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How to repel neighbor's cat
My neighbor's cat is sneaky (probably there's several cats from different neighbors!). I don't see any cat when I'm gardening. However, on some days I find their poops already in my yard. Not sure when they did their business on my yard.
Is there organic ways to prevent this?
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The quick, fun and extremely entertaining way to repel a cat is...the Boogie Bass. Remember that singing fish a few years back? It's a wall mounted, motion activated novelty item?
My neighbor's cat used my planter for a potty. I love cats and have one myself, but didn't like it anymore than you do. I dug through my closet and found the boogie bass. I put it in the flower bed and covered it with a very thin layer of mulch. I then sat in anticipation as the cat approached, and to this day wish I had videotaped the event. The cat shows up, sniffs around a little, and then starts to stratch out his spot. The boogie bass springs up out of the mulch and starts singing, "Ain't we got fun". The cat jumps about 5' straight up into to air, darts back over to his yard, and I haven't seen him in there since. I still crack up when I think about it. It was just so funny and very effective.
I even crack up just by reading your story! I wish I can use your idea. The problem is that the cat(s) don't have a favorite spot. It can be anywhere in the yard. Although there seem to be a couple of regular spots. So is this a sign that it may be caused by several cats? Do cats usually have a favorite potty spot and don't move around?
My planter is fairly small, so that's probably why I had a nice defined area from which to attack. Maybe you could put some plywood or something else hard in most of the spots for awhile to herd them to one spot. You'd only have to do this once for it to be effective. It might be worth a shot. If nothing else, it would give you a good laugh. For larger areas, motion detection sprinklers might work in short period of time too. Not as entertaining though!
On my gravel driveway, putting plywood is OK. But putting them on my lawn might kill the grass. I googled and found Scarecrow motion activated sprinkler. They range from about $57 to $80s depending on where you buy them. Quite pricey, but if it is an effective way to deter cats, I will consider it. The thing is, once they learn their lesson, I will have no use of the sprinkler anymore.
Would spreading hot pepper powder on their spots work? I know it works on rabbits. Are there some other stuffs that have odor that cats don't like?
Take a clear plastic bottle (I use a 2 liter soda bottle) and fill it about 2/3 full with water. Then you set it on it's side in the garden. You may need several if you have a large garden. Most cats don't like the reflection of the water through the plastic and they will stay away. This may not work on all cats, but I've had good luck with it.
What's worked for me (I have 2 cats) is pushing plastic forks in the ground handle first, with a small part of the tines (1/2") above ground level. I place several around plants and areas I want to protect. I find it's especially helpful with seedlings which they can unearth. The cats don't appear to like the feeling of scratching something that seems to be scratching them back.
I already put one clear plastic bottle with water in the center of the large "potty area" (I currently only have one bottle). Mikta: so I don't set the bottle on it's bottom but on it's side?
I think I want to try putting some slice of shallots/red onions. Heck, even I can't stand the fume that makes tears in my eyes. So hopefully this will work on cats too and I guess it wouldn't hurt them as hot peppers. I don't think they even want to go near it.
I read somewhere that a gardener put rose clippings around the perimeter and one time s/he heard a cat wen't "YEOOOWW!" and it never came back to their garden.
I have 3 cats, plus a multitude of neighbourhood cats and dogs - it's a bit like the wild kingdom here. Anyway, my cats do of course love all that open, freshly tilled soil, but they bury their stuff. I'd actually rather have that then all of the un-buried doggy-doo everywhere.
That having been said, what about those inexpensive 'watch-frogs' they sell at Wal-mart?? You could put it near the spot(s?) that they frequent. It might be a deterrent. I have used rose/raspberry canes over areas I have seeded to keep them away, as well.
All I can say is it may be easier to live with it than to try to train a cat. 8-))
I did not use carpet. I used the nail strips used to keep wall-to-wall carpet from moving around. I get them at Home Depot for about $0.50 each. They're 3-4 feet long and easily broken into smaller pieces.
One of my neighbors keeps birds in a cage outside. She had cats perching on her fence to harass the birds. She nailed some of these strips to the top of her fence and the cats quit coming around.
"Would spreading hot pepper powder on their spots work?"
Possibly an urban myth, but I've read of cats that have scratched their eyes out or at least injured their eyes due to the pain. To my mind, if there's even an outside chance that the story is true, I know I'd live with the cats using my garden as their personal litter box over harming one.
Try pieces of aluminum foil. Or something. Anyway, depending on the size of your garden, you'd need a heck of a lot of pepper.
i wouldn't be surprised if chile pepper is very dangerous to cats' eyes.
once i scratched near my eyes, forgetting i had just been chopping up peppers and had capsaicin on my fingers. my eyes burned badly for 1/2 hour. my eyelids are actually scarred and they itch a little pretty much every day. this was 2 years ago.
i wouldn't ever use chile peppers to repel cats.
"I'e got a neighbor with 4 cats who use our raised beds and my daughter's sandbox as their personal toilets. I'd love to figure out a way to stop them."
sandboxes are easy they just need to have a cover on them when theyre not being used. you can use anything like a sheet of wood or tin (with sharp edges bent over) or even a tarp or wire mesh to keep it covered and keep the cats out, if they cant reach the sand to dig it up they wont go there. usually the best way to keep cats out of a garden bed is to make it hard for them to dig, things like the plastic forks mentioned above, or sticks/small branches poked firmly into the ground make it uncomfortable for them to dig around.
