How To Make A Cat Shock Mat

They are fairly expensive and being the diy er hacker i am i m hoping to be able to make my own.

How to make a cat shock mat.

If your cat stops breathing perform cpr immediately. Get the pair of scissors and cut the mat away making clean cuts. So if a cat or bird landed fully on the mat without simultaneous contact with the adjacent ground no shock would be delivered. If shocked and deterred the cat will not jump on the sofa again well a stupid cat might if however the cat can notice that the sofa is safe in a particular appearance but unsafe when the mat exists the cat will avoid only the.

Do this step gently so as not to harm or shock your cat. It should be invisible as is possible to the cat to keep the cat from detecting the mat as the painful device. On average calm healthy cats take 16 to 40 breaths per minute. General public has access to the mat.

I almost think my cat enjoys them. That s when i ran across scat mat which appeared to have guaranteed results. You may want to enlist the help of an assistant because even though this technique is the easiest and least painful way to get rid of mats it takes a lot of patience. You have two conductors that are spaced in your pattern such as conductor a is always 5 separated from conductor b so that no matter where the cat steps its paws cross the 2 conductors.

Take things slowly and don t be surprised if you can t remove all the mats in one sitting. De matting a cat is typically not a fun experience for the feline or the human. A cat in shock will take more than 40 breaths per minute. To calculate your cat s breathing rate count the number of times your cat s chest rises inhaling or falls exhaling in 15.

For the mat to deliver a shock an animal has to have at least one point of contact with the earth or soil next to the mat. I ve heard of a device called a scat mat which is more or less just an extremely low power electric fence attached to a vinyl mat. Do you best not to pull your cat s hair as you cut as it might make him squirm. However the breaths will be shallow.

While cutting your cat s mats give your cat some treats to ease his discomfort and allow him to stay. So i actually after trial and error found a way to make my own stay away mat based on the same principals as scat mats are. When they step on it they get a small shock. But i agree as some have said they are rather expensive especially when needing them on more than one couch or chair.