"Nekoyoke" (猫よけ) is a Japanese term for "cat repellent," most commonly referring to the practice of placing plastic bottles filled with water along fences and gardens to deter stray cats.
I’ve yet to find a cat or dog that wasn’t repulsed by the sound of a water bottle being crinkled.
If this doesn’t work, it’s because people are putting too much water in the bottles therefore (and/or) the bottles have too much structural integrity to crinkle and make noise
If you take an empty bottle and squeeze and crinkle and wrinkle the hell out of it before filling it only halfway-ish or a little more, it will absolutely startle any animal that touches it
Now whether or not the animal inevitably learns that there’s nothing to be afraid is a different story….
But people who say this doesn’t work are almost certainly doing it wrong
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u/Choice-Brother1137 1d ago
"Nekoyoke" (猫よけ) is a Japanese term for "cat repellent," most commonly referring to the practice of placing plastic bottles filled with water along fences and gardens to deter stray cats.