The only thing that i have found that works on cats is some thing called "JAYS FLUID" its a strong smelling treacle like stuff that cats don't like. What you do is get some tea bags(5 or 6) and dip them in a mixture of 50% water and 50% Jays fluid then put them in the corners of where the cat(s) are messing and thats it no more poo you have to replace them after about 2 months but the cats hate the stuff so much that after a while they stop comming in the garden all together, because they have a very good sence of smell they dont go near it. You can buy it on ebay in the uk. P.S you dont have to put the tea bags in the sand pit just near it or under some thing that the smell will get out but your children cant get to. i have a bark play bit for my daughter and ive had no problems since ive started to use it.
There are two products that will keep the cats gone. One is the organic liquid fence garlic spray (which I have used for dogs) that is very effective; however you will have to reapply at least everyother day. There is also a product called animal away that emmites a high pitched sound that the cats hate.
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In the spirit of the plastic forks and carpet nail strips ideas, you can buy those ugly vinyl carpet protector sheets (Grandma used to place them in front of doors) but turn them UPSIDE-DOWN. The harmless plastic teeth on the underside will cause cats to do a little dance for you before running away!
Here is a link that might be useful: Carpet Protector
I have house cats, 2, and enjoy them. I do not enjoy stray and outdoor cats spraying my bushes, house, and eating the abundant birds, etc in my yard. I use a pellet rifle only pumped twice. 3 x 9 scope so I know I will just sting it's bottom. I don't want to kill them, just sting em and send em running. Most it has taken was 3 hits with a stray tom who now frequents yards 4 streets over. Some of you may cry foul and say "cruelty", but it's really not. Just an alternative form of education if you will. TiMo
If you want to try seadspreaders idea you'll need to look for 'Jeyes' fluid. But be careful not to let it touch the plants because it will kill them. I have had success with wire netting, prickly twigs and prunings laid over seed beds. Cats will only dig loose soil so between established plants just don't keep disturbing the ground. If it's a little hard they won't dig.
I have a neighbor who takes in every stray in the neighborhood and then lets them run wild. They urinate on my porch, my car and poop in my gardens all around my house. I have a dog so I didn't want him to be affected. I used store bought cat repellent and cayenne pepper but it only works for several hours...you have to put it down at least once a day until they stop (which can take forever). Also, once you stop they will eventually return to the area. I got rid of them for a year but they are back! It was a waste of time and money...I am now trying the motion detector sprinkler...problem is it is my front porch so how do I go in and out without getting hit and it leaks down into my storage under my wood slatted front porch (just like their urine does). Is there anything legally that could be done to my neighbor? I don't want to hurt our relationship but it is horrible!
May I suggest THE most effective way to remove the kitteh poop from your garden?
Get yourself a dog :)
(The problem with most of smelly stuff is that it evaporates when it's placed outside. I have heard somewhere that if your kitty makes trouble in your home, for instance, has tendencies to crash Xmas tree down - use some orange essential oil and place it underneath, rub it on lower branches. You see, kitties hate the smell of oranges, lemons etc., if you see a way you can use it against them - go!)
Things I have tried with no success....
Tea leaves,
citrus peelings,
spiked seed heads
coffee grinds (can't afford to cover the whole area)
human urine
and as a last resort....'tack strips' that the cat pushed aside, flipped over and continuously poops in between the strapping.
This cat & accomplices are 'thugs'..just like their owner. But there are THREE of them, and today was the last straw. It sprayed all over my recycling bins! This is war!! Have A Heart trap is next and good riddance to these ferrel cats whom my neighbor feeds but does not take care of beyond that. He's as bad as they are.
ARGH!! It has cost me three individual plantings, plus the loss of tomato plants, as well as attracted a host of flies.... and now we are painting and prepping to put the house on the market, and the last thing people need to smell when they walk behind my house towards the gardens and garage is cat spray!! HELP!!!
Well, it starts with a Havahart trap and a little tuna near the dump site. Once you have the cat in the bag, sidle up on your neighbors porch with this, all memorized:
"Hi, is this YOUR cat? I thought it might be. Sorry - I didn't mean to catch him; it's just that some kind of animal has been using my garden as a toilet. When I was working up the soil the other day, I came up with a handful of excrement. I figured it was a coon, so I set this trap for it." (Apologize for having detained the cat again, and tell him you hope you catch whatever it is sometime within the next week or so).
If that doesn't work, you fall back on:
"Hey neighbor - this is the second time your cat has wound up behind bars, and I haven't caught any other critters yet, so I'm beginning to suspect that just maybe it's your cat that's stinking up the greenery. Do you thing you could keep a little tighter reign on him?"
By this time, the cat's prolly too smart to get caught a third time (I can tell you how to snare it, but God it'll be noisy), but your neighbor is stupid & prolly won't know that. Hopefully, he'll have received the message by then & your problem will be solved. It might also help to imprint the phrase 'trip to the pound' in his mind if you have to make that second trip - just a thought.
Some years ago now I was a roommate in a house that was having cat problems and negotiating with neighbor was going poorly, so we just went ahead and trapped cats and took them to the shelter. We told the neighbor where the cats were. Never had a problem again.
I moved to a new home with a small rear garden recently.
there are three cats (at least) i've started to recognise that come through the garden using the flower beds to poop in and also they eye up the birds on the feeder.
i like cats, but not when they mess up my garden. we tried garlic pellets but they get washed away with the rain.
i use a water pistol. mini super soaker. it really does the trick.
when i see a cat in the garden i quickly go outside, where my loaded weapon is waiting. with my arm outstretched, i make those stupid noises that cat owners make to entice kitty over then BLAST! cold shower for kitty!!! they get out pretty fast after that!!!
i have even gone 'hunting' down the path which links all the back gardens in our street. 'here kitty kitty', then BLAST! what a great buzz. take the fight to the enemy!
revenge is sweet!!!
