Following the safe return of the missing for 10 weeks cat, we have bought a Freedom Fence, does anyone have one ?

[Kittypickle]

And if so how have you found it ? One of my neighbours has one for the dog but I think cats are a different kettle of fish so to speak. We can apparently have a full refund if it doesn't work, but I really hope it does as I can't cope with DD being distraught again, goodness knows where the cat has been since October !.

how much are they KP?
Am needing something to keep our pups out off the grass

Piffle, can I whisper please, I am a bit embarrased at how much I have just spent. It came to £378 for two of the collars with the transimittors (£99 each I think) £160 for the main unit that you plug into the wall and £20 for the wire. But if it means they stay put and we don't go what we went through when he went with DD it will be worth it.

Farkin hell
I think we'll build a fence instead, can understand about the cat though...
One has to balance how happy your cat will be contained though if they are a roamer..

I was hoping never to have to confess what we have paid He had stopped roaming when we finally got him to the vets to be done but did venture out one day only to get hit by a lorry. He made it home and we got him to the vets. He came home,stayed in for a few days with his medicine, let him out again. He was around for a few days, then just vanished, goodness knows what happened. I hope that he will get used to it if it works, there is garden right round the house so I'm hoping he won't find it too bad......

Some people NEVER let thier cats out. I have got a freedom fence but can totally understand why youve forked out.

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Batters I know where you are coming from and it goes against all my instincts, have never considered doing anything like this in all the time we have had cats, which is 18 years or something like this. He really had stopped wandering off after his op and did seem pretty happy just pottering in the garden. He would go to the end of the drive and look nervous about the road, but obviously overcame his fear and went over. He then freaked out when a lorry went past him, jumped and bounced on top of it.

I was thinking that about the housecats that some people have and hoped the fence thing would be a compromise. Our neighbour really likes having the cat around, I might ask them if we can include their garden and also the communal driveway we've got (has lovely silver birches to climb) in it, which would mean that they would have a pretty reasonable size area.
A Freedom Fence is this

I think it is ok for a cat that has been brought up that way, but your cat has had freedom and might not like it. Hopefully he will adapt ok though
We have lost 4 cats to the busy road since we moved and we have one left, I could not restrict her, she would be

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Fingers crossed he will, if he is really unhappy we will send it back and he will have to take his chances. He's confined to the house until the end of the week as I want him to settle back in properly. He was a bit put out for the first day but doesn't seem to fussed at the moment. I am going to talk to my neighbour and see how they feel about it, I think they might be sad if he stopped going in so may well not mind. If we put the gardens together then take in the driveway bit he will have a pretty decent size area to wander round in, probably a third of an acre or so. I'm very sorry about your cats Piffle.

I think it's horrible

one downside I have just heard about from a cat owner is that other cats come in and your cat has nowhere to hide or run to, ie he loses his former territorial advantage.

I've always lived somewhere away from busy roads, because I have a cat. I've never tried to restrict where he goes, but then I have never had a problem with him returning to me, we've moved house 3 times. I had him neutered when he was 6 months old and he very attached to me (follows me around every where, knows when I'm upset/ill). I'd be hesitant to use the freedom fence on anything but a young cat you are letting out for the first time. But see how it goes. The only problem I can see is if there are other cats coming into the garden. We get another cat coming into our garden on a regular basis, my cat then starts crying for mummy to come rescue him...

We use this "fence" for our dog as we don't have traditional fences, due to the lie of the land. It works well most of the time, he lies in the buzzing zone (probably to wear down the battery) and knows when there is no sound he casually wanders off to explore our little village! It gives him so much freedom as opposed to being tied up outside like so many of the dogs here. I would never have thought of using it on a cat though, our dog needed special training with white flags on the boundary and training a few times a day. How can that be done with a cat? Our dog once got attacked on the boundary by a neighbours dog, poor thing was lying in the zapping zone and being mauled by other dog at the same time! No wonder he hates golden retrievers and he is half one himself! Good luck, I'd love to know if your cat will put up with it.