Cat scarer

[Neil]

Does anyone have one of these http://www.catwatch.co.uk/catwatch-cat-repeller-detterent.html ?

Are they any good?

As I now have an issue with Cats using my property for their business. 

[Maggi Young]

I believe friends have used a similar machine in their garden - mostly to keep cats away from the bird feeders, if I remember  correctly. Seemed to work.
I worried it would also  deter hedgehogs. 

 Note as Moderator :   No comments about violent ways to deter cats , please.  I know you're kidding but some take it seriously.

[Peter Maguire]

I've found them to be quite effective in the past (I need to replace the batteries). The only trouble is that they go through batteries very quickly if, like me, you forget to turn them off whilst working in the garden and walking to and fro. 

[Neil]

This one can be run from the mains

[Susan Band]

I saw in Maplins  a device  that you pointed like a gun at a cat and it emitted a high pitch which was meant to scare off cats. I am tempted 😀

Susan

[graham]

If you are going to use a cat scarer then may I suggest that you consider getting more than one and that the two are different (to some extent). Secondly don't just install them and leave it - move it around every few weeks and then swap it for the other one every so often. If the cats are regular visitors then it is very likely that they will relatively quickly become acclimatised to the 'disturbance' caused by the scarer.

graham

[brianw]

If the cats are regular visitors then it is very likely that they will relatively quickly become acclimatised to the 'disturbance' caused by the scarer.

graham

Are you saying they ignore it after a time, or avoid that particular part of the garden, which is what most of us want?

[Mavers]

I had two of these Catwatch deterrents to protect my pondfish both connected to the mains via transformers supplied by the same company.

Perhaps the cats near me were deaf as they continued to fish with impunity. 

[Susan Band]

I thought if you tried the sonic gun method you would soon know if it works or not, although you would have to be around when the cat was. I could see it could develop into an obsession 😳
Susan

[graham]

Are you saying they ignore it after a time, or avoid that particular part of the garden, which is what most of us want?

They become used to the 'event' as being part of the environment and it no longer is regarded as anything unusual. The deterrent effect of these things is generally that the 'events' are unexpected and if they cease to be unexpected, even if the 'events' are random, then they simply decline in their deterrent effect. As to whether they still deter cats or any other animal is then rather dependent on the individual animals themselves (some will blithely ignore it while others may remain wary of it).

My point really is that if you do want to use these things as a deterrent then don't just buy them, put them in the garden and expect that no cat will ever come near the garden again - that might work but if you do move them, alternate different types etc. then you stand a better chance of success.

I have kept a number of cats for a number of decades and know that they can become used to no end of odd situations, roads, aircraft, motor noises, almost anything in my experience although I will admit that low-flying C130s do tend to get them moving on every occasion that I've noticed, I do admit that this may not be useful in your case, however.

graham

[Yann]

I'm also always running after the cats using my pot's gritty soil as a wc.
My neighbors don't often change the litter, their cats prefer my greenhouse .

After i tryed several electric protectors with more or less success i found one model model that really works.

http://www.weitech.com/en/weitech-for-outdoors/wk-0052-garden-protector-2/

I don't want to make any advert for this brand but i'm pretty sure it can help some of us in their each day cats's battle.