Enjoy a garden free of stray cats: make your own free homemade cat repellent.

Best Natural Cat Repellent: Keep your garden secure

The first line to repel cats is to ensure that your garden boundaries are secure. Any gaps in your fence should be blocked to deny low level access.

Cats can jump and climb at a certain extend on vertical walls, so fix a string some 15 cm or 6 inches
above the top of your fence to deter cats from approaching this way.

Natural Homemade cat repellents

By far the easiest homemade natural cat repellent is male urine. Why? Because when cats, dogs and even foxes smell that another possibly dangerous species has been and keeps on spraying urine in the garden, they will keep away!

To make it a bit more appetizing for your human nose, you could add some citrus juice, cayenne and vinegar to your homemade cat repellent.

If hygiene in your garden is as important as keeping cats out of your garden, try moth balls. Put the moth balls all around the base of the house, in bushes and everywhere else you want to repel cats.

Natural plant cat repellents

Although some people say rosemary keeps the cats out, it doesn’t work in my garden. However another plant does work fairly well as a natural
cat repellent: the Coleus Canina or Scardy Cat Plant.

It grows in any kind of soil as long as it gets full sun or partial shade. Make sure to protect it against the frost in winter.

When crushed, the Scardy Cat Plant emits a foul odour that repels cats.

Homemade cat repellents summarized

When you have a big garden, using male urine is the best way to go.

Closer by the house we recommend you use Coleus Canina as your most easy homemade cat repellent.