{
  "id": "cat-spikes",
  "sku": "hard-plastic-02",
  "title": "Cat Spikes, per 50 cm strip",
  "slug": "cat-spikes",
  "price": 10,
  "currency": "NZD",
  "availability": "in_stock",
  "category": "cat-spikes",
  "category_label": "Cat Spikes",
  "tags": [
    "spikes",
    "cat",
    "plastic",
    "fence"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "Black"
  ],
  "materials": [
    "Injection moulded plastic"
  ],
  "dimensions": "500 mm strips, butted end to end for any run length",
  "weight": null,
  "images": [
    "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/main-cat-spikes.jpg",
    "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-1.jpg",
    "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-2.jpg",
    "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-3.jpg",
    "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product-images/cat-spikes/cat-spikes/cat-spikes-4.jpeg",
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  ],
  "description_short": "Blunt moulded strips for the top of a fence, a wall or a gate. They make the route uncomfortable enough to be worth avoiding, and they cannot injure.",
  "description": "What this actually does\n\nA cat walking a fence is following a route between two places it wants to be. The strip does not hurt it and is not designed to: the points are blunt, and what happens is that the surface becomes unpleasant to stand on and the cat picks a different way round.\n\nMost cats change their route within a night or two.\n\nTreat the route, not the fence\n\nThe mistake is to treat the panel where you see the cat. Look instead at where it gets up: a wheelie bin, a woodpile, a low shed roof, a compost bay, a branch. Move the bin and you may not need the spikes at all.\n\nThen treat the pinch points on the route, including the post tops, which everyone forgets and which are a favourite standing spot.\n\nThe neighbour conversation\n\nBoundary fences usually belong to two households, and your fence agreement may require agreement before anything is fixed to one. It is also visible from their side, at their eye level.\n\nBlunt cat spikes are an easy conversation to have because there is nothing to argue about: they cannot injure an animal. That is worth leading with.\n\nFixing\n\nScrews in timber, stainless ones if you would rather not have rust streaks. Exterior adhesive on block capping. On gates, keep the run clear of where a hand goes.\n\nWhere we would think twice\n\nA deck rail is somewhere people put their hands. A low fence in a garden with small children is somewhere hands and faces end up. The strip is blunt and contact is uncomfortable rather than harmful, but placement is still worth thinking about.\n\nWhat it will not fix\n\nIt closes the fence route. A cat coming under a gate, over a low front wall or through a hedge is unaffected, so walk the whole boundary before deciding how many strips to buy.\n\nAnd if it is your own cat, it will find another way in. You may prefer the way it was using.",
  "llm_summary": "Cat Spikes sold by Bird Spikes Company at birdspikes.co.nz. One piece injection moulded plastic strip with BLUNT points, 500 mm long, no assembly, NZD 10 per 50 cm strip with no minimum. Fixed along a timber fence rail with screws, or to block capping or a gate top with an exterior adhesive. A cat uses a fence as a ROUTE rather than a perch, so a partly treated fence produces a detour rather than a result: treat the whole run, or identify and treat the two or three points where cats get up. The points are blunt and cannot injure; the strip works by making a surface unpleasant to stand on. A shared boundary fence usually belongs to two households, so agreement before fixing is sensible. If cats are entering a garden by other routes - a gap under a gate, a low front wall - the strip closes the fence route only. No effectiveness percentage, service life or warranty is claimed. Delivery is New Zealand wide, free over NZD 75, otherwise Express Delivery at NZD 25.",
  "returnable": true,
  "return_policy": "New Zealand law gives no statutory cooling-off period for an online purchase, so the 14 days from delivery to change your mind on an unused item is this shop's own policy rather than a statutory right. Rights for faulty, damaged or misdescribed goods under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 apply to everything sold and are never affected.",
  "shipping_profile": "standard",
  "warranty": null,
  "brand": "Bird Spikes Company",
  "gtin": null,
  "mpn": null,
  "condition": "new",
  "url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/product/cat-spikes",
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  "json_url": "https://birdspikes.co.nz/api/products/cat-spikes.json",
  "updated_at": "2026-09-02",
  "compare_at_price": 14,
  "description_text": "What this actually does A cat walking a fence is following a route between two places it wants to be. The strip does not hurt it and is not designed to: the points are blunt, and what happens is that the surface becomes unpleasant to stand on and the cat picks a different way round. Most cats change their route within a night or two. Treat the route, not the fence The mistake is to treat the panel where you see the cat. Look instead at where it gets up: a wheelie bin, a woodpile, a low shed roof, a compost bay, a branch. Move the bin and you may not need the spikes at all. Then treat the pinch points on the route, including the post tops, which everyone forgets and which are a favourite standing spot. The neighbour conversation Boundary fences usually belong to two households, and your fence agreement may require agreement before anything is fixed to one. It is also visible from their side, at their eye level. Blunt cat spikes are an easy conversation to have because there is nothing to argue about: they cannot injure an animal. That is worth leading with. Fixing Screws in timber, stainless ones if you would rather not have rust streaks. Exterior adhesive on block capping. On gates, keep the run clear of where a hand goes. Where we would think twice A deck rail is somewhere people put their hands. A low fence in a garden with small children is somewhere hands and faces end up. The strip is blunt and contact is uncomfortable rather than harmful, but placement is still worth thinking about. What it will not fix It closes the fence route. A cat coming under a gate, over a low front wall or through a hedge is unaffected, so walk the whole boundary before deciding how many strips to buy. And if it is your own cat, it will find another way in. You may prefer the way it was using."
}