To: <john@eco-living.net>, permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] Re(2): Cats in the garden
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:28:14 -0600
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006, John Schinnerer wrote:
>
>Similar worked for me in Seattle some years ago.
>I just used twigs and small sticks from around the yard, poked them into
>the soil of my garden beds so they stuck up a ways and didn't leave any
>spaces large enough for a cat to get on the bed without bumping the sticks.
>It seems they won't crap anywhere there's not already enough
>unobstructed space for them to drop and cover it - that is, they won't
>push aside even flimsy little twigs stuck in the ground to clear such a
>space.
>Worked for me anyhow...
>
Thanks to you, Jen and others who offered humane solutions to this
problem. The idea of feeding them plaster of paris is simply too
disgusting to see the light of day