Cat repellent safe for parrots?

[patdbunny]

This may sound cruel, but I assure you from personal experience it's not. It just scares the bejeezus out of them and doesn't actually hurt them - mousetraps. The wooden snappy mousetraps. Set those, place where the cats are pooping and peeing, and lightly cover with dirt. Cats are too big so the traps don't actually snap onto them. Make sure it's the small MOUSE traps and not the big honking RAT traps.

The cat proof fencing can be modified cheaply by using chicken wire and small pieces of wood. To keep cats out instead of in, you'd attached to the outside of the fence instead of inside.

I have an email in to the cat shelter I volunteer with for more, low cost, suggestions.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

Some of the sprays and powders would probably be safe to use outside as well. We've used one (with mixed success) to deter the neighborhood cats and the squirrels from digging in the garden that contains mostly black pepper and capsacin (the hot stuff in chile peppers).

Our cats are indoor cats and there are substantial health benefits to keeping cats indoors. But people who don't are rarely interested in hearing about it. Do the cats wear belled collars? If so, I expect the likelihood of one sneaking up to the outdoor aviary and actually getting at a bird is fairly low. You could also get some of the motion-activated SCAT cans and place them strategically around the perimeter of the cage area -- they just let out a blast of pressurized air. It would no doubt startle the birds as well, but it should make approaching the cage stealthily impossible. A final option would be to put down a surface cats don't like around the cage -- say, prickly plastic grass mat. Unless they are really intent on approaching the cage, those kind of measures will make it unappealing to approach the birds. Similar to the mousetrap idea, but with less possibility of hurting the cats -- even though it may not happen often, I can imagine a claw, whisker, ear of something getting injured, and I personally would have to be pretty desperate to try that. It is cost effective, though.

[Ilovebirds]

Sprinkle Black pepper around your yard near the fences mostly or where the cats mess.