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Excellent does what it's intended to do
I bought this to deter cats from coming into the garden. It was successful after only 4 days of use. The item is plastic and therefore it would be easy to damage, the spike for fixing it into the ground is a bit flimsy but with a little bit of care and making a hole in the ground first there is no reason why the spike would break. The settings for the sensor to activate work well, and the jet of water and spray pattern really cleared the cats off (i caught the action on camera.) All in all a good bit of kit for the money. As i stated before just exercise a bit of care in handling it and it should serve you well. Read full review
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Stick with it. It does work!
Arrived very quickly. Instructions are poor (no diagrams at all) And I am surprised that you have to screw down the battery case cover. Surely this could be made to clip in...
Those gripes apart it works well. The thing is, it does need adjusting, so it might not work well straight 'out of the box'. Stick with it and you'll get there. I was tempted at one point to bundle it back up and ask for a refund. But pick a nice afternoon and just tinker with it, and it WILL work.
The trick is to have good seals on your external tap, otherwise you'll be losing water all through the night, (that's when ours is on). The PIR sensor has a good long range. So much so that we could easily, if not careful, drench passers-by from our drive way, (as that's where it is stationed). So do play around with water pressure, sensor range, positioning etc. And be prepared to get a little wet when testing it.Read full review
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Still going strong after a year
I bought this a year ago and it's still working after winter, however I did put it in the shed to protect from the frost last year. setting it back up in Spring the batteries were still working and they are still working at the end of summer. I spent similar money before on the alarms which failed after just one season of rain and didn't even work very well. This at least actually gives the pests an incentive to stop using my lawn as their toilet on a regular basis. It isn't that accurate and sometimes goes off by itself, hence only 4 stars but it does the job it was designed for and lasts more than one season.Read full review
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Works well and is great fun for the kids
The automatic water gun, as our children call it, works well but you will need to spending some time to fine-adjust the settings.
The quality of the groundspike and the pipe going to the unit is not that great and you have to be very carefully when pushing it in the ground, if there is one thing to improve than it is that. Either make the spike from metal of more heavy duty PVC.
The unit has a few settings; One it the detection range and can be adjusted, the dial is just an indication as we found out the range 'dynamicaly' changes with weather conditions (our garden is not that big and we did not want to splash people walking by)
The other adjustments is the area that is being protected and this is easily adjusted in width but also in length/distnce. The final tweak is simply finding the balance between the water pressure and the lengt/distance adjustment, but again this is only required if you are targetting a small (english) garden.
We have the unit now operating for some weeks and must say we haven't seen any cats or their dropping in the garden anymore. Will keep the unit for a few more weeks, just in case and then we can remove it again.
But besides protecting the area it is also a great summer toy on hot sunny days!
Good point: does the job and can be finetuned with a little effort
comment: Improvement required on the groundspike and pipework as this is not to strong/sturdy and make the unit wobble, especialy when the water pressure if on full blastRead full review
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Probably the best heron deterrent.
Quite a robust piece of kit, except for the ground spike which I have replaced with a metal one.
Once sensitivity has been adjusted correctly it maintains it's settings well.Ensure there are no overhanging tree branches / tall plants close by or it will trigger when the wind blows. My water pressure is good and it can squirt a spray jet of water up to 26 feet in a shallow arc.Batteries last well, but of course that depends on how often it is trigger - pretty reliable I believe helps piece of mind when protecting Koi carp!Read full review
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Does The Job
Having tried almost every other cat deterrent on the market, this is the only one that has worked.
As with some other customers, it was necessary to add some ptfe (plumbers tape) to the threaded connectors to stop any leakage.
To save on battery power I also turn the sensitivity down or off when strong winds are forecast as plants blowing in the garden seemed to trigger the device off.Read full review
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Best Buy yet
Had cats using garden as toilet got this and within 1 day cats are staying away great as I tried everything else, had to buy 2 as 1 covered 1 area but I did see cat in the other part of my garden so did he have a shock that night when he came back great fun for the kids aswell during hot weather, it takes time to get it right as the jet has to be adjusted height etc and distance and you might get a bit wet but great fun made me laugh anyway highly recommend itRead full review
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Great pest deterrent
Have had visits by a heron on my koi pond, it has a net over it but he was still stabbing at my fish through it, i got this and set it up easily and waited, he landed and it immediately flew away, he hasn't been back since but time will tell, easily connected to my hose and no leaking, just remember its there as have been squirted a few time lolRead full review
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cat bidet.
Problem cat came over wall only to receive blast of cold water just where no one would want. Wish I had my phone handy. Cat has not been back since. Still trying not to laugh as I type this.
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Good but could be better.
Great product, only downside is no layman instructions, had to go on YouTube to find how. The spray adjuster is too small and fiddly, also the plastic spike is inadequate, I made a metal one.
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