Tapix Cat Scat Mat with Spikes Digging Stopper (8 ft.) Anti-cat Network Cat Strips, Cat Deterrent Mat for Indoor and Outdoor with 6 Staples

All my babies are now big doggies!!! I have a bad habit of letting them get on the couch with me when they are little, but I have always been able to keep them off my couch once they got bigger!!! My biggest fella is close to 80lbs, and has weighed more than that at times!!! Unfortunately, my last rescue babie has refused to be detoured!!! I was able to keep her off for a while, and then she started all over again to get on my couch!!! It is very important nowadays that she stay off my couch because now I sleep on my couch!!! And her getting on my couch wouldn't be such a big deal, except that when I forget and yell at her to get down, she pees on my bed. Being a rescue, she obviously needs more love and attention than other dogs do!!! And I try NOT to yell at her at all, except when she gets out of the fence, and at that point, I am calling her name looking for her instead of yelling at her. When she does get on my couch, she likes to stick her nose in my big mug of iced tea!!! And she has actually drank some of it, and either vomited it up or spat it out on my couch!!! Before now, all my other babies have gotten down when I told them to get down without peeing, or vomiting on the couch. So, to keep my bed from being peed on, vomited on, or spilled on by my youngest and most determined babie girl puppy doggie, I bought this Cat Scat Mat!!! It works!!! I put the one strip down the middle!!! And at 1st she stayed off of my bed!!! Then she decided to sit on one side of it!!! Unfortunately when I made her get off, she peed on my couch, AGAIN!!! Anyway, I took the extra piece and put it on the one side, and she is staying off my couch as of now!!! So, I am PLEASED!!! Today, she paused looked at the Scat mat lying on top of my bed/couch, and turned and walked on by!!! Hooray!!! I am definitely winning the battle!!! Obviously, when I get my bedroom repaired, I will keep the door closed, but til then, these mats are doing a great job!!! I bought some more mats to put outside in my large pot to keep the neighbor's cats from using it as a place to potty!!! I sure hope they work as well as this has. Thank you to whoever invented these mats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This thing is such a great cat deterrent! My cat would not stop getting on my pc. So I put this on top with a few twist ties and now she’s stopped with out causing harm to her! Very sturdy and easy to cut to shape!

I used this along a fence line to keep my dogs from running up to the privacy fence and barking at the neighbors dog. Everyone gets along, but their dog is very strong and has shoved his head through quite a few of the think boards. Until I can get a new fence installed, this keeps the dogs away from the immediate fence area which is helping. I also bought a clicker that emits a supersonic sort of noise that only the dogs can hear so when they do start barking, it scares them away form the fence. I like it so far and I think its effective. I wish it was thicker though, a little taller and a little wider would be great since I have large dogs. Its not insanely durable which is the reason for the four stars - after stepping on it on accident with my shoes, a couple of the spikes broke off and then when I was repositioning it, it snapped in a few places. Would certainly work for cats too to keep them off of a couch or a counter but for now it is keeping my large dogs away from the fence.

This mat is great , keeps the feral cats out of my flowers and veggies garden. I also use coyote urine all around the garden for help. I also found that the resident raccoon has stayed out. I am buying more product as I need to really protect my corn. This mat is a med hard plastic with upright plastic, spikes. THe mat was easy for me to cut to size around the flowers. THere are gardening pins that also come with the *kit* to pin the mat to the ground so it won't move. There are only a few pins available with the set so i bought some pins that are used for weed block. The spikes aren't painful to touch or even for an animal to get impaled . It's more of a deterrent .I suppose if the animal were large or determined they would still walk on this. I think it may be useful to detract squirrels from digging. I'll have to try this. So far, the mat has been on the areas in need,( the really peed on parts I dug the dirt up first and added sweet lime to help neutralize the pee.) the mats have been on 8 days now and I check them daily. None have been pulled up out of place and I have not seen any poop, pee? I am going to assume, none there. I am so glad I bought this ! It has saved my garden ! I recommend it. In fact, I recommended it just today to a neighbor and she trotted home quick and ordered some !!

I bought this to stop my cat from jumping/walking on a porch railing, and this was completely ineffective for my situation. I think it would prevent digging, and I'm certain she wouldn't sit or lay on it, but she has no issue walking between the spikes and even jumping and landing on the spikes. It probably depends on the cat, but my kitty is scrappy and determined so this was a waste for me. I'm still giving a good rating for quality, the product was easy to use and install. I had to cut it down to size and used some strong kitchen shears to do so. It came with some sturdy metal spikes which didn't work with my application but would work well in a garden situation. Just be aware of what you're buying it for, it may not be the best solution to prevent cats walking or jumping.

