Cat Soaker

[Dave14]

Can anyone please recommend a simple and inexpensive PIR which I can attach to my garden hose to deter cats?

[midagetrolop]

I have the same trouble, my neighbour has 16 cats - lead shot sound good!!

[micmak]

I accept 16 cats is a tad excessive but if you shot at my cats (if I had any) I would shoot at you.

[midagetrolop]

You come and clean up their mess - they are a nuisance messing all over my garden and everybody elses around - why don't they do it in their own? It's not nice for the children and it can be dangerous. I'm not talking one or two piles of crap, I had a small area with chipped barked about 2 mts. sq. and we had to remove it because it had over a dozen piles in it. Why shoudl I and others who have no animals have to put up with it?

[midagetrolop]

And also I have tried everything from Ultrasonics, water pistols, lion muck, oil of olbas everythink going and nothing works. I hav e 1/2 acre near enough so you can imagine have much it costs in deterrents. Of course I wouldn't shoot them, it was a jest!

[boxtops]

sprinklers, water pistols. unltrasonic scarers - all work eventually. The ultrasound one is good because it only affects cats.

[seadogg]

Is there one Dave? Can see how a motorised valve could be linked to PIR electronically but would it be a commercial proposition? Think boxtops nearer to a solution.

[whiskeryron]

http://www.amazon.co....&qid=1307285087&sr=8-

[pogle]

I had the same problem.My garden was used by the cats for a spot of R&R and the odd fight so I invested in a Water Scarecrow and pressure reducing valve.Not the cheapest option but it works.Havn't seen a cat in ages.

[midagetrolop]

I have had three sonic cat chasers they work for a few months and then pack up, they are a waste of money. Like Pogle I shall look into the water scarescrow but I have so much ground to cover it's difficult.

[Dave14]

Thanks everyone.
I like the shotgun idea and have tried the sonic scarers but eventually opted for something like this:-
https://www.amazon.co...qid=1320158282&sr=8-1 .
It's a water sprayer with PIR and it only cost only £18 incl P&P. It's not all that robust but it's working at present and the damned cats have disappeared, for now anyway!