Ways to keep cats off your car

[greenacc]

My neighbours cat jumps on my car every night cos i have 2 park near the fence. dam thing leaves dirty footprints on it which really peesisses me of after i wash it.
How do I stop it ? Rat traps on the roof ? sling shot ( might ding the car )
got any ideas ?

[Ozzie]

ask your neighbour to keep the cat inside at night

park the car somewhere else

or catch it during the day and use it to polish the prints off

[Hillerus]

My neighbours cat jumps on my car every night cos i have 2 park near the fence. dam thing leaves dirty footprints on it which really peesisses me of after i wash it.
How do I stop it ? Rat traps on the roof ? sling shot ( might ding the car )
got any ideas ?

Put a cover over the car?

[TVR-190]

tell your neighbour if it happens again the cat wont be back in the morning

[hail storm]

Re-locate the cat.

[Full Spectrum]

My neighbours cat jumps on my car every night cos i have 2 park near the fence. dam thing leaves dirty footprints on it which really peesisses me of after i wash it.
How do I stop it ? Rat traps on the roof ? sling shot ( might ding the car )
got any ideas ?

I feel your pain mate, Feral bloody cats!..

1 day after my car was back from the panel beaters i woken to cat prints from nose to tail.. These cats have left marks permanent on my mothers VP now, I can't remove them..

I have stuck up barriers so they cant get under the fence, Barriers so they cant jump off the roof, Fence the works, Last night i ran out and tossed a watering can at one..
Last resort call the council and complain, Because it might be 1 now but they bring there mates.

[minux]

Park it in a garage perhaps?

[vlv8vic]

was going to say garage but not always available. Next in line is a car cover. Lastly ask them to keep the cat in at night, your council may require this anyway. If so and they can't do it, wait for it, catch it and send it to the pound. Let them know it was roaming and they'll get sick of having to pay to bail it out.

I don't mind cats, but i think people should be more responsible about owning them.

[VXdarkmagic]

some peeps don't have garages...especially if renting, or living in old flats. I have personally been thinking of getting a car cover...not just because of cats i might add, but i think that would be the quickest way...duck down to your local super cheap auto and pick one up

[Stretchomatic]

go to bunnings and get some napthaleine, rub it along the fence and sprinkle around the car, apparently cats and other animals hate it and wont go near it...

worth a try...saves damaging the car or cat.

[minux]

Agreed above.

Saying "remove the cat" is pointless, it is not the cats fault it is out, it is the owners fault.

[greenacc]

napthalene aka mothballs ? bahahaha, yeah i can do moth balls. lol.

[Calaber]

air rifle works every time

[buglemcdougle]

Knit some booties for the cat! LOL

[greenacc]

Lead Booties ?

[buglemcdougle]

Lead Booties ?

That could work.............

[minux]

air rifle works every time

Why though? It is NOT the cats fault, how do they know what to do and not to do? Would you shoot a child that was touching your car?

Confront the owner, it's unfair to punish an innocent animal because of a stupid owner.

[Ozzie]

chuck an extra coat of polish on the car so when the cat jumps onto it it'll slide off

it'll soon learn

[satos]

chuck an extra coat of polish on the car so when the cat jumps onto it it'll slide off

it'll soon learn

Then scratch the sh1te out of the car when it pulls out it's claws to to stop it sliding.

[Callie6lt]

Agreed above.

Saying "remove the cat" is pointless, it is not the cats fault it is out, it is the owners fault.

REMOVE THE OWNER!!!

[Full Spectrum]

was going to say garage but not always available. Next in line is a car cover. Lastly ask them to keep the cat in at night, your council may require this anyway. If so and they can't do it, wait for it, catch it and send it to the pound. Let them know it was roaming and they'll get sick of having to pay to bail it out.

I don't mind cats, but i think people should be more responsible about owning them.

And them car covers can get damp underneath, Make the wash seem pointless also.

Why though? It is NOT the cats fault, how do they know what to do and not to do? Would you shoot a child that was touching your car?

Confront the owner, it's unfair to punish an innocent animal because of a stupid owner.

Never picked you as the animal activist.

But comparing a flee bag and a child is a comparison i never witnessed until now.
But don't under estimate the mind of a cat, They know what they are doing, Same as a dog that grabs your washing off the line, With a few hours of training they completely stop it.

[minux]

But comparing a flee bag and a child is a comparison i never witnessed until now.
But don't under estimate the mind of a cat, They know what they are doing, Same as a dog that grabs your washing off the line, With a few hours of training they completely stop it.

So who is responsible for the training? The same person who trains a child...So as I said, BLAME THE OWNER not the animal.

[Calaber]

Why though? It is NOT the cats fault, how do they know what to do and not to do? Would you shoot a child that was touching your car?

Confront the owner, it's unfair to punish an innocent animal because of a stupid owner.

Minux

Take a deep breath. My post was entirely facetious. I could no sooner shoot someone else's cat than shoot my own dog.

Don't have any problem with cats here, because of our two dogs. No self respecting cat would come near our place, and the cars are locked away in a garage anyway.

[TVR-190]

i think minux should go train the cat

[DANNY8]

But don't under estimate the mind of a cat, They know what they are doing.

One of my cats was hiding out the back under a plant....a bird landed about 4 meters away from it....my cat snuck around going behind different objects until it was right behind the bird, pretty much around the perimeter of our yard....would of been 50m it chose to go instead of the 4m lol........and after all that it was to slow at catching the bird anyways. Then oneday we were outside and a friendly parrot was flying around, landed right next to us, and just kept flying around....we were just discussing how it must be someones pet coz it didn't mind getting close.....then WHAAM! One of my cats come out of nowhere and grabbed it around the neck and took off under the house.....poor bird....I felt heaps bad....I'm a softy.