Cat has made new home on my Dodge Ram!

I have a 7 year old male cat that loves laying on the hood and roof of my truck. I've smacked him off a few times (not hard enough to break anything or scratch my hood!) but he doesn't get the point. I love the kitty, but what'll I do about this? I've heard of these ultra-sonic motion-activated whistles that cover a 20' radius that I could bolt un in the car-port above the truck. I've also heard of some kind of gel that you put down wherever you want to keep the cats out of. What's the best solution? THANKS!

First of all don't smack your kitty! Even lightly you can do great damage to a cat, or create hostilities in him and one day he will have had enough and he could attack you.

Buy some StickyPads II Extra Large and put them on the hood of your car, or keep your cat inside so he doesn't get on your car at all.

Originally Posted by hissy

First of all don't smack your kitty! Even lightly you can do great damage to a cat, or create hostilities in him and one day he will have had enough and he could attack you.

Buy some StickyPads II Extra Large and put them on the hood of your car, or keep your cat inside so he doesn't get on your car at all.

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hes laying on the top of your car because its warm. he likes it. give him another place thats compareable. With our outdoor barn kitties, I always used a plastic garbage can top. just laid it in a sunny spot. they were happy stayed off the car.

I've heard of those ultra sonic sound things and don't like the sound of them It would be like me giving you a high pitched scream, and i mean "high pitched" in your ear.

If he doesn't scratch the hood then why spoil his fun.

Thanks for the replies! That trash can lid sounds like a GREAT idea. I'll try that. There's a perfect spot on the ther side of the garage where the sun shines down REAL good. As for the "warm" thing, this isn't entirely true. If I accidentally lock a cat in the garage, I'll find paw-prints on top of anything that the cat shouldn't be on (four-wheeler, boat, tractor, etc.) The metal could be cool and they still like it. Something about the metal is attractive, maybe because it's clean (before they shed all over it). Either way, I'll try the metal trashcan lid and see what happens. As for the "smack," let me rephrase to "lightly nudged" it off the hood. (Hey at least I didn't blow it off with my new Winchester - now that would have caused great damage - JUST KIDDING!) Why spoil the fun you ask? Why don't I just go out and take my truck on the Baja 1000 and just get the damage over with, I ask. We're talkin' about a new $1500 paint job here. If they could simply hop up on the car or truck and not get muddy paw-prints, or worse, claw-marks on the paint job, I could care less. I've seen Blacky jump up, start to slip off, then kick with her back-legs making a noise similar to draggin your nails down a chalk-board. That's FAR worse than the noise emitted by the Cat-Whistle. TRUST ME. I don't want to do anything to hurt my kitties, but I look at the ultra-sonic whistle like the underground electric perimeters people use to keep their dogs in with: It only takes one or two "corrections" and they learn to stay away from the boundaries. However, I'll try the trash-can lid first, and if that works, no ultra-sonic whistle. Thanks again folks!

Can you cover the car in any way? I have a tarpauline like covering for my car that I use in winter to stop it getting iced over, and it only cost £20. Can't imagine kittie would like sleeping on that type of thing (although there's always one who does it anyway!)