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My latest gadget is a cat-killer OOPS I mean cat-deterrer for the front garden. I suppose it's probably my fault for putting up signs inviting all the neighbourhood cats to come and do their stuff on my lawn, but it just got too much. So I invested £13 at Amazon and got myself a nice ultra-sound machine.
The cats don't seem to like it, but interestingly, neither do the children. I can't hear it squealing but they can!
I've been tempted to get one of those... Glad to hear that is makes a difference, might get one... Do you have a neighbour with a dog (i.e. does it notice?)
Interesting that the kids hear it ...
Are you sure you bought the right thing ...
Maybe he should have got both - the teenage discourager might cure the problems with the neighbours. Where can you get one and how much do they cost? Do you have to have a special licence?
I've been tempted to get one of those... Glad to hear that is makes a difference, might get one... Do you have a neighbour with a dog (i.e. does it notice?)
I haven't tested it on dogs yet, but it does work on my son's rabbits (they were in the garden and the machine was in the kitchen at the time - we didn't want to upset them too much). The blurb says it works on dogs too.
My son wants to know if we can modify the electronics so that it will "stun" or "fry" rather than deter.
It's been two weeks. Most of the cats cleared off straight away but one is still occasionally leaving offerings. It does say in the blurb it can take a few weeks to break the habit, but I'm going to try moving the machine to the other end of the lawn - see if that spooks him.
Still interested in the "stun" option... 😯
All intruders now deterred (if not deleted) 😈
I did have to change the batteries after a couple of weeks. Could get expensive, so maybe my next gadget is a 9V rechargable set...
Which one did you buy from Amazon? I've got one from B&Q (30£), and it doesn't really seem to make any difference. Maybe cats are less keen to just pop in with no reason, but definitely it doesn't stop them from paying us a visit every now and then... And I'm not even talking about foxes, who seem to completely ignore the device.
It's a second device that I bought from B&Q (first got wet and somehow broke) and both seem to produce same sound. I can hear it, my wife can't, but says it feels bit unpleasant when it switches on. Kids seem to hear it as well, but not paying any attention to it. And we don't have any rabbits to test the device on 🙂
The one I bought was the Big Cheese, currently £13.63 on Amazon. Don't know what it's got to do with cheese, but there you go...
My neighbour bought a smaller device from a garden centre and that works too. I think he paid more but I don't know what the make is.
Sorry to hear yours isn't working. Perhaps your local cats are smarter than mine and wear ear plugs 😀
If it was only cats... 🙁 ) ). We inspected the pot it was planted in, but there was nothing that (we think) could be of any interest to the fox... Same thing happens to other flowers, but to some lesser extent.
Did the stuff you planted it in have chicken feed mixed in with it?
We had a problem with cats in the back garden - tried a cat deterrent but it didn't seem so effective. So we put a lock on the back gate and got a dog. That seemed to do it 🙂 )
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