Train Your Dog or Cat with PetSafe's ScatMat Indoor Training Mat

Matt: You would need to line up several of these to keep cats out of an area, otherwise they just jump over them.

United States on Oct 02, 2023

Susan Merriman: After trying so many other devices and sprays to keep my cats from scratching at my bedroom door in the morning, I found this Scat Mat. It gives off a static charge when the cat touches it with the strength of the charge being easily modifed when it is turned on. On the "kitten" level, it is just a shock like you get from your hair - the maximum will make you go "wow". It only takes one time and the cats learned to stay away from my door. So much cheaper than the canned air at $19 per can even with the cost of the 9v batteries.

Canada on Aug 02, 2021

justicek9: We were having problems with our cat scratching at the door in the early morning and ruining our sleep. We put this out and it took one time for her to walk on the mat and get a static shock. Now she is no where near the door. We can hear her meowing a bit down the end of the hallway but we get a better night's sleep.

Canada on Apr 17, 2021

Busyme.ca: Undecided. I cannot get these to work for the life of me. They keep shocking. When nothing is on it. Not sure why. Did contact customer service from the scat mat people. They have great customer service and replaced the two mats I bought but the new ones so it too. Why??

It seems to deter my kitty from the stove but I don’t like it activating when nothing touches it.

And my kitten is too smart as when I move the mat he knows he can walk on the surface. :(. I guess I’ll have to leave it there for a long time to condition him.

Canada on Mar 08, 2021

AmazonCanadianAmazonCanadian: The media could not be loaded.  Update #2 Aug2021: I contacted PetSafe directly and after exchanging a couple of emails (within hours of me writing to them) they are sending me a new mat since they determined mine is defective within the 1 year warranty! Will provide a new update when I receive the new mat.
Update Aug2021:
Only 6 months have passed and it has stopped working. The red light comes on but it no longer does anything. It has been rendered useless.
I am so disappointed because it worked so well and now my dog has already figured out that it doesn’t shock her anymore. :(

Feb 2021: Finally something that keeps my pup off the mantle! She loves to watch TV but it is so hard to keep her off the mantle and therefore jumping at the TV. I have tried so many so many things and nothing has worked. THIS DOES! I only have to use the low setting! It bugs her but doesn’t seem to hurt her.

Canada on Jan 27, 2021

CART4L: This ACTUALLY works! I was skeptical at first as some reviewers said their mats weren’t functioning properly (which is somewhat true as our mat takes a few attempts to work); however, majority of the time it is working well. Our 2 Ragdoll cats were super curious about this mat when we first took it out and stepped on it... They quickly realized that it was the mat to avoid! Our female cat used to scratch our bedroom door early in the morning and would always wake us up. It was getting super annoying as we were hardly getting any sleep at night, so I had to find a solution. Once this mat was placed in front of our door, she hasn’t scratched it at all!!! It’s kind of funny to see our cats avoid/smell around the bedroom door to make sure the mat isn’t there LOL. We love our kitties and of course we feel bad about shocking them, but the shock really isn’t that bad! We shock them by accident when we pet them after they roll over our carpets, so it is the same type of shock they get from this mat. Harmless, but enough to keep them away from problem areas.

BUY THIS NOW!!! Totally worth it and so glad we got this!

Canada on Apr 05, 2019

C. DeGhoul: We ended up with a couple of adult cats. I was adamant that they not have the run of the house because for various reasons, which include ones for their own safety. I tried blocking off the bottom landing with tall cardboard. I knew this was ineffective when I saw paw-prints on my kitchen countertop. Eww! I know where those paws have been and what they've been doing with them. So I bought a Scat Mat and put it on the landing at the bottom of the stairs. I started at the lowest setting. They walked right across it. I went up to the next setting. They got shocked but seemed to feel that the risk/benefit ratio was still in their favor, especially with the one who has the extra hairy paws. So I went to full power. THAT got their attention. After they crossed it once and had me chase them back upstairs and had to cross it a second time, the risk/benefit ratio no longer seemed so appealing to them. The mat has been working perfectly for a couple of months now and has prevented them from trying to leap over the cardboard. Even with the cardboard barrier open, they have not ventured across the mat since. The husband, however, has been less trainable. He continues to occasionally forget...

United States on Dec 15, 2015

Woody: I can't believe it took us approximately 10 years to find a product this effective. We stumbled upon it rather by accident, at a friend's house, out of desperation after trying various methods for our cats and foster dog.

Here were those various methods that failed (and why they failed, so that you, like I, can feel a little better about using static electricity on your animals):

(1) Double sided tape--nope, either changes the color of your furniture after a while, comes unstuck on the animals' paws, or gets swallowed by your ravenous dog.

(2) Foil on the counters or furniture--sure, works okay some of the time if you want to drive yourself insane while cooking or watching TV and look like you're from The Jetsons.

(3) Masking tape on the furniture--no, ruins the furniture, discolors it, and has the bonus of adding a lot of class to your furniture.

(4) Turning on the vacuum cleaner every time they do the undesired behavior--no, it can become like a game (especially for cats), and is prone to happening at 4:30 a.m. when the cats want to "play."

(5) Spray bottles/water guns--definitely not, this tends not to work and to have the undesirable...

United States on Oct 19, 2014