We never had a problem with cats on our little soi, but somebody must have started feeding them because we now have about a dozen wild ones (nobody claims one as their pet) hanging out on the soi. They crawl up in the space between our ceiling and the roof and cause the expected problems. Nobody wants to poison them, just to keep them out of our adjoined attics.

Surely we aren't the first having this nuisance. It must be mating season now because we haven't had a sound sleep in two weeks. We can hear them walking, scampering, fighting, pounding around above our bedroom ceiling and of course the incessant howling, especially around 4am of course.

Would mothballs put up there deter them? or something similar? Any suggestions. This problem has to end somehow.

Thanks

Edited December 6, 201213 yr by Lopburi99

Cats don't have a mating season, it's similar to women and her periods. Cats don't like mothballs smell but that's poisonous and I guess you should literally pack the ceiling with them. I think the best way is to put something to avoid them getting in that space between ceiling and roof. Some of those cheap gardening plastic fences that come in rolls would be fine.

If I have mice/rats in my house causing problems then I will put down poison , traps etc to eradicate the problem.

If I was being troubled with cats, I would take similar action.

Whats the difference between rats or cats causing a problem?

My wife, and the neighbors, say that killing a cat is a sin and they have major hesitation using poison. Killing rats isn't for some reason. We'll try everything else we can first, then if need be we'll do poison. The strong enough stuff probably can't be bought at Big C though.

Edited December 6, 201213 yr by Lopburi99

I had a two pronged approach. I tried to close off their entry points using wire mesh and also sprayed the area with a mixture of tabasco sauce/water. Sadly by the time I had this perfected one had given birth in my roof, the mother could no longer get in but the kittens were dancing on the ceiling all night. I used the box style (humane) rat traps baited with fish and caught all the kittens and sent them to the Wat.

My advice and its not as an animal lover is don't poison as you don't know where they will crawl to die and cause a real nasty stink.

Edited December 6, 201213 yr by RabC

Eeee...There's nowt like a night on the tiles...had plenty of those at one time or another.

Don't know about mothballs, but if you've got a sharp knife, some cats' ones might deter them a bit.

Chicken wire over the gaps where they get in. Stop thm getting in a problem solved. Chicken wire is cheap enough too.

As an aside I recently used chicken wire all over the garden, across the gate and along the fencve. No more cat sh*t in the garden. The cats like to be able to scratch after doing their business and the chicken wire stops them being able to do that. 50 metre roll cost me 690 Baht.

Ok, I'll ask the neighborhood handyman about putting in chicken wire. I don't know what it looks like up there, I thought maybe it would be difficult or impractical to close all the entry spots off.

Cats don't like the smell of citrus, it means poison to them. You could try splashing some about but you may end up with ants or some other insects. As others have said you've got to block off their entry or get a bigger cat as a pet.

Do you out of interest have a hot tin roof?

We've had problems with cat's in the past.

We used the old wives tale of clear plastic bottles of water dotted around the place.

In the end we got a dog and over a 12 month period the cats all vanished, sometimes the dog came home with cats nails stuck in his nose! But he did the job.

Good luck

I’ve never had any wild pussy pounding away above my ceiling.

We did have some stray wild cats hanging about outside our gates, but a couple of the neighbor’s bitches chased them out of the area.

count your blessings. cats in the attic means no rats in the attic.

My wife, and the neighbors, say that killing a cat is a sin and they have major hesitation using poison. Killing rats isn't for some reason. We'll try everything else we can first, then if need be we'll do poison. The strong enough stuff probably can't be bought at Big C though.

Well, then kill the rats with Coumadin, and let the cats commit suicide by eating them.

count your blessings. cats in the attic means no rats in the attic.

Cats in the attic means rats were in the attic.

Call in UB40. They should be able to help.

Call in UB40. They should be able to help.

red wine?

Call in UB40. They should be able to help.

red wine?

Not until they fix that rat.

throw up some lemon peels. cats hate them

Call in UB40. They should be able to help.

red wine?

Not until they fix that rat.

that rat was in da kitchen i think, and UB 40 say they dont wata do, so not use. Anyways plenty of soi dogs or homes looking for somebody to adopt a dog. Rat sticky pads well make life uncomfortable for them. No poisoning, then have to learn to live with it if you cannot block off the entry points, you may well then have a few trapped up there.

Call in UB40. They should be able to help.

They can only help when there's a RAT in the KITCHEN and you don't know "what am I gonna do"