I have “bad” cat which hops onto the kitchen countertop and dinner table when I’m away. As soon as he sees me or hears me, he knows he is in a prohibited area and he jumps down. Conceptually, I imagine that the wyze camera detects the cat on the countertop and then triggers some device that generate…

Chewy has some suggestions. [How To Keep Cats Off Countertops | Chewtorials]

There’s a specialty audio device that special effects people use for haunted houses – when people walk by a hidden ghoul and suchlike it speaks. @wildbill 's daughter is in that or an adjacent field, I think. Maybe he knows. :slight_smile:

Most of them are just motion activated, so wouldn’t trigger just by the cat but by any detected movement. One could probably connect a sound device to a Wyze plug and setup a rule to turn it on when a pet is detected and turn it off after a minute or so.

This isn’t automated (I think) but it was effective. :wink: [image] Pepe' Le Pew & Friends Captured on Wyze

That’s one big cat, should be on a diet And who’s cleaning the cat box?

Allergic to ‘cat’ funk. Count me out. :slight_smile:

[image] knight_e: I have “bad” cat which hops onto the kitchen countertop and dinner table when I’m away. Get a dog to chase the cat :rofl:

[image] knight_e: Ideally, the generated sound would be my recorded voice telling him to “get down”. There are a lot of ways to do this. A really simple way is to get an old Android device. Save an audio file of your voice saying what you want it to say on the Android device. Install the wy…

[image] carverofchoice: shoot a small squirt of water toward a pet Kind of a bummer that you can only squirt it at a pet. How about a pre-teen? :grin:

The only way I’ve realistically found to get my cats to stop going somewhere. I don’t want them to go. Is using something like either foil, which they hate to stand on, or a lot of places sell these little black plastic spiky things that don’t actually harm them but are pretty unpleasant. Problem is…

Detering my cat from walking the kitchen countertop when I’m away

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peepeep July 31, 2025, 5:25pm 5

This isn’t automated (I think) but it was effective.

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Detering my cat from walking the kitchen countertop when I’m away

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