Tattle Tale Pet Training Vibration Alarm Title

Works Great! We tried everything before this nothing worked. It is a great safe way of keeping our dog off of the bed! It is not super pricey and saves me from washing the sheets everyday lol. Super easy to use, just put on the furniture and turn it on! The sounds scares him away at any attempt!

Haven't had to clean the couch since I bought this! This instantly solved a cat problem that I have been dealing with for years. Here's the culprit. I snapped a picture after hearing he set off the sensor by jumping on the couch to pee on it. No cat pee on my couch today! The beep reminds me of a smoke detector's low battery or test sound in terms of volume and pitch. It is very loud and high pitched. The sensor is also quite sensitive, even on low. It goes off every time my husband stomps by or slams the doors (he claims he just "walks" by and "closes" the doors, but I digress). Vacuuming sets it off, and cats jumping from the window sill sets it off, too. Me walking by almost never triggers the sensor. It's pretty sensitive, but I will take the occasional ear splitting beep over spending forever cleaning my couch every day! I did some trial and error and determined the best position to place the sensor was the middle of the couch. When I moved the sensor to a side cushion and sit down lady-like on the other side of the couch, the sensor didn't go off on the low setting. If the sensor is on the middle cushion, it goes off no matter how carefully I sit down. My husband throwing himself on the couch (aka "sitting down') would absolutely set it off every time no matter which cushion the sensor is placed on.

Our situation: we don't mind our pets being on our furniture, but we *do* mind them peeing on it. One of our current foster cats sometimes clashes with a couple of our own cats, and in response, one cat (still not sure who) had been peeing on the couch on our sun porch. Since no type or amount of cleaner or pheromone spray seemed to keep them from re-soiling the same area, we decided that (at least until the instigator foster gets adopted & things are a bit calmer) they'd just have to stay off of the couch, period. To this end, I ordered the Tattle Tale and 2 Stay Off! mats at the same time. The Stay Off! mats had better reviews overall, but they were also rather small and would be difficult to conceal on some surfaces (like kitchen counters) if we chose to use them elsewhere later. So I figured I'd also order the Tattle Tale for good measure. We put them both on the couch, with the Stay Off! mats concealed under a couch cover. In terms of how they work, the Stay Off! mats are, at least in theory, a better idea for keeping pets off of a couch. The "alarm" sounds on the Stay Off! mats when they are stepped on...when your pet actually tries to get onto the off-limit surface. The Tattle Tale senses vibrations, which doesn't necessarily mean that there's a cat climbing onto the couch. It also goes off if the couch gets bumped, which happens quite a bit. This isn't necessarily a *bad* thing. For example, if you're having a problem with your cats clawing your couch, vigorous clawing may also trigger the "alarm". But then it also happens when, say, cats are playing and just happen to collide with the couch. Using the lower of the 2 sensitivity settings might fix this, but out of concern that it might also make it less effective at detecting when a cat jumps onto the couch, I leave it on the higher setting anyway. But in terms of effectiveness, the Tattle Tales wins by a long shot. Its sensitivity might cause it to false-alarm more often, but the Stay Off! mats just aren't sensitive enough (at least for cats). It might be different with a larger pet, or if the pet was leaping directly onto the mat, but the cats don't always take a flying leap onto the couch. Moving slowly and stepping lightly, the cats easily step directly onto the Stay Off! mats without setting them off. Only if they're running and / or land hard will they actually set off the Stay Off! mats. The Tattle Tale is much more sensitive. The smallest and lightest of our fosters (who only weighs about 6 lbs) can occasionally sneak onto the couch without setting the Tattle Tale off, but only if she's very slow and delicate about it. Because it detects vibrations, the Tattle Tale also isn't limited by the surface area of a mat. Not counting the arms, our couch is close to 6' long. Our Tattle Tale is positioned at one end of our couch where we'd had problems with inappropriate elimination, but the alarm still sounds if a cat hops onto the opposite end. And then there's the "alarm" sound itself. To be fair, some cats frighten easily while others are pretty unflappable, so it would be difficult if not impossible to come up with a single alarm sound that would be effective on every single cat in the world. Still, there's a world of difference between the 2 products. The sound that comes from the Tattle Tale is much louder and much higher pitched. When we first got the 2 products, we played around with them both a bit individually, for the sake of comparison. Our cats just didn't find the Stay Off! mat's alarm to be an especially compelling reason to get off the couch. They'd look right at it as it was beeping but wouldn't move. As for the Tattle Tale, it isn't so much that they're scared by the sound as it is that 1) they want to get away from that awful, loud, high pitched sound, and 2) that they know they're busted. I may order a couple more Tattle Tales to try out on the kitchen counter. I'd definitely buy again!

