Help!!! Cats meows constantly

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
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"Maria" wrote in message
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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.

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
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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

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

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

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

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?

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?