Ultrasound repellents to keep dogs/cats away from garden ?

deejaybee

Hi all,

Anyone tried them and had good results ?  any models recommended ?

Thanks

twopenny

I got some. A neighbour said they'd worked - eventually.

At first the cats didn't come past them but pretty quickly they got used to it and just strolled by. 

I had to disable mine because I wanted the hedgehogs and I was afraid it would send them away. Going to a charity shop soon.

I'm about to try putting plastic spiked grid under the flower beds to stop the cats using it as a toilet but allowing plants through. Pretty sure that will work. It doesn't hurt the animals, they just don't like the instability of it.

billy2shots

Please don't do it. Some of us are sensitive to the frequency. 

I can sit in my lounge and hear the one from 5 doors down. 

Devongardener

The ones I tried had absolutely no effect on cats using my garden as a toilet.    A natural repellent is Silent Roar (dried lion’s poo pellets),  this work really well.  I even have a some in a shallow tray under the bushes at the end of the drive and dogs now avoid peeing there!

wort

If you have children or others with good hearing the sound is terrible for them.
@Devongardener thanks for silent roar recommendation, I’m fed up with dogs peeing on my plants and killing them off. I will definitely look for some.

deejaybee

thanks for the feedback everyone, maybe will try the pellets first, wish i knew whose animals were making the mess, i would dump it in their gardens

bouicca21

I had one and it sort of worked. At first the cats (plural, the lady two doors down to the left was an amateur breeder) would not come into the garden at all, then they got sufficiently used to it to skirt round the garden in order to get to the garden on the  other side.  I counted that as a win because at least they were cr@pping elsewhere.

Silvertabby

We put one in the garage, when we realised that fieldmice were getting into the birdseed.  The little b*ggers bit through the wire.