Re: Man traps neighbors cats, takes to shelter

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:24:14 -0800, "Not so quick"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


>You make a good point. I think the man should have
>let the neighbors know that the cat had been trapped
>and taken to the pound. It my area if there has been a
>previous complaint it costs $150 to get the cat back.
>We've been keeping our cats in at night and I've spent
>over $500 trying build a cat proof yard without making
>a monster looking fence (I don't believe cat-fence-in
>works). It's a hard question but what you said reminded
>me of when a neighbor cat put my older toothless friend
>in the hospital.
>

This should serve as a response to a previous question asking whether
I was sure my cats couldn't get out of the yard.  For about $50, I
built a cat-proof cedar fence several years ago, I think I got the
idea from Flippy's cat page.  I already had an existing 6' tall
privacy fence around my back yard.  I bought a big roll of heavy gauge
garden fencing.  I cut this into strips, about 14 inches wide.  These
strips were nailed to the inside top of the fence, narrower strips
were nailed across the bottom of the fence to keep them from going
under.  The cats can climb the posts, but they can't get up and over
because they can't reach over the strips of garden fencing.  In two
and a half years, my cats escaped only once, when they found a spot
under the fence I hadn't closed up completely.  Since fixing that,
they haven't got out again and in fact they stopped trying about a
year ago.  You still have to be careful of trees and such that they
might climb and use to get out of the yard.  My fenced yard is huge,
they have a large and safe environment to play in.  I still don't
leave them unsupervised for more than an hour at a time, constantly
checking on them to make sure neither has got out or got themselves
into trouble.

Bill

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"Cats can be happily kept inside all the time"
(Robert J. Holmes, BVM&S, PhD, MRCVS, FACVSc,
Cat Behavior and Training
Animal Behaviour Clinic, Malvern Vie 3 144, Australia)