For gardens, yards and patios — runs from the phone you already carry
A sound cats dislike and most people barely notice, played on a schedule you set, from the phone speaker. Nothing to mount, wire or bury.
Cats come through a garden the same way every night — over the same wall, under the same fence panel, onto the same patch of soft soil. CATS AWAY plays short bursts of high-frequency sound at that spot, loud enough to be unpleasant for an animal that hears far above our range, and dull enough that most adults walking past hear next to nothing.
It is not a trap, a spray or a barrier. It makes one corner of your garden less comfortable than the one next door, so the route changes. That is the whole idea, and it is why the schedule and the frequency slider matter more than the volume.
Short tones at the top of the audible range and above, played through the phone's own speaker. Cats notice immediately; most adults hear a faint tick or nothing at all.
Slide up and down to find what the cats on your street react to. Younger cats and older cats do not respond to the same tone, so it is worth a week of trying.
Fire every few minutes, or only in the hours they come through — dawn and after dark. Set it once and leave the phone to it.
A small courtyard needs far less than an open back garden. Turn it to what the ground you are protecting actually needs, and no further.
No stake in the lawn, no sensor on the shed wall, no batteries to change in February. An old phone propped by the beds does the job.
Same app, three habits. Most gardens end up on one of these.
Short bursts on repeat while nobody is out in the garden.
Runs only in the two windows when cats actually cross the garden.
One tap when you see one on the wall deciding where to jump.
Cats learn routines quickly, so vary the hours and nudge the frequency during the first couple of weeks.
Photographs of the ordinary places this gets propped, pointed and left.
Before you open the app, find the entry point: the scuffed fence panel, the flattened lavender, the one bed that keeps getting dug. That spot is what you are protecting, not the whole garden.
Speaker facing the route, roughly knee height, under cover if the weather turns. High frequencies travel badly through glass, so an open window or outdoors beats a windowsill indoors.
Start mid-range and give it a few evenings. If the visits continue, move the slider and try again — the tone that works on one street does nothing two roads over.
Once something works, put it on a schedule covering the hours they come, keep the phone charging, and check the beds in a week instead of watching the fence.
Almost certainly. Dogs and cats hear well above the human range, and the app cannot tell one animal from another. If your own pets use the garden, run it only when they are indoors.
Most adults hear little or nothing at the top of the range, but children and teenagers often hear more than we do. Keep the volume to what the bed needs and point the speaker into your own garden.
It is meant to be an annoyance, not an injury — an unpleasant corner the cat chooses to avoid. It does not trap, confine or touch the animal in any way.
Poorly. Glass flattens high frequencies more than low ones. Open the window, or put the phone outside under something that keeps the rain off.
As far as a phone speaker reasonably can: a courtyard, a patio, a bed or two. It is not a device for an open field, and a louder handset will cover more ground than a quiet one.
Cats get used to a fixed tone at a fixed hour. Move the frequency and change the schedule every so often and the spot stays unfamiliar.
Describe your garden and where the cats come through, and we'll tell you where to put the phone and what to try first.
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