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My Vet tech recommended this item to keep our new puppy out of the laundry room where we kept the cat's litter box. It worked immediately and she wouldn't step on it again, but unfortunately we should have ordered the largest size available and rolled up the excess. The puppy was too smart for us. She saw the cat jump over it and now she takes a running leap to clear the mat and crashes into the laundry room. Now the noise alerts us that she is up to no good. I am still very impressed with the fast results it produced, just wish the dog wasn't so smart.
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This is really effective at getting animals to stay off of furniture - it just requires a "refresher" every once in a while. Where I didn't find it effective was at keeping my cats out of particular rooms - they just found ways to get around and over it. It really does pack some static punch at the higher levels - as we found out accidentally a few times.
The power pack died at one point, but the customer service reps at Contech were some of the best I've ever dealt with and it was replaced very quickly.
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I ordered this "Scat Mat" to try to convince my cats NOT to get up on the counters or on the table top. It gives out a small shock, sort of like the static shock you can get from dragging your feet across a carpet. It has 3 "levels", Low, Med, and Hi, but we haven't had to turn it on higher than "low". It is VERY effective, and I don't think any of my cats have been "stung" more than once each. (My children, on the other hand, enjoy getting a little shock, and will play with the mat.) I know it is not hurting the cats in any way, but it sure does surprise them! The only problem I have is that it is pretty expensive and to really train them out of their naughty behavior, we need more than one mat. The cats have gotten very good at determining where I have placed the mat, so they just avoid that area and get up onto a "mat-free" area. Maybe if the price comes down I can afford to order another one.
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We used this product for about a week and it was working well and correcting our dog from jumping on the counters. Then we noticed it wasn't producing a shock. We figured it was the battery so we replaced it. Now we know it was the unit. It only produces a static shock on high setting. That setting is reduced from the original high setting.
We are very disappointed because this product was expensive for the amount of use we got out of it.
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I put my scat mat on the counter in front of my birds cage to deter my cats from their interest in my bird. It worked! One day I noticed the mat was a little crooked and the phone was hanging by the cord. That means the cat scattered in a surprised hurry off of the counter. No cats have been on the counter since. No bird fatalities, no cat injuries....just a little discipline. You may, however, want to gently tape the mat down if it is on a slick surface.
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