Amtek Scraminal - Keep Pets Out of Restricted Areas

I can't give this thing a high enough rating.We have a puppy, and some time shortly after we got her she concluded that the reason our living room has corners is so that you have somewhere you can poop when you can't find Mommy or Daddy and get them to let you outside. Or when you don't want to find Mommy or Daddy. Or when it's Tuesday.And we tried everything, I swear. My wife and I both have some experience training dogs, and we did a lot of the usual stuff, both positive and negative reinforcement, but we just couldn't shake her of her living-room-is-for-pooping habit. She's a well-trained dog, actually, and today she's an AKC-Certified Canine Good Citizen (CGC), but back over the summer we just couldn't shake her of her bad habit.Finally, in a fit of frustration after having spent hundreds of dollars on cleaners, I bought a few different beepers on Amazon all at the same time. I tried each one for a few days. And this is the one that worked -- and it worked on the very first day.For the record, this didn't do much to deter our cats (one cat just flat-out ignored it, and the other concluded that she had to run very fast past it to avoid it "seeing" her -- and, of course, it beeped at her every time). If you're buying this to keep your cats away from things, best of luck to you. I've debated trying to use it to keep our cats out of the kitchen sink at night, but I'm pretty sure it would have no real effect on them.But with our dog -- now that's a whole different story. On the very first day it scared her away from the living room. By the end of a week, she had learned exactly where it was protecting, and she had learned not to cross that line. By the end of a month, we turned it off, because we hadn't needed it for quite some time.For the record, this gizmo does not beep: It screeches like your house is being stolen. That's great if you want to keep pets out of a room, and believe me, it works -- but not so much when you're trying to sleep. So if there's one bad thing I can say about this, it's that cats + Scraminal + 3 AM = a very bad night's sleep. And I'd be careful of using this in an apartment where you have thin walls.Still, the thirty bucks I spent on this little gizmo managed to beat out hundreds of dollars I spent on cleaning and hundreds more for dog training. We were looking to buy a major multi-year investment in the Nature's Miracle Pet Cleaner company before I bought the Scraminal, and now I can't even remember the last time I scrubbed the carpet.As I write this posting, the Scraminal is out of stock, which is sad, because it's worth its weight in gold. If you have a dog, and this comes back into stock, buy one. Seriously. Do it before it's sold out again. And, for the record, no, I won't sell you mine.

The media could not be loaded. I have 6 indoor cats and 2 dogs. It took maybe 2 times of them setting the alarm off to understand stay away from my Christmas tree. This works! I purchased a second one to keep them away from my table decorations. Absolutely no harm to my pets or my Christmas decorations. I also used them to keep outside animals from climbing in the underside of my vehicles. I did feel the price was a little high but it is worth it. Solved the problem! If something goes wrong with the ones I have I will repurchase.

Here's my story with this product...Purchased the Scraminal in October 2019 for over $75. Worked fantastic....solved the problem of one of our cats urinating on one of our formal couches.However, it stopped functioning properly after approximately 8 months. It would go off sporadically and repeatedly without anything being around to trigger it. Eventually, the cats were unfazed by it. Being that so much time has passed since I purchased the item, the window to return or replace the item through Amazon is closed.The unit supposedly has a 1-year warranty on it. I emailed the manufacturer...and all I have received it a whole lotta headache. I first receive a response from the owner, Ted, who basically just passes me off and told me to call their tech support number. Their tech support (spoke with Arnel) is apparently completely ill-equipped to deal with any issue of this sort (not to mention has ZERO people skills)...just telling me to take the battery out, put it back in, turn it off, turn it on...yadda yadda. Then it's supposed to be miraculously fixed, right? Wrong.Five minutes after ending my call, the unit again begins to malfunction. I immediately email the owner again, and he tells me they will ship me a new unit....just provide my address. I did.I soon receive a call from their inept technician, Arnel, who leaves me a message asking me to call him so he can give me their address (why this information can't be left in his message, I don't know). I call Arnel, left on hold for another 5 minutes, then go on to have the following conversation with him:Arnel: Erin?Me: Yes?Arnel: You have our address?Me: NoArnel: (Proceeds to rattle off their address)Me: ....and why do I need this?Arnel: You're going to ship the defective unit back to us.Me: ....and who is going to pay for this?Arnel: You.Me: That's not happening.Arnel: No?Me: I have already gone back and forth with this too long....wasted too much time. Ted indicated you guys would be shipping me a new unit. I've already provided my address to you. That's it, and that's all.Arnel: OkI don't think I have ever dealt with worse customer service than this. I will update this review IF and WHEN I receive a new unit from this yahoos.