bad idea to get this?

[dabuddha]

My cats drive me nuts every morning. They stand at our bedroom door and start scratching the carpet and the door to try to wake us up. And these assholes always do it 20-30 minutes before my alarm is set to go off.

In the past, I had purchased the Ssscat spray cans which worked pretty well but the cans are expensive to refill. I was looking to purchase this:

http://www.amazon.com/Contech-...raining/dp/B0007NTBJ6/

The question is, my daughter just started crawling and I'm pretty sure she'll end up on this mat a few times. Will this thing harm her? From what I've read, it basically feels like getting shocked with static electricity.

TIA

 

[George P Burdell]

If you do buy this, please please please take video!

 

[theknight571]

I wonder how effective these are.

I have yet to find something that will keep our dog (~100 pound German Sheppard) off the furniture... of course I would need 4-5 of these... lol

Our cat would figure out a way to conquer the new obstacle... might take a few attempts.. but she would.

 

[sswingle]

Looks like it has intensity settings. I dont see it HURTING anyone at any setting, but a reviewer said they touched it at highest setting and it was rather strong.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: dabuddha
My cats drive me nuts every morning. They stand at our bedroom door and start scratching the carpet and the door to try to wake us up. And these assholes always do it 20-30 minutes before my alarm is set to go off.

In the past, I had purchased the Ssscat spray cans which worked pretty well but the cans are expensive to refill. I was looking to purchase this:

http://www.amazon.com/Contech-...raining/dp/B0007NTBJ6/

The question is, my daughter just started crawling and I'm pretty sure she'll end up on this mat a few times. Will this thing harm her? From what I've read, it basically feels like getting shocked with static electricity.

TIA

Exactly correct. My dog learned to get up on the couch when I was a young bachelor who owned couches I didn't care about. I used scat mats (same brand) to break him of it.

They run on 9V batteries (don't bother with the wall adapter) and would probably make a toddler cry, but there's no real harm. IIRC, they have a 2- or 3-level power setting as well.

Once your cats figure out they REALLY don't like being on them, you can probably get by using the much cheaper dummy mats - they're just the plastic but pets will avoid them like the plague anyway.