A good concern, but have you ever seen a cat react after curiously sniffing at a mothball? It backs up fast and puts on a face of real, unmistakable revulsion you don't normally get to see on a cat. I really don't think there's much chance at all of a cat noshing on mothballs, much less going near, once it has met them.Redwolf wrote:Please don't use mothballs. They're toxic...if she happened to eat one, it could be goodbye kitty.
Nevertheless I wholeheartedly agree that any solution that's nontoxic is always to be preferred. That's partly why my first recommendation was direct, communicative, guiding behavior. The main reason, though, is that I'm all about that approach without even thinking about stuff like mothballs. Those are a last resort, for instance if there's only me, and my job requires that I have to be away for a good part of the day and the direct approach hasn't sunk in yet; or, if there's a cat owner who for some reason just doesn't understand cats, IMO it's better to go with the mothball solution in that case than the owner yelling at the cat or worse, and frightening it - or worse - when the poor thing can't possibly understand why it's even happening. To me things like mothballs are almost the same as admitting defeat, but if you have to do something and it works, it works. But I would never recommend them in any other wise.
