Would a normal size house cat trip the sensor?
923024
Our German Shepherd trips the sensor every time she walks by the bathroom. I shouldn't have placed the fan so close to the bathroom door! :)
923025
David, We are building a new house. Its in but no permanent power to it yet. I will hook it up this weekend and experiment. I will try to respond to this again after I have info.
818776
Yes. The window must be opened before the system is armed and it will ignore that sensor.
2068301
I wouldnt be sure about that. All my three movment sensors are in the same floor the only way to know would be trying. Sensors are infra-red so no objects as wins moved courtains trigger the alarm. A living animal like your pet will butvyou can desable areas where they move. I have two alarms conected to the main unit (wireless) and believe me the noise would frighten any intruder.
1960574
Mark is not correct. The switch is easily triggered by small animals. The vertical is vary wide. However, "white out" or any white paint can be used to 'cover' sections of the sensors 'eye' and blind it to specific regions. I painted the bottom 50% of the 'eye' (sensor's lens) and now my cat does not trigger the light. I also have one in a closet that would trigger once you entered the room and had to 'blind' the right half of the sensor so that it only tirggered once you entered the space. Super easy to control what area is picking up motion with alittle 'white out' or paper card.
1048864
If it was a pretty small room it would. But it gets very hot to the touch so your cats could get hurt if they got too close.
617024
Yes, if the cat steps on the alarm it will sound, but it is so loud that the cat would jump & run away very quickly & the alarm would stop immediately.
2642
Not sure that would work because it appears to be the pet's weight that triggers it, since as soon as they step on it the alarm sounds. Just scratching probably wouldn't be enough to trigger. As I think about it, however, you could place it on the floor beneath the end of the sofa so that the cat had to step on it to get to the scratching point. Just avoid stepping on it yourself because it will startle you. Good luck
2268961
Depends on your cat and quality of the unit you receive. Our cat was initially startled and jumped away. Unfortunately the sensor and spraying were inconsistent. Sometimes it sprayed three times in a row when he was 6 feet away. This didn't bother him. At other times it would not spray at all - even when he was only 2 feet away. Curiosity took over and it didn't take him long to figure out when/where it might spray. So he simply adjusted his approach to the "no no zone" and went another way. In the end it startled us more than him :-)
872343
That's the same reason I got mine! I stupidly connected the first one in my kitchen, and, wow, my cats bolted out of the room. But it seems to have no effect on them when they are set up outside - of course, it's Texas and I don't open my windows.... and the catstops point away from the house. Actually I only use them long enough to get other cats out of the habit of coming into my yard... then I loan them to friends who also have a cat problem!
630051
Just installed the alarm, and so far my medium sized cat has set if off three times. We've tried adjusting the sensitivity and location of the motion sensor, but no luck so far.
1360903
The unit is quite responsive to movement near it. You may need to do an experiment with your cats to find out for sure, by using the chime function on the unit.
206097
I don't think so. It even picks up my neighbors cat, it's pretty sensitive.
1188115
Yes, they are very sensitive to any movement. They aren't very "wide angled" but I'm sure cats would at that distance.
1743690
that is fairly small to force a cat to live in. it isnt nearly tall enough to meet cat's need to be higher than there surroundings. so I would say no
396101
I spoke with Panasonic on triggering motion sensor and verified that with room lights on it detects a cat's shadow on the floor at about six feet from the spot on the floor below the fan. It "sees" me a few feet further away when backlit, so expect it to trigger when lights are on in the room at perhaps 8 feet away, farther away if light is streaming into the bathroom and you block the door. All this is at factory setting.
758950
According to GE yes the motion sensor is pet friends up to a certain size pet (it might trigger if large or larger size dog walks into room).
1932794
I'm afraid your Motion Sensor is exactly what it is - senses Motion and even wind... so, it will go off every time a motion is beyond a minimum detectable sensitivity.Best is to buy one, then set it up and see... if it is satisfactory enough, get the second one. If not, use it somewhere else, like checking for racoons/cats/possums going alongside house. It will go off, and scare the animal too. maybe will not come by that way again... hope this helped. Kornel in L.A., CA