Here is something a neighbor down the street once did to keep cats out
of her yard that might work for your catpoop in the sandbox problem.
It is sadistic, possibly illegal, and cruel -- but, according to my
neighbor, highly effective. She has a beautiful garden but had to
continually buy new flowers because cats kept eating the blooms off,
often on the very next morning after she planted them. The cat
owners refused to either replace her flowers or control their cats.
After replacing entire beds of expensive flowers several times, she
finally got so mad that she declared war on the cats and nailed those
carpet strips with tacks sticking up on them to the top of her fence.
Presto, no more eaten off flowers. The cats hurt their feet when
trying to hop over to her yard and got the idea that her yard was off
limits. The owner of the cats immediately started to control her cats
better, also. My neighbor swears by this method. It sounds like your
fence is high enough that your kids won't accidently puncture
themselves on the tacks if you try this approach to keep cats from
pooping in your kids' sandbox. You might want to warn the cat owner
ahead of time that you're doing it and that she better keep her cats
away or they will puncture their paws on the tacks. Also, be prepared
to have her think you're a monster and possibly never speak to you
again.


"JoKing" wrote in message et.cable.rogers.com...
A very effective method is one of those motion detector sprinklers. Turn it
on and it will spray anything that moves in front of it. Turn it off when
the kids are playing. It can also be moved to keep animals out of the
garden, or wild geese out of the pond. It doesn't use that much water
either.


"eggs" wrote in message
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I know there has just been a thread about getting rid of cats that poop
in the yard, but I have a more difficult problem that I hope you can
help me solve. The neigbour's cat is pooping in the kids' sandpit.
Because the kids play in the sand, I can't use any hot pepper sprays, or
it will get the kids too. An additional problem is that I live in
Sydney, Australia, which is under strict water restrictions due to
drought, so spinkler systems are currently illegal. Beyond capturing
the cat and driving it many miles from home, I am stumped as to what to
do.

I'm thinking that I may need to attach some kind of physical deterrent
to the tops of my walls to prevent the cat entering my yard at all. I
have high (above head height) timber fences all around my yard. The cat
poops in my yard during the day (I cover the pit at night), but I can't
keep going out there and covering the pit every time one of the kids
comes inside to get a juice, or show me a boo boo or what the heck ever.
What to do?

Is there some kind of sticky substance I can put on top of the walls
that will hold the pepper, but won't come off if it rains? I don't want
to put spikes or anything up there that could be a hinderance to soemone
like the fire dept in an emergency.

Ideas, anyone?

eggs.