7 cats! I’ll bet they repel the squirrels. We only have one that goes outdoors and he doesn’t seem to have any effect. On squirrels, anyway. He’s death on rabbits, but there are so many of them - at least this year - that he can’t really keep up.

And he does occasionally mistake a newly seeded row for a litterbox. I shudder to think what 7 could do

We have plenty of squirrels, but with 7 cats, at least one is on duty in the garden most of the time.

They can’t catch the squirrels, but they do run them off.