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Very effective! Took exactly one attempt per pet to permanently keep them out of my living room. No more "accidents" in that room ever since. I don't even have to turn it on any more. They just stay away.
Now they only "go" on the carpet just inside the house next to the doggie door. Only when I'm not home. Not sure how to fix that behavior. :-)
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The scatmat worked for a couple of months and then just quit working. You can only return it for 30 days. Since mine worked for a couple o f months and then quit I am stuck with a $76.00 piece of plastic. My cats lay on it all the time ... keep in mind this while the mat is on high with new batteries!! Don't waste your money!
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We were pulling our hair out trying to get our Yorkie puppy housetrained. He had developed a liking for the area behind our recliners and instead of bothering to alert us to his need to go out, he just went to his favorite place. Very Frustrating! I read about the scat mat online and decided to give it a try.
We put the scat mat on the lowest setting (kitten!)- since the puppy only weighs 5 pounds - and it worked like a charm. Within one day he started alerting us that he needed to relieve himself. I think that using the scat mat had disrupted his habit, and since he couldn't take the easy way out he had to find another way. Luckily, he chose to be cooperative and is now housetrained. (NOTE: Housebroken through the use of the scat mat as a passive deterrent, and the consistant use of small treats as a reward for good behavior.)
I can't say how long the battery will last, as I believe that my dog was only "corrected" one time. My only concern now is to figure out when to remove the scat mat and if my puppy will notice that it is gone.
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I have two dogs who spend most of their lives in either the back yard or our living room. We bought a new couch and decided that this one, unlike the last, would be off limits to the dogs. This isn't ideal, of course. If you want your dogs off the furniture, it's always best to be consistent with that message right from when they are a puppy. We hoped, however, that the new couch would be different enough so that they wouldn't get confused. It's been about a week and we don't really need the mats anymore. I still leave them on most of the time, but even when they are off the dogs don't even think about jumping on the couch.
Now, as for the shock, it's not that bad. We leave ours on high and I've been shocked plenty of times and so has my fiancée. It is much more surprising then painful for us, and I would assume for the dogs as well. Though when we first got the new couch our lab, after being shocked while standing on it, came back to sniff this new insult in the middle of his room and got zapped right on the nose. We felt a little bad about that. There was no yelping or anything dramatic though. He just seemed very surprised.
I originally thought of a mat that held a charge at it's surface and then released it at the slightest touch. That doesn't seem to be how it works though, which is a good thing, I suppose, if you don't feel like replacing your battery 5 minutes after you lay the mat on something a little too conductive. Just keep this in mind when you first get it and try testing it out. You'll put in the battery, turn it on low, hover your hand over it for 20 seconds while you get up the courage, then quickly tap it ever so lightly and gently. That won't do it though. It somehow notices motion or some other kind of disturbance, then lets out three quick shocks about a half second apart. So just build up a little more courage and put the side of your hand down on it like you mean it.
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I purchased this mat to keep my cat from running out the front door. She had escaped a few times, and I was trying to find something to keep her in. I put the mat in front of the door, turned it on the lowest setting and waited. She ran down the stairs, and jumped on the mat. It shocked her, and she ran back up the stairs. She tried one more time, before she stopped going all the way down. We turned the mat off, and she hasn't tried to get out since.
My only issue is that I bought the mat, only used it for 10 minutes, and now it is sitting on the floor. It was a bit of a waste, but it did work.
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