I have a newely painted (White) 5' high concrete wall around my property. My neighbor, accross the street, has adopted 2 ferrel cats and they bored at his shed behind his house! How can I deter these wild things from jumping up on my walls and leaving their paw marks where they climb? I am tired of cleaning the dirty paw marks from my walls.
Dennis. April 13, 2011
I've got a good feline casserole recipe I can give you, lol.
I personally have had success with a product we get in the UK called 'Lion's Roar'. It consists of small pellets that are soaked in the essence of lions dung/urine. Cats seem to stay far away from this when I sprinkle it around my plants, since when they smell it they sense that a lion has recently been there and made it their own territory.
there once was a cat that did the business on the red rock used in a fancy little garden. the gardener tried various this and thats to push along the little feline to no avail until one day someone suggested spreading lime atop the rock, a thin layer to be sure, a layer that went away in a short time but was proven to be very successful in detering the cat of leaving his baggage. just saying.
My neighbors cat comes in very stealth and just ruins my car cover in one clawing session. I have since put the ruined cover over my new one. This cat is now scratching through it and into my new one. These covers are $125.00 each. Before i catch and remove this cat from my town i would like to see if there is something i could do to just keep these cats or cat from shreading my car cover... HELP !!! anyone that can please say how....... Thank you..
We use a Havahart trap. Our previous neighbor used to bring home stray cats all the time and never had them fixed. I think she had about 30 cats at one time. We would catch the cat in the trap and then soak it well with the garden hose. Let it sit an hour and soak it again and let it go. Only one cat was dumb enough to come back onto our property.
well my parents may not like it but i set a old vacume cleaner that is old broken and sounds horrible and a lamp outside on the deck connected to a x10 module. i have the control panel /trigger switch right by my bed. when i hear the neighbours cat screeching at our cat through the glass door and our cat pounding on the door, i push the switch and the vacume cleaner of doom comes to life. voila no more annoying cat concerts outside our house
^the vacuum cleaner is only there to create a lot of noise nothing more. a bright lamp and loud vacuum cleaner is enough to scare the cat away.
There was a test case (in the UK) put by one disgruntalled gardener about cats damaging property cos there is a law against livestock (which includes pets) straying on to other peoples property and causing damage - which includes defecating - However the case failed as a cat was considered to be too difficult to controle without restricting it's liberty in an unacceptable manner.
So no chance of prosecuting owners in the UK then
You know cats can be vindictive. I once lived where we had a problem cat doing its business in ours and our neighbors flower beds. My neighbor used moth balls to deter the cat. Well, the cat jumped in the open window of his truck that night and went # 2 on his seat! I used cayenne pepper in our flower bed and the cat peed on the windshield of my car! Finally we had to resort to "stingers" with the bb gun pumped up just enough times to sting it. Even with that it took numerous hits to finallly keep the cat from coming back. I think that cat should win some kind of award! :) (I laugh now but it was not funny at the time!)
People should consider the possibility that if they ARE successful at ridding their yard of cats, and some of the methods suggested on these threads are no less than cruel, the result could be an explosion of the population of small rodents. Voles having a field day decimating the roots of their prized perennials. Moles tunneling through their lawns. Chipmunks tunneling holes everywhere, which can undermine walkways, create cavities next to house foundations, and are often subsequently occupied by yellow jackets. Etc. etc. These rodents cause much worse damage than dealing with a few cat poops. And next they will be coming to Gardenweb wondering how to get rid of yellow jackets instead of cats.
I am thankful for my cat's hunting skills, and the occasional neighborhood cat that wanders through. Although I have a large yard and gardens, and we don't have feral cats here.
Not to mention the population explosion of all those pesky songbirds and lizards! I love how cat lovers are always touting them as effective rodent control. Our neighbors have several "barn cats" (which is just another name for "stray") that crap in my driveway, dig in my trash and stalk birds at my bird feeder. Even with all those cats their property is riddled with gopher holes... Go figure.
Why not just go and talk to your neighbors about their cats? If they refuse or are unable to restrain them, then I support a previous poster's idea of painting a target on them. Another suggestion, though not organic, is just to scare them by firing at them but taking care not to injure them. Hopefully, that will scare them away.
Okay, here is what you do. You're going to need:
Spray paint (one can - white)
Lip stick (red, blue, yellow)
1 red rubber ball
Wash rags (100 varied colors and patterns)
1 red wig
1 bottle of tequila
15 mounted novelty singing fish
1 burlap sack
2 square feet of leather
1 cubic foot of foam
1 box of thumb tacks
heavy leather gloves
bamboo (15 pieces, 3 feet in length)
1 bag of leaves
1 can of tuna
When the circus comes to town, use the shovel to dig a hole in your yard 2 feet, 11 inches by 2 feet, eleven inches wide by 4 feet deep. Cover the whole with bamboo and leaves. Set open can of tuna in the center of the leaves.
Spray paint yourself bright white and apply lipstick around mouth and eyes. Use the rubber ball for a nose. Place wig on head. Use wash rags to make a clown costume. (Don't use all the rags. You'll need a few for the monkey's costume).
Sneak up to the clown trailer behind the circus and position the novelty singing bass in a "choir" formation. Set 1 bottle of tequila just beyond the furthest singing fish.
