Garden Law Discussion

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Treeman wrote:You could mess about DIYing it or just buy one off the shelf
http://www.maplin.co.uk/searchtemplate. ... 0DETERRENT

but id don't think they work. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Mod ... &U=strat15

Mattylad wrote:look for the mosquito.

A PIR, an MP3 player and an amp & speaker can do this.

Also keeps away yobs & kids.

http://www.themosquitodevice.com/faq.html#Dogs-Children
no good for dogs

In a pound shop there is a frog that makes froggy noises when someone passes. I wondered if it would be possible to download a high pitched sound that dogs do not like and replace the froggy sound with that. Then put in garden. Sort of home made deterrant. Does anyone known what sound and where to d...

can a cat walk along a picket fence? i am thinking of getting one - a fence,not a cat, - and would like suggestions to stop them jumping it. aluminium foil?

It would take wire mesh - the best bet is probably an offcut from a chainlink fence or mesh (not chicken wire) - sweeping the ground attached to the gate to keep them in/out. what would keep it on the ground though. There is a gap where gate ends to ground, so what will hold wire to ground? Put a p...

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eddie110 wrote:Some of these threads do go off on abit of a tangent dont they

Yes, they sometimes get hijacked by cowardly, inadequate and small-minded people.

your name for people who do not like filthy cats messing their lawns. if you own a cat be responsible if don't want responsibility get rid of cat

the scarecrow has to be connected to a hose all the time? would you need an outdoor tap? isn'there a version where the water is contained in the scarecrow

Is there anything they do not like? I saw a cheap frog in a pound shop which croaks when someone passes by. Would some thing like that put them off? Or did I read they are afraid of a toy plastic cat? I found a toy dinosaur in the garden and left it out on roadway while mowing lawn. A passing dog we...

kipper wrote:Could well be cat poop. Was your lawn badly in need of a trim? The only times I've had cat poop on a lawn was when it was when I've lapsed and the grass was not kept quite as short as it should have been!!

yes it was really in need of trim,very high

ok well there are some sick cruel people on this thread!! and you should be ashamed of yourselfs! lucky horse shoe.... i guess you have no horses as you would know barbed wire is not illegal for any man or beast!! and dangerous to horses! as for firearms law.... there is no cat hunting season, so y...

Hi i was mowing the lawn and stood in some what i though was dog ****. But the only way a dog can get in is under a gate which is just half a foot from the ground ? Dogs around here are mostly big like retriever.Would they get in there? Have seen several cats though, would it be cat muck, how to kno...

you have my sympathy - horrid things :x last summer was hell, neighbours kids looking at us from their trampoline which was up tight against the fence and 6ft from our patio ! on the plus side the kids have now tired of it and its been dismantled :D well the kids do not deliberstely look in here an...

Mattylad wrote:No, I am sure that birds love it, if the dog comes in and steals the food left for the birds then that's the neighbours fault

I think it is unsafe for birds too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromin ... an_animals
Did anyone use get off my garden

Have you thought about screening it off? yes, if you mean plant some trees. But they would have be tall as the fence is 6 feet and the trampoline is up above that The fence is 6ft, and the trampoline is several foot higher!? Do you mean the sprung surface of the trampoline is 8ft off the ground - t...

is it illegal to put chocolate in the garden?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_chocol ... ogs_to_eat