I was very hopeful that this product would keep my two cats off our dining room table. Nothing has worked in the past -- neither sprays of water, nor aluminum foil, nor scolding them, nor citrus smells -- nothing. Here's what happened when I set up the Tattle Tale alarm. Cat 1 jumps on the table. The alarm (which lasts only 2 seconds and is relatively quiet -- my microwave beep is louder than this) sounded. Cat 1 is on guard at first, then curious. He walks over to it. The "alarm" remains silent, even though it's supposed to be sensitive to any and all movement. Cat 1 swipes at alarm. It sounds and stops. He swats again, and it sounds and stops again. Then, he walks around the table for a while while the alarm sits silently. Finally, he curls up for a nap on one of our placemats about 4 inches away from it. Cat number 2, intrigued by the sound, hops up on the table. The alarm sounds. She goes over to it. Although she's sniffing it, prancing around the table, and stretching, it doesn't sound again. So she curls up for a nap as well. And there I am, watching the "Tattle Tale" oversee the afternoon siesta of the two felines it was supposed to scare off. My guess is that it's not sensitive to most of the vibrations caused by cats' paws and that the 2-second, relatively soft sound of the alarm is not frightening enough to scare cats away. Even cats more skittish than mine, I imagine, could easily tolerate the benign beep eminating from this device. Don't waste your money. I burned $6 on shipping and now have to pay a 25% restocking fee. And the cats are still on the table.

I love my cat but she has always been extremely picky about where she wants to go to the bathroom. Over the years I've tried so many types of litter, litter boxes, litter attractants, litter box locations...so it was rough when she decided that underneath my desk was where she really wanted to be going. She ruined an area rug and would have ruined more, probably, until I got this device. She and my dog (and me for that matter) hate the noise it makes. I found that it was too sensitive, even on the low setting, when I placed it underneath the desk. Her cat tree isn't far and it would beep when she jumped off the tree. Instead, I strung it up under the desk so that it hangs there, not touching the ground. This way, vibrations on the floor don't set it off, but if she goes under the desk and bumps it, it will go off. I've had it for a while and she only had to set it off twice to learn not to go under there anymore! So while I do hate the idea of scaring an animal, in this case it was quick, effective, and pretty low impact in terms of stress to my pets.

It sounds like a description of a bad date: Hypersensitive and shrieks at the slightest disturbance. But for this product, that's just what you want. (Anybody who thinks theirs is quiet probably just needs a fresh battery!) It's a fairly simple device. My cats hate it, even though they're not the reason I bought one -- I'm using it as an automated warning to my kids that they're playing too rough near my computers. For my purposes, it would be especially useful if there was an adjustment not just for low or high sensitivity, but for vibration frequency for which it sounds an alert. Motion with a high frequency (like touching it) sets it off, but I can rock the shelf its on without setting it off. To use a water analogy, it's like the difference between the ripples coming out from a pebble thrown into a lake versus ocean waves, and I need sensitivity for the latter. Having that sort of adjustment would earn this more stars from me, but for its intended purpose it seems to work excellently.

Seems to be an individual thing in what works for different cats, as well as the rules different owners have for them. This didn't product do much to deter my cat, and was a pain in the rear for the humans. However, it would probably work for some cats, as well as have some other uses. I don't like my cat to walk on the kitchen counters (I don't let humans do that either!!). Totally grosses me out. Cats walk around in their litter boxes! Mine doesn't bury her poop, which is a totally different story. I don't want to have to disinfect my counters every time I cook, just in case the cat's been up there. Only want to clean counters after cooking. We don't care if the cat gets on the couch or beds. We like to snuggle with the cat on that furniture in my house. To each his/her own. However, IF this sound bothers your cat, it would work well for training him/her to stay off of furniture or counter, or stay away from certain areas. The problem for us was that the darn thing goes off every time you come near it, even on the low setting. If you turn it off while working in the kitchen, it makes that sound when you turn it back on, plus you have to remember to do that. If all you're doing is getting something to drink in the kitchen, then it's just annoying. We would hear it going off during the night and sometimes when no one is in the room. Things are still knocked off the counter, spilled, etc. Don't know how long she stays up there, but it's still happening just as frequently. I'll share one thing that's helped me, because I've learned a lot of ideas from others sharing them in reviews. This cat suddenly started getting on the kitchen counter a lot more often than she had in the past. When there's a behavior change in anybody or anything, it's good to try to figure out what's been different since the time the behavior changed. I figured out that when I started putting her cat food into a pretty cookie jar instead of a sealed canister is around the time when the counter surfing amped up. Easy solution: the food went back to a sealed container. I'm still looking for an effective way to keep her from ever getting on the counters, but it's happening a lot less when she can't smell the food there. Wouldn't you be willing to climb a counter if you were hungry and smelled a luscious steak up there? This product could be useful for other times when you want a warning or deterrent. Might work to deter toddlers from going where you don't want them to go. However, it's NOT loud enough to alert you to them getting to something dangerous, such as out the door to a pool or getting into something poisonous. More like getting a cookie between meals, or alerting you to them getting up after a nap.

I got this because all the other tricks I googled to keep my cats off the kitchen counter were a bust, and I think this has been the best "pet repellent" I've found! It's been the cheapest & most effective! The device feels the vibrations on the counter to set the alarm off & for the most part, it's accurate. However the sensitivity level is confusing to me at times because I'll set something down on the opposite end of the counter & it'll go off but my kitten (8lbs) will get on the counter right beside it and it won't go off-- keep in mind I have granite counter tops and she's not jumping from the ground, but from the bar stool so that may be why!! I do think it's really a hit or miss depending on your pet though. My older cat is ~12lbs & when he gets on the counter it goes off so maybe he just walks heavier than my younger one? Either way, my older cat was the main problem and the alarm scared the crap out of him the first couple times and he hasn't gotten back on since! Overall I'm very very happy I found this alarm & I'm probably gonna order additional ones for other locations!