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Fight Till Death
Location: Clarkston Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2022 Posts: 89
Real Name: Mike
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I am making a 8 foot fence desinged only to keep my cats in my yard. Have one up now but making a new one as the old one is warping and I want to up grade it with a one way door a cat can re enter the yard if they get out. I have some chain link I have added to with a wood and chicken wire fence. Until I go all the way around the yard they might find ways out and sicne the fence has an access door sometimes they get out when I am loading things in and out of the home. Ideas on how to make something from scratch or something already made? I will just add it to the front bottom. I need to keep dogs out of the yard so they can't get my cats and at the same time if they do get out it would be nice if they could come back in and not have a larger animal follow them in.
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Tue Aug 02, 2022 4:33 am |
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Massivedesign
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Location: Olympia, WA Joined: Fri Mar 11, 2011 Posts: 38307
Real Name: Dan
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Put the access higher up so dogs can’t follow. Lots of pre made access control products for cats. https://a.co/6GucMKW
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Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:23 am |
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NWRed
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Location: Puyallup for now Joined: Tue May 24, 2011 Posts: 2099
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A door mounted to the inside of the fence thats larger than the opening, would act as a 1- way entrance. The door would hit the fence on the sides of the opening and prevent the cats from exiting. Cheap solution if you can train the cats to use the door.
Eta: top mounted hinge, not too heavy obviously but with enough weight to self close to keep the cats in.
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Tue Aug 02, 2022 6:59 pm |
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usrifle
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Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20771
Real Name: John
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It would also let other Cats and small Animals into your Yard....
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Tue Aug 02, 2022 7:25 pm |
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Old Growth
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Location: Nisqually Valley Joined: Wed Oct 5, 2016 Posts: 4834
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A fence for a cat! I laugh, haha!
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Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:00 pm |
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hartcreek
Location: Union Gap Joined: Sun Mar 27, 2016 Posts: 1722
Real Name: Randall Knapp
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Unless your cats are declawed a one way door will not work. Cats are smart they will learn real quick how to hook the door with a claw to get out. My cats have all learned how to open interior passage doors. They run their shoulder into the door and the door pops open.
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Tue Aug 02, 2022 11:18 pm |
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Fight Till Death
Location: Clarkston Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2022 Posts: 89
Real Name: Mike
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hartcreek wrote: Unless your cats are declawed a one way door will not work. Cats are smart they will learn real quick how to hook the door with a claw to get out. My cats have all learned how to open interior passage doors. They run their shoulder into the door and the door pops open. Yes that wil be the case with the commercial doors. I guess I need something spring loaded. As for fences keeping cats in. It can be done. You see cats can climb a chain link fence for example and so I have extended the height of the fence with 2x2 posts that I hang a thin mesh type of barrior. Cats do not like un stable footing so they will not go past that mesh becuazse they can't get a stable footing on it. On one section I added chicken wite as if it was razor wire so again they won't try to cross that becuase it's flpppy and un stable.
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Wed Aug 03, 2022 3:15 pm |
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shaggy
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Location: Snohomish Co Joined: Thu Sep 13, 2018 Posts: 1811
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Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:22 pm |
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golddigger14s
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Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 17818
Real Name: Chuck
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I got one that I can lock both ways, one way, or open both ways.
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