"stryped" wrote in message
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-My wife has an 07 escape. We have cats that stay in the garage.
-They always get on the hood of the car, especially it seems after it
is cleaned.

A mousetrap between sheets of cardboard makes an effective but
harmless land mine to discourage them.

You could hang dowels horizontally above the edges where the cats jump
up, with hooks to raise them up out of the way when the garage is
empty.