There's nothing wrong with Wikipedia articles if they give proper citations. I'm a long-standing WP editor and am (still), generally, very impressed. A system that shouldn't work in a thousand years, but it mostly does.
I'm a total cynic, which, IMHO is better than being totally gullible . For me " it mostly does" isn't good enough.
If very worried then put the devices pot in a plant pot so it's tall enough to detect a cat but not a hedgehog. Drag a pot plant on a string along the ground to check. Ask kids to confirm the beep of detection.The RSPB seem very sure that it's fine for hogs. They specifically state it on their website.
My son having an innoculation against feline encephalitis is not on Wikipedia it cost over £300 and was fairly painful and the doctor told him it was necessary if travelling to China as they eat cats. This was 15 years ago so hoping they have now stopped. I do eat meat but I think it’s unhealthy to eat a carnivore. Just my opinion. They, like us, are predators not prey.
Reading some of the comments here makes me think it’s not just millennials who are snowflakes but gardeners too.
We have two cats. About 99% of the time they stay in our garden. Three near neighbours have cats and occasionally those cats come in our garden too. From time to time there are inevitably ‘deposits’ which I just leave to decompose naturally or sometimes bury slightly more deeply if I can be bothered.
Maybe it is because my garden is quite big I do not feel the need to go round tidying up after the animals. After 30 years living here, always with pet cats, I have never succumbed to these illnesses said to be spread by faeces. Give me neighbours with cats any day over neighbours with screaming children, or neighbours who play intrusively loud music, or neighbours who use noisy DIY machinery.
@Picidae my garden was covered in cat s*@! every single morning, are you saying that i should have just let my young son out to play in it? Or I should have to end up running my hand through it while caring for my plants?
A typical cat owner answer there, because you think its ok the rest of us just have to aswel?
Let's be honest, this issue will run and run, just as it does every time the subject comes up. It's your garden. If you want to use a cat scarer, use one. If you don't, don't. The fact remains that it is impossible to stop cats coming into a garden, short of enclosing it in an Eden Project style dome.
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cat lovers and haters will never agree i suppose...
We have two cats. About 99% of the time they stay in our garden. Three near neighbours have cats and occasionally those cats come in our garden too. From time to time there are inevitably ‘deposits’ which I just leave to decompose naturally or sometimes bury slightly more deeply if I can be bothered.
Maybe it is because my garden is quite big I do not feel the need to go round tidying up after the animals. After 30 years living here, always with pet cats, I have never succumbed to these illnesses said to be spread by faeces. Give me neighbours with cats any day over neighbours with screaming children, or neighbours who play intrusively loud music, or neighbours who use noisy DIY machinery.
A typical cat owner answer there, because you think its ok the rest of us just have to aswel?
it simply is not fair
The fact remains that it is impossible to stop cats coming into a garden, short of enclosing it in an Eden Project style dome.