androth2 wrote:

My cats have about 20/30 wild mallard ducks for company most days and just ignore them.But the ducks will try to eat the cat food if they can.

Some cats are house cats, others are hunters.
As a kid, we had one that would bring rats back that were bigger than her.
We lived next to a good river.

smallwoods - 2021-03-03 22:06:00

smallwoods wrote:

Some cats are house cats, others are hunters.
As a kid, we had one that would bring rats back that were bigger than her.
We lived next to a good river.

Had a couple of eels brought home by a previously stray little cat and also a former feral kitten a few years ago.

kacy5 - 2021-03-03 22:48:00

kittycatkin wrote:

And possibly illegal in a residential area, as well as making the owner liable if anyone's injured by it.

Bollox - no law prohibits the use of electric fences in NZ. They are designed to not injure. Where do you get your information from may I ask?

tegretol - 2021-03-08 23:47:00

camper18 wrote:

Joanie04, The arms are just 2” x1” timber battens bolted onto the timber fence posts at a 45 degree angle then the netting laid over the top and stapled on. It has been most effective and even the neighbours kids can’t climb over it to retrieve their toys/balls. Feel free to PM me and I could send you a picture.

Camper18 - can you put a photo link up?

toomanyhats - 2021-10-14 19:24:00

toomanyhats wrote:

New tenants have moved into the house next door and one of their cats is persistently jumping the boundary fence to hang out in our garden despite being beaten up twice by our cat. Now this thread isn't about cats wandering or tenants' rights (we own) it's about extending the height of the boundary fence which is just wire netting and concrete posts and only 1 metre high at present. There are dense mature trees where blackbirds nest on our side and we're fond of those birds.
We are thinking about adding a trellis or something to bring it up to the max height. In our neighbourhood, people are breaking boundary fence rules left, right and centre (sheds actually attached to fences etc) so we are leaning towards just doing it and dealing with any grumbles from the neighbours later - as other neighbours have failed to ask our permission on several occasions, this seems to be the way to go. Can we extend the existing height without getting agreement from the neighbours' landlord? Would you do it anyway?

I would do it anyway.
We have erected additional fencing to our current property (rental) to keep our cats inside. We used 20mm wire netting extended to about two metres high, with strips of clear polycarbonate-type roofing along the top to stop the cats climbing over. Clear let’s us see though it and stop shading. And very light compared to the tin or alloy of traditional possum shields.

Has worked well so far.

pico42 - 2021-10-14 21:39:00

We had chickens and neighborhood cats but the chickens made a lot of racket if cats were around and scared them away.
Our cat who kills mice, rats, sparrows etc, never went near the chickens.
It's really sad that you lost your chickens. Could you make the chicken coup cat proof so it doesn't happen again? At my old work we had problems with rats killing the baby chickens.

annie17111 - 2021-10-15 07:59:00

Couldn't you have just used a large water pistol or turned the hose on it until it got the message. This was the advice the SPCA gave me after I had a wondering cat.

Who thinks that it would work? Cats are incredibly stupid about 'messages'.

amasser - 2021-10-15 08:02:00

It makes me wonder why cats seem to be attracted to A-Holes? Maybe it's the smell.

leson - 2021-10-17 12:14:00

thumbs647 wrote:

Good point. I turn my fence down to just under 11,000Kv. ????????????

11,000 volts or 11,000 Kilovolts ? 11,000 volt will give quite a burn. `11,000Kv will set the place on fire and shutdown the neighborhood

androth2 - 2021-10-17 15:03:00

https://www.facebook.com/catfence/videos/554271684783465

https://catfence.nz/

christin - 2021-10-17 15:15:00

cats can climb trees of any height. Extending the fence height is a waste of time.

spead - 2021-10-23 19:39:00

christin wrote:

https://www.facebook.com/catfence/videos/554
271684783465

https://catfence.nz/

Looks good but at what cost? A decent slug gu n is cheaper. Cats are vermin.

tegretol - 2021-10-24 10:23:00

Copied from another post -For my cat this has been a cheap and easy deterrent to jumping onto a high timber fence: cut suitable lengths of plastic trellis mesh, roll into a loose circle slightly smaller than a cat's body, and staple the rolls along the top of the timber fence.
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pauline999 - 2021-10-28 09:59:00

I have a tripod Burmese. He went missing for a day when he was 18 months old. When he came back there was so much damage to one of his back legs, it had to be amputated. He had some more minor injuries to his other back leg, some scratches and one or 2 lacerations that needed stitches. Nothing else though.

After considering all the possibilities we came to the conclusion he’d been caught in an illegal trap.

We live close to the back of a number of food places.

He’s chipped and used to wear a collar with our phone number. I don’t think the trap was set for him, more likely rats. It is still a horrendous thing to do

princess52 - 2021-10-28 15:40:00

The cat will probly go on the neighbours roof and jump down over your fence unless its higher than the roof.

ash4561 - 2021-10-28 21:36:00