My sweet kitty just loves when I dig up the dirt to plant my flowerbeds and thinks that she's discovered a new litter box! After trying other methods: sprinkling in hot pepper (nope), cayenne pepper (nope), even adding clam shells into the soil (nope), I tried this.
I heard that animals don't like citrus and so after making orange-lemonade (3 oranges, 3 lemons and sugar to a gallon, YUM). I slivered up the peels and sprinkled them around in my flower bed under petals so they didn't show. You may also even add soil to empty citrus fruit peel halves and plant some small flower seeds and use them as pots! It worked! No more kitty visits!
I ended up doing the same around my vegetable garden fencing since a groundhog started making his rounds there soon after! Hope this helps all my creative friends out there! :D
By AHA! from Sterling, PA
How do I keep my cat out of poisonous house plants?
If you have a cat, do not have any poisonous plants in your house. A leaf from a plant falling on the floor could tempt your cat to play with it, and just that could make it sick. I once had a chrysanthemum in my house and my cat had diarrhea for a week. I don't even know how she ingested any of it.
Abigail is absolutely right.
Simple, but very effective! After years of trying almost everything to stop Brooklyn, our cat, from leaving his deposit in my overwintering houseplants I finally hit on this method which seems to have stopped him in his tracks.
I have two 5 month old kittens. The one has started to lay in the plant. He is not digging in it, eating it, or using it as a litter box. He just likes laying in the plant on the dirt. The only thing is he ends up dragging dirt everywhere when he gets out. Is there a way to keep him from getting in my plants?
By Tina W.
A piece of aluminum foil crinkled to fit over the dirt will work well.
I have had good luck crumpling aluminum foil all around the exposed soil. It keeps my cats out of the plants and does not harm the plants.
I recently adopted two male cats from a shelter. They are about two years old and are well behaved in every aspect except one started using my large potted houseplants as a litter box.
My house cat (kitten) is getting into my houseplants. He is sitting and digging. What can I do to keep him out?
By Patty Hunt
When I had house cats I used to put moth balls in the plants to prevent them from digging. You could probably put some rocks in there too, then they wouldn't be able to dig.
How can I keep a cat away from my houseplants?
By Pamela from Shreve, OH
I've done couple of things that worked for me. On very large pots I have covered the soil with river rocks and glass stones from the craft store or outside. they look pretty too. I also put clear packing tape in a criss cross pattern to cover the whole top of the pot (leave spaces for watering).
How do you stop cats from pooping in houseplants?
By quana from Dayton, OH
Cover the top of each planter with aluminum foil forming it loosely around the plant itself.
There are a lot of really good ideas in the ThriftyFun archives below comments here. :-)
Does ammonia work for cats urinating and pooping in house plants?
Does anyone know how to keep cats away from potted plants?
By Tammie from Wildomar, CA
Use some lemon juice in your kitchen, and put the rinds in the dirt. They hate it!
Hope that helps.
PBP
How do you keep cats from digging house plants?
By Shell from Chambersburg, PA
I have done this before. I have mixed or buried jacks, the toys you play with, most of the time my cat wont dig when there are pointy objects in there, also they hate orange slices. Hope this helps!
Fill it with gumballs from a sweet-gum tree, or pine cones.
Set them on sheets of aluminum foil, cats hate the feel and the noise.
How do you keep a cat from digging in house plants?
