These teabags can be placed around the area’s frequented by cats. The strong odour will deter our feline friends.
If your concerned the teabags will look unsightly, they can be slightly covered over with soil or another substrate like bark. The smell will still permeate through.
Some people save all their used teabags in a jar. When the jar is full, they sprinkle them with olbas oil.
Next, they scatter the tea bags around their garden. The teabags and oil act as a double deterrent to the cats. The smell will be too much for them and they will stay away.
Best of all, the tea bags eventually rot down and become compost, thus benefitting the garden in more ways than one.
