feline aversion therapy

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Carl Anderson

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This my new approach to keeping cats off of my car. My God my paint is suffering!
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That is the wrong picture. It is after my complete detail including attempting best to remove the scratches, and finishing with the Klasse twins.
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Are you sure you're not going have issues with the wind? A cover would be the same amount of hassle. Hope the cat doesn't go on the roof :eek:
 
Perhaps the car cover would be a little less inconspicuous. Then again if it's established by his neighbors already that Carl is crazy, doesn't really matter what he puts on it car/does to it :D ;)
 
Yes, I resemble those remarks. I have no question that the neighbors think I am crazy. I live on a one lane road on the water almost in downtown Seattle. I'll be out detailing any one of our 3 vehicles for hours at a time, and they smile as they drive by. As far as a car cover is concerned, it just isn't feasible. This is Seattle, and once my cover is wet I can't just put it in the trunk. And it takes days to dry it out, and I do not have a good place, like a garage, to put it. Of course, if I had a garage I would not need to worry about cats. My hope is that the scat matt will train the cats, and this whole dressing the car at night exercise will no longer be necessary.



What disturbs me to no end is that yesterday I saw our own cat "Cubby" on my hood. I know he wants the warmth, but doesn't he have any respect and appreciate all I've done for him? He also knows that I am a veterinarian, and though retroactive birth control is our of the question in this case, he must know I am well versed on it.
 
I had a similar problem with a neighbor's cat. Becasue of having a supercharger, my hood was always the warmest in the neighborhood. I politely asked her to keep her cat inside (as the law required), and it just escalated from there. It eventually came to animal control catching her cat outside, trapping it and taking it in. It was a $600+ fine for her to get it back, and I don't know that she ever did.

I felt bad for the cat, but it was ridiculous. The law was clear that a cat cannot be let to run free and she felt that she was entitled to let her's do so (and nearly every neighbor around us had a cat-all kept inside). So, she paid the price. It was a 3 month ordeal eventually involving the Police, Animal Control, and the courts.



And every time I see the scratches on the window trim, I think of how irresponsible she was to let her animal tear up my property and her only comment was 'So, cats get on cars. Big deal'. I should have sued her for the $400+ it would cost to replace the trim (the car was a month old when this started).
 
A little pre-emptive warning . . . about two or three times a year, a thread is started asking about cat scratches and remedies. The threads have almost always gone rapidly downhill when someone (jokingly or not) starts advocating cruelty to animals as a solution. Please, keep this one on topic (car covers, how to remove scratches, humane methods of deterring the little fuzzballs, etc.).



Posts advocating cruelty will be deleted without notice.



Thanks,

Tort
 
Bill, I do not consider the scat pad cruelty. The problem with a cover alone is it just makes a more inviting surface for a cat to rest. And the entire car cover is simply not practical. So what I need to do is train the cats. I have had the pad only on my hood for a couple of weeks, and I think it is working. Probably soon I will be able to just put a decoy such as a similarly sized bath towel, and then perhaps nothing. There are plently of other cars in the immediate vicinity for the cats to perch on where the owner will probably not even notice.
 
How about a proximity switch to set off some sort of noise making alarm. Maybe an ultra high frequency above the audible range of your neighbors.;)
 
You could always get a few motion sensitive sprinklers and set them up in a perimiter around the car and set the spray area so it doesn't hit the car. That should keep all the pesky animals away.
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I wonder if the mail man would like that :D
 
~One manâ€â„¢s opinion / observations~



What make car-cover have you used, I know that the Weathershield I used while I worked for Boeing out there was not unmanageable after the infamous Seattle rains (and you could still use the scat-mat on the hood.



~Hope this helps~



Knowledge unshared is experience wasted [each one / teach one]

justadumbarchitect / so I question everything/ JonM
 
Yes, a Weathershield dries reasonably quickly too upon shaking it. I still think a good cover is the best answer to this problem. Remember my account where the apparent rabid cat ripped up my gf's cover but apparently slid right off my Weathershield with only one tiny puncture :D :up
 
Carl drop down to the local WalMart or Thrift store and get a baby crib *fitted* bottom sheet and put it on the hood.



The elastic corners will snug it up when put on all 4 corners of the hood and the wind won't pull it as easy.

Also small and easy to store.



I have one that I have used on Chev p/u / a 4Runner and now the Passat.. it fit them all and I got it for $2 at the thrift store.



BTW I set one of those motion sensor garden owls on the hood by the windshield and the cats don't like the hooting at all.
 
My car cover is a Noah, and when it is wet you can't very well put it in the trunk. I like the fitted sheet better, as it is not so cumbersome. But in all honesty I think I now have the problem sovlved with the scat mat. I don't think the same cat is going to jump up on the hood twice.
 
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