How do you STOP cats scratching your car?!

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How do you STOP cats scratching your car?!

Postby DB4G63 » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:16 pm

Okay first up I like cats, infact i pefer them to dogs.
however finally I get my car off the road away from the big dumb animals who cant drive ( and keep hitting me while parked... :roll: )
and now I find the little furry creatures with claws are beginning to wreck havok with my paintwork....
I understand they gotta play, but damn the slip and slide with claws!

So I appeal to the Toyspeed forums, is there any way to keep cats off my car??
Does anyone know something I can wash my car with or spray on it or something to stop this. can I deter the furry ones to stay away and play on the neighbourhood cars instead?

I know Im gona get the usual "shoot them.... kill them... stab them!" replies but please I do like cats, Im just trying to protect my car here...

any ideas comments?! :cry: my paintwork thanks you!!
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Postby Jazza » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:20 pm

Simple, electric fence. Or electric car? :lol: :P

*edit* Nothing big, just enough to make it piss itself.
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Postby Quint » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:24 pm

Put tinfoil on ur car thats grounded and run some rather harmless, though tingly amounts of electricity through it.
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Postby Alycia » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:38 pm

ummm - put it in the garage...
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Postby XERO » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:43 pm

Something like skunkshot? that keeps them out of our garden... :?

or charge the body work :lol: nothing too low, 100-200v... it'll also stop theifs too!!! :D
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Postby Adamal » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:45 pm

Get a dog!
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Postby Mr XXX » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:22 pm

bb gun, just for fun, or heres a novel idea, a car cover.......
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Postby bbq1988 » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:02 pm

I heard that if you wash a sheet with fabric softner cats wont go on it because of the feeling, maybe do that and put it on your car :p
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Postby RS13 » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:03 pm

If you get ground pepper, and sprinkle a little where they sit for a week or two, they soon get the message. It doesn't hurt them as such, just irritates their nose. That, or you could spend $$ and get that other powder stuff that cats hate, which does the same job. We haven't had problems with our cats scratching, but coming out in the morning and finding muddy paw prints over your bonnet, and smeared down the windscreen, after you've waxed the car the night before.. hmm.
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Postby FST4RD » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:12 pm

Go to the pet store and you can buy this animal repelent stuff.... i got it to stop my cats and dog getting on the furniture and it worked a treat, you spray it on and you can hardly smell it at all......
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Postby deaf_rattle » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:14 pm

anti freeze in a bowl just in front of your car, works wonders :lol:
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Postby Snoozin » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:44 pm

deaf_rattle wrote:anti freeze in a bowl just in front of your car, works wonders :lol:


I was about to suggest that.... or just "develop" a mystery radiator "leak" instead :P
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Postby samham » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:46 pm

they work sweet against aliens, should do for cats!

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Postby Dell'Orto » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:00 pm

deaf_rattle wrote:anti freeze in a bowl just in front of your car, works wonders :lol:


Takes too long though :lol:

Pepper is a good one, though it'd be easier to just buy a cheap car cover.
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Postby CozmoNz » Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:12 pm

HRT wrote:http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pets-animals/Cats/Other/auction-72356150.htm


Going from where he lives, i woudlnt say they are his cat/s, could jsut bb gun them then put those things on them :D

id go with the pepper :)
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Postby Mr XXX » Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:02 pm

come to think of it, Some crystal may do the job
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Postby bluemaumau » Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:10 pm

cover it in cat nip. 8)
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Postby johntramp » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:23 am

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Postby GTCRSHR » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:39 am

put cat pepper around the out side of it or get a car cover

or a car tent

or just get a toy cat and get rid of the real cats all together, do us all a favour

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