Havahart Critter Ridder 3145 Animal Repellent, Ready-to-Use Spray, 32-Ounce

i'm glad I didn't look at the reviews before I bought this! I might not have gotten it. Here's the story. We live in a neighborhood of relatively newer houses on large lots. Some people put in pools and concrete, but have lawn and some beautiful big trees-cottonwood and pepper trees. The back 1/3 of our yard is fenced off so our dogs cannot get back there because we have some big cactus and century plants and other spiny things. Just this spring, our yard, especially our fenced off area, became a place where cats congregate. First, a couple, then, two or three more and finally we stopped counting. Our little dog would get very excited and would chase the cats, but a couple of times the cats ran into the hedges on the side of the yard and Bernie went in after them and got whacked, but good! I went to Amazon and just started looking for cat repellant and bought two bottles of Critter Ridder. My husband gave the top of the fences that border our yard a good spraying, He sprayed under the hedges and went into our drought tolerant area and sprayed thoroughly along the fence and retaining wall. The cats stopped coming. It has been a week now and we have not seen or heard a single cat in our yard. I am thrilled, but Bernie is very disappointed. I don't know how long it will last, but even this amount of time is a real relief.

I ordered a replacement for the blue bottle on the left. The price was outrageous but the stuff works well. What they shipped to me was the green bottle on the right. I was willing to accept it, but the sprayer does not work. I tried the stream, then the spray option, but got nothing but aggravation. I tried to unscrew the cap, but that wouldn't budge. I immediately put in for a replacement & then noticed the price difference......about $8. Did they they charge me the reduced price.....hell no. All I can say is that the replacement better work or I will patiently wait on hold to tell a live person how I feel about being ripped off & scammed.

I tried everything, electronic, chemical, management (hood up, etc) and nothing worked until this. Before I found this stuff my Toyota (soy based wire coatings, as with some Hondas), suffered massive damage from rats when I was out of town for 10 days. To the tune of over $13,000. I could no longer park it in my carport. Since then I have only succeeded in controlling them with Critter Ridder (forget peppermint, that was mere cologne).Pros: Cheap, easy to apply (DO NOT BREATHE THIS STUFF), and most important it repels, so rats leave rather than dying. (If you want to kill them that is different process. But having had a couple die inside my dashboard, I can't recommend it until they are OUT of the car.)Cons - It does have to be re-applied every few weeks to months, depending on the infestation level and determination of the rats.I just applied it under my house where I was having issues. Ah, life on the farm...

One of the bottles could not be sprayed at halfway full point. Squeezed trigger but no spray. When I called the company was told to place bottle in hot water but did not help.

I received deer & rabbit critter ridder. I ordered all animals in the blue bottle displayed above. I received a green & white bottle. I don’t think I’ll be seeing any deers nor rabbits in the city where I live any time soon. I decided to keep it because of the ingredients similarities. It also took too long to arrive, which made me suspicious. The bonide brand animal ridder arrived the next day at a fraction of the price.I have purchased critter ridder in the past from a home improvement store and it does work. Strong scent to deter animals.

Do you live very close to your neighbors? How about an apartment? Do you live in a city? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you might know my agony. I have hoarders for neighbors. Authorities were called, but what can they do really? We even signed petitions and spoke to them. But nothing could stop their little brood from spraying my front door. Have you ever opened your door to go to work and were engulfed by the unbelievable stench of male cat urine? Even your coffee tastes awful afterwards. I was to the point of moving! As a last resort I found this product. Yeah, sure if you live in the boonies and you don't want deer use this. But it works for city male peeing cats too. I use this product on my front door, my walkways and patio about every two weeks and there is no pee. If it rains, reapply. All I smell are my cookies coming out of the oven. And another little tip, my spayed girl cats inside the house that use their cat-box are over joyed too.

The product is somewhat effective in the very short-term, but it seems to lose effectiveness quickly - especially with rain and morning humidity. But the worst part of the product is the spray bottle mechanism - the product quickly plugs the sprayer after a few uses and it is fairly impossible to clean the nozzle and tube once that happens, due to very poor design. The product also seems to thicken with age, making the sprayer even more ineffective. There is a lot of pepper material in this product and you can notice it if you happen to breathe some of the spray. But modern city-bred gray squirrels seem to be accustomed to virtually everything there is, including these pepper-based products and they don't seem to be bothered by it. There is no defeating the city squirrel! When everything else on the planet is extinct, gray squirrels will still be around and thriving. Neither global-warming nor nuclear winter will stop the squirrel.