Caterpillar Cat

My cat is on a slug / caterpillar hunt every night, how do I stop her?

My beloved cat NIBBLER (yes, I am naming & shaming) goes out almost every night now, and eats slugs / caterpillers then comes home. The result is, at normally around 4am, she throws up everywhere.

The wife is not too happy due to the lose of sleep and the fact we are about to have a new carpet put down.

Any ideas ?????

- Ideas already discounted
A) getting rid of the cat
B) locking her out at night / shutting her away(Nibbler not my wife)
C) keeping her in & using a litter tray (again Nibbler, not my wife)
D) Not getting carpet

Thanks

The only win - win would be keeping the cat indoors.

The cat is not smart enough to figure out these are not good to eat. Catepillars LOVE to eat poison and if they get into it,.. they get full of it,.. even when they change over to Butterflies it still stays on/in them. So for the life of the cat,.. keep it indoors.

The only answer I saw so far was for Trays of Beer. That's some times hard to work out and cats/dogs still go in after them. Then you may have a cat that also has alcohol in their system. If you want to do something like this,. you would need to have very large cages or fenced off areas (includeing the top) with an attracting dead center for the critters of the night and these to be big enough the cat can't paw in and with a lid/cover the cat can't enter through.

There are some things that repulse slugs, I think they are ashes, salt, quarts and charcole,.. there are some plants too but I can't remember those right now And I know one of the plants doesn't work well enough unless it's a double wall of it around the area you want them out of,.. other wise they just ignore one plant and wander around everywhere else.

Try to get rid of sitting water. Maybe attract some types of birds that like to eat Slugs and Catepillars.

P.S. I forgot to tell you. One of the things that happens at night with Dogs and Cats is they are supposed to be with their Pack or Pride,.. so by nature if they are cut off their instinct is to cry their little hearts out until they can get together with you. Alot of people decide to lock Cats and Dogs out of their bedroom,.. then they hear it so loudly,.. it's because it's directed at you and outside your bedroom door. I have to do this because my male cat is destructive,.. he rarely cries but at first him and my female cat would carry on,... they got use to it and now they will cry until I am still in bed for about 10 minutes then be quite (if it is one of their crying days).

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