Help! We allow are cats to go onto our patio, where they love to lounge and play. Here's the prob: we provide them a clean litter box, but, they're using our plant containers for litter boxes. Needless to say, the plants don't like it, and, the smell is...well, you know...
They would be miserable w/out their sun-porch time. I scoop their porch litter box frequently, so it is clean.
Any one know of a non toxic remedy for the plant pooping?
Thanks!
Cats using my potted plants for litterbox!
Re: Cats using my potted plants for litterbox!
Can you put rocks around the bottoms of the plants? gravel etc.? Just a thought . . .
JJ
JJ
Packages of natural wood sticks used for barbeque and skish-ka-bob are inexpensive and available at most supermarkets - these sticks are about 8 or 9 inches long and look like oversized toothpicks but are only pointed on one end (in fact, the kind of wooden toothpicks with pointed ends may work also.) Insert several sticks vertically into the soil of the planter pot, pointed ends up, so that 2 to 4 inches of each stick protrudes [sp?] above the soil. You may have to experiment regarding how many sticks are necessary per planter pot and as to depth of the points - this will depend upon how determined each cat is to dig in the planters. If the pot is too small for length of sticks, cut sticks in two at a slant (so there are twice as many!) With some cats using rocks does work, but alas, not with my too-smart Q Kitty, who was born outdoors to a semi-feral mama... he has lived indoors for 10 years and I think would still like dirt instead of litter if he could arrange it 
... He simply removes the rocks or shoves them aside.
And that reminds me: we should also observe closely to see if cats are nibbling at plants... I believe there are links here about which plants are which. If cats are determined to snack on plants, it may be that wire netting will have to be placed around your patio plants: Home Depot and Lowe's etc. now carry green poultry wire that is quite attractive... but I would try the rocks and sticks approach first.
Dot B
... He simply removes the rocks or shoves them aside.And that reminds me: we should also observe closely to see if cats are nibbling at plants... I believe there are links here about which plants are which. If cats are determined to snack on plants, it may be that wire netting will have to be placed around your patio plants: Home Depot and Lowe's etc. now carry green poultry wire that is quite attractive... but I would try the rocks and sticks approach first.
Dot B