My youngest cat is actually the queen of hell. She is something else. She doesn't bite or anything like that. She can be SUPER cuddly and adorable. But she's smart, she tries to drive us insane slowly. Her life goal is to be able to climb on the ceiling. She thinks it's fun to get in trouble for jumping on shelves, breaking things, and trying to kill my gnomes. Her cat tree goes higher than this shelf in particular also by the way. That's how you know she is doing it on purpose. People thought I was crazy when I told them I was buying spike strips for my cat. It worked. I was able to cut this with scissors though after awhile my hands started to hurt. It didn't hurt to push my hand on but it was uncomfortable and definitely got sore after a long period of time trying to move this around and cut. I have lined the tops of the trouble some shelves that she jumps on and isn't supposed to. She hasn't touched it. One corner of a shorter shelf was rolled up and she jumped up and stood on that little corner and observed very carefully and then SHE JUMPED DOWN. She hasn't even looked at the shelf since. I do have to say she stuck her head in the roll and tried chewing on it before I began this endeavor but that ended as fast as it started. There's some wierd kinks throughout the roll but it's not a huge deal. You have to lay something heavy on it for awhile to get it to stop rolling but if it's outside the staples would work perfectly fine I just can't use those in my house. This simple product has allowed us to keep our sanity at least a little longer.

I have three cats. We have had a couple of stray cats that kept getting into our backyard. This created a fight between two of my cats, which never happened before. I can no longer have them in the same room. I thought this product would help me to keep the stray cats away, with hopes of reintroducing my cats to each other. I installing in front of my aluminum fence where there is a gap between the fence and the ground. Unfortunately the stray cats are walking right on the scat mat and into my yard. This morning I watched one of the stray cats on my security cameras not only walk under the fence and onto the mat, but did so while carrying a Blue Jay in its mouth. I also have bird feeders in my backyard.

We have been having a feral cat prey upon songbirds at our feeder when we put seed out and along our seat wall. I tried a metal trap I bought but after no luck with that I looked into deterrence. These scat mats, so far, have been great! They cut easily with scissors and one can maneuver them around to where they need to be. We placed them in the hiding spots where we have seen the cat and also moved one of our Arlo cameras over to keep an eye on their effectiveness. We have seen the cat at night and in the mornings walk on the brick ledge around the mats and I recently bought another mat to put up on the brick to eliminate that path choice. We have not seen the cat kill any birds since we put them down and we have not seen the cat walking or sitting on the mats so it seems indeed, it does not like the prongs. Our dogs stepped on it once and have not repeated the mistake. Really pleased...would recommend if you have a similar problem or want to keep a cat or dog off an area. **Update 5/11/2020**: It has been 3 months now since we have installed these scat mats and we are 100% satisfied. We have not had one bird killed by the feral cat since we put them down. More so, we have seen the cat less and less on our Arlo camera and it seems it has lost interest in our yard (knock on wood) by eliminating it's kill spots. That was my goal, to force the cat to sit in a more visible spot, so the birds could see the cat and wait to feed until the threat was gone. Unfortunately we have seen the cat prowling the neighborhood so sadly it is likely finding birds or other small animals elsewhere...but at least these scat mats have returned our yard to a safe haven.

WE USED IT AROUND OUR BED TO STOP OUR CAT FROM SCRATCHING OUR NEW BOX SPRING AND WAKING US UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. WE CUT IT IN STRIPS.

Tarde en decidirme comprarlo, me ha ayudado mucho, ya no me encuentro con la tierra removida de mi jardinera, los gatos que solian hacer sus necesidades en mis plantas ya no lo han mas. Esta malla es muy practica de inslatar, se puede recortar a la longitud que se requiera.

Funciona bien, pero con los gatos nunca se sabe, depende mucho del gato en particular. Yo las usé para proteger las macetas de plantas grandes, para que no se suba.

This is a wonderful product not only as a deterrent to cats but to protect flower bulbs from rabbits and other critters Love it Love it

Si funciona muy muy bien, en verdad que ahuyenta a los gatitos de las macetas. Si algo que mejorar es que se pueda armar mejor porque cuadno lo recortas para acomodarlo en espacios pequeños al final te sobre un poco de malla y se puede desperdiciar material