Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122 in Lawn & Patio
• Brand: Toolbank
• Model: STV610

Features

• Sophisticated detection system, which detects and repels cats, without harming them
• Protects lawns, flowerbeds, bird feeders and ponds.
• Easy to install
• Weather resistant
• Requires two 9V alkaline batteries (not included)

Manufacturer's Description
Protect your garden habitat with the Big Cheese Cat repeller.

There are 9 million cats in the UK. The mammal society says cats kill around 275 million prey items a year, including 55 million birds. Voles and other small mammals make up much of the remainder.

The Sonic Cat Repeller will help protect your garden habitat and encourage wildlife and birds back into it. The Sonic Cat Repeller incorporates a sophisticated PIR (Passive Infra Red) detection system, which constantly monitors a fan shaped area of a 98 degrees arc up to a distance of 12 metres. The protected area is over 120sq. meters of unobstructed space. The Sonic Cat Repeller detects animals moving into this area and triggers a burst of continuously variable ultrasound, which sweeps a frequency range of 18,000Hz, 24,000 Hz to repel them. Simultaneously the LED indicator on the front of unit signals that it is now activated.

The Sonic Cat Repeller is powered by two 9V alkaline batteries. Battery power is conserved by the PIR detection system, which allows the unit to remain on stand-by between activation periods, therefore maximizing battery life.

The Push on/off Test Button on the face of the unit will drop the sonic frequency to an audible range. This enables you to check that the unit is functioning properly and to hear the swept frequency. The unit is also weather resistant.

Customer Reviews

It works for me
I brought this sonic cat repeller from a local shop, sceptical that it would work. Up until then I had tried almost everything to stop the local cat's using my garden as a loo. I have two young children who love playing outside and we all like cats, but not when they poo all over my garden and the children end up stepping in it. It takes two 9v batteries and was easy to set up. You can place it on the metal stake that comes with it or wall mount it. There is the option to wire it up to the mains, but it doesn't come with the lead for plugging it in.

We've had it for a couple of months now and it has stopped the cats from walking in through the gate and defecating in the corner of the garden that it's aimed at (hurah!). Unfortunately they have moved to the other parts of the garden that are not covered and are now leaping over the fence (argh). We've now re-sited it and are waiting to see if they start pooing at the front part of the garden again. But I think I will be buying a second unit along with some rechargeable batteries. I have given it 4 stars as it could get costly in changing the batteries. A solar panel would have been worth the extra star. The children haven't complained about any noise. My husband can just about hear it, but we just switch it off when we're in that part of the garden to save batteries.

People should not be allowed to own pets if they are not going to be responsible for them. And for those owners who say cats will be cats and cannot be trained, have probably not even bothered to get off their behinds to do it. Check out youtube for tips on how to toilet train cats. I've owned cats in the past and would have been mortified to find out that they'd pooed in my neighbours' garden.

Worked 100%
after spending £65 on various sprays, powders and even lion poo from the zoo I wish Id bought this first.

Worked out of the box.

After 4 months of cats leaving deposits in the garden they no longer come near it.

I watched for about 25 minutes before the first cat dared to invade and I can tell you, its the first time I have seen a cat do a vertical take off from a standing start, only wish i could of videoed it for you-tube.

One problem my neighbours keep popping round to borrow it!

it works,but keep at it
As with the other reviewers, cats were a constant problem.The cat repeller worked within a day or so,so I left it in the front garden for about a week so the cats got used to it being there,then I moved it into the rear garden.Now instead of jumping out of bed a number of times every night with my trusty water pistol whenever I heard cats jumping over my fence or gate I could sleep through the night-heaven! But after a couple of weeks I noticed [the evidence was rather obvious!]that cats had discovered that the scarer was no longer in the front,so I had to put it back there again.I now divide it between the front and back gardens ['cos I'm tight and won't buy two!] a couple of weeks in each,and it seems to work OK.My 12year old son can always hear when it's on,though I can't,but that can be an advantage if I forget to turn it off during the day and leave it on when there's a lot of foot traffic in the "cat alarm zone".I haven't been able to find rechargable 9v batteries,but if the scarer is placed correctly the batteries last quite a time.I found it better not to place it facing the entrance to the garden as everyone passing by sets it off.[unless you have a solid,reasonably high fence or wall]I place mine near the gate facing the house and garden,so only anyone/thing coming into the garden sets it off.Just keep it out of sight of neighbouring kids or it may disappear!Nothing else kept the persistant cats out-netting,nails+wire in the top the fence,but this is brilliant.It works!