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+4Cadet57 caddyman1961 1984twodoor Matt Trakker 8 posters |
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Matt Trakker
Posts : 5093 Join date : 2009-07-30 Age : 42 Location : Reading, MA
| Subject: Frigging cats in my garage Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:36 pm | |
| Has anyone had to deal with this? I have that tent garage with my Impala in it for the winter, there is no way of completely securing the bottom of the door, edges of the back wall, etc, so cats have been sneaking in and pissing all over my wheels, walking on top of my car too. I found muddy paw prints going up over the back, roof, and hood of my car. Not good, the paint is 40 years old in most places and fragile enough. Cat piss (it's not piss actually) smells AWFUL and actually corrodes metal! We had one spray on the side of a metal cabinet in my house and it rusted the paint off!!! I see the cats going in and out too and have to scare them away, one looks like a housecat and the others are all stray disheveled messes that look like The Dude from The Big Lebowski. I can't keep them away from the car structurally, today I washed the car and put the cover on it so it would be a little more protected. I don't want mice in there either. I remember my friend bought a '42 Ford that had an Irish Spring bar inside to deter mice. I was also thinking of dumping mothballs around the car, or putting hot pepper all over the place. I need a real garage. | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Fri Dec 31, 2010 1:15 am | |
| Lol, I haven't had any encounters with cats in my tent. But I have mothballed it. I've also got mothballs in side and some dryer sheets in there too. seems to be helping out so far, the only problem is every time i run it i come out of there smelling like a grandpa I'd say try hot peppers or...get a dog If not just try foaming the botoms with great stuff and tie the sides down the best you can. I've thought about that lol. I also would like i real garage... | |
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caddyman1961
Posts : 21 Join date : 2010-12-30 Age : 39 Location : Northbridge,MA
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:16 am | |
| Go to Home Depot and buy a have-a-heart trap. Catch them and relocate them elsewhere. | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:35 am | |
| - caddyman1961 wrote:
- Go to Home Depot and buy a have-a-heart trap. Catch them and relocate them elsewhere.
This ^ Then again im an animal person and wouldnt want to hurt the poor things. Other people might say a couple pie tins with antifreeze in them would do the trick | |
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MASShole9C1
Posts : 4294 Join date : 2009-12-16
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Fri Dec 31, 2010 11:06 am | |
| - caddyman1961 wrote:
- Go to Home Depot and buy a have-a-heart trap. Catch them and relocate them elsewhere.
I have two. i used em for an entire family of squirrelslast winter. havnthad one in my attic/walls since then | |
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Tomz9C1
Posts : 1498 Join date : 2009-01-21 Age : 61 Location : Rumford, Maine
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:19 pm | |
| Try spraying amonia around where they are sneaking in. | |
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Matt Trakker
Posts : 5093 Join date : 2009-07-30 Age : 42 Location : Reading, MA
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:22 pm | |
| The trap is out of the question really, I know more would just come back and with my luck I'd trap the neighborhood skunk and then really be screwed. There's other stuff wandering in there too like possums and whatnot, when I moved a stack of tires to swap them over I found turds all over the place in back of them. hahaha
Today I sprayed a whole bottle of citrus cleaner on my car cover, around the bottom of the garage, the "floor", and on my wheels and tires. I also put 2 bars of Irish Spring on top of the car cover for now. We'll see what it does, you could smell it pretty strongly.
Next step is mothballs and/or cayenne pepper! | |
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caddyman1961
Posts : 21 Join date : 2010-12-30 Age : 39 Location : Northbridge,MA
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:44 pm | |
| Go to Dicks or any of the sproting places and buy fox urine. Spray it around the tires. Everything will think there is a fox in your garage and stay away. If you did catch a skunk in the trap it wont spray you. They wont do it when they are contained. Been down that road before | |
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onehunglo
Posts : 315 Join date : 2009-01-25 Age : 45 Location : Raymond, NH
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Sun Jan 02, 2011 7:33 pm | |
| +2 on the fox or bobcat piss | |
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Matt Trakker
Posts : 5093 Join date : 2009-07-30 Age : 42 Location : Reading, MA
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:52 pm | |
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- bobcat piss
I looked for that today when I was at Wal-Fart, didn't see any but I did grab mothballs and spread a few around under the car and in some other places. I never realized how awful and strong those things smell! Next step- fox/bobcat/wooly mammoth/Chewbacca piss | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:58 pm | |
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onehunglo
Posts : 315 Join date : 2009-01-25 Age : 45 Location : Raymond, NH
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:12 pm | |
| pretty sure the Depot has it | |
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V8Killer
Posts : 1691 Join date : 2009-03-12 Age : 52 Location : Southern, NH
| Subject: Re: Frigging cats in my garage Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:56 pm | |
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