Clap hands to activate singing fish.
When the clowns come out to investigate, they will see and head straight for the tequila. Clowns love tequila.
Sneak into their trailer and steal their monkey. Put monkey in sack. He won't suspect a thing. Remember, you'll be dressed look like a clown.
Once home, fashion a tiny saddle from the leather, foam and thumb tacks. Make tiny monkey clown costume with remaining wash rags.
By this time you should have at a cat in your pit. Don your leather gloves, remove cat from pit, place saddle on the cat, place monkey on saddle.
By instinct, monkeys have the ability to control cats and will ride the beast home. Monkeys also have an uncanny ability to find home. In that way they're sort of like homing pigeons but in an emergency you can milk a monkey (mammals).
By the end of the evening the cat is gone, the clowns have their monkey, the monkey has a steed and the cat has a belly full of tuna and a new family of drunken clowns and singing fish.
Repeat as necessary until no cats remain in your yard.
Scotch tape. You know the stuff.
Buy a 4-pack or bigger. Deploy 8-foot-long strips in and around the beds affected.
Enjoy the show! Replace/repeat as needed for the other cats.
This came courtesy of the Chile-Heads Mailing List years ago. It came with a side-splitting anecdote of effectiveness. Involving the neighbor's pampered but un-restricted fluffy show cat.
The cat and the neighbor were educated at the same time.
I love cats, and am fostering a stray kitten, and am not bothered by a little bit of cat poo in my garden, but my neighbor has a problem with several stray cats ( more than 8) pooing in his garden so we asked at nurseries and found a woman with lots of experience of dealing with cat poo in gardens and she advised to use hot chile powder (it is only c. a third as hot as cayenne pepper powder depending on the brand, the order of the list of ingrediants will tell you with the greatest amount of ingrediant first on the list, but hot enough to discourage cat poo activity, and we've found it has worked to good effect for us and the felines. I've seen several cats approach the border where the chile powder covered dirt was, put their head down within a few inches of the ground to smell it and turn tail and skedaddle.
You must replace the chile powder ( a mixture of garlic, cumin and hot chilli peppers, usually cayenne) after a rain or after watering or most likely the cats forget there was once a deterent there and will poo again in your garden.
Because cats have a far better sense of smell than humans do, adult cats are observant enough not to rub something hot and smelly in their eyes.
I don't use chile powder where kittens are found.
we bought the chile powder in bulk so it was cheap, and spread c. 1 Tablespoon over every square foot in the areas where the cat poop was found in my neighbors garden.
within a couple months the cats stopped pooing there. (it may have worked earlier than that were it not for the fact that he forgot to replenish the powder after it rained, twice.)
Also, if a cat has a choice between pooing on bare dirt which is easy for them to cover up, and therefore protect themselves from a predator tracking them, which is a survival trait in felines, or pooing on a layer of wood chip mulch that is 3 to 4 inches deep, and would recquire much more digging effort with those little claws, it will choose the bare dirt every time, I use a thick layer of large size wood chip mulch around my newly planted plants. The large size breaks down more slowly than the smaller chips.
I hope this info will help you to teach the cats better potty manners. Cats are smart folks, in my opinion.
While the Boogie Bass story is hysterical, I vote for Scotch tape. We have 2 indoor cats here. A female, apparently in heat, showed up at our house one night & sat on the outside windowsill of our living room window. She showed up 2 nights in a row in the early morning hours. Our (fixed) cats went crazy. The 3rd night we attached wide, double-sided tape to the window sill. We heard some noise, but not a lot. The next morning, we removed the tape, which was covered with cat hair. The stupid cat came back for one more night but the window sill had fresh tape. We have never seen the cat again. In a garden, maybe the double-sided tape could be affixed to cardboard or boards. Dennis: maybe try putting some tape on your walls.
It appears that the stickiness of the tape sufficiently freaked out the cat so that he never came back. - Laura


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Major League Soccer today launched fan voting for the 2014 AT&T MLS All-Star Game at www.MLSsoccer.com.
Media members nominated a total of 152 players to the fan ballot. Fans may vote online HERE through July 11 at 3 p.m. ET and via Twitter from July 2-6. Eleven players – one goalkeeper, three defenders, four midfielders and three forwards – with the highest combined votes will be named to the All-Star Fan XI.


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Very easy to make but very delicious. Use the sweet sour dressing uploaded by the same user. I recently made it using a bagged lettuce combo of iceberg, romaine, and butter lettuce. Cut out all the work of tearing lettuce. This has been a family favorite for years!
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CD4 and Viral Loadmy tests results have always been CD4 over 1000 and viral load undetectable my last test shows CD4 954 and viral load 100 should I be worried?
