orange peels

[Col]

Cats cant stand the smell of oranges. if you grate some orange peel and rub
it around the pond the cats wont go near it. Test it on your cat first by
scratching an orange and place your hand near the cats face. it also works
to keep strays from using your flower bed as a community litter box.

Good luck

[Peggy Butterworth]

I thought this trick would keep my cat off the kitchen counters, but I
came home one day to find him eating the grapefruit peels like they were
candy. This guy was a strange creatures in a lot of ways, but he LOVED
citrus fruit and would beg whenever we ate oranges or grapefruit. You'd
have to test your cat, as Col says, but you might find some strays have
a different reaction. Peggy

Col wrote:
> Cats cant stand the smell of oranges. if you grate some orange peel and rub
> it around the pond the cats wont go near it. Test it on your cat first by
> scratching an orange and place your hand near the cats face. it also works
> to keep strays from using your flower bed as a community litter box.
>
> Good luck
>
>

[TYNK 7]

>Subject: Re: orange peels
>From: Peggy Butterworth
>Date: 6/1/2004 10:44 AM Central Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
>
>I thought this trick would keep my cat off the kitchen counters, but I
>came home one day to find him eating the grapefruit peels like they were
>candy. This guy was a strange creatures in a lot of ways, but he LOVED
>citrus fruit and would beg whenever we ate oranges or grapefruit. You'd
>have to test your cat, as Col says, but you might find some strays have
>a different reaction. Peggy

You say you used Grapefruit. That may be the difference.
Orange peel is the the trick.
I've broken every cat, not just my own but other's as well, from climbing X-Mas
trees by stringing bits of orange peel close to the trunk (so it's out of site,
and close to where a cat wouls scale the tree), that were slightly twisted to
release the oils. It's not failed once.
You can't forget to twist or squeeze the peel a little to release the oils.
Also, after a few days it needs to be removed and fresh added until the cat
learns.

[Ali Day]

"Col" > wrote in message
le.rogers.com...
> Cats cant stand the smell of oranges. if you grate some orange peel and
rub
> it around the pond the cats wont go near it. Test it on your cat first by
> scratching an orange and place your hand near the cats face. it also works
> to keep strays from using your flower bed as a community litter box.
>
> Good luck

Cheers for this, you have saved me a problem of exterminating my partners
cats ;)
I have a convertible and they find its' roof a nice place to sit in the
garage, leaving mud all over and hair trapped in the material of the roof.

Thanks

A

[Col]

For my xmas tree I use small balloons, I blow them up and place them around
the bottom of the tree. my cat popped one and never went near another
tree.lol--
Col
"TYNK 7" > wrote in message
...
> >Subject: Re: orange peels
> >From: Peggy Butterworth
> >Date: 6/1/2004 10:44 AM Central Daylight Time
> >Message-id: >
> >
> >I thought this trick would keep my cat off the kitchen counters, but I
> >came home one day to find him eating the grapefruit peels like they were
> >candy. This guy was a strange creatures in a lot of ways, but he LOVED
> >citrus fruit and would beg whenever we ate oranges or grapefruit. You'd
> >have to test your cat, as Col says, but you might find some strays have
> >a different reaction. Peggy
>
> You say you used Grapefruit. That may be the difference.
> Orange peel is the the trick.
> I've broken every cat, not just my own but other's as well, from climbing
X-Mas
> trees by stringing bits of orange peel close to the trunk (so it's out of
site,
> and close to where a cat wouls scale the tree), that were slightly twisted
to
> release the oils. It's not failed once.
> You can't forget to twist or squeeze the peel a little to release the
oils.
> Also, after a few days it needs to be removed and fresh added until the
cat
> learns.
>