Anonymous wrote:Fake cucumbers on the cushions.

Seriously. They are terrified of them, just YouTube it! They think they are snakes or something.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disclaimer: I'm the type of person who will have a 30 minute conversation/petting session with any neighborhood kitty who crosses my path.

Does you child really have that bad of a reaction to cat fur if he even walks anywhere near it outdoors, or would he have to sit directly on it and get it all over his clothes in order to have a reaction? It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to protect one child from one particular seat cushion (because it's a cat and it will randomly pick a favorite one). I have people who are allergic to cats in my house all the time - they just take a Claritin and they're fine, even if the cats sleep directly on them. Maybe I've just never seen a really severe cat allergy. I know cat-allergic asthmatics who live with cats 24/7.

THIS.

Cat allergy is not like a peanut allergy. Take some claritin. How do you know the kid isn't having a grass/tree/pollen other outdoor season thing allergy?

Do you refuse to go places where you may run into cats? This is just weird. It is easier to adjust to the allergy than to attempt to remove cats from an outdoor space.

Actually, on Claritin, washing my hands after I pet my cats, not letting them sleep in my bed, and jumping through every other hoop of rules of "how to live with your cats if you are allergic to them", i developed hard to control asthma. It's irreversible, and I was on the brink of death three times. Last episode occurred years after cats died of old age. I gave them to my mom when they were 2 and 3, they lived with her for over a decade.
This is not something to full with.

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Anonymous wrote:Disclaimer: I'm the type of person who will have a 30 minute conversation/petting session with any neighborhood kitty who crosses my path.

Does you child really have that bad of a reaction to cat fur if he even walks anywhere near it outdoors, or would he have to sit directly on it and get it all over his clothes in order to have a reaction? It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to protect one child from one particular seat cushion (because it's a cat and it will randomly pick a favorite one). I have people who are allergic to cats in my house all the time - they just take a Claritin and they're fine, even if the cats sleep directly on them. Maybe I've just never seen a really severe cat allergy. I know cat-allergic asthmatics who live with cats 24/7.

THIS.

Cat allergy is not like a peanut allergy. Take some claritin. How do you know the kid isn't having a grass/tree/pollen other outdoor season thing allergy?

Do you refuse to go places where you may run into cats? This is just weird. It is easier to adjust to the allergy than to attempt to remove cats from an outdoor space.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disclaimer: I'm the type of person who will have a 30 minute conversation/petting session with any neighborhood kitty who crosses my path.

Does you child really have that bad of a reaction to cat fur if he even walks anywhere near it outdoors, or would he have to sit directly on it and get it all over his clothes in order to have a reaction? It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to protect one child from one particular seat cushion (because it's a cat and it will randomly pick a favorite one). I have people who are allergic to cats in my house all the time - they just take a Claritin and they're fine, even if the cats sleep directly on them. Maybe I've just never seen a really severe cat allergy. I know cat-allergic asthmatics who live with cats 24/7.

THIS.

Cat allergy is not like a peanut allergy. Take some claritin. How do you know the kid isn't having a grass/tree/pollen other outdoor season thing allergy?

Do you refuse to go places where you may run into cats? This is just weird. It is easier to adjust to the allergy than to attempt to remove cats from an outdoor space.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disclaimer: I'm the type of person who will have a 30 minute conversation/petting session with any neighborhood kitty who crosses my path.

Does you child really have that bad of a reaction to cat fur if he even walks anywhere near it outdoors, or would he have to sit directly on it and get it all over his clothes in order to have a reaction? It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to protect one child from one particular seat cushion (because it's a cat and it will randomly pick a favorite one). I have people who are allergic to cats in my house all the time - they just take a Claritin and they're fine, even if the cats sleep directly on them. Maybe I've just never seen a really severe cat allergy. I know cat-allergic asthmatics who live with cats 24/7.

THIS.

