Questions tagged [domestic-animals]

For questions about domestic animals (e.g. cats & dogs & chickens) in the garden. For questions related to dogs, use the [dog] tag. Also checkout other animal related tags such as [deer], [rabbits], [squirrel].

Gardens are often shared/maintained with domestic animals - typically pets such as cats, and dogs as well as maintenance animals such as goats, chickens, and rabbits. Use this tag for all gardening questions that involve domestic animals. On-topic questions would include: plant toxicity to domestic animals; keeping domestic animals out of areas of the garden; limiting/controlling garden damage cause by domestic animals.

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How do you safely and effectively stop a cat from pooping in your yard?

Our neighbor's cat keeps pooping in our mulch and around our yard. Is there a safe and effective way to stop neighborhood pets from doing so? Has anyone used a method that works well?
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What are some tips on growing plants indoors with cats?

I have to grow my plants indoors because it does get cold enough in Dallas sometimes that frost may occur or even snow. However, we have a small household cat. She has bit our bamboo plant leaves in the past. We really can't just place them in the…
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Why can't I compost dog & cat faeces?

Looking at this answer made we wonder again about why we don't compost dog and cat faeces. Any guide to composting will always caution against including dog (and cat) excrement (examples here and here). Is it simply that pet faeces are dangerous to…
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Is there anything I can put on my lawn to prevent my dog from digging?

About a year ago, we had a really bad gopher problem in our backyard. I've successfully trapped and eliminated all the gophers but my dog sometimes can still smell something and goes crazy digging. I wouldn't mind the digging, but we just laid sod…
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How do I stop dog urine from killing grass?

Everywhere I've lived, the dog urine just kills the grass. I've found nothing on the internet and the garden person at the local hardware said it's impossible. Any suggestions?
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What would be a good "cat grass" for the central Texas heat?

So I can buy the little pots of "cat grass" or even the grow kits at my local pet store, but I thought it would be more fun to have a little patch of it growing in the yard that (hypothetically) would be perennial so it would come back after (or…
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Is there any way to keep cats away from indoor sprouts?

It's been a problem all spring. I have my sprouts that I want to plant in the garden, but living in Canada, it's better to sprout them inside to then plant them outside when it stops having freezing temperatures at night. But my cats have a big…
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What would be eating my lettuce plants, and leaving some other vegetables alone?

I planted 6 lettuce plants and this morning 3 of them are completely nipped. Do you know if they will grow back as only a little bit of the leaves are left. Also how do I protect the rest? I also have cabbage and cauliflower in the same bed and they…
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How can I prevent my neigbour's cat from marking its territory in my garden?

We have various bits of garden furniture and this is the kind of furniture that can be left out. Our neighbour has a male neutered cat that sprays literally everything, including our conservatory and now the garden furniture. What can we do to stop…
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Cat safe colorful indoor plant?

Ever since the arrival of our clawed furballs necessitated the banishment of our house plants to the office room my GF misses having some green in the living room. I'd like to rectify this situation but am faced with the problem, that when I go…
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Tactics to reduce raccoon poop in garden

Raccoons and cats traverse my urban back yard every night. That's fine. I'd like to reduce their interest in defecating on the soil. It attracts flies, we don't know what they've been eating, noone wants to step on it. Presently I follow the flies…
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Will a punctured stem harm my pepper plant?

The stem of one of my potted plants was slightly chewed on by a cat. Nothing that would seriously damage the structural integrity of the plant, but it did puncture the surface with a few small tooth marks. Will the plant heal on its own? Should I be…
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Cats regularly defecate in my garden. Is there really nothing I can do about it?

I have a small lawn area and cats from the neighborhood regularly come into my garden to defecate. The neighbor says you can do nothing about it, just clean the poop away. All products that promise relief bring nothing according to him.
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What animals make good "lawn mowers" for a fenced in food forest?

I'm looking at building a food forest, and was wondering what breeds of animals will make the best "lawn mowers", but leave my trees/bushes "alone".
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Our cat is digging up our lawn

We have two cats (both female, 6 & 4 yrs old). The older one is becoming less mobile (can't get over the fence), and has started taking to digging up the lawn to do her business. Whenever I see her do it I run and shoo her away, which seems to work…
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