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

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!

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are time-consuming to cover my entire raised bed, but they are the only true solution I have found to keep the cats out of the garden. It does take like 4 rolls to do a standard 4 by 8 raised bed. I always need more spikes than what is included in the packaging.

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 !!

Not that effective, cats poo where mats r not. Disappointed

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.

First of all, it took about 3 WEEKS to arrive (I know COVID has messed up shipping, but c'mon... 3 WEEKS?!). FINALLY get it and cut a couple strips to size. They clip together nicely to form a nice square mat. I was impressed with that ability. I wasn't expecting it, so that was a nice surprise that it supported that. Anyways, the reason I give it one star is that it is not an effective cat deterrent at ALL. I placed the nice square mat I had formed onto a shelf I'm trying to keep the cat off of. I had the mat in place maybe 30 seconds to a minute and he jumped right up onto it. I expected he was going to freak out and jump down or something. Nope... he just sat there looking at me like, "well this is kinda different, but meh." It had zero effect on my cat. To be super clear, he's not some kind of weird breed cat or anything. He's just a standard American medium hair house cat. I wish there was some product that might actually work for this purpose. Oh well, worth a shot. I was going to use this stuff everywhere I didn't want him jumping so I ordered 2 rolls of it. I might see if I can send back the second roll.

Suceeded in deterring neighbor cat from using my plant area as a place to relieve itself where other products had failed.