Ask neighbour to relocate cat scarer as the noise is so annoying?

That catio is so cute I'm almost tempted to get a cat or two just so I have an excuse to build one with catwalks and steps to climb the wall. With a blind dog who's never lived with a cat, though, that wouldn't be a good idea.

I'm also confused about how OP's neighbours thought the cat scarer would deter the OP's cat but not bother their own. And once they saw neither cat was affected, why keep it? Could there be other cats in the area that it's successfully keeping away?

My inlaws had a thing like this which the kids could hear and it really upset them. On investigation we found that the device had 3 frequency settings and one of the 3 was actually silent to everyone. Ask them if their device has a different frequency setting. It's fair enough for them to want to discourage non-human annoyances but it's unreasonable for them to use a frequency that humans can hear and it's totally ok for you to stand up for your own rights to enjoy your garden even if it is your cat who is the target. Your own cat equally has the right to enjoy your garden so they shouldn't be using something that also makes your garden an unwelcome environment for your cat. They should get something different whose effect can be limited to just their property rather than having a range that extends across yours too.

Cat proof fencing

https://protectapet.com/pages/cat-fence

Or alternatively build a catio

This is slightly off the topic but I don’t understand why they have a cat scared if they have a cat themselves?

I can see why they want to keep your cat out of their garden but doesn’t the thing scare their own cat as well? How does their cat get use of their garden? Do they give it ear plugs or something 😂

If you can hear it it’s not set up properly and not doing its job at all the volume control is not an audible thing it’s to regulate the setting to deter the cat in question although coffee grinds and orange peel around their garden will be far kinder to their cat who will be getting traumatised by the scarer infringing its territory far more than your cat as cats are actually social creatures I have 32 …. If the want the cats separate then cat roof netting is a much better solution for animal welfare reasons

The only thing the cat scared do is annoy the humans. The cats just go round. Someone near me had one and it was so loud that just walking past set it off along with cars driving past. Cats didn’t give a flying f**k and carried on as normal.

it got accidentally damaged on purpose one night after numerous complaints by neighbours. Replaced. Then got stolen.
it kept waking someone’s baby up as if a butterfly farted in the middle of the night it went off like a klaxon.

Stop your cats from wandering (look up protectapet, the site of the shed is not a reason to allow them to wander).

then once you’ve stopped giving them a reason for using a cat scarer, you can ask them to remove it.

you cats will be safer and healthier if it has access to outside space but without the danger if traffic and other cats, and your neighbours will be relieved.

Everyone wins.

I had to ask my neighbour to remove hers. It was an extremely high pitched, constant beeping. I couldn't go out in my garden due to it.
She was mortified when I said, she couldn't hear it, said she was too old 😂

They've got it at the wrong pitch. If humans can hear it, cats won't be bothered.

My neighbour had one that drove me insane. And I was in my 40s so not like I had high pitched hearing. He was deaf so was oblivious. I used to tell him to change the setting, as I think he had it on the 'test' setting that you use to check if it actually works. He would always revert it back at some point though to the audible tone.

We didn't even have cats in neighbouring gardens, he wanted to protect his veggie patch from the occasional visiting interloper. They should be banned, they are anti-social.

We’ve got cat scarers because there’s about 30 cats who live on our estate and we don’t want them in our garden. If our neighbours moaned about them we’d tell them to keep their cats out of our garden, but they won’t do that so we’ll keep the scarers.

This.

And please absolve yourself of the notion that "well we use our garden more often than they do". So what? We have an arsehole Bengal that comes into our garden. The fucker pisses me off even when I'm in the house and I can see it. If I wanted a cat in my garden, I'd get my own cat.

You aren't more deserving of the exterior world! Maybe they don't go out as much because of your cat.

I don’t think you can reasonably ask them to remove their cat deterrent until you have ensured your cat stays in your own garden.

I have these and they work well to keep cats out.

The noise is probably no less annoying to you as your cat is to them.

You can strike a deal by taking steps to keep your cat out of their garden, then they can remove the cat scarer and everyone will be happy.

My neighbours had one of these, because when we moved in, they saw we had cats. They're actually house cats, yet the scarier remained, pointing at our front path so every time we walked out of our door, it went off. It was an awful sound.

It went "missing" not long after that ☺

Problem is you can cat proof your own garden and they still keep the scarer because actually its a cat from the next road which is shitting in their garden

They may not have realised about their cat pooing in your garden? That said, how can they think a scared will work with their cats??

We had a local cat coming into ours and although I love cats, with two young kids it was pretty unpleasant. Instead of anything sound related, we got a water device - it had a motion sensor still, but was connected up to a hose pipe and it briefly sprayed water. Worked a treat so maybe you can suggest they try that?

If you can hear it, it probably needs the frequency changing. If at the right frequency they do stop cats getting into the garden. My BIL put 2 up to stop the local cats using his vegetable patch as a toilet. It worked and the only other people who could hear it were his 10 year old daughter and her friends. They
switched it off when she was using the garden.
I would image if your neighbours don’t want your cat in the garden, they probably don’t care what you are hearing. The onus is on you really.

Those things give me a headache

but unless you are ready to put a solution in place to keep your cat out of their garden, you don’t have any right to complain. Install some cat-proof fencing or a cat run and then ask them to get rid of it.

Quite apart from anything else it must be driving their poor cat insane, assuming from the 'territory' comment that their cat goes in their garden?!

They're awful things, there used to be one down the road from us that went off if you walked past on the pavement, really loud and unpleasant. I'm 40 and can't hear those mosquito things that are supposed to disperse teenagers so not like I've got the ears of a bat or anything.

Yep! They do my head in.
I used to live near a corner shop that had one that was to deter teens from loitering. I was i my 30s and could still hear it.

Does their cat not mind the cat scarer?

Oh I've had to ask neighbours to remove these too. Although I would be happy to sabotage them e.g. black paint over the sensor, remove batteries, unscrew and remove noisy bits. I was secretly plotting. Steal it and sabotage, then replace. They can't hear it so it won't make any difference.

It's such a myth that those ultrasonic things aren't audible to humans!

Several of our neighbours have these and they drive me mad, I've had to have windows closed at night because of the noise. None of the cats seem even slightly bothered by it. The worst one was going off every few minutes, I assume being too close to plants waving in the wind.
Thankfully I haven't heard it today so it must have run out of batteries.