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🗓️ 5 August 2021
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Cats, whether yours or a stray, can wreak havoc on a garden and make the resulting produce unsafe to consume. Here are a few practical tips for cat prevention.
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0:00.0 | Well, well, well, this is a problem that despite not actually being a cat dad, I still |
0:20.6 | have to deal with in my garden. |
0:22.6 | Let's talk about it. |
0:23.6 | It's a question I get quite often, and it's how to get cats out of the garden, whether |
0:28.5 | they're yours or someone else's. |
0:30.4 | So first of all, let's talk about things that don't work at all, and these are actually |
0:33.4 | kind of funny. |
0:34.4 | I've seen this one kind of go around the Pinterest world, I guess. |
0:41.2 | Some of these things just, you have to wonder how they come to be. |
0:44.8 | This one is taking tons and tons of plastic forks and planting them upright in the garden |
0:49.6 | around your plants so that the cat isn't going to walk in and then do its business in the |
0:57.2 | garden bed. |
0:58.2 | The problem is, first of all, it's a really big waste of disposable plastic forks. |
1:02.3 | Second of all, cats are pretty nimble, they're going to get in there anyways. |
1:05.8 | So that's not a good idea. |
1:07.7 | Also, they're not UV resistant, so in about three months, they're going to break down |
1:11.6 | and they'll just become very brittle and you have tiny bits of plastic in your garden. |
1:14.7 | Not a really good idea. |
1:17.0 | There is another thing that a lot of people would recommend called the Scarity Cat Plant, |
1:21.3 | Blayus Kanina, Kanina. |
1:23.7 | It is said to repel cats with its scent, but it doesn't really do it. |
1:29.4 | It kind of smells like a skunk. |
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