[AT] Cats and Moth Balls

[Roger Welsch]

Works on skunks...


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From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Cats and Moth Balls


> Probably.  It's been the better part of 40 years since we used it, and
> there are a few things I've forgotten.  :-)
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> Larry
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of H. L. Staples
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:07 PM
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> Larry I think you are looking for the plant "nicotinia".
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> H. L.
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> From: Larry D. Goss
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> Date: 02/09/05 16:46:09
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> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
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> Subject: RE: [AT] Cats and Moth Balls
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> You might try planting nicotia.  It's an ornamental tobacco plant, and
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> we used it as a deterrent for rabbits, cats, dogs, etc when we lived in
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> Oklahoma.  My spell checker seems to want to spell it as Nicosia, so
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> maybe that's it.
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> Larry
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> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Warren F.
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> Smith
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 3:38 PM
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> Subject: RE: [AT] Cats and Moth Balls
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> >>       I've heard that putting moth balls in a flowerbed will
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> >>deter cats from
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> >>using it
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> >>       for a potty.......any truth to this ???    Is this
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> >>permissible ??
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> >>
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> >>       Ted Harper
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> I've always heard that but can't try it due to always having a dog, too.
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> I
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> have a cheap little fence charger and a spool of fence wire. I can rig
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> it up
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> around the flower beds pretty easily. Rebar stakes, electrical tape
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> around
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> the rebar, and run the wire about chest height for the cat. Usually
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> after a
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> week or so you can remove the charger.
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> Right now I have the charger set up on a huge potted plant in the house
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> with
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> two pieces of galvanized hardware cloth lying across the pot attached to
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> the
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> leads. The cats give the pot plenty of room now when they walk by.
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> Warren
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