What is the best way to repel cats from my garden - as they are using it as a daily toilet!?

I recently bought a new house. When we moved in the garden was a dump. Now, we've just landscaped it and a number of cats still use it as their toilet - is there any device that can keep them out?

What is the best way to repel cats from my garden - as they are using it as a daily toilet!?
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Reply:just spread orange peel and lemon peel had the same problem till i did this
Reply:I believe there is such a thing as cat pepper, available from pet shops
Reply:Are they going in a certain area of the garden or in your plant pots?



I'm a cat owner myself and my cat started crapping in my garden...what I did was get some wooden skewers from Wilkinson's 50p for 100 and stick them where the cat craps..bloody worked for me.



By the way...someone said cat pepper,my cat loves that.She licks it and it makes her farts smell of rotten eggs.

So I wouldn't recommend it.
Reply:just wet soak the dirt every day when the ground dryed up.get very hard to dig they give up and move elsewhere
Reply:I half fill a 2 litre plastic bottle with water and place them about the garden. It would appear to work.
Reply:yes that water bottle thing does work we did that and never got cats in the garden again
Reply:Plastic bottles filled with water, seems the cats see their reflection in it and runs away.
Reply:Splash a little Ammonia around. Try to keep it away from the plants. It is a fertilizer but you still dont want to get it directly close to your plants.

Ur you can get the bark mulch the larger the chunks the better and spread that around. Which you should do anyway to help keep the weeds down and maintain an even moisture in your garden. The cats wont like it.
Reply:My cats have always hated the smell of mothballs. If they still make them why not scatter them in the areas of your garden.
Reply:My parents had that problem and they noticed that the cats had one point of entry, which was jumping from a neighbours shed onto a railing and then down into the garden. My parents then cut up a length of plastic piping the lenght of the railing and clipped it onto the railing, thus making the railing super slippery. The neighbourhood cats tried getting in once or twice but soon learnt their lesson and stayed away.



Really like the water bottle suggestion, I'm going to try that myself (as my parents solution can't be done in my garden), it seems like I would work.
Reply:Take a water spray bottle and each time you see the cats, spray them with it, they hate it and will stay away, and it does not harm them.