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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: moiramassey on February 02, 2009, 00:00:18 AM
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Yes, I was out there at 11.30 pm with my broom knocking the snow off my catproofing!
I was worried that the snow would freeze and then other showers of snow would pile up on top. Too much weight and the aluminium struts will snap.
That was one of the two warnings Securacat gave me: snow and squirrels!
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I assume you will be popping out every couple of hours through the night to keep the snow off! ;)
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I'm going to have to do that shortly too Moira!
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Has it reached everyone or just the SE? (for once). I'm hoping for some cute cats-in-snow photos today! Excuse me being thick, but why are squirrels a menace to your cat run?
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They can bite through the netting
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I have catproofing rather than a run, so it is aluminium struts with salmon netting (see picture).
(http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj89/moiramassey/periphery2.jpg)
Yes, the squirrels bite through the netting, but that only happened in the first week. Now they look at Flynn and stay on their side!
Snow knocked off again at 7.30 am. Will be sending OH out with the petrol leafblower if this goes on!
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OH! ok I see (duh, me). Just as well you aren't here. We have a zillion squirrels, most of them really porky :shocked:
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As I am a snow phobic my daughter has said she will come round and de snow the proofing.
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OH! ok I see (duh, me). Just as well you aren't here. We have a zillion squirrels, most of them really porky :shocked:
Perhaps Walkers could "borrow" some and turn them into crisps!!!
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Official crazy cat lady with broom photo
(http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj89/moiramassey/crazycatladywithbroom.jpg)
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;D ;D don't they climb that tree and hop over the proofing?! Lucky you don't have a burmese, you need Alcatraz then.
lol about the crisps. I saw that and thought they were doing an 'environmental policy' in our park. Suspicious nos disappear, as with the deer. I am forbidden by OH to ask questions (in case I go off on one of my campaigns again). If one of our goose sized pigeons sat on your proofing, it'd be toast for sure as well.
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No, its all amazingly well thought out (by Securacat). The three big trees, including the plum you can see in the picture, have 'collars' that stop the cats climbing above 6 feet (you can just see it in the photo). All other trees and bushes have been cut back so that there is no possibility of lauching a bid for freedom. Flynn is an Egyptian Mau (at least as athletic as a burmese) and it has kept him in for seven months now. The whole system is brilliant. When Secruacat discovered I had a Egyptian Mau they suggested that we took no risks and we did everything they suggested (including cutting down two trees and pollarding two others).
Putting the pergola in the middle of the garden was my idea (before the catproofing it was at the edge). Flynn loves climbing all over it, sitting on it and surveying his domain.
OH called the project Stalag Luft Kitty when we first started out but he's got used to it now. Actually, it is amazingly unobtrusive.