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Originally Posted by scottmandue
The Catio I posted above is a result of our raccoon problem... my wife had jerry rigged wire fencing/plastic trellis by wire tieing it to the railing to contain the cats... beside looking ghetto it was not raccoon proof (woke up one night to find a small raccoon causally snacking at the cat bowl).
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I saw that when you posted it. That is very cool and Catio 2.0 looks far from ghetto, rather professional. We have had visitors over the years but never to the recent levels and never shown evidence of climbing door jams/walls. With the white painted walls, mud and paw prints jump out like crazy. Unfortunately we have a cat door for Doby so until it is sealed up, there is their opening. Doby is our outside terror and I feel he needs an escape path from our larger predators. This year we have even had packs of coyotes on the property running around in the wee hours. Just yesterday I found another deer carcass which isn't good. About four years ago I accidentally left the downstairs workshop door open. When we returned late at night I go down to lock up and found very obvious and strong odor of a "big" kitty visit. Between 80-110# mountain lion. Evident by the height of the blast pattern where it sprayed 23" off the ground in three places.... lesson learned.
Onyx our feral rescue here has the survival nack of "run silent" if she gets outside. We believe this is why she survived so long outside and being all black helped too. When she was still living outside, we had an incident that I still can not explain to this day, I found her treed and looking down at me with her yellow eyes as I searched for her late that evening. Even the bugs went quiet .
Only cat we've ever had that drools when you rub her belly, and loves to be brushed.
