Cat-proof door screens (or how to keep a cat indoors when your doors are open!)

[RaisinFlapjack]

Hoping to get a new cat shortly, which obviously we’ll need to keep indoors for a period until it’s settled.

Problem is we have a south facing kitchen with bifold doors and it gets very hot, we normally have the doors open in sunny weather. I’m wondering if we can buy or make some kind of door screen so we can have a door open to allow air but keeping the cat inside?

Any ideas?

Flat cat screens.

It will probably be much easier to set up some temporary shading.

We put a three foot piece of hardboard in the patio door grooves, worked brilliantly until the kitten scaled it on day three.

I have made a version of Flat Cats for a window, it worked well. If you do do your own definitely use wide velcro

In retrospect your cat found his love of climbing from that hardboard didn’t he 😃 @Oldraver

@Fluffycloudland77 in retrospect I think I was very naive as to how well a kitten could climb, I mean he was up the tree at 13ish weeks

Having previously had our Ern who never attempted to climb much it was a shock

Thanks - I’ll have a closer look at the flat cats - or we might be able fashion something similar ourselves.

I’ve Already witnessed this cat scale an 8ft wall with ease so no way a bit of board across the door is going to hold her back

Is she a tortie?.

Yes, we deliberately adopted ours in October so this wouldn't be such a problem, we only needed to open the doors to actually go in and out of and that was bad enough as we normally have them open any time its mild enough.

Could you hire a portable aircon unit for a few weeks and keep the doors shut, just opening them for a change of air when the cat is safely shut in another room.

@Fluffycloudland77

Is she a tortie?.

She’s got a bit of Bengal in her make up so an adventurous spirit!

Yes, we deliberately adopted ours in October so this wouldn't be such a problem

I should have thought this through but my impatience to get a cat was too great!

Hopefully we won’t have a heatwave in the next month!