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Clinton Foundation Deal Will Reduce Price of Viral Load, CD4+ Tests for Developing Countries by as Much as 80%...Becton, Dickinson & Co ., Roche Molecular Diagnostics , Bayer HealthCare and bioMerieux -- that will cut the prices of viral load and CD4+ T cell diagnostic tests in developing nations by as much as 80%, Reuters/Washington Post reports (... Read more »
Trizivir Plus Efavirenz Potent for Naive Patients With Low CD4 Counts and High Viral Loads...very effective even in patients who are very sick. This is terrific news for the newly diagnosed who discover that their first CD4 and viral load counts are terrible. There are simple and generally well-tolerated regimens they can use that will... Read more »
Answering the AIDS Denialists: CD4 (T-Cell) Counts, and Viral Load...expert panel convened by the Department of Health and Human Services to determine HIV treatment guidelines recommended using both CD4 and viral load in conjunction with the clinical condition of the patient to guide therapeutic decision-making.... Read more »
Racial/Ethnic Difference in CD4T Cell Count and Viral Load at Presentation for Medical Care and in Follow-up After HIV-1 Infection...patients (median 372 cell/mm 3 , n=178. The distribution of HIV-1-RNA levels also differed significantly. The initial median viral load for white patients was 25,026 copies/ml and for black patients it was 21,489 copies/ml, whereas the median... Read more »
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An open house, featuring the M5 press and REVO technology, will be held November 12-13 at APR's Glendale Heights headquarters. Read More »
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Spartanics' laser cutting and SMAG's roll-fed label converting technology will combine for an integrated digital line of converting equipment. Read More »
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California's westerly wine country holds its annual harvest festival every October. Besides cow-milking lessons (on a fake cow), pumpkin carving and a grape stomp, the main attraction is in the festival pavilion, where more than 250 wineries participate in a massive wine tasting. harvestfair.org
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I'm trying hard to be diplomatic in my choice of words. I'm sure this was a great resort back in the day, but it has gone downhill since. Way downhill. The rooms are dingy and reek of urine, mold, and nicotine. Smoking is not permitted in the rooms now, but the many years of allowing smoking has built up in the walls and furniture. Be very careful selecting your lounge chair by the pool. Almost all of the chairs are ripped and falling apart. The hotel has a casino and many of the rooms back right up to it. The thump, thump, thump and loudspeaker noise of whatever was going on in there went on late into the evening. In e room next to us was what we think is a long term resident, based on the number of animals and the welcome sign outside of her door. Not sure what was going on over there, but what we heard was spank, spank, giggle, giggle, woof, woof. You draw you're own conclusions. I would not stay here again, even if it was free.
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You'll never lack for things to do in New Jersey—the state is full of surprises, waiting to be discovered. Everywhere you turn there is something to do. You can ferry out to see the Statue of Liberty, explore your scholarly side at Princeton, or take a risk and hit the Atlantic City casinos. New Jersey is called "The Crossroads of the American Revolution," and one of the best things to do in New Jersey is to explore the roots of America at the Pine Barrens Village, in Batsto. The village consists of thirty-three historic buildings; each was constructed between 1766 and 1867.
If you're still wondering what to do in New Jersey, pay a visit to the Walt Whitman home, in Camden, where America's most storied poet once lived. If you'd like to see some world class art, slip over to Wheaton Arts in southern New Jersey or the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton and immerse yourself in the cultural offerings of each. No list of what to do in New Jersey is complete without a dip in the waters off of Atlantic City, a night at the casinos, followed by a drive through the Gold Coast neighborhood to view the exquisite homes. Just a few of the ways to enjoy the Garden State.
Stop by this tourism center to grab a free map for a Doo-Wop Preservation Tour of Wildwoods' wildest neon-lit 1950's architecture.
Brace Yourself: The current big daddy of coasters, this ride towers, quite literally, above all others. At the ride's highest peak, the brave folks who step aboard soar a record 456 feet (the equivalent of 45 stories) aboveground.
Years as agent: 41. Other specialties: Family, Adventure travel, Africa, China. Consulting fee: $100.
One of the best-preserved Victorian districts in America, with crape myrtles sprouting from sidewalks and American-flag bunting hanging from impeccable gingerbread porches laden with rockers and wicker furniture, Cape May is the nation's first seaside resort and southernmost point in New Jersey.
Years as agent: 12. Specialty: Southern Africa. Consultation fee: From $500.
Explore 90 miles of sandy beaches, then take a look around the 150-year-old Barnegat Lighthouse. The centerpiece of the museum is the lighthouse's 1856 Fresnel lens, fabricated in Paris by Henri Le Paute and composed of more than 1,000 individual prisms fitted into a massive iron frame.
Take one of the excellent guided birding walks at Cape May Point, on the Delaware Bay.
Can an indie music-and-art festival founded in the desert near Palm Springs thrive in the land of Bruce Springsteen?The organizers of the annual Coachella festival think so. Their All Points West festival is set to take place at New Jersey's historic Liberty State Park.
Discover Glenmont, Thomas Edison's 29-room Queen Anne–style mansion. It's an often-overlooked shrine to the great inventor run by the National Park Service in West Orange, NJ.
The two-year-old Pier Shops at Caesar's, an edifice stretching 1,000 feet into the Atlantic, houses the largest shopping-mall fountain in the world. The mall is chockablock with luxury retailers - Bottega Veneta, Prada, and Louis Vuitton.
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I am considering a move in the next 3-5 years. Currently located in CA on Central Coast (down the road from twin rivers). I am definitely not interested in Southern California. Can anyone say anything about about Northern CA, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, or Colorado (New Mexico and Arizona would probably be too hot for me). Cheaper real estate is a plus and close to skiing also a big plus (as in Reno, NV or Bend, Oregon) Thanks in advance for your help. (yes, Reno would be hotter than I like but so close to Tahoe!!!)


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I know I could post this in the lawn forum, but I am hoping to attract responses from people near my location.
We have a horrible lawn and want to convert to a warm season grass. I really like the fine blade and look of Emerald Zoysia. I am just wondering what people's experiences have been with it. Do you get any winter cold injury? Do you mow with a reel mower (what kind?) or a really well-sharpened rotary?
