blownz281

I have all my nanners potted up in the tub in pots,in our spare bathroom for the winter. This is also our cats room,litter box,food,sleep area. Litter box is clean and nothing else has changed. Three times our one cat has pooped in one of my pots!!! I sprayed nontoxic plant based bug killer around the pots. Not sure if this or me holding her and putting her face close to her mess stoppe her from doing it again. But nothing as of today. Vet always said make the animal see that its bad and they don't like the smell of course so put there nose near it. Anything around the house I can use to keep her outof the pots,strong smelling stuff a cat would hate?

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Steven Valys

can you wrap tinfoil around the p-stem covering up all the dirt? Most cats don't like the feel of the foil and won't disturb it. There are exceptions of course.

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blownz281

As a kid growing up our cats always loved tinfoil balls.. But walking on it might be different. Worry about it keeping to must moisture trapped under it though. Yes but they are both female so wouldn't think that would be a issue. Thanks

venturabananas

Orange peels. I know our cats hate the smell of any citrus oil.

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rick2001

I've found that cat's strongly dislike oranges' skins smell....

I've put them on a couch where my four cats began to piss for an unknown reason and it seems to be effective.

Bye

Rick

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snc

ground up dried hot peppers sprinkled on top of the soil

Capitum

For potted plants, I've found 2 inches deep of the medium-size red lava rock effective; they can't dig in it (which usually precedes the unwanted act), and it has sharp edges so they tend not to even like walking on it.

Hope that helps!
Keith

blownz281

Okay thanks some good ideas here to try!

john_ny

There's a spray, available in pet shops, called Bitter Apple.

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musa_monkey

Ours did that , i had to cover the pots with netting. What i mean is section them off so that the cat could not get to them. Its been fine since.

Its annoying but just a natural thing, they will do whats convenient and natural to them whether we like it or not !

alpha010

Yeah...that stuff isn't always effective, can actually be an attractant! My dog loves that stuff! Everywhere we sprayed it she would go and lick it off!

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I guess my cat is unnatural like the rest of my family which I guess is perfectly normal at my house.

See my cat loves to go outside but when it comes to bathroom activities he will sit outside the backdoor and beg to come in. Once inside he will go to the litter box and then he is ready to go back outside. Pretty funny actually to see the cat with his legs crossed giving you a dirty look for making him hold it.

Completely unnaturally normal!

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Annie6078OH

One of my indoor kitties has never gotten over his love of dirt to potty in, so any plants I have inside are fair game as far as he's concerned. I don't want to give him "hot foot" with pepper or to use chemicals, and orange peels never phased him, so I've gone the angle of just trying to make sure he can't get access into the pots to begin with. In my case, I dug around and found some old wood broom handles, yard sticks, etc., and criss-crossed them over the sea of large banana pots in the basement at angles that don't allow him any room to hop in and, for the smaller pots in a back bedroom, I took the cheap plastic slats I'd pulled out of old windowshades (I replace them with wood dowels), broke them into pieces, and stuck several pieces per pot down in the dirt at angles that, again, don't allow him access to hop in. In both cases, it still allows me to water easily.

While you can't blame them for wanting to potty where it feels "natural", I know it can be frustrating to deal with, so best of luck whatever you try.

Annie

bananimal

All jokes aside, cat waste contamination is a real health issue.

Cat feces can give humans Toxoplasmosis. An intestinal parasitic disease of cats and other animals. Affects the cat intestines and other tissues and the cysts are shed in the feces.

Toxoplasmosis has teratogenic effects associated with abortion and malformation of the unborn child in pregnant women.

All this said --- I still miss having a cat. My first and only cat lived 13 years and I developed serious allergic reactions over time. Thought it was the ragweed pollen in NJ. After cat died allergic reactions subsided somewhat.

blownz281

I have been around cats since I was born and our family/relatives have never had any health issues. Just clean up after the pets and that cures the risk.

As for the cat,this is the second day with her not pooping in the pot. So maybe me yelling at her did the trick.I went ahead today though and made a path all around my plants with chilli powder. Was curious if I put it in the soil,that when I water them if the powder would hurt them?

Kostas

I dont think the bananas would be affected by the chili powder as its just a dried fruit/seed powder basically.

I also had problems with my neighbor's cat digging my potted plants and pooping in and because i liked this cat and he was always at my property when i was arround,for petting,i tried to find a solution. For me,pine bark mulch at a 2cm or more thickness above the soil,works perfectly well in the confines of a pot. It may try to dig again a few times but they dont like it and stop trying. This has completely solved my problem and i never see bud pots anymore. However,in the garden,cats tend to remove the mulch from a certain place and go there for pooping every time.

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Dean W.

I've heard both of these are quite effective. Wouldn't want to try the other sprays as they can be smelly. Best of Luck...

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fishoifc

barbeque kabob sticks work well.