HELP! Cat Sleeping on Convertible Roof

[smpeck]

Thanks for all the great suggestions! I'll start by placing a towel up there with the cat repellent applied directly to the towel. If that doesn't work, the scat mat sounds like the next step.

If I were a better shot, the pellet gun would be fun, but I'm not looking to hurt the cat... it just needs to find something else to sleep on.. like a Pontiac Solstice or something.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by ptack

Yes, this would be the Izzodesh solution.

hahahhaa
beat me to it

nice one

[BrokenVert]

Ok. I work in a garden shop and I know a few things about repeling animals. For the cheap solution buy a 4 lb bag of Dried Blood (It should run around $5-$7) Sprinkle some around your car once a week (or after a rain storm). That is usually the best solution.


If you don't mind spending a few more $$. You can buy a cat replent for about $15. Same deal with applications.

[nordique14]

Originally Posted by BrokenVert

Ok. I work in a garden shop and I know a few things about repeling animals. For the cheap solution buy a 4 lb bag of Dried Blood (It should run around $5-$7) Sprinkle some around your car once a week (or after a rain storm). That is usually the best solution.

If you don't mind spending a few more $$. You can buy a cat replent for about $15. Same deal with applications.

I would spend the extra money on the cat repellent to avoid having it look like someone got murdered in front of my car.

[ptack]

Originally Posted by nordique14

I would spend the extra money on the cat repellent to avoid having it look like someone got murdered in front of my car.

I disagree. Get one of those "Protected by Smith and Wessen" bumper stickers and then be very liberal with the dried blood. Oh, and draw some chalk figures on the ground too. No one will touch your car.

[1lvr]

Originally Posted by AntonV

darkness, a couple of beers, a lawn chair, patience and an accurate pellet gun. i prefer .177 field point tip pellets personally

ROFL

[1speedbike]

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[BrokenVert]

Originally Posted by nordique14

I would spend the extra money on the cat repellent to avoid having it look like someone got murdered in front of my car.

It doesn't look like blood. It looks like a dry red powder.

[Spartikus]

Originally Posted by creepy coupe

I like a bit of Pussy on my hood at night

[ZedClever]

man that car commercial was f-ing funny!

[neteagle]

I would purchase a couple of scat mats. They are little mats that zap the kitty when it tries to sleep on your hood (normally they are used to train cats not to jump up on counters). It is harmless and trains the cat not to jump on your car. They run on a 9 volt block. Not sure if they are water proof though...but you probably don't need to use them for very long before the cat gets the point...

http://www.safepetproducts.com/scat-...FQIwxwod0Bg_fg

Good luck!

[mrgoochio]

easiest solution.. its a neighborhood stray cat.
1) find it
2) pick it up
3) drop it off in another neighborhood
4) profit

[Berduderunner]

god i hate cats.

just sprinkle a little cat nip + rat poison up there

[trfortin69]

how about the inhumane route, find out where it lives tell the owners what there cat is doing and that if it doesn't come home you don't know nothing. However you may have a problem with PETA, they may try to burn your house down with you in to save the cat.

[JimD]

I doubt you have grape vines close but just-in-case. When I was a kid (many years ago), we used to use green grapes as sling shot ammunition. Stings if you get hit, like a paint gun I suppose, but nothing fatal. Washes off pretty easily too. A cluster or two of green grapes, a sling shot = fun seeing the car run. You wouldn't even have to hit it, anything close is likely to have the desired effect.

My experience is, however, that cats do what they want to do virtually 100% of the time. You can make it "behave" but only for a few minutes. My mom says males are better. I only know that the female we have does her own thing and never seems to care what I want. My guess is I could shoot here with a sling shot regularly and she would still climb onto the car (she is deathly afraid of the outdoors so she stays always inside so she doesn't really mess with cars).

Jim

[twinturbo135i]

Originally Posted by trfortin69

how about the inhumane route, find out where it lives tell the owners what there cat is doing and that if it doesn't come home you don't know nothing.

been there and tried that with zero success. here's what happen.

I use to have an '87 Buick Grand National that was the love of my life. I had the car 100% restored and the engine was a 600HP beast. the car ran low 11's in the 1/4 w/o breaking a sweat.

so my neighbor's cat decided that she was going to make the hood my of GN her new sleeping pad. I'd wake up in the morning and there'd be cat hair mixed in with what looked like cat bodily fluid from whatever might come out of female cats. it would piss me off to no end. I knew it was my neighbor's cat because I caught her red handed on my car several times. I even went as far as to take pictures for evidence purposes.

so I confronted my neighbor about it and they denied the fact that it was their cat. I even went as far as showing them the pictures and they still denied it was their cat. so I then had no choice but to call animal control and tell them what was going on. they went to my neighbor's house and told them that if they didn't keep their cat within their property that they would be fined $100 for every time their cat was caught outside their property. this was bad for my neighbor because they refused to lock up their cat.

make a long story short, my neighbor got rid of their cat and they've been my arch enemy ever since. it's very unfortunate it had to end up this way but so be it. people don't want to take responsibility for their pets and in the end, it's the animal(s) themselves that pay the price.

but wait a minute, my story doesn't end just yet. a few months later passes by and I'm starting to have a same problem but with other neighbor's cats. my neighborhood started to look like downtown Miami. (anyone who's been to Miami knows how bad of a problem stray cats are there.) I wasn't about to go through that same BS as before with having to deal with animal control phone calls and so on. I then decided to buy a wild animal control trap from Home Depot. this was a trap that would lure the animal (as in a racoon, possom or yes, even a cat) in to the cage but wouldn't hurt it. I would put tuna fish cat food in the cage and before I knew it, the cage was catching cats left and right.

I hate to say this but every single one of these cats ended up at the humane society. I felt so guilty knowing what would happen to these animals but I literally had no choice. once again, it was irresponsible cat owners that would not contain their cats and thus, their pets had to pay the ultimate price.

needless to say, my neighborhood has been cat free for the most part ever since. it literally boiled down to this. either ignore the whole cat problem issue with them crawling all over my beloved Grand National or take care of the problem as I saw fit. the rest is history.....

[Quick1 TO BE]

Ash

[1lvr]

lol, I bet that will keep the cats off the car and the damn neighbors kids in their own fucking yard..

[Dave]

more random pics needed in this thread
GO!

[Citizen Z]

A super soaker works fantastic for keeping cats off stuff. Airsoft rifles as well.

[Mega Man]

Not too sure what you're going to do, I know I used to keep a car-cover on my car as it's parked outside, but a neighborhood cat started peeing on it.

Luckily for me, the pee wiped off, but if they peed on your soft-top, I'm sure it would be a problem.

[twinturbo135i]

Originally Posted by Citizen Z

A super soaker works fantastic for keeping cats off stuff. Airsoft rifles as well.

two problems with that.

super soaker: miss the cat and get water spots on your car.

Airsoft rifle: miss the cat and get pellet marks on your car which is even worse.