Cat friendly stairgate??

[Kingy12]

Can anyone recommend a stairgate that a cat can still get through? ... I didn't think it'd be appropriate to take my cat to Mothercare and shove her head through the bars to test them, so your help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

do they not jump over....????

they'd squeeze through anyway. no stair gate with 'bars' are that tiny.

not ours ... lazyist cat in the world with dodgy knees!

We had one across our kitchen doorway that we raised just high enough from the floor that the cat could get under but dd couldn't. We put one across the stairs that the cat jumped over by way of the window ledge ... and we had a third across the French windows with a hole cut in where the cat-flap was. Dh cut a square out, then used the spare pieces to "frame" the hole he'd cut out. He always said that there's a gap in the market for stairgates with cat-flaps in them!

have you got a cat shaped toy that you could take to mothercare and see if you can get that through the bars - that would be hilarious to watch hehehe

I feel the need to resurrect this thread, as this was my obscure concern of the night, at 3a this morning! How will the poor cat cope with stairgates to and bottom?

if anyone does know of one, i'd be interested to hear. our geriatric moggy probably wouldn't fancy having to vault a stairgate several times a day either.

Glad it's not just me thinking of these things.

I have a Lindam gate at the top of our stairs and the cat can squeeze through the bars at either side of the opening. We used to have a Mothercare one at the bottom of the stairs and she could squeeze through that one too although she did jump occasionally.

Tickled pink at the OP's comment re taking cat to Mothercare