Cat allergy is not like a peanut allergy. Take some claritin. How do you know the kid isn't having a grass/tree/pollen other outdoor season thing allergy?

Do you refuse to go places where you may run into cats? This is just weird. It is easier to adjust to the allergy than to attempt to remove cats from an outdoor space.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Put the cushions away when they are not in use.

OP here. I don't want to put the cushions away because 1)I am too lazy to put them away every time someone finishes sitting on them. 2) I don't have any space to store them. 3) my mom watches my kids after school and she loves sitting on the porch and reading the paper while my kids play outside. She gets annoyed when cat hair gets over her pants and sweaters. I am not going to make my 75 year old mom haul cushions onto the patio every afternoon. I appreciate her watching my kids while DH and I work and want to keep her happy.
My 8 year old likes the neighborhood cats so I don't want to call animal control, trap them, or complain to our elderly neighbors (the cat's owner). There has to be some kind of spray that deters cats but is harmless to kids. I also am sad that we used to have birds that built a nest in the rafters of our porch every spring. They haven't gone back I think because of the cats. We have found a couple of dead birds on our lawn too. I assume the cat(s) are killing them.

Lady, I find it hard to believe there are so many cats on your furniture that they are leaving THAT much cat hair ALL OVER. Cats so not shed THAT MUCH FUR. There is not one cat leaving THAT MUCH FUR.

Are you sure it is not from some other animal?

Cats kills birds and either eat them or drag them to their owners. You should have called about the dead birds and had them tested for West Nile or Zika.

Anonymous wrote:Disclaimer: I'm the type of person who will have a 30 minute conversation/petting session with any neighborhood kitty who crosses my path.

Does you child really have that bad of a reaction to cat fur if he even walks anywhere near it outdoors, or would he have to sit directly on it and get it all over his clothes in order to have a reaction? It seems like it wouldn't be that difficult to protect one child from one particular seat cushion (because it's a cat and it will randomly pick a favorite one). I have people who are allergic to cats in my house all the time - they just take a Claritin and they're fine, even if the cats sleep directly on them. Maybe I've just never seen a really severe cat allergy. I know cat-allergic asthmatics who live with cats 24/7.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Put the cushions away when they are not in use.

OP here. I don't want to put the cushions away because 1)I am too lazy to put them away every time someone finishes sitting on them. 2) I don't have any space to store them. 3) my mom watches my kids after school and she loves sitting on the porch and reading the paper while my kids play outside. She gets annoyed when cat hair gets over her pants and sweaters. I am not going to make my 75 year old mom haul cushions onto the patio every afternoon. I appreciate her watching my kids while DH and I work and want to keep her happy.
My 8 year old likes the neighborhood cats so I don't want to call animal control, trap them, or complain to our elderly neighbors (the cat's owner). There has to be some kind of spray that deters cats but is harmless to kids. I also am sad that we used to have birds that built a nest in the rafters of our porch every spring. They haven't gone back I think because of the cats. We have found a couple of dead birds on our lawn too. I assume the cat(s) are killing them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Put the cushions away when they are not in use.

OP here. I don't want to put the cushions away because 1)I am too lazy to put them away every time someone finishes sitting on them. 2) I don't have any space to store them. 3) my mom watches my kids after school and she loves sitting on the porch and reading the paper while my kids play outside. She gets annoyed when cat hair gets over her pants and sweaters. I am not going to make my 75 year old mom haul cushions onto the patio every afternoon. I appreciate her watching my kids while DH and I work and want to keep her happy.
My 8 year old likes the neighborhood cats so I don't want to call animal control, trap them, or complain to our elderly neighbors (the cat's owner). There has to be some kind of spray that deters cats but is harmless to kids. I also am sad that we used to have birds that built a nest in the rafters of our porch every spring. They haven't gone back I think because of the cats. We have found a couple of dead birds on our lawn too. I assume the cat(s) are killing them.

Sorry you don't want to trap the cats.

Google cat repellents. All sorts of ideas.