Bird-X Solar Yard Gard

Update It took three plus days to get rid of my neighbors cats comming into our garden. This was costing us money to replace rubber mulch, flowers, and time on weekends to take back our garden. Bird X helped. The suggested frequency was not working for cats. My husband suggested to turn the frequency up high and it worked. You saved our garden. We were thinking about removing our garden and replace with concrete. We live on a cul de sac up on a hill and downhill. However, passers decides to let their dogs poop without scooping it up, we have signs with a camera pointed directly in that area. We bought another one and hid in our hedges and dogs and their owners keep moving. We love animals and don't mind if your dog have to go but its done on private property so have decency to scoop the poop. However, we don't own any pets, so its time consuming and costing us to clean after owners pets. We put down signs and its not neighborly.

Mainly it did not deliver the expected result, the sensor and the flashing light worked, but the birds (peacocks and rooster) continued to ignore the ultrasonic response. The Solar ultrasonic hardware was too low in height, had to continuously trim the surrounding grass, and if tilted a little the rain water got inside and damaged one of the pieces (not waterproof).

I've been using this product for over 2 years now, I'm quite satisfied! If you're finding that it's not keeping certain animals away, please read the manual. You have to adjust the settings for the type of animals that you're trying to keep away. Also, you shouldn't be hearing this at all. It omits a high frequency sound that only the animals can hear and one that they clearly do not like, this does not affect house pets. I've had black bears walk right by my feeders after putting this up. So again, read your manual and adjust your settings. You'll find this is really a great buy! They only cover a certain area, so if the area you need protected is fairly large, I highly suggest (for effectiveness) you pick up another.

The past couple years I've used these for deer and rabbits in Upstate NY, and for armadillos in FL, with pretty good results. But the latest batch I received only lasted a couple months before they failed. It's not the batteries, but the unit itself just stops working. Pretty disappointing. My guess is that qualtiy control has dropped significantly. I'm currently looking for alternative brands.

This product does a great job on cats. You will have to experiment with placement and frequency settings to get the most effective performance. First my working settings... 1. Left Button: (Motion Sensitivity) I turned this all the way up 2. Right Button (Frequency Control) I set this to M+ Background: There is a large aggressive un-fixed male cat that has been terrorizing our inside cat that gets outside visitation with one of us present. This Male cat actually attacked our cat right in front of us by sneaking up on us. My wife was bitten and scratched protecting our cat. I purchased three of these Bird-X devices in hopes of blocking off access to our backyard along the sides of the house, and keeping the male cat away from the window our cat sits in a lot. Initially, I set the frequency to H and the cat walked right by it. I then set it to M and definitely got a reaction from the cat, but he still moved away quickly and then walked around it. I finally set it to M+ so it would flash the LED lights briefly at medium Frequency and that did the trick! The cat was really determined and still got by though. By the third day, the cat just turned around and ran away. So it takes time to get results. The instructions say up to three weeks, we have seen results in three days. The build quality is of much heavier plastic than the first devices I tried and sent back. To my amazement, the Bird-X devices came with AA NiMH batteries instead of cheap NiCad batteries. I was happy to discover a set of charged batteries will last an average of 200 days at 10 activations a day. You can also put standard AA batteries in them as per instructions, but I would cover the solar cells on top of the device with something to prevent solar charging. who needs solar with battery life like this? The sound emitted at an M+ setting seems to reach out about 7 feet from the emitter based on the cat's behavior. The LED lights combined with the frequency setting of M really is upsetting to the cat though. Now, cats are different and have different hearing and reactions so don't be afraid to experiment. We went out and enjoyed our backyard today with our little cat when we witnessed the male cat get driven away by the Bird-X device. On a last note, the device is directional in its sound, so it does not bother our cat. The higher range of frequencies does not penetrate the walls or windows of our house so our cat is not bothered inside the house or in the backyard. I did a test at point-blank range through a window at our cat sitting in its window bed and it had no effect whatsoever. Great product!

Excellent product

Me sorprende que funciona muy bien para perros y gatos desgraciadamente tengo vecinos irresponsables que no mantienen a sus mascotas en sus casas y venían a ser destrozos en la mía me ha funcionado para evitar que entren a mi casa. No sabía qué hacer y era desesperante no solucionar el problema, hay vecinos que hasta han envenenado a los animalitos por la irresponsabilidad de sus dueños y esta me pareció una excelente solución sin hacerles daño.

Nope doesn’t work…I should’ve listened to the reviews…..you should listen

No me sirvió, lo compré para mapaches y siguen metiéndose a mi jardin

Useless I do not recommend