How do i keep cats out of my flower pots?

every afternoon when i come home from work half the dirt is thrown out of my flower pots%26amp; i know the cats are doing it because, we have strays that hang around. how do i keep them out of my outside flower pots?

How do i keep cats out of my flower pots?
Ahhh yes... the cat digger or cat plant eater... LOL.... a very common problem... The cats might chew on the leaves or even in your case dig up the soil to use the pot as a toilet most of the time! To prevent this from happening you can place gravel or wire mesh over the soil... or the obvious ... put it out of the cats reach ( which in most cases is not possible). If the cats are chewing on your plants you can simply spray the foliage with diluted lemon juice: most cats dislike its taste! Hope this helps!! Good Luck! :)
Reply:pee in the flower pots to mark your territory
Reply:Line each Pot across the top with aluminum foil, and on the foil spread black pepper . It works really well! 40 years of my own BAD CATS!
Reply:hang the flower pots out of their reach.
Reply:First make sure to change the soil, and clean the pots with vinegar because cats pee where they smell themselves. Then you could try powdered coyote/wolf urine. They sell it in most garden stores. You sprinkle the powder into your pots and the cats think that some big, bad preditor has taken over the territory.
Reply:Maybe you could plant some catnip somewhere in an area away from your flowerpots. Good luck!
Reply:My grandmother always put orange, lemon and grapefruit peals around her plants to keep the cats out of her garden. It turns out citrus is poisonous to cats so they stay away from it.
Reply:skewers for a kebobs work well
Reply:1. Place landscape fabric on top of soil in pot. Then put pebbles (large ones about the size of a ping-pong ball) on top of the fabric. Air and water can still get in.


2. Cover the soil with screen door screen and then the rocks.


3. Sprinkle black pepper around the edges of the dirt.


4. Most cats hate perfume. Spritz some really strong stuff around the top edge of the pot.
Reply:Try HOT pepper flakes it burns their paws and noses without hurting them. Also tinfoil around the top of the soil. Some cats are scared of the sound. These things worked for me with my housecat.