cats on vehicle

harleyguy, if i had cats like that laying all over my car i dont think i would complain at all. lol.
 
If you have a panic button on your car alarm, you could hit it when the cat gets near it. Then the cat might fear the car and avoid it, rather than if you tried to shoot the cat with say a pellet gun with felt cleaning pellets and it saw you shoot it,which would only cause it to fear you. A car cover would be a good idea. I wonder if electronic pest control would work, as in high pitched sound. If cats had natural predators, putting small amounts of that animal's dung around the property would tend to discourage them from trespassing, but I don't think they do. It could be possible to rig a sprinkler hose completely around the car, pointing away from it, and have the hose be motion activated, or perhaps a motion activated dog barker, with one woof per detected movement. :)
 
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I keep cats off of my car by putting vented containers of amonia around my car. I use old plastic dairy containers and punch holes in the lid to vent the amonia.
 
Well I still say pending how good a shot you are, a red rider bb gun, not strong enough to inflict harm to the cat, but good enough to feel like a bee sting. Could always try a hose, wait until the cats on the car and chase it off with the water, cats HATE water!
 
Mirror Detailing said:
Well I still say pending how good a shot you are, a red rider bb gun, not strong enough to inflict harm to the cat, but good enough to feel like a bee sting. Could always try a hose, wait until the cats on the car and chase it off with the water, cats HATE water!
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The best animal training methods are when you get the animal to think that punishment comes from doing the bad act ITSELF, and not from a person. If the animal thinks the punishment comes from a person, the animal just avoids the person. If the animal thinks the punishment comes directly from doing the act itself, then the animal avoids doing the act. It is the best to tailor the deterrent to this approach. For example, if a pet is a garbage digger, then put hot chili pepper powder in the garbage, so that the pet finds the act of garbage digging very unpleasant because it's mouth is so spicy as a result. if you just yell at it or it sees you spraying or shooting it, than it fears YOU, and not the act. If you spray the cat with water on the car, it will put out it's claws more to get more traction during it's escape, which is exactly what you don't want.
 
Blackthornone said:
The best animal training methods are when you get the animal to think that punishment comes from doing the bad act ITSELF, and not from a person. If the animal thinks the punishment comes from a person, the animal just avoids the person. If the animal thinks the punishment comes directly from doing the act itself, then the animal avoids doing the act. It is the best to tailor the deterrent to this approach. For example, if a pet is a garbage digger, then put hot chili pepper powder in the garbage, so that the pet finds the act of garbage digging very unpleasant because it's mouth is so spicy as a result. if you just yell at it or it sees you spraying or shooting it, than it fears YOU, and not the act. If you spray the cat with water on the car, it will put out it's claws more to get more traction during it's escape, which is exactly what you don't want.
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ah good point on the claws. but if training a cat, which i have never had any, is like training a dog then its not them fearing you, its them fearing the act or place. I have had many many dogs in my life, ones that chew on fences, dig holes, chew on a house, and all the ways of training them was with pain. Electric fences work with the same theory. The dog gets shocked enough times by trying to do something will associate that pain with the act! same with shooting a cat from a ways off in the ass with a bb gun anytime it gets near the car or on it. will eventually assoicate the car and the act of being on or near it with pain.
 
Blackthornone said:
The best animal training methods are when you get the animal to think that punishment comes from doing the bad act ITSELF, and not from a person. If the animal thinks the punishment comes from a person, the animal just avoids the person. If the animal thinks the punishment comes directly from doing the act itself, then the animal avoids doing the act. It is the best to tailor the deterrent to this approach. For example, if a pet is a garbage digger, then put hot chili pepper powder in the garbage, so that the pet finds the act of garbage digging very unpleasant because it's mouth is so spicy as a result. if you just yell at it or it sees you spraying or shooting it, than it fears YOU, and not the act. If you spray the cat with water on the car, it will put out it's claws more to get more traction during it's escape, which is exactly what you don't want.
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So there you have it! Pour hot chili pepper powder all over your car! :D
Joking.

DLB
 
It's the heat coming from the engine, isn't it? I like the water idea, just keep squirting them and they'll learn by finding somebody else's car.
 
Mirror Detailing said:
ah good point on the claws. but if training a cat, which i have never had any, is like training a dog then its not them fearing you, its them fearing the act or place. I have had many many dogs in my life, ones that chew on fences, dig holes, chew on a house, and all the ways of training them was with pain. Electric fences work with the same theory. The dog gets shocked enough times by trying to do something will associate that pain with the act! same with shooting a cat from a ways off in the ass with a bb gun anytime it gets near the car or on it. will eventually assoicate the car and the act of being on or near it with pain.
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Well, that can be true with the bb gun, so long as the cat never thinks that a person shot it. The cat would have to think that the car shot it. :) If you had a security system with hot pepper spray nozzles on the car, that would work, too, but that is a bit involved and pricey. The bb gun method is problematic because it is very possible that when the bb bounces off of the cat, it will hit the paint, which will mar it. Also, if someone sees you shoot the cat, that could be a problem as well. The bb gun method is more trouble than it is really worth. I have a pellet gun that accepts felt cleaning pellets that are hard felt, cylindrical in shape, that wouldn't cause any real damage to the cat, but chase it away, and if it DID hit the car, any marring would be easy to polish out. If anyone saw you do it, and accuse you you could show the felt pellets, and that would reduce the problems you would deal with. Frankly, water works a lot better than bbs, if you can get to it in time. A high powered water gun might be just the thing. The only problem with using water is that it better be distilled, or you will have to wipe it off to avoid water spots on the car. I actually think a car cover, plus a system with a motion detector that uses sound or water, or a high pitched sound that humans can't hear but animals can, emitted near or from the car would be the best option, short of a garage.

I mean, I'm sure a large moat would work, too, but that would be impractical. :) Some sort of automatic sprinkler system hooked up to a motion detector would work, too, but then you would have to worry about water spots. However, perhaps the cat would learn soon enough so that you could disable the system in a couple weeks, so it wouldn't really be a problem, but you would really need a large distilled water tank to avoid spotting, but that again is too expensive.
I'm sure the live trap and the pound method would be extremely effective, however, if you don't have a problem with that. An electric shock car cover would be an interesting option..
 
i have this problem in the winter time. when i get home, the car is warm so they will go under the car or lay on top of the hood. i'm always greeted with paw prints the next morning on the car...
 
Emile said:
It's the heat coming from the engine, isn't it? I like the water idea, just keep squirting them and they'll learn by finding somebody else's car.
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My cats love the water if i would let them they would go in the pool.But then again it is the type of breed we have.

BigAl3 said:
i have this problem in the winter time. when i get home, the car is warm so they will go under the car or lay on top of the hood. i'm always greeted with paw prints the next morning on the car...
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Said part of that is when they don't get out from under the hood when the car is started up.When i used to work up north i can't count how times customers bought there cars into the shop and i would find all kinds of animals chewed up in the engine from drive belts and other moving parts .
 
Harleyguy said:
My cats love the water if i would let them they would go in the pool.But then again it is the type of breed we have.
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What kind of cat do you have a Bengal Tiger????

We give our cats baths and they hate it!!!!
 
Our Cats go to a Spa, every 6 weeks. They get a Shampoo, Blow-dry and their Armor-piercing Claws trimmed.

Ray can't wait until the next one...

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Zoe just loves getting fluffed up...

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