Babygate that cat can get through?

[mumah]

Hi,

Was wondering if anyone had any advice/experience. We are at the stage that we need to put a baby gate up for our son at the entrance to the kitchen. However this is also the room that our cat's cat flap is in, so I need to make sure our cat can get in and out of the kitchen easily. Do the standard babygates have enough room between the bars? Our cat is a British shorthair so is a little broader than some cats...

Eek. Hope someone can help.

Thanks for reading. x

I think your cat would easily jump over it, if it couldn't get through.

The bars are too small for most adult cats to fit through - but they usually just jump over...

Hehe belindarose when we put our stairgate at the bottom of the stairs both cats were too stupid to work out how to jump so they basically gave up and now live exclusively downstairs .

With the other gate in the kitchen we just got used to opening it when necessary for them. TBH most of the time it is open anyway and we only shut it when lots of cooking/ironing is going on.

We cut out the bottom quarter of one vertical bar and fitted a horizontal one to span the bottom of the newly cut one.

Oh sorry! I thought they'd all be able to work it out! Maybe my cat is brighter/ less clumsy than she appears.

I have one cat that squeezes underneath our stair gate and one that jumps over it.

Mine jump over the top as well.
(my old GSD worked out how to actually open it)

Thanks for the replies. Sadly I think I may be housing one of the slightly simpler minded cats! We have had the travel gates up on the bedroom doors since DS was born to stop the cat getting in. Never once in nearly 12months has he clicked that he could just jump over... I even caught him running straight in to it repeatedly once. Oh TuftyFinch that sounds like a good idea. My DH is not the most DIY minded but I think he may be able to manage that!