Your mystery looks like a pepper.LOL Good pictures. Thanks for sharing. I wouldn’t want used kitty litter around my stuff.
I really don’t try to chase anything off. I just plant lots of extras, and we do set live traps and haul off whatever we catch. So far it’s left us enough to have a decent harvest.
Everything I have is in a raised bed so the litter wouldn’t be that close to the veggies. I have fencing already. but it isn’t very good and MR Bunbun has no trouble getting about it.