The Baxters' back yard, with chain link fence and cat fencing from the Affordable Cat Fence company. As of January 2010, the cat fence has been in place for almost 6 months. The only escape has been when the cats bribed the rabbits to dig holes under the fence. Those holes have since been blocked. Only one cat has tried to climb the fence and when he hit the netting he jumped down. He tried it three times and has given up. Of course, leaving the gate open has also resulted in escapes. The whole idea is to keep the netting loose and the cats don't like unsolid footing. When they paw at it and it gives, they quit. |
I have since painted the silver stanchions so they don't stand out as much. This is about as visible as the cat fence netting gets: seems to depend on how the sun is shining.
Against the trees the stanchions show up a little when they are not painted black
You can't even see the netting in this picture
A little tricky here, but it works
Just keep a lot of slack in the netting
I love it!
Here are some pictures with the stanchions now painted black
The stanchions are hardly visible and neither is the netting
With the stanchions painted black, they are almost invisible in certain light
You can see them when you get up close
With nothing as a background, even painting the stanchions still does not conceal them
Looking along the length of the fence