On Dec 26, 8:55*am, TimR wrote:
On Dec 25, 1:07*pm, Marina wrote:



LouB wrote :

Jeff Thies wrote:

* I'm putting in a new door, as well as residing/rebuilding that part
* of
the house, and I'm thinking of putting in the cat door in the wall
rather than the door.

* I'd like to avoid some obvious problems, like water in the walls..
* So
either make a channel out of backer board or find about a 6" tube.
Slope it down toward the outside so it drains and has a bit of wind
blocking.

* Those are my ideas. I don't always have good ideas. Something else?
The commercial cat doors have not been holding up for me, but they
get a lot of use.

* Jeff

Good for the neighborhood. Lets the cats out so they can kill birds,
chipmonks, etc. *Also so they can wail at night.

There was a cat that always was under my BR window at 4.00am. It had a bell
on it's collar making noise. *My dog could hear it and always barked like
crazy. *Of course that woke me up each night. One day I talking to a
neighbor and happened to mention what was happening. *I think I said
something like "who the heck puts on a bell and lets a cat out at night".
Lo and behold, the bell jingling stopped. *I didn't know it, but she must
have owned the cat.

Cats cannot detect or respect property boundaries.

Of course not. They're CATS, not people (many of who also do not
"respect property boundaries"!


The cats you let roam loose do damage in my yard,

Spray them with water from the hose a few times and they will get the
message.
Also put mothballs in the flower/veg beds where the dig and they will
get the message.

kill small critters - Nature, red in tooth and claw...

and songbirds that live over here,

May sound harsh, but if they don't learn to get out of the way, TS. I
have seen mocking birds in my back yard who TEASE the cat. Bad move!

claw my screens,

Hang mesh bag of mothballs over that part of the screen and they will
get the message.
Also ask owners (if known) to trim their nails. If they won't, you do
it. NEVER, NEVER DE-CLAW!!!

spray their waste in my yard,

Are these unfixed Tomcats? They're usually the only ones who "spray".
Contact your local animal shelter and turn in the cat(s) to be
fixed..

and torment my dog (who is NOT allowed to go into your yard to do his
business or his digging).
If you can catch them in the act, again, a good sharp blast from a
water hose repeated a few visits in succession will convey the
message.


How about showing some responsibility for what you own?

Sounds like you might have irresponsible neighbors. Possible to
