Havahart 5277 Critter Ridder Motion Activated Animal Repellent and Sprinkler - Repel Cats, Dogs, Chipmunks, Groundhogs, Squirrels, Skunks, Deer, and More

Works exactly as advertised. Nothing complicated to set up, just screwing the pieces together and adding batteries. Easy to adjust both the distance it sprays and the range of motion. I use it as both a deterrent for cats and for regular watering. It seems The parts are good quality, and I don't see any leaks. The motion sensor is very sensitive, I haven't had it long enough to judge battery life. The only negative I can say is it's a little noisy, but that's a minor issue.

The media could not be loaded. We really are happy with our multiple sprayers! Sometimes they get hung up and don’t stop spraying even when off. But the benefits are amazing. I truly love my garden…….now!

low rating because it doesn't work well. I had the one with the crow's face on it for years. It protected my koi pond. It finally died. then I bought the Critter Ridder. It seems to look of better quality BUT:1. The part of if that limits he swing of the spray was assembled incorrectly. I used the dead device as a model and fixed the problem.2. It has sensitivity settings which are hard to see in practice. If you crank it up all the way it becomes a lawn spray device. Not good. I can't see the setting and don't know where I am putting the setting. If I go too far into the lawn spray setting, I get sprayed by this thing. Be good at one thing, but you failed.3. It is very difficult to use. I point it where I want it to be sensitive to motion. If I use the spray setting (top knob) too high a fine stream comes out up in the air and 15 feet away. If I use the knob on the top to try to get the spray lower, it is sending spray only about 2 feet.To get it to work I found a sweet spot between the top adjustment and pointing the whole spray device at an upward pointing angle. It took many tries while getting soaked myself to find where it works. It looks robust but is poorly designed.

I have bought this item 3 items to keep extras when needed as it works good, but it's not perfect for sure, but oh my God it has helped with the stray cat problem in my neighborhood!! I will continue to re- purchase as it has saved my front and back yard !!

The first one I received had a faulty sensor that wouldn't go off even if I covered the sensor with my hand repeatedly. This gave me an hour of headache as I was trying to determine if it was user error, battery, or environmental conditions but it turned out to just be a bad unit so that speaks on the quality control.The replacement had the opposite effect. I was getting faulty triggers even on the lower sensitivity setting. I'm using this device to keep neighborhood cats and my own dogs out of a golf practice zone in the backyard and to stop them from doing their business on my expensive launch pad and tent.What happens if this device faces towards the sun, is if it goes off, it wets the ground that might pool some water, then the warmth of sun appears to reflect off the ground or tent and it causes another false trigger. After a few days of these false triggers going off all the time wasting my water, the batteries died and needed to be replaced. I had to re-angle the device to face away from the suns path and this eliminated the false triggers however it wasn't ideal for the layout of my backyard and I was restricting my own territory. So it took some tinkering until I found a way to angle the device towards the ground a small amount and it reduces the false triggers. At night it works the best as there's less overall interference to cause false triggers.The sound alone can scare some animals and the water splattering all over the place is a bonus scare action. With decent water pressure the sprinkler easily shoots over 10 feet and can zone out a good area. My dogs had claim to my whole backyard and no matter what I tried other than fencing off an entire area, the dogs would do their business in the only areas I don't want them to. This was the most cost effective way to zone them out of a certain area. The good news is in several weeks, my area doesn't smell and there's no orange stains and soft tootsie rolls to clean up.It doesn't feel high quality but it doesn't leak, and at least the sensor works on my second unit. The only problem I have with it, is I have zero confidence in leaving this completely unattended as under the right circumstance, if it goes off, it could put itself into an indefinite loop of continually re-activating itself until the battery dies and it's flooded a small area 5 cups of water at a time.Another bonus is my younger kids like to pay chicken with it to see how close can they get before it sprays them. My dogs now respect it and they look at it with cautious eyes when they go out there. I also have never seen them urinate in my area as they get pelted with the sprinkler water, it usually makes them go in another area which is the point.

Finally, something that actually works !

The media could not be loaded. I bought this because of the price, as well as some of you were saying it had higher sensitivity than the orbit. If that’s true, then the orbit has extremely low sensitivity seeing as how this product is more miss than hit.I really never heard of going off at night so I would bet it doesn’t work at night since it really doesn’t work well during the day.I could run in front of it. I could wave my hand in front of it a dog could run in front of it and sometimes it would work. When it would work, it works great. Sometimes it will keep birds away if it senses them. Forget it picking up groundhogs no way. That’s why I bought this as well as birds.When it started malfunctioning and not shutting off, I didn’t think it would be a regular thing, but it turns out it is. I’ve only had this for one week.I gave it two Stars because the range is pretty good and it has a sprinkler setting that I really like. However, I will be returning this because it just doesn’t work properly.I even bought a brand new batteries and change them out and still no luck.Another thing about this product is when it is on the sprinkler setting, even if it is deep into the ground, it usually becomes unstable and falls and I noticed that it leaks pretty bad.It is a lower quality product and you can tell by the materials.My search continues.

This item works great!! It is very powerful and scares off all of the critters. Also well made and easy to set up.