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From: barbaral@tekig1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: mousetraps
Message-ID: <1290@tekig1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Aug-83 11:46:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 30 11:46:10 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Sep-83 01:41:31 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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A friend bought some cheap mousetraps, and put them in his garden to
scare the cats, but not hurt them.  He reported that the cats are
just too smart for that...they dig around the mousetraps, and infact
pile dirt on the mousetraps!
The nice raised beds I formed are getting all deformed by the cats.
I don't mind that as much as I do them using my raised beds for their
litter box.  I hate digging around and finding their "remnants".
   Someone else I know uses a BB gun, and shoots the cats in the rump.
   I wouldn't mind doing that, except a friend's cat got a BB shot in
   it's nose, and I wouldn't want something like that to happen.  
   Shooting them in the rump though, I think the BB just bounces off
   their fur, but scares them.

   I'm not home most of the day, and can't "catch them in the act".
   For a while I caught them, and sprayed water and vinegar on them
   (originally intended for slugs), and that stopped the cats for a
   while.

   Again, any ideas will be appreciated!