Catscram Electronic Cat Repellent With AC Adapter

This arrived quickly and was well packaged. I like that I was able to get the electrical adaptor, so I don't have to keep replacing batteries.But I really can't tell if this is working or not. I got it to keep my 2-year-old cat from jumping onto a table and knocking the lids off my fish bowls and eating my Siamese fighting fish. I had to find a way to angle it so it would sense the cat's movements if it jumped on the table, but not the movement of the fish or of people or cats simply entering the room. Since I got it, this fish-attacking behavior has slowed down. But also the cat is getting older and thus less inclined to go to all that trouble, so who knows if it's the gadget or maturity that is slowing down the cat? Also, after I've had it a few months, the fish have been attacked more frequently. In fact, one was neatly scooped out of its bowl and completely disappeared earlier this week. :( But it's hard to know if this is because the unit is not working, or if it's not aimed correctly, or if the cat swooped in and out before the CatScram turned on, or if the cat is simply getting used to the sound? Bottom line - I dont' know if this is worth it or not. It's hard to tell if it's working or not. It's a great idea, especially if you are gone for long periods (at work). And I guess if $50 is not a lot of money to you, go ahead and try it. But on the other hand, you could sit there with a squirt bottle and hit the cat with water for a whole lot less money.

I'd say these are worth a try to keep cats from an area no larger than what the motion sensor covers. I gave 4 stars because that works, but not for all cats. I have one cat that doesn't seem to hear it. I don't think she's deaf, but this particular sound doesn't bother her. The other two cats hear the sound and don't like it.I thought of giving only 3 stars because I've not yet had much success with what I'd hoped to achieve. But that has more to do with cat behavior, my goal, and the size of my living room, than the product itself.I'm trying to keep the cats out of a room and the motion sensors are positioned to cover the entrances as a way to keep them out. The cats definitely won't linger at the entrances. However, once detected, they sometimes runs into the room instead of turning around and leaving. The entire room isn't covered by the motion sensors so they find a safe zone and are content to stay. It has helped. They're much less likely to come into the living room than before, but it's not 100% successful. It would take lots of these to get 100% coverage of the room, given all the places a cat will go -- under furniture, behind furniture, on top of furniture.One last note -- the directions in the package include this information, but I tried using it before reading the directions. The lights flashed, I presumed it was making a sound, and my cat didn't do anything but sniff the plastic. I was not happy. I unplugged it, went to another location near a different cat, plugged it in and still no reaction. I was very unhappy. Then I read the directions. When the unit is first turned on, it goes through a warm up cycle that lasts about 30 seconds. The lights flash during that time but, from my cats' behavior, it isn't making noise. Once it was past the warm up, it worked for the two cats who can hear it.

It definitely works, because the first time I plugged it in, both of our kittens froze in their tracks and started twitching their ears trying to figure out what was going on... Our older cat, (Who we've managed to train not to jump on counters and tables already.) also checked it out initially, but now all three of them just ignore it. I guess it comes down to your feline's temperament.... For reference, our oldest rescue cat is female,14yrs old, and an American Bombay mix. The male kittens are from a litter we found under our deck, with one (the runt) being a Bengal/domestic shorthair mix, and the other being Siamese, (with the full "Siamese eye" and Lynx colorpoint characteristics.) who was the alpha of the litter. And the super-smart puzzle solving "enabler" for the hyper-energetic Bengal runt. (Tiny little guy NEVER stops!). So to be fair, neither is your typical, "active kitten". All the the Bengals in the litter were hyper-active (hysterically-so!) and the Alpha is just "scary-smart", and relatively laid back, but a little neurotic.... Not the fairest test group for this device. So far the only thing that has worked with them were the SsCat auto spray cans, but they run out too often, so we're looking for better alternativesj.Perhaps knowing this might help to determine what traits this works better with than others. The runt acts like a textbook Bengal, the alpha is a textbook Siamese, and our oldest is SO Bombay-like, it like the breed standard is describing her personally! Maybe if you use this in conjunction with POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT, it might serve you, but it isn't enough to deter our 2 8-month old kittens by itself.

I'll update after using it for a while but the first thing I noticed was it wouldn't warm up or detect anything until I installed it standing upside down from what the picture shows. Also, I have it on a table and it detects people moving around the table too which makes it hard not to confuse the cats.