Because the M25 cat killer has killed at least two cats near me we have started looking at cat proofing the garden. The problem is our garden is very narrow, half the width of a 'normal' garden (we're in a downstairs maisonette and the other half belongs to upstairs., and I really don't want to put up a 6' fence as it will close it in too much - at the moment there is no fence between the gardens.
We're thinking of putting up a 3' fence between the gardens with netting coming off of that and a gate leading onto the shared path. The other side is a 6' fence so we can attached the netting as normal (the fence belongs to the neighbours but they don't care about the fence or garden and I've never seen the landlord so I'm not worried about attaching something to it).
Do you think this will work? Harry isn't a climber so I'm not worried about him trying to scale the netting on the 3' side.
My next question (sorry!) - is it worth putting a microchip cat flap in the gate? I'm worried he will get out by sneaking out the front door or the gate and not be able to get back in again which rather defeats the object of cat proofing! Obviously I can't use a normal cat flap as I might come home to a garden full of cats but DM has a microchip one she's never used (or rather the cat hasn't used) so I can have that.
Sorry this is such a long post but I'm trying to put my case to DH who agrees that we need to do something but isn't as keen as I am! (Probably as he'll be doing the work!)
Thanks in advance.
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Has anyone cat-proofed a small garden?
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PinkSparklyPussyCat · 17/05/2016 10:52
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