Problems with the plastic tunnel

[frits.kp]

My two cat used to run along the tunnel. I put a small border either side and planted a griselinia hedge along the full length. They stopped almost immediately, why, I don't know, coincidence ? possibly. but it worked.

[Gerry Webster]

and with apologies to all cat lovers but it really gets me down.

I wonder if the cat lovers in your neighbourhood ever apologise to you? If it is like mine, I doubt it. Cat lovers think it is funny.

[David Nicholson]

I wonder if the cat lovers in your neighbourhood ever apologise to you? If it is like mine, I doubt it. Cat lovers think it is funny.

You're spot on Gerry, the ones I've had a go at just laughed at me. They are the ones who get a surreptitious spadeful dumped in their garden. Mrs N. cringes!

[Rogan]

A low single-strand electric fence a kitty-tail height is very effective - one shock and you never see them again...

Another partly successful strategy is to drape the greenhouse in shade/hail cloth to give them a better purchase when they are scrambling up - there is still some damage to the plastic, but the cloth takes most of the strain.

I love cats, but not some of their annoying habits and have learnt to put up with a little bit of damage here and there; it's their wholesale destruction of small, innocent wriggly creatures that drives me wild with anger!

[John85]

Ralph
I had the same idea:putting a layer of sacrificial plastic in top .The problem is that there must be a gap between the two layers of 1'' otherwise the claws 'll pierce them both.How to do it?It must be "stormproof"!
Rogan
Can you give us a little more information about the electric fence please?Is it the same as the one used for cattle?Or is it a less powerful version of it?

David
Shame on you.All that free organic concentrate manure  and you are complaining!!!!
Ask your neighbours to do what I did:as my cat used to use my sandbeds as loo,I made him his own small one and trained him to use that one only.The  other cats then want to put their smell on top of his and...nearly no more problems in the garden!

[Gerry Webster]

David
Shame on you.All that free organic concentrate manure  and you are complaining!!!!.....

Not to mention the free toxoplasmosis.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Oh dear, oh dear! Cats do divide opinion, don't they? As the servant of two of the little darlings, I have to declare an interest. But, as mentioned above, they can be trained to go elsewhere. Hey ho, time for a nap.....