Oh Schoolhouse - that is upsetting!! I no nothing of concrete repairs. Hopefully someone here does - I have also ventured over to the home side here to ask questions. Nancy.

Oh that's terrible !! I have purchased a very strong glue at lowes that worked when that happened to my little concrete elf statue . It was a 2 part epoxy that you mixed and worked on contact . There is also something called e6000 that may work too! It's an excellent out door adhesive.

Is she on soft ground , from lots of rain ? My bird bath just fell over from the ground being too soft .

Yeah I cross posted on the Kitchen Table forum. Also go some good ideas over there. We were discussing using rebar, drilling holes into the body and the head to connect them, spreading epoxy first. Or just using epoxy. I can't decide. I don't want to end up breaking the concrete by drilling.

Lily, I checked the ground and it doesn't seem soft. She's sort of straddling some flat rocks and when I tried to tilt her she was on solid footing and hard to push. I'm going to accuse the one young cat of attempting to jump up on her, because he jumped up on the obelisk-type stone standing in a bed on the other side of the garden one time this summer - and right in front of me! I couldn't believe he jumped that high and made a perfect landing on such a small area.

I hope you are able to repair your statue. Meanwhile pretend she is a Greek or Roman ruine.

What a lovely pic!! Aghhhh spring needs to hurry! I personally wouldn't drill but I have bad luck with that sort of thing . I would ruin it all ;)

This afternoon I stopped at an antique place that also has concrete statuary on their lot. I wanted to get her opinion on how to repair my statue. She said her husband has done repairs and uses an epoxy. She was wary of the drilling idea as well. If I wished, she would ask her husband if he'd do my repair. In fact there was a concrete cow there on which he re-attached the ear and it's held strong. If I wanted to check it out I could. On the way out, I drove over to it and you could hardly see the seam even up close. So I think I'll go back and talk to her again.

We had a stone pillar that held a light which was broken off by a neighbor backing into it. I'll check with DH, but my memory is that he used thinset mortar. However, it was at the base, not the top of the pillar, so had the weight to help hold it in place.

*Edited to add that he says he used thinset mortar like what gets used for shower tiles.

Thanks NHBabs.

So so sorry Schoolhouse about your Concrete statue. I feel ya! I had the same thing happen to my 'boy and girl' statue with both heads broken off and still thinking how am going to fix it. Hope whatever you decide to use works. Thanks Lilyfinch for those tips. Am going to attempt to get mine fixed come spring just collecting ideas and hoping for spring to hurry up and get here.

I have used the E6000 glue with very good success in the past and the glue has held up in all 4 seasons here in south central PA (zone 6). It is available at your big box home improvement stores.

Thanks for the glue recommendations. I wish I had your patience threedogsmom, I'm worried I'd rush it and make a mess. Thinking about taking her to the antique shop lady's hubby. Unless he charges and arm and a leg (no pun intended). I saw one of his repairs and it look great. However it was newer concrete and my statue has that nice patina. I can always mix paint to try and match tho if he doesn't.

Gonna wait until next month.

Oh she looks perfect!!! Such a great statue. You are right about the patina .. You just can't fake that. I picked up a swan planter that had aged so nicely but it looks like someone dragged it by its head and its scraped white . I was wondering myself how to tone it down and blend it in .

its worse on top of her head but you can see it here

Not sure about the bed you had her in , but could roses deter the cats ? Maybe if she was surrounded by an army of roses they would leave her. I'm not sure tho as they are quite the jumpers

Hey, the swan planter was a good score. You might try rubbing bit of stain with your fingers over the white areas. Or paint, I've used acrylic paint to mix and match patina but the paint eventually wears off. Also I wonder if it will gradually loose the scuffed up look.

Well I've never had any problem with cats jumping up on garden decor until this kitten arrived. He's 21 mos. old now and is high energy.

My idea is to eventually drive a pipe deep into the ground with just enough of the end sticking out that I can sit the statue down on it. This is how she sat for nearly 20yrs or more. It was an old water pipe from the kitchen of a trailer that used to sit where the sunken gardens are now. When I repaired a garden hydrant, the pipe had to be capped off because it would leak water when the hydrant was turned on. The new cap they put on the end of the pipe ended up being too large for the statue to be placed over, and they didn't have a smaller one, thus the statue had to be situated differently.

Schoolhouse - the statue looks beautiful! So glad it could be repaired. Nice work! And lovely swan lilyfinch - what will you plant in there?

Looks even lovelier than I expected. Glad you were able to have her repaired and set out this spring.

Well, I too had a garden tragedy. We pulled this forward because it was being engulfed in a rose and I was expanding the bed around it. Heavy rains came and it toppled . The funny thing was , I loved it but it was very hard to maintain. The bowl is incredibly heavy and I could never keep the water clean as I couldn't tilt it to drainage a high pressure hose couldn't get all the muck out. . So last year I drilled holes and was going to make it a planter. Well I wasn't feeling that either and just this week it occurred to me to fill it with quick set concrete so I could hose it out better. Bought the concrete yesterday morning so proud of my aha moment! And today I go out to find it broken.

When we were moving it my husband comment on how it was a hazard for our toddler, should she try to look in it and pull it onto herself. I said no way , it weighs a million pounds and has never fallen . Guess he was right ! We alway have trouble with another one falling over too.

Skibby- thanks for the compliment on my swan! I put a white wave petunia in it . I hope it cascades over the swan :)

well the birdbath is free on varage sale if anyone wants the top for succulents or something! Lol I'm a little sad about it as it was my focal point and my sister bought it for me. I do have a smaller birdbath that can be put there if nothing else.

You could keep it yourself as a grounded planter. Many people add concrete planters or make their own. Once in place I doubt your toddler could move it. I remember as a new bird enthusiast wanting a concrete bird bath but read about the difficulty of emptying and keeping one clean.

Oh boy, sorry it has happened to one of your pieces too. They can be heavy can't they? As mnwsgal mentioned, if it were me I'd keep the top and either plant it or sit it somewhere as a ground bird bath. But someone will be happy to take it off your hands I bet.