I am about to get a new kitty, a tortie that is about 7 or 8 weeks old. Her mother was a stray that had kittens on an elderly lady's green house under her carport. Cocoa....we think her name will be (that or Brown Kitty) ...will be coming home Tuesday.
Don't shoot me.. she will not be an inside kitty (except in the garage on cold nights)...we are alergic to them.
My question is this. I want to try to train her to stay in the back yard without having to add on to the fence to make it more cat secure. I have a 1.5 acre lot with about half of that fenced behind my house. I have two dogs..that have been cat friendly in the past. At least cat friendly when they knew the baby was ours. Anyway, I'd like to teach the cat to stay in the yard with them and not to wander off. I am wondering if I put cat repellent around the entire outside of the fence from the time she is wee small, can I teach her not to leave the yard? And how much is it going to irritate the dogs? I don't even know how far off a cat (or dog) can smell cat repellent.
Any thoughts?
Don't shoot me.. she will not be an inside kitty (except in the garage on cold nights)...we are alergic to them.
My question is this. I want to try to train her to stay in the back yard without having to add on to the fence to make it more cat secure. I have a 1.5 acre lot with about half of that fenced behind my house. I have two dogs..that have been cat friendly in the past. At least cat friendly when they knew the baby was ours. Anyway, I'd like to teach the cat to stay in the yard with them and not to wander off. I am wondering if I put cat repellent around the entire outside of the fence from the time she is wee small, can I teach her not to leave the yard? And how much is it going to irritate the dogs? I don't even know how far off a cat (or dog) can smell cat repellent.
Any thoughts?