I love my Zoysia! We had it installed in June 2004 with sod (before the drought) and it has done so well. It does creep like Bermuda but nowhere near as fast as Bermuda; plus the runners are much thicker and way easier to dislodge than Bermuda which is very hard to remove. I trim it once a year with a sharp shovel to keep it within bounds (very easy). Believe me, I HATE Bermuda and am still trying to get it out of places from the small amount that was in the fescue lawn BEFORE.
I don't fertilize it, don't use weed and feed and it is beautiful looking. Mow it with a regular lawn mower. To me, grass is the feature in the garden for which I want to spend the least amount of time; zoysia has made that possible.
Compared to fescue, we mow it less, it looked good in the drought, we don't have to overseed in the fall and you can use the annual trimmings to plug into any bad spots (in January 2005 we had some damage after an ice storm because the ice sat on the grass - no sign of that now, it repaired perfectly). The creeping nature of it keeps it full in the middle as it is constantly replenishing itself.
I am just north of Atlanta. Our guy recommended that it be installed in late May/early June when it is actively growing; he did not recommend installing dormant sod.
The previous owner of our house put patches of zoysia in sometime before we got here. It has spread nicely and chokes out the bermuda when they meet. It will take a few more years to overtake all of it though. I agree that it does creep into my beds but I pull stray clumps once or twice a season...the weedy bermuda is so obnoxious to pull out and if I stood on the front porch, I swear I could hear it growing. The zoysia clumps are no harder to pull out of my beds than the fescue, no where close to the pain of bermuda. I love the feel of it under my feet. We mow with a regular mower also.
Thank you for the responses. I was curious about the water requirements, as it is supposedly less drought tolerant than bermuda and centipede, and I seem to hear mixed things about how much water it needs. esh ga, to you have emerald or some other cultivar?


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Problem Uploading Images and Documents? Here's Why
March 26, 2015 • by • Categories: Support Blog
Perhaps you've noticed that your upload button in the Conductor admin isn't showing. Don't worry; nothing's wrong with your computer or Conductor.
The problem lies in the fact that the version of Flash on your computer is outdated. Flash is a program used by the editor behind Conductor, and they have just released a new update! Read More
10 Ways to Add Value to Your Site
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Do you want to increase the time visitors spend on your site? Pageviews? Conversions? Do you want to make sure your visitors find what they want and take the actions you want them to take? Then
"Keep your visitors happy."
If you've taken Conductor training from me, it's likely that you've heard that mantra more than once. And here are 10 ways you can help visitors AND yourself, as well. It's a win-win situation! Read More
Yet Another Way to Share Photos
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Got a Flickr album you want to embed in your site but don't know how? Well, it's your lucky day!
I have to admit I didn't know how to do this until this morning, after a client asked me for instructions the other day. But Flickr took care of the hard part, so the rest was easy.
Here's how I did it:
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Centering Text - Not a Great Idea
February 13, 2015 • by • Categories: Support Blog
I get asked fairly frequently why folks can't center text on their Conductor site.
The answer is simple. It's a bad idea.
You've probably all heard my mantra, "Keep your visitors happy." Well, keeping them happy involves making sure all text that looks like a link is actually a working link, making information easy to find, keeping image files small so you don't use their data and so pages load quickly, and making sure the text is easy to read. Read More
Adding a Basic Photo Gallery to Your Site
February 11, 2015 • by • Categories: Support Blog
Thanks to the Conductor refresher afternoon sign-up and a beta test of a new product that helps me see where folks are going on the User Guide, I realized that we don't have a simple explanation of how to place a basic photo gallery on Conductor sites (RTE version).
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Setting Default Email Programs
December 05, 2014 • by • Categories: Support Blog
We've had several questions lately about why Outlook and not Gmail tries to open when visitors select an email link. Users want to know how they can get Gmail to open instead.
However, it's not Conductor (or any other content management system) that's telling Outlook to open. The default email client (program) is determined by settings in your visitors' computer preferences. Most likely, they were originally set for Outlook since we only recently changed to Gmail. Anyone with this issue will need to change those defaults; you can't control this except on your own computer. Read More
Correcting Alt Text on Placed Images
August 19, 2014 • by • Categories: Support Blog
We've all done it.
We've all placed images on a web page and forgotten to update the alt text (description). Thus, when a visitor hovers over the image on the site, she sees 234987ksd.jpg or something just as (not) helpful. A visually disabled visitor has no way of knowing what that image is about or why it's important to the page. And search engines are left clueless as to why they should send visitors to this page to see this image. Read More
Checking for Broken Links
July 17, 2014 • by • Categories: Support Blog
Wow! I just had a real eye-opening experience!
I was in the midst of writing an article about how you could use a certain website to check for broken links, when I realized that that site was not checking through my entire site, but just the homepage! You wouldn't believe the number of broken links on this site alone; I was embarrassed to find we had so many errors, but so happy to be able to fix them! Read More
Wait! Do you really need that PDF?
June 23, 2014 • by • Categories: Support Blog
Nearly every site has PDF links, right? But is it always the right thing to do—insert PDFs instead of write out the text on your site? Many usability/accessibility experts are saying the answer to that is an emphatic No!
PDFs have accessibility issues that webpages, in general, don't have. Let's look at some of the arguments for and against using PDFs. Read More
New Update to CKEditor
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Rolf Birkenkaemper Wrote:Hi Michael
I can confirm David's experience only partly. I have owned several Borgel cased watches and when I asked for an extract I did get one.
