How or what can you do to keep a cat off your porch ?

Go to your local pet store and buy the spray that repels cats. You simply spray it where you don't want the cat to go, and the smell is so bad to the cat it will stay away from wherever you spray. It is completely odorless to us.

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I'm laughing at the dog answer... Well easy ways that should work are orange peels, line the porch with them. Or you can try mothballs as well, although they stink, this deters most cats. There really is no other way, and even these might not work, as cats are quite curious, and will do what they want no matter what. You can call the pound and see if they will come pick up the strays... I hope some of this helps!

I have used two products to keep cats away.

A spray made by Hartz called "help" one can has lasted me a long time. They simply hate the smell, I mean HATE. Unfortunately so do I. So I can only use it on things that I don't get my face near. But this stuff works.

There is another product for down on the floor or in a flower bed. It looks just like dark lime green jello. I don't remember the name, but I got it at Petco or Petsmart and it shows a cat running away on the label. I had purchased a house that it seemed that every cat in the whole hood was using my flower bed at a litter box. But I got this stuff and sprinkled it around and never again. I remember that it is poison to people and since it looks like jello and is brightly colored I put up a poison stay out sign and told my neighbors so that they'd keep their kids out of it.

Now you are armed, go forth and do feline battle.

Good luck, and Happy New Year.

Indeed talk to your neighbor as their cat is marking you as his territory and that's not fun. Pretty soon, if you leave your door open, he'll think he can walk inside and start marking territory. Explain to them the situation, see if they'll want to buy the porch furniture from you to place on their porch as it's been claimed his. Try to work with them as much as possible on this, that way if you are forced to call animal control you can tell them you tried everything. Convince them he needs fixed, that should stop a majority of the territory. And if all else fails, you should probably think of investing in a cat or dog yourself if you can to state that your territory's already claimed.

Whoa! You need to talk to your neighbors. That would BUG me! Tell your neighbors to keep the cat away from your house, keep it inside, get it fixed (if it's a boy), etc. If they dont, you can probably call animal control and tell them the problem.

If you dont feel like doing that, trying shooing the cat away whenver it comes onto the porch, if you see it. Maybe you can put some kind of motion-detector light and that could scare it. I'm not sure, i dont have this kind of problem because my neghbors do not have animals.

I hope this helps, sorry for the trouble!

(Also, for the smell and stuff, try Fabreeze or Febreeze or whatever it's called. That seems to work really well for me.)

Keep a water proof 3D image og a dog maybe 3 1/2 ft x 1 ft standing on you porch : take a picture, blow it up , put it in a frame

Hi there...consider speaking with your neighbours to see if they are willing to keep their cat indoors. If not, common odours that are effective deterrents for cats are:

Citronella works best for cats as well as citrus scents such as orange or lemon (primarily towards cats), cayenne pepper, coffee grounds, pipe tobacco, lavender oil, lemon grass oil, citronella oil, peppermint oil, eucalyptus oil, and mustard oil.

"Havahart's Cat Repellent" uses capsaicin pepper and oil of mustard as its active ingredients. It repels by both taste and odor, has a lemon scent.

Every animal responds differently to each of these. Some will not be phased by them and others will be quite revolting.

For training purposes they are applied on items that are to encourage avoidance behaviours and not for use with a squirt bottle as they could harm the eyes or respiratory system. Test each substance and observe to see which works as a deterrent so that accidental injestion does not occur as some could then be fatal.

Coleus plants can be effective, but every cat responds differently so it is uncertain without experimenting.

Many people believe mothballs work, however they are considered toxic and should NOT be used. Here's more information on this:

http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/ope/enotes/showarticle.cfm...

MOTHBALLS are toxic to cats which contains the ingredient Naphthalene. Mothballs are approximately twice as toxic as paradichlorobenzene, and cats are especially sensitive to naphthalene. Signs of ingestion of naphthalene mothballs include emesis, weakness, lethargy, brown-colored mucous membranes and collapses. Paradichlorobenzene mothballs may cause GI upset, ataxia, disorientation, and depression. Elevations in liver serum biochemical values may occur within 72 hours of indigestion.

To keep the cat off your porch sprinkle pepper all over your porch, that should keep the cat away with out killing or hurting it.

Well talk to your neibor about it. If you cant do that then get a water gun and chase it off of your porch.