Planet Urine CatScram, Ultrasonic Cat Housetraining Aid, Cat Deterrent for Indoor or Outdoor Use, 6 to 15 Foot Range

UPDATE 12/11/16: I've since ordered another to use solely to defend the Christmas tree from the cuddly little heathens and so far, for about a week, I've had NO incursions. The sneaky cat got under the tree once, and the other two avoid it completely. It makes me very happy every morning when I get up for work that there are no ornaments on the floor, or broken and bent branches from them launching into it. Worth every penny. **************************** My wife loves cats. My wife is allergic to cats. My wife loves our cats and won't get rid of our cats. I have to listen to her complain about her allergies. Smart husband finds compromise to eliminate conflict of interests - complete makeover of bedroom with new bed, bedding, furniture. Walls and carpets washed and all cat hair removed. Safe zone established in the bedroom where allergic wife can retreat and sleep in peace. Wife is happy so husband is happy. There is much rejoicing. Until crafty cats cross threshold into forbidden territory to smother wife with love...and cat hair. I needed a way to keep the cats out, without harming them, or causing undue complications in my life. Keeping the door closed only works so well - forget to close it once and it's over. One of the cats would yowl and whine outside the door to be let in. They are cats, and do what they want. Of course they don't understand why they are being denied, only that they are, in fact, being denied. Training a cat is *NOT* like training a dog. While looking at options, I came across this device and it seemed to be what I needed. We have three cats, and I realized it might not work on all three of them and took precautions, also purchasing ( PetSafe SSScat ), to use in conjunction and as part of my overall Catnet Defense System. They work great together, but mostly it's this item doing the bulk of the work. I placed the Catscram in my bedroom, near the foot of the sofa, facing the doorway. It has an entirely unobstructed view of the entry and activates every time one of us or the cats walk by. None of them like it. Two will not even come by the bedroom doorway anymore and I had to adjust it so it didn't catch the hallway, too, as it was keeping the most sensitive one pinned out of the bathroom where she gets water. The third cat is a crafty bastard and figured out that if he walks very, very slowly he can sneak by without activating it. During these incursions, the fail safe Ssscat spray usually gets him and he streaks away to fight another day. He's only gotten in and on the bed once since I set this up weeks ago. All told, I've very well pleased with the results. It'll take some time for it to entirely sink in, but the message has been delivered that they are not welcome in our bedroom. The best part is that they don't resent us because we're not the ones making the terrible terrible noise that they can't stand. They've mostly since relocated and resigned themselves to sleeping in my daughter's room, much to her delight. Kitty pile makes for a happy little girl. Kitty pile anywhere outside the bedroom makes for a happy wife. Happy wife means happy husband. Get this, it works.

We turned to this device in conjunction with the glitchy SSSCAT we use to keep our cat from waking us up at 3am scratching at the door to feed her. The SSSCAT works great until it breaks down, batteries die or you run out of spray constantly. So we turned to this product to augment. Unfortunately, as soon as the spray deterrent would stop working, our cat would end up at the end of the hall scratching away again, right next to this product. It's been 3 months, and she'll sleep right next to this. Can't recommend, for us, it doesn't work at all, and we've given it months to train our cat. So still looking for something low maintenance that'll actually work.

This thing is 100% worth the money I paid for it. I have a 9-year old cat, and using this I was able to retrain her to NOT leave "presents" in my basement living room. Since she was a kitten, she would occasionally poop outside of her litter box - inside of one specific closet. I learned to keep closet doors closed, and she was fine. However, I moved into a new house and she decided the basement living room was her new spot to poop. Since I had no way to keep her out of that room, I decided to give this a try. I set it up down there, and it worked immediately. In fact, after only a couple of months, I unplugged it. She now has free roam of the living room, and she has not had a single accident in almost a year. I believe it trained her to keep her poop in the litter box! *To be fair to my kitty, she does have some digestion issues - so the pooping outside of the litter box was a medical issue, too. When it hurt to poop, she associated that pain with the litter box and found somewhere else. But, once she found a spot, medical issue or not, she would continue to return to it even after vet visits. So, if you have a cat who starts pooping (or peeing) outside of the litter box, your first stop should be to the vet!