For instance the watch in the Toelke/King book picture 211 is a Borgel wrist watch (the description is not very good !) and it did have an extract.
On the other hand I own a Borgel watch from 1893 which-according to the extract- went to Pugni in Milan. This could confirm the pre 1900 hypothesis.
Regards, Michael
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Im 37 weeks and My lower stomach/tendon feels really bruised, even though it's not bruised it's really tender and hurts when I walk. Does anyone else feel this way?
Lower stomach feels bruised anyone else?
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Mostly I feel like this after Dr visits where they are feeling around for baby's position. It stinks!
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That describes my ribs where LO has been kicking me nonstop all day.
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Posted 01/30/2013
Yep! That would b mine too! Muscles r super tender from carrying weight of our big baby! I'm 36+4 and baby is already over 7 lbs! The end is near for us! Goodluck:)))
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Dr told me it was very normal
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I posted about that earlier today, dr today says its normal, and we will probably feel more and more pains in places we didn't even know existed as time goes on! Lol
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Ok thanks everyone!!
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Yes! For about a week now. It's even tender to the touch.
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Dogs represent many things to many people. Vicki and Randy Weimer's pair of happy-go-lucky Labradors served as true members of the family, teaching their children life lessons while always keeping an eye out for opportunities to roll in something interesting.
When the couple moved from Southern California to the Central Coast about 22 years ago, they purchased 10 acres where their dogs, cows, and pigs could roam free. Naturally, the ranch was dubbed Runnin' Dog Ranch, an homage to black lab Sonny and yellow lab King.
"The dogs just loved to run around the property, and Vicki came up with the name right away," Randy said. "We like to say that those dogs helped raise our kids."
Although the family's four-legged companions have long since passed, Runnin' Dog Ranch Salsa—the Weimer's boutique salsa business—lives on as a testament to that special human-canine bond. Naturally, the salsas are bold and joyful, with many layers of playful nuance.
"People are drawn to our salsa because it's got such a deep flavor," Randy said. "This is not a runny, watery salsa."
I found that each flavor—Greengo, Spicy, Hot Dog, and Mild—boasted its own distinct personality and heat profile. A handy spice gauge found on the side of each jar hints at the range of firepower lurking within (Hot Dog is for those who declare: "The hotter the better."). Although each flavor is quite different, all were impressively thick, fresh, and zesty. The gluten-free salsa is filled with the highest quality produce, herbs, and spices.
The Orcutt-based couple loves finding new ways to incorporate Runnin' Dog into new and stimulating meals. Tomatillo-based Greengo is refreshing and superb when mixed with a touch of mayo and served alongside sweet potato fries.
Sweeter, mango-tinged Mild makes a bold impression when left to simmer in a slow cooker filled with pork shoulder, broth, bacon, and a little barbecue sauce. Award-winning Spicy is the perfect blend of Serrano pepper heat that just begs for a huevos rancheros, chips, or even pasta sauce.
"Our goal is not only to create a really delicious, flavorful salsa, but to help others that are in need," Randy said.
Eventually, the couple aims to generate funds to go toward helping recovering addicts, victims of domestic abuse, and needy children within the community.
Until then, Runnin' Dog will continue to churn out orders—100 cases of each variety at a time.
"When we started, the question was, 'Who makes a tasty jarred salsa with a longer shelf life than those found in the deli section?'" Vicki said. "We discovered the need for a rich, versatile salsa. Randy began to experiment with fresh ingredients blended in the traditional way, then jarred them to preserve their natural flavors."
Randy is a humble man—especially for someone who created such delicious recipes out of the blue. An innocent dip contest held a few years ago spurred on the full-fledged business.
"Some people know me as 'a white guy who makes good salsa," Randy said with a chuckle. "The recipes just came to me bit by bit."
Four years in, the little company has gained a big following across the Santa Maria area and beyond.
The fresh-tasting, complexly flavored, and satisfying dips have made a home in the local section of area Albertsons, as well as California Fresh Markets on the Central Coast, JJ's Market in Arroyo Grande, El Rancho Market in Solvang, Old Town Market in Orcutt, and Woody's Butcher Block in Santa Maria.
A plethora of local wineries, including William James Cellars in Old Orcutt, proudly showcase (and sometimes even pairs) Runnin' Dog's offerings.
For the couple, each new customer is yet another member of the Runnin' Dog family (which recently grew by one thanks to the arrival of new grandson, Colton Lane). Randy believes that it only takes one spicy taste to become part of that clan.
"Once, a sweet, little elderly woman refused to try the salsa due to the fact that it was jarred," Randy said. "After being urged on by her daughter, she tried it. She then bought two jars on the spot."
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Ethical Failures in the GWOT
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- The Musashi Trio said...
Excellent article and refreshing read.
As a musician, I feel honored to know the true ethics of the US military. My grandfather was a nisiei US Soldier in ww2. Re establishing morality after the war ended was a job that never ended for him. And I see that kind of perserverence in your writing.
I try to relate that same kind of general philosophy to my fellow citizens. Most of which are typically hard headed decent folks.
Thank you so far for your service.
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- May 23, 2014 at 8:55 PM
Interesting Blog Pete. I come from a long line of pacifists and I must state from the outset that I strongly believe that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were immoral from the outset. I also hold a very low opinion of the machine that is the US Military. That being said I found many of your comments eye-opening and a great relief to me to know that there is thoughtful discussion on US military intervention with the machine itself. I really like your discourse on contractors. It always disturbs me that they are permitted to engage in security and military operations of lethal force, and that there are so many of them on the ground. It seems like a bad idea to have a relatively unaccountable group involved in direct action.
Your comments on senior officers traveling in unmarked vehicles was something that I was unaware of and I can see how this would lead to potentially dangerous situations for NGO's or aid organization. Good on you for opposing this practice and explaining your case so clearly.
Lastly, regarding torture. I was under the impression that many acts of torture of detainee's have been at the hands of military personnel (What occurred at Abu Ghraib for example). Am I mistaken? Or were those involved OGA's Or perhaps you are referring only to sanctioned interrogations, which is not what was happening at Abu Ghraib.
Anyway, a great and thoughtful blog, thanks for broadening my frame of reference.
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Ad buyers are less concerned with rich media ads and tablet devices.
Despite the hype surrounding in-app rich media opportunities such as Apple's iAd, most marketers still focus the majority of their mobile efforts on web-based display ads, according to a survey conducted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. In addition, those marketers are more concerned with reaching users through smartphones than other connected devices such as tablets, eBooks and gaming devices, the trade body's research implied.
In conjunction with research and consultancy firm Ovum, the IAB's Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence polled 300 marketing executives currently making use of the mobile channel, and found 63 percent of respondents reported an increase in their mobile marketing spend over the past two years. Seventy-two percent of those surveyed also said they plan to further increase their mobile investment.
A large portion of that spend is being directed at mobile web display ads, the research suggested, with 77 percent of respondents making use of the medium compared to just 44 percent buying ads or sponsorships in applications. In-app rich media solutions such as those offered by Apple, AdMob, and Medialets have garnered significant industry attention over the past year, but it appears most marketers still rely largely on web inventory for their mobile campaigns.
"Mobile web has been around longer, and there's a lot more inventory there than in-app," Joe Laszlo, deputy director of the IAB's Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence told ClickZ News. "In reality, the amount of in-app inventory out there maybe doesn't quite match marketers' and agencies' desire for it, and mobile Web metrics are sometimes a little more robust," he added.
According to Laszlo that pattern is shifting, however, and he predicted a very different landscape in eight to 12 months. "I think we'll see the same number of marketers investing in mobile web, but we will probably see a far higher number of in-app buys," he said, suggesting "a lot of marketer excitement" will help drive that shift.
A large portion of that spend will be directed at smartphones, the research suggested, with 83 percent of respondents describing those devices as medium high or high priority in terms of targeting. Meanwhile, 62 percent of those polled said they viewed tablet devices as important, while feature phones, eBooks and connected games consoles were viewed less essential.
Laszlo described the lower demand for tablet-based inventory as "excitement crashing into reality," suggesting their lack of scale continues to deter some marketers. "Tablets present a phenomenal opportunity to deliver a great experience, but they're still relatively scarce," he said. "That forces marketers and agencies to shift their priorities away from tablets and towards smartphones."
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I live in lower Michigan where temps go below freezing. I had my sprinklers winterized yesterday, and I asked him where I can get replacement heads cheap. He said the cheap ones from the big box stores like Lowes and HD are not meant to be winterized because they're meant for use in Southern states and lack certain seals. He said after being blown out with compressed air, they will start leaking next season and after a few seasons, they will shoot out of the ground when pressurized with air. I didn't refute his claim, as I asked the question and he answered, but I thought the answer was a bit odd. So, are there North vs South sprinklers heads?
They also did not blow the system out until nothing came out. They only did each zone one time and stopped when some heads were still misting. He said it's fine, they do all the houses like that and they service 6500 systems. In the past, I think the guy (different company) kept blowing until nothing came out of any of the heads. While I don't think there's enough water left in the system to do damage, I just didn't think it's a thorough job. But then again, little bit here and there, once they all drain to a low spot it might be enough water to do damage. Is it standard procedure to only go around the zones once and not blow out until all heads are clear?
I was actually laughing reading your note. I'll let others weigh in, but nothing that was told to you sounds right to me. Also, you don't have to get the last bit of water out of the lines, but stopping before all the heads are misting doesn't sound like a best practice.
"He said after being blown out with compressed air, they will start leaking next season and after a few seasons, they will shoot out of the ground when pressurized with air."
That's gold Jerry, gold!
Let's see, 2 job an hour because of travel time $70/hr @ 10 hr/day is $700/day with 6 day week is $4,200/week and work for 8 weeks that $33,600. OMG, not bad for 2 months work.
Go in renting the compressor with your neighbors and help each other in doing the work. Not a problem DIY. No such thing as you related in your heading. JMHO. Aloha
I'm a big DIY guy, but I kept reading about not doing sprinkler blowout DIY. I think I will have tough time finding enough people to go in on renting a big enough compressor and towing it around to make it worthwhile. It's unfortunate because I'm a big believer in DIY. I did see one neighbor use his own upright (maybe 60 gallon) garage compressor.


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Is there a spatter guard that works? We have two of them, and we still get grease spatter all over. It seems to go right through the mesh screen.
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"...Diameters of 12" or less proved insufficient for skillets with an equally large face. And models with overlaying--and painfully heat-absorbing--handles were highly problematic. Gimmicky designs, such as adjustable arms or dual screens designed to fit skillets of varying sizes, did not work. Traditional lollipop-shaped models were better. Though no single screen perfectly combined splatter-proofing with ergonomic stability, the Amco 13-inch Splatter Screen ($15.95) edged out the well-anchored Norpro model and won for its nearly impermeable mesh face, which corralled the grease and kept our hands clean."
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