Sonic Cat Repellers

This page tells you a bit about sonic cat repellers, how they work and some of the best selling cat sonic repeller devices available.

These ingenious devices can be placed strategically around your garden to protect problem areas such as flower beds, garden ponds and bird tables from unwelcome visitors such as cats. Most sonic cat repellers detect cats by passive infra-red (PIR) detection.

When the cat enters the passive infrared zone the sonic cat repeller will emit a burst of sound at a frequency only the cat can hear.

And the cats don’t like it very much – they will quickly vacate your garden leaving your garden lawn, flower beds, ponds cat-free.

Depending on the length of time the offending cat has used a particular spot in your garden as it’s litter tray or had lunch from your fish pond or bird table and/or on how persistent the cat is, it will try to come back but as long as your sonic cat repeller is standing guard, your lawn, flower beds, fish pond or bird table should remain safe. As a guide it may take as long as 2 to 4 weeks from installing your cat sonic repeller for the cat to give up using your garden completely so the sooner you act, the sooner you can enjoy your garden this summer.

Keeping cats and other pests out of your garden is next to impossible without a 6 foot tall spike or razor-wire topped (or electric) fence or another method for detering cat, such as a sonic cat repeller is probably your next best option. And if you’re an animal lover you can be safe in the knowledge that the cat won’t be harmed, rather just “assertively discouraged” from coming into your garden.

So which cat sonic repeller is right for you?

This very much depends on how much effort (and investment) you want to put into to protecting your garden and also on your technical proficiency. By “technical proficiency” I mean do you feel confident in installing a system that is mains-powered and will require you to consider wiring? The benefits of this are that the ultra-sonic emitter will always give out a full-strength burst. Battery-powered sonic cat repellers will lose sonic-burst strength over time and batteries must be replaced from time to time. Not a problem if you’re organised though. There are solar-powered options available as well.

If you want a system that is more portable – that you can move around to different areas of your garden then the battery or solar-powered options might be better for you. The best-selling sonic cat repeller on Amazon.co.uk is The Big Cheese – Cat Repeller. This product has more than 300 4-star reviews from Amazon alone. It’s also one of the cheapest devices available right now – it normally sells for £29.99 but at the time of writing you can get it from Amazon.co.uk for less than £15!

Solar-powered options include the Solar Powered Animal Chaser (863) and an exciting new solar-powered cat repeller product will be launched in July – the Pestbye Solar Powered Cat Repeller.

As an alternative, the next best-rated sonic cat repeller (based on more than 25 reviews) is the Gardman Cat-Gard Green, currently priced at around £22.00. Note that this is a mains-powered device and comes complete with it’s own power supply and will protect up to 200 sq.mtr of garden.

Other considerations include the size and shape of your garden. If you’re trying to protect more than one area or if your garden is bigger than the maximum range of the sonic cat repeller then you may need more than one device. If you have a large estate-sized garden/grounds or you live in the countryside, then you can even protect your garden with a deer repeller that plays radio and flashes a light – one of the most effective ways to see off deer apparently.