Mosquitos on my feral kittys :(

Hello all! It's been quite a long time since I have posted on this site. We moved last year after spending a year living with my parents building our home. We successfully moved our feral family with us and put them in their kitty condo to get used to the new home site. All are well and we are very thankful for that! They absolutely love having 7 acres to run around on and I loved not worrying about them getting into the street!

It's now mosquito season and we have 2 patches of wetlands on our property. Tonight I was feeding the gang and my poor babies have mosquitos swirling around them. I can touch them but dont want to put any type of commercial repellent on them as I never put chemicals on them - or myself for that matter.

Do any of you know what I can do to try to alleviate this problem for them? I do empty their water dishes and refill them twice a day. There is no standing water near their feeding area - the only other standing water is the wetlands, but they are nowhere near there. I did a google search and found all types of ways to get rid of stray cats, keep them out of the garden - everything but how to eradicate the mosquitos.

There are no mosquito repellents for cats…

The only thing Revolution does is protect against heartworms in this case.

You can get little donuts of poison to add to standing water, there are ones approved for use that are supposed to be safe for wildlife. But going on others property to do so can get you in trouble. If it's state/public land you might want to talk to fish and game about it as they can treat the water. Never mention your cats to them, though.

I think I have seen electronical devices supposed to get mosquitos and such away. If they work, and if they are in your country, is another questions

I have also seen electrical devices supposed to attract mosquitos - and burn them. These may work.
And may be useful in your case. Say you have them devices on your veranda, and as long the cats are on the veranda / patio - they are partly sheltered.

I shall try to look after them when Im back home.

Good luck!

^Provided that the noise from such wouldn't frighten the cats away. I have four that were feral born and tamed, they remain highly sensitive to and spook easily from many sounds.

Originally Posted by strange_wings

^Provided that the noise from such wouldn't frighten the cats away. I have four that were feral born and tamed, they remain highly sensitive to and spook easily from many sounds.

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Right. This is ultra sounds (= very high frequency), not hearable for humans. But cats can hear higher frequencies than us people, so it is possible the cats will be repelled them too...


Still, worth to search out if it works.

There is also no mosquito repellants for humans, yes they do sell them, but any smell works as well.

Mosquito finds it target by CO2 and bodytemperature, only way to mask cat or human would be increase surrounding CO2 level, use air bottles to breathe air so that exhale CO2 is same that surrounding air and to stop emitting heat with clothing.

There is one other way too, if surrounding temperature is increased enough, it will mess with their sensors, with IR heater such is possible, to add such large 'flare' of heat that they tend to avoid.

Ice gel should work lot better than mosquito repellants sold.

It is very important to choose correct location for electric mosquito destroyer device, I don't think mosquitos really can hear anything, but as all insects they too are attracted by UV light and heat.

There was one product that did vacuum air around it, there was container where mosquitos got and could not leave, device also dried them so it was easy to make powder from them and recycle them into nature.

Can't remember name of that device, if I happen to find it again, then I post back.

I had found these elecronical ultra sound devices. Battery-driven, so you can have them anywhere. Cost here in sweden between 25-33 dollars. And if they are not in your country, they can surely be bought on postorder to abroad.

The problem is, I have understood scientific tests also shows they are more or less worthless. No real practical use...

So unless I got to know something more about them - I cant recommend them at this moment.

What is left is the destroying device. Perhaps partly similiar to the device JTbo writes about (not the same).

Originally Posted by StefanZ

I had found these elecronical ultra sound devices. Battery-driven, so you can have them anywhere. Cost here in sweden between 25-33 dollars. And if they are not in your country, they can surely be bought on postorder to abroad.

The problem is, I have understood scientific tests also shows they are more or less worthless. No real practical use...

So unless I got to know something more about them - I cant recommend them at this moment.

What is left is the destroying device. Perhaps partly similiar to the device JTbo writes about (not the same).

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I did read about those collars for dogs some time ago, someones dog suffered great deal from it, took weeks for him to recover, I guess dog did hear too well.

It is bit worrying that such products can be sold, but I guess there is not even nearly as much control about what you can sell to animals than what you can sell to humans.

Where I live, here is lakes and swamps nearby, also lot of forests, so here is also lot of insects too, for mosquitos covering up all water sources, for horseflies old car tyre with mix of water and dish washing soap (not machine type), they seem to be attracted by warm dark coloured thing and then sink into water, mosquitos need open water to breed, so covering up is good option or then dish washing soap added to water, it removes surface tension and mosquito is sank to bottom without being able to lay eggs or whatever it does on water, can't remember.

Of course water used for drinking should not be soaped.

But there is not much to do really, unless one is prepared to pay a lot, these should work rather well, or any other similar device:
http://www.mosquitocontroltrap.com/home

As with any trapping, let it be cat or mosquito, location is the key, I would think that placing device where cat's relax would only lure mosquitos to cats, better would be to place where is source of mosquitos, near to water.