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Roberta Bagshaw - 19 Jul 2005 02:41 GMT

Hi everyone,

I wrote last week, crowing about how I thought we had finally managed to
secure our back garden to prevent our cat Rosie from escaping. Famous last
words!

It worked for quite some time, but for days we could see her, sitting back
scanning all along the fences and trellis, plotting and scheming ;o)

Then, she managed to find somewhere she could scale the fence, and first I
knew was her meowing at the front door, with a very pleased look on her face
(you cat people will know the kind of look I mean!)

At least I should be grateful that she at least has the sense to come back
to the front door, and let us know that she is back.

So...... it's back to the drawing board! (sigh)

Roberta Bagshaw (Sec.)
Friends of the RSPCA Geraldton Auxiliary
West Australia
email: rbagshaw@midwest.com.au

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jils - 19 Jul 2005 08:11 GMT

hi roberta
i'm new to this newsgroup, but a long time cat person.
i don't completely understand your description of catproofing your
fence, but is it like this
www.hssv.org/LIBRARY/PDF/Behavior/catfenceb.pdf ?
i've seen this done successfully at a friend's place, along with sheets
of metal wrapped around any trees in the same manner as we use to stop
possums.
i've also had a friend who spent significant sums of money making a
completely enclosed run from the house to the garden to keep his cats
in! worked for him too.
my cats live in and out, and it's a daily worry making sure they're in
before dark. a contained cat would be SO much easier!
good luck with yours.

> Hi everyone,
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> West Australia
> email: rbagshaw@midwest.com.au

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Roberta Bagshaw - 19 Jul 2005 10:25 GMT

Hi jils

Thanks for that link. Our attempt at cat-proofing the garden was more an
amateur case of heightening the existing fence with privacy trellis, and
putting plastic wire over sections of the pergola where Rosie would be able
to escape. Also we have encouraged prickly climbing roses over sections of
the fence.

At least our younger cat Bonnie stays in the garden...... she is an
obsessive eater, and has developed such a big fat backside that she looks
like she has swallowed a bowling ball! She has a hard time hauling herself
up to the top of the fence. I have had to put her on a diet! (Hope that
when she loses some of that excess weight she doesn't think she should try
escaping too!)

Cheers
~Roberta~

> hi roberta
> i'm new to this newsgroup, but a long time cat person.
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>> West Australia
>> email: rbagshaw@midwest.com.au

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jils - 19 Jul 2005 11:10 GMT

from the east coast to the west ...

bonnie sounds delightful!! let me know when you work out a kittie diet ...

you see in that link how that piece is fixed to the fence, kind of like
a prison fence, a piece slanting downward on the inside, i've seen that
done with just wires, on brackets, thick enough wire for the cat to see,
so that it provides a barrier to scaling the fence. i don't think making
the fence higher, and higher, is a realistic way of containing the cat!

it definitely can be done!

> Hi jils
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>>>West Australia
>>>email: rbagshaw@midwest.com.au

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mlbriggs - 19 Jul 2005 18:36 GMT

> Hi everyone,
>
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> Friends of the RSPCA Geraldton Auxiliary West Australia
> email: rbagshaw@midwest.com.au

Could she be part monkey? MLB

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Roberta Bagshaw - 19 Jul 2005 23:04 GMT

>> Hi everyone,
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> Could she be part monkey? MLB

Hahaha MLB...... she probably could be!
~Roberta~

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Diana - 19 Jul 2005 19:26 GMT

Roberta Bagshaw at rbagshaw@midwest.com.au wrote on7/18/05 9:41 PM:

> Hi everyone,
>
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> West Australia
> email: rbagshaw@midwest.com.au

Funny! But not surprising. Short of covering the garden all over with
chicken wire, you will not likely deter Rosie! I'm betting that she will
accept the challenge of finding her way around whatever obstacles you might
come up with. (Those cat runs really do work, though, so I hear -- problem
is, would a cat like Rosie enjoy being outdoors without the aspect of
adventure.)

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Roberta Bagshaw - 19 Jul 2005 23:08 GMT

> Roberta Bagshaw at rbagshaw@midwest.com.au wrote on7/18/05 9:41 PM:
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> is, would a cat like Rosie enjoy being outdoors without the aspect of
> adventure.)

You're probably right Diana.... it's quite obvious that Rosie is planning
her next route to escape when we watch her in the back garden. I guess all
we can really do is make it more difficult for her!

~Roberta~

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