Every year our vegetable garden has three kinds of uninvited
and undesirable guests: cabbage butterflies, snails and rabbits. If let them to
do what they want to do at our garden – be specific, to eat what they want to
eat – we can forget about our harvest.
We have few individual methods how, actually, to make those
uninvited guests of the garden to feel uninvited, and our Murchyk the cat being
real help in it. Seriously! Not only Murchyk the cat, but some his cat-related,
let say, gadgets :)
For example, I have read somewhere that rabbits normally
don’t like a smell of cat’s urine and they don’t go very close to the area
where they smell a cat. So what I do regularly, I am spreading a content of
Murchyk’s litter on the borders of the garden, and… it works! After I am doing
this, approximately once per week, I didn't see rabbits at our garden for
while. So if you are vegetable gardener as well and your garden is suffering
from visits of bunny rabbit, you can use this method, too. I wouldn't recommend
to do it though if you cat’s litter is made out of clay, with adding some other
stuff, like chemicals etc. (more than that, I wouldn't recommend a litter with
chemicals in it to use for cat, never mind garden). Only if your cat is using
some organic litter, like pine clumping or other natural stuff, you can spread
it around your garden without any fears that natural environment of the garden
will be damaged.
Our Murchyk the cat use pine clumping (the one on the
picture below) – he is very happy with it! And my husband and I are very happy,
too, when it’s come to chasing rabbits away from the garden.
Also, as I mentioned earlier, as rabbits cannot stand a
smell of the cat, very often our kitty-cat is being a guard of our garden
himself – at the video below you can see, how he is chasing a rabbit away from
our yard:
Just like a dog – he chased the rabbit to the border of our
(and his, Murchyk’s) property, that’s it!
We love you, the guard of our garden!
