What can I put on the grass hard shoulder outside my house to stop dogs doing their business on it? I'm fed up beside dog owners not picking up their dogs'...
I'm fed up beside dog owners not picking up their dogs' cr(a)p and want to stop the dogs cr(a)pping in the first place.
I don't want to hurt them!
Make sure you take in for questioning the human culprit,who is allowing there dog to do this,later shame him/her. By running out with a plastic daypack,handing it to the owner and utter:" I trust you were going to verbs up after your dog!?"They will either budge red faced apologise and verbs up,Or you will get a mouth full of mishandle .
For cats and small dogs, some of the insect repelling supplies you already use can perform double-duty to exclude pets. For example, you can use floating row covers to protect fresh seedbeds from digging or to hang on to pets from trampling small vegetable crops like lettuce and carrot. Although it seems approaching a floating row cover is a flimsy deterrent, the visual cue may be adjectives the pet needs to find a up to date walking route.
If your cat relishes the fresh soil in your natural container garden, create your own scat mats from surplus rosebush clippings. After you prune your rosebushes, allow the clippings to dry in the sun for several days. Lay the thorny remnants surrounded by a crisscross fashion across the containers. Mittens will revise very swiftly to find a new sandbox.
Scent Repellents
Animals own an exquisite sense of smell, so scent repellents can send the message that the garden isn¡¯t a fun place to explore. You can consider some of the colloquial pet repellents on the market, or you can engender your own repellents from cotton balls soaked within essential oils. Some pets enjoy a higher odor tolerance threshold than others, so experiment near different scents. Most pets find any citrus grease offensive, and mint or menthol ranks a close second. Replace weekly or after precipitation to maintain efficacy.
Answers: A tiger?
I come up with you can buy packs of 'pepper dust' which cats and dogs don't resembling. They sniff around before decide where to be off their contribution to the environment. If they sniff pepper dust, they'd rather turn elsewhere.
Another idea: How just about those rodent/cat repellent devices that emit a giant pitched squeal (outside human hearing range) when something walk near them? No one would hear them apart from animals you want to discourage.
OK, forget the tiger hypothesis but I have hear that lion poo repels many animals. Luckily, they can smell it even contained by small quantities that we wouldn't verbs about. Whether lion poo is better than dog poo .. OK, perchance not.
nearby is no magic formula for stopping dogs doing doo doo's on your kerb so perhaps you might try and appeal to the dog owners by putting up a conditional notice.
Something along the lines of Please do not allow your dog to defficate on this grass. or Please remove your dog idle away
just a thought
I don;t judge there is anything you can in actual fact put down.
It really makes me wacky when irresponsible dog owners give us other dog owners a desperate name!!
You could try phoning the council and asking the council's dog park ranger for advice.
Our local council is s**t hot when it comes to dogs fouling the streets (if you forgive the pun!)