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Chookie May 30th 2011 3:00 pm

Re: Keeping pets off of flower beds
 
If it was a cat, I would have suggested getting a supersoaker and blasting it up the bum everytime it ventured near your flowers... (doesn't hurt the cat or the flowers, only the cats pride, and they learn damn fast to avoid where they get soaked) but that doesn't tend to work so well with dogs.

triumphguy May 30th 2011 3:21 pm

Re: Keeping pets off of flower beds
 
Moth balls.

They do work.:thumbup:

GavinR May 30th 2011 3:27 pm

Re: Keeping pets off of flower beds
 

Originally Posted by triumphguy (Post 9398779)
Moth balls.

They do work.:thumbup:

They're supposed to work for mice too, so I put about 20 in my car during winter storage. Come spring the mothballs were all chewed up and covered in mouse shit and there was a nest made of mothballs under the dash, Made the car stink so bad of mothballs my eyes watered for the whole of the next season every time I got into it, made my freaking nose run so much I had to keep stopping the car and getting out for fresh air. Even now, a few years later, once the sun warms the car up the smell returns.

Steve_P May 30th 2011 3:56 pm

Re: Keeping pets off of flower beds
 

Originally Posted by GavinR (Post 9398789)
They're supposed to work for mice too, so I put about 20 in my car during winter storage. Come spring the mothballs were all chewed up and covered in mouse shit and there was a nest made of mothballs under the dash, Made the car stink so bad of mothballs my eyes watered for the whole of the next season every time I got into it, made my freaking nose run so much I had to keep stopping the car and getting out for fresh air. Even now, a few years later, once the sun warms the car up the smell returns.

All those poor moths gave for nothing. :(:rofl::rofl::rofl:

mandymoochops May 30th 2011 4:21 pm

Re: Keeping pets off of flower beds
 
so if I get this right my flower bed should involve the following

Electric fencing, automatic water sprays, moth balls, pepper spray, critter repellant and large sticks.

I should expect a gold award for modernism from that flower thing that goes on in London.

Zoe Bell May 30th 2011 11:00 pm

Re: Keeping pets off of flower beds
 
You forgot the claymores :rofl:

iaink May 31st 2011 1:23 am

Re: Keeping pets off of flower beds
 

Originally Posted by peas (Post 9398702)
Aren't there 'sprinklers' (or water guns might be a better description) that shoot a spray of water when something passes in front of a detector? Or am I imagining this? :unsure: Imagination~reality gets me confused sometimes.

That was my second link, so no you didnt imagine them.


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