question for those who may have a garden pond with gold fish in it
 

What's a good way to keep the cats from killing the fish?

a tall barrier is not an option, nor is covering the pond.

get some sharks.

Plant water lillies in your pond. They have (or will grow) large pads that the fish can hide under. Plus, the fish love to hang out under them regardless!

kill the cats.

no, that's not an option either.

Play chill-out ambient music around the pond. Cats hate that shit.

make sure the radius of the pond is bigger than the lenght of a cat's paw.

i don't have a pond nor a gold fish, though.

Make sure the circumference of the fish is greater (or more) than the circumference of the cat's aura.

pretty much this, but factor in deepness.

yr not going to keep yr fish from disappearing though.

my father built a pond/waterfall once and stocked it with large goldfish. the cat's weren't the problem, it was the gigantic fucking birds.

I think keeping the pond deep also helps the fish with temperature regulation.

note: if the pond is already made (and I guess it is in yr case), do a few google searches on "plants that cat's hate".

http://www.goldfishcareinformation.c...fish-from.html

some nice ideas in there.

don't let the cats outside

yeah that's good. that fucking heron decoy would have helped. those are the big fucking birds I was talking about. the netting look like a good idea too.

oops "F" words. :o

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...93920410451722#

I like the sprinkler!!! Works with a variety of potential predators and is totally harmless.
The netting is useful, but it would ruin the look of the pond.....

oh, right, ukranian neighbours.

and gypsies.

fucking gypsies.

we ran them out with the gypsies. it's the vietnamese you have to watch out for.

porky, maybe you should invest in a vietnamese person. they have been known to keep the cat population down.


yr too fast. yr ruining my timing.

They are cats coming from the neighbouring gardens. The pond' ledge is very low and wide enough for one of them to jump on and feast on fish, so I'm trying to work out if lining some grid around it might deter them from even trying. A fox has been making an appearance for the past 3 nights too, but apart from leaving some poo on the grass and eat some of the tomatoes, I doubt it would attack the fish.

thanks, i'll have a look.

oh i should have figured

get some lilypads

or anyway goldfish cost like 50 cents each, you could just buy new fish

Gab! The pond ledge needs something done to it. For a cat it's like an invitation to step this way for a tuna melt. If ya can't make the pond deeper then you gotta raise it up around the outside edge. It doesn't have to be a barrier per se but ya make it not worth the effort for the cat.
Also, my suggestion about the lily pads has worked for us for years! If the cat can't see 'em he can't catch 'em. We have lost 1 goldfish due to old age or whatever...but the rest are about 10 fucking years old!
The sprinkler idea is also a great one!

A cat head on a pike should warn other cats. As would a gypsy head on a pike, a Ukrainian head, a Vietnamese head, and so on.

HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHHAHAAHHAAHAHAAHAH!
I'm really pissed cuz I didn't think of that one!

replace the goldfish with robot fish.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...obot_fish.html

I mean theoretically, you could also then upgrade the fish with some kind of weaponry so they could really defend the pond, but I think the fact they are not edible would eventually make the cats go away. You'd probably only lose one or two, and they would be repairable. Sensor lights around the pond might also help annoy the cats at night and give the fish another tactical advantage, alerting them to approaching kitties.