Review on PetSafe ScatMat Large 48 Inch 20 Inch by Nancy Ortega

Good idea but there are too many problems for this product to be effective, see below: 1. Designers should not understand how Pavlovian training works. Attaching a flashing LED to the device not only drains the battery, but also teaches the animal to associate the light with the impact. The same goes for the beep it makes when it strikes. I don't want my cat to associate a beep or light with shock, I want her to associate lying on the counter with shock. The current setting is only to confuse the animal. I blocked the LED so she couldn't predict the pad was active until she hopped onto the counter. 2. You want the mat to become an integral part of any surface you want your cat to stay away from. Cats are stubborn. They will keep trying until they get what they want. The moment I take the rug off after it has been in place for WEEKS, within a day or two I am seeing paw prints on my stove and countertops again. These rugs are ugly, I don't want them to be permanent fixtures.3. I bought two of these and one of them died immediately after about two weeks. Soldering and wiring are inexpensive. For what I paid I expected more.