Cheap but good sonic cat repellent - ideas?

alanobrien

As an alternative why not try Colues Canina in pots or in the ground.
Cats hate the stuff. Here is a lint to it on the T&M site but it can also be bought cheaply of ebay.

http://plants.thompson-morgan.com/product/1593/1

Davesnave

As an alternative why not try Colues Canina in pots or in the ground.
Cats hate the stuff. Here is a lint to it on the T&M site but it can also be bought cheaply of ebay.

Think I'd go for the ebay plants as a test first. T&M will tell you anything; like money grows on trees.....and with their prices it certainly does!

towbar71

I have had a cat repeller in my garden for sometime now as well as a jet spray repeller, i find the latter is my favourite as you get to see the results visually, it basically upon detecting movement fires a jet of water at the offending creature, and we all know how much cats hate water.

i purchased mine from http://www.pestless.co.uk

they have many wonderous products for sorting out nuisance pests.

hope this helps you all

bubblesbonbon

I got a sonic deterrent and it does seem to work.

However, it needs two 9 volt batteries (although you can get mains adaptors) and I couldn't figure out why they weren't lasting very long. The penny dropped when I noticed that plants nearby were triggering the movement detector. Moved plants out of the way and it seems ok now.

Another tip is that cats do not like snakes and I got a couple of those false wooden flexible ones that you can get at the seaside. If you place them comming out of a border they do look realistic and I know for certain that my neighbours "rat on a rope" toy terrier is petrified of them.

These are the things I mean :eek:

http://www.woodentoys-uk.co.uk/puzzle-boxes.html

Higgo100

This one is consitently the best selling one and this is a good review of it

http://www.crazy-cat.co.uk/cat-repeller.htm

suzanne12_2

These cat repellers arent creul either

this page explains how they work

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Big-Cheese-Cat-Repeller

DebbieP_2

I spend hours scouring the net for the best place to get a cat repeller - ideally I wanted a cheap but effective one with a sensor that is set off by the movement of a cat (I was a bit concerned about having a device that was on all the time). The best place I found was http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/cat-deterrents-c-102.html - I ordered a "Cat Repeller 40" it's arrived and is installed and so far only one cat in the garden - who left pretty sharpish!!

cat_burgler

mervyn11 wrote: »

If you can put gravel on your garden this will stop them c***ping cos they like to dig a little hole and then fill it in afterwards!!!
Some people fill empty plastic bottles with water and stand them round the garden.
Another one is to put a couple of mirrors up.
The Sylvester Stallone answer is to get one of those giant pump up water pistols and sit and wait for them to appear.........they hate getting splattered and soon get the message[/

Sorry but this not exactly true. The little !!!!!!s are now crapping on the gravel path which leads from the front gate to my front door. I will try the green gel from the pound shop and see what happens.

cashkeeper

Any of these systems need to be used for a period of time to retrain the cats. The scardy cat grasses and plants - don't work. You see them most weeks in the Sunday Papers. I have got a scatter cat, mentioned earlier and made by STV - The big cheese, and it does work. Brilliant

Cooler

If they really do need to be used over a period of time, then one is not far off screwed. Chemical repellents keep needing replacing, which is an expense, and one only needs to forget for a while and the damage is done. Ultrasonic scarers seem to have an effect, but the batteries don't last all summer, and the next time you think of it you find half a dozen piles of cat crap to deal with. :mad:

I tried looking at those that spray water but it seems they don't work off of a reservoir but need a tap/hosepipe connection; which just isn't feasible at the front. I'm trying to find a mains driven ultrasonic one now, with a power lead so slim it can go through the open window and then the window shut on it, without damage. Don't know if that even exists.