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The thing with using chicken wire 5' roll attached/wired to metal poles
using pegs to drive bottom into grass, is this; though fence is very strong cats feet/claws get caught in mesh and fence sways lightly with weight on it (and cannot sit on top). Once they test fence with claws and find these things they dislike, that's it they never try to climb it. My cats could actually jump over it and do climb trees in yard but they leave the fence alone, even strays do... It's worked for 7 yrs. "rangitotogirl" wrote in message ... "Maria" wrote in message news Please see 4/02/04 posting, Advice Needed Please, Maria Stencill. Igave instructions to build a good and easy and cheap cat fence using 5' chicken wire, metal posts, thin wire to secure the mesh to posts and tent pegs to secure the bottom into the ground. Keeps cat in yard and all other animals out. I'm curious though as to how 5 foot of chicken wire would keep them inside. My cat used to run straight up a 5 foot high concrete water tank and I would have thought that chicken wire was even easier. I guess the fact there is nothing at the top to sit on before they make their descent might deter them slightly. |
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You can't shape a cat the same way you can a lab rat. Once you fail once,
(and you will) the cat will lose the plot. Cats are also highly individual. To quote doc. Phil, "you need to work out what their currency is". "rob" wrote in message news:gSu8c.901471$ts4.126373@pd7tw3no... Hi All, I'm about to go insane - our cat will not shut up. He's taken to meowing, literally, once every 2 seconds or so for up to an hour at a time or more in an effort to get me to let him outside. He was an indoor cat for a long time until we moved to a house with a back yard that we could completely close off. Now, he wants nothing but to be outside, all the time. Morning, noon & night he meows... constantly. It's like his brain is stuck in some endless loop. He is neither ill nor injured, btw. We never let him out when he is meowing, only when he's quiet & pleasant - it's our feeble attempt at positive reinforcement. We're also attempting negative reinforcement (squirt him with a water pistol, soak his tail in the bath, tether him to the furniture, etc, when he meows constantly), but nothing is working. We're half starting to consider options like a shock collar or even de-meowing surgery. Those are the last things we'd want to do, but honestly, we are at the end of our rope. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance... Rob |
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You can't shape a cat the same way you can a lab rat. Once you fail once,
(and you will) the cat will lose the plot. Cats are also highly individual. To quote doc. Phil, "you need to work out what their currency is". "rob" wrote in message news:gSu8c.901471$ts4.126373@pd7tw3no... Hi All, I'm about to go insane - our cat will not shut up. He's taken to meowing, literally, once every 2 seconds or so for up to an hour at a time or more in an effort to get me to let him outside. He was an indoor cat for a long time until we moved to a house with a back yard that we could completely close off. Now, he wants nothing but to be outside, all the time. Morning, noon & night he meows... constantly. It's like his brain is stuck in some endless loop. He is neither ill nor injured, btw. We never let him out when he is meowing, only when he's quiet & pleasant - it's our feeble attempt at positive reinforcement. We're also attempting negative reinforcement (squirt him with a water pistol, soak his tail in the bath, tether him to the furniture, etc, when he meows constantly), but nothing is working. We're half starting to consider options like a shock collar or even de-meowing surgery. Those are the last things we'd want to do, but honestly, we are at the end of our rope. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance... Rob |
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AC wrote:
You can't shape a cat the same way you can a lab rat. Once you fail once, (and you will) the cat will lose the plot. Cats are also highly individual. To quote doc. Phil, "you need to work out what their currency is". "rob" wrote in message kill it, cook it, eat it, sandwich or soup is fine |
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AC wrote:
You can't shape a cat the same way you can a lab rat. Once you fail once, (and you will) the cat will lose the plot. Cats are also highly individual. To quote doc. Phil, "you need to work out what their currency is". "rob" wrote in message kill it, cook it, eat it, sandwich or soup is fine |
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AC or more commonly known as HAYSEED wrote:
"AC" wrote in message ... You can't shape a cat the same way you can a lab rat. Once you fail once, (and you will) the cat will lose the plot. Cats are also highly individual. To quote doc. Phil, "you need to work out what their currency is". Yeah good ol' cat cash, eh Hayseed? |
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AC or more commonly known as HAYSEED wrote:
"AC" wrote in message ... You can't shape a cat the same way you can a lab rat. Once you fail once, (and you will) the cat will lose the plot. Cats are also highly individual. To quote doc. Phil, "you need to work out what their currency is". Yeah good ol' cat cash, eh Hayseed? |
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