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    Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
    10:32 am
    Cat Fence - How does it work?
    While cats are excellent climbers, they won't climb on unstable surfaces. Currently an almost-invisible barrier (polypropylene netting) that attaches to solid steel stanchions angled to prevent escape from your yard, patio or deck. The Affordable Cat Fence...


    Keeps your cats in your yard
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    Lets you move litter boxes outside to any covered area
    Allows your cats to safely enjoy the outdoors!
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    10:01 am
    Cats Enclosure Design
    I wish we'd discovered the Cat Fence in System years ago. We have two cats with litter box dilemmas. Bob (who has a broken spine, so he cannot really help his problem, but it still causes messes for people to deal with) and Sheeba, who has some misfiring brain wires. She does not behave like every other cat I have met, and she wants to pee all around the house. We've arranged our lives across the problems of these cats. Litter boxes everywhere which can be washed on a regular basis. We do not have a couch or soft chairs anyplace because Bob would ruin them. All bedroom doors stay shut at all times to prevent furry intruders doing their thing on our beds. We've seen cat behaviorists. We keep consitently the laboratories in operation with how frequently we send in urine samples, and an acupuncturist for Bob. But I don't believe an elimination issue should equal a death sentence, and thus we've lived with it (and cleaned up after it) - for decades. Our other problem was that people don't are now living in a safe area for the cats to go outside. We live in a townhouse with a parking lot out front, and a different one behind it. These cats have already been indoor cats their whole lives. I don't think they'd stand the opportunity outdoors. I understand the neighborhood cats pretty much (better than I know our neighbors, my better half would say) and number of them stay around for long. It seriously isn't a cat-friendly environment. I'm a veterinary nurse of nine years and have helped patch up (or put to rest) too many cats from the bad end of encounters with cars, dogs, or unfriendly visitors to take outdoor life lightly. So when we made the decision to begin allowing them to outside, I was torn up about this. I couldn't emotionally handle them anymore, but was frightened due to their safety. I began to research if there were any safe methods to teach older cats some street smarts, with the goal of creating a safer transition to being outdoor cats. I discovered the Cat Fence-In System. I was shocked that in my almost two decades of dealing with animals that I'd never heard of any such thing. It's great! It's a netting system that encircles the top of your fence, and keeps the cats from to be able to climb out. They stay safely in the yard. Essentially the netting is mounted on the fence and to brackets that hold it at an angle, into the yard. If the cat tries to climb the fence, they come across the netting with no way to bypass it. You will find two versions. One that just sticks out in to your yard, and keeps your cats in, called the Strato Barrier. It may be used on fences over 5 feet tall. The other, called the Combination Barrier, also sticks upward, and will prevent other cats from having the ability to enter your yard. The fences only need to be three feet tall for the Combination System to work. This is the system we picked. Seemed like a bad idea if other cats could easily get into our yard, although not straight back out again. We'd have a little feline cage match on our hands. We've an arduous fence. It's irregular high, increases an abrupt slope, and is very short in places. Probably on the worst case scenario aspect in terms of instillation is concerned. I can not say it went up effectively, nonetheless it was straightforward, the directions were clear, no great mechanical knowledge was needed. Having two different people helped. We've had our system up for around a month now, plus it really works. I have my house right back. Now my cats get to sleep in the grass, chase bugs, and lay in the sun without dying. They still come inside at night and in bad weather. Bob loves playing outside during the day. Sheeba does not love it, but, like I said before, I am sure she's got mental issues. No matter what she thinks, it's much better than being locked in the bathroom the rest of her life, and that's her other option now. This system generally is a lifesaver.
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