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In Reply to: RE: Bloody cats!!! GGGIII has been in another fight. posted by painter27 on February 26, 2015 at 18:34:36:
He has been an outdoor cat with a big range, and is nearing 15 years, so it will be difficult to get him to accept it.It might be a little more smelly inside, with him using the tray all the time.
But he will be safer. He is very good at getting out, very determined.
Extract from a post in 2010?
"BLOODY cats - 'Brown snakes', and now the grand cat-fight and vet bills saga looms again, insect screen upgrades /repairs. All against his new escape plan I! PLUS a temporary fix* and a redesign for the 'cat-flap/laundry door system'. %^$#@@!*&&!!!!, against new escape plan II!!
* a line of milk crates which fit very tightly across the door way, and thus block access to the plastic swinging flap now cracked and re-glued. More? Yes! the milk crate across the flap has a hardboard (masonite?) base glued in. ? To obviate body charges and paw punches!
He's a determined old boofhead of a cat, isn't he?! ;-)
Permanent solution to method II will be 3 sides of 3mm slot guttering (like a J in profile?) about 25mm wide in alloy strip, two 45degree joints, and a 3mm MDF rectangle to slot down into it from the open side, plus a locking bolt at the top, so he can't dig his claws in and lift it up and out.
All fixed (by 6 or more screws thru the wider edge of the strip) to the inside of the existing timber surround for the pet-flap. In fact one of the versions of the material I used to hold the insect screens into the aluminium window frames is ideal. You remember? the two strips per screen screwed in on either side - to discourage George from popping them out a year or so back?
Maybe I should add spikes on the inside surface? Like the anti-elephant spikes on the outsides of the armoured gates to old castles in India?
Next is how to stop him breaking out via method 1, by ripping the wire mesh out of the bottom corner of insect screens. And the hot weather is coming? Sliding windows! Upgrade the mesh / the long retainer of ribbed push-in rubber strip. Or electrify the mesh? Rods to control the width of opening and reinforce just that part of the mesh? Ugly."
I eventually had to put special mesh on some windows and screw the screens down with aluminium strips so he couldn't pop them out. which was the next thing he learned to do.
We will not be getting any replacement cats, so all this will be in the past in a few years, and we want to travel.
I confess this is a bit of a wrench for us both, but we are over the worrying.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 02/26/15
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