Going crazy trying to keep my cat off my car!

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BluBrett

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We have my car, the cat's food/water bowls, and the cat's litter box in the garage. My cat has a habit of going onto the car when I am not around and running off as soon as he hears me coming because I make a big scene trying to scare him from getting on the car again. I have tried placing floor mats upside down on the windows but the spikes don't bother him one bit. As I said before, I can never catch him any more because he jumps off the car every time he hears me coming toward the garage. I'm about ready to force him to start using the back yard as a litter box since he has created a hole in the screen to escape the house and become an outdoor cat any way. Any suggestions if he already knows I don't like him on there and my spikes on the windshield and rear window don't phase him?
 
Cat , car, cat,car???

Bye, bye cat. Sorry- not a cat guy

BluBrett said:
We have my car, the cat's food/water bowls, and the cat's litter box in the garage. My cat has a habit of going onto the car when I am not around and running off as soon as he hears me coming because I make a big scene trying to scare him from getting on the car again. I have tried placing floor mats upside down on the windows but the spikes don't bother him one bit. As I said before, I can never catch him any more because he jumps off the car every time he hears me coming toward the garage. I'm about ready to force him to start using the back yard as a litter box since he has created a hole in the screen to escape the house and become an outdoor cat any way. Any suggestions if he already knows I don't like him on there and my spikes on the windshield and rear window don't phase him?
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think your idea of having the cat go outside might be your best bet. get the litter box, food and water out of the garage. I have heard of a mat that is powered by 9 vold battery that people use to give the cat a small current ( imagine 9 volt battery not powerful but will get the cats attention ) this was told to me from a friend who took the suggestion from his vet. he had a cats jumping on the count top. not sure if you want to place these mats on a car or not .
 
Cat scratches are the worst.

Their claws go through the paint and then expand under, making it wider underneath than on top.
 
Sorry for that, I know how it feels as I have the same dilemma right now. Although they do hang around, sleep, and use it as a ladder when I'm not looking so almost all my panels are messed up with scratches and whatnot. I cover the horizontal panels with towels, helps a little.

Drives me insane and makes me want to freak out and cry, but least I'd want is for them to get hurt. Not my cats too, so definitely a test of character :D and they like freshly corrected paint too :cry:
 
BluBrett- If I were in your shoes I'd fix the hole in the screen and change the location of the cat's dishes and litterbox. FWIW, we have a cat (with all her claws) and I simply don't give her any reason to go into the garage so she has not interest in the cars. I realize that different people have different situations and this just might not be feasible but eh...how hard to ya want to work at which chore, ya know?

Maybe put something more inviting (than the vehicle) in the garage...a cat perch/house/etc. that he'd rather spend time in as opposed to climbing on the car.
 
Hey, I know you! Didn't know you were on this forum, Brett. Sorry to hear about your troubles. This and all the other car troubles you've had lately!

I recently had this same thing happen after I bought my RL. I have an outdoors cat that has a doggie door into the garage. Ofcourse, right after I polished my RL, she slid across the hood just like in that Sonax commercial posted above only down the hood because it was so slick after the polishing. She wasn't used to the "slickness" and you could tell she jumped up and then lost her traction and slid down the hood... She left huge paw sliding marks and needless to say, I was pissed. There were about 2 or 3 incidents after that and I tried a few things but nothing worked. My "final solution" (as I call it) was to build her a little house through the doggie door that holds her bed, and her food and water and now she has no access to the interior of the garage, just her house through the doggie door. That was my most humane option of dealing with her and it worked pretty well.
 
A buddy had a Porsche with the same cat issue. He deferred to the cat by building stairs to put beside the car and would put a blanket on the hood. The stairs solved the jumping onto the hood problems and the blanket took care of the rest.
I told him to forget the stairs, forget the blanket and buy a Jack Russell terrier.

A couple of years later, he sold the Porsche, stairs and blanket. He still has Fluffy.
Cat Win.
 
SCATTT!


I have this on my counters, works amazing.

http://www.amazon.com/Ssscat-PDT00-13914-SSSCAT-Cat-Training/dp/B000RIA95G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1428696419&sr=8-2&keywords=scattt
 
Daragh said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYhW4di3QW0

Sorry for your troubles!
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The Sonax Effect didn't work for Vic Cardenas and it didn't work for me ... the family of feral cats that lived in my sister-in-law's garage (which they FED :angry: ) would use my black Camaro as a jumping pad to get into the rafters. I had it polished and waxed just like in the video and all it did was make the cats start to slide off the hood and EXTEND THEIR CLAWS TO STOP!!!

I was all set to use a shooting solution, when I got divorced and moved away from that cat sanctuary ... end of two problems :D
 
For anyone who is interested, the cat is now an indoor/outdoor cat. No more scratches, no more litter box, and a happier, more active, less fat cat.
 
I'm working on eradicating these pests ... for the most part I'm doing a good job. I feel like I'm doing this for the whole forum now
 
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