Stop cats shitting in your vegetable garden
If there’s one thing in life that pisses me off more than the finding the local Karori estate agents ignoring the “No junk mail” sign on my letterbox, it’s discovering cat shit in my vegetable garden.
Hell, I’m even getting aggressive just thinking about it!
Well, I’ve come up with a nice solution that gets some revenge on the cats and involves some car security parts, so it seems fitting to post it here.
Introducing The Kitten Blaster!
Now, the inspiration for this contraption came from a You Tube video I watched last year.
Basically it’s an ABS case from Jaycar, attached to a wooden steak, with an adjustable hose nozzle sticking out o=f the end.
There are some car security parts inside too.
How The Kitten Blaster Works
Inside the grey case is a PIR movement sensor that looks out of the tube on the top of the box. When it picks up a warm item, such as a cat moving in front of it, the PIR sensor triggers a relay that in turn opens up a washing machine solenoid and sprays mains water down the hose to the orange nozzle, which sprays the cat.
The nozzle is adjustable to change the spray pattern and has the added bonus of giving the plants a good watering.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I loved the idea of having the thing hooked up to a compressor to create a jet of water powerful enough to shoot the cats over the neighbour’s fence, but the reality is that this would also damage my silver beet (and no, I have not spelled Silver Beat wrong here).
Cat Safety
Before the crazy cat ladies get upset, I’d like to point out that no cats get harmed by this device. It’s not like I’m putting them in a washing machine.
Credits
Trisram Jay Electrical for the washing machine solenoid idea.
Wang Shu for suggesting it will keep trick-or treaters away. Genius!
No wet pussy jokes please!
If you didn’t click on the video link, earlier then he it is below:
