Cat Patrol

In consideration of those of you who adore cats, I will warn you that you may not want to read this post.  We live in a town that has the largest number of cats and little kicker dogs than I have ever seen in one place in America.  The constant yipping and yowling gets on one's nerves, particularly when that yipping or yowling is going on right under the bedroom window at 4:30 a.m.  There is no solution to the yipping, that I am aware of, except for chocolate.  But I do not poison people's pets, regardless of how rude those pet owners are, to ignore the incessant noise that is coming from their own animal.

For the yowling, however, there are solutions.  Some options:
1. Shoot the offending cat.
2. Install a sprinkler system and keep it running.
3. Plant Coleus canina, known by most as Scaredy Cat, around the perimeter of the house.
4. Install an cat-repelling electronic device.
5. Set a cat trap.
None of these options are going to work here.  So we devised our own method:

After three nights in a row of having our sweet sleep interrupted by the neighbors' screaming, wailing,  yowling felines, Mr. Cat-Hater, here,  is prepared for war.  Wearing a headlamp (because we forgot to do this in the daytime) and wielding a spray bottle filled with ammonia, he is headed for the front lines.  He will not be spraying ammonia on the cats but around the perimeter of our lot. This will work for quite a while, maybe even until the next rain (which we don't plan to see around here for some time).  Tonight those rotten cats will be hosting their nocturnal forays on someone else's property.

12/17 UPDATE:  It worked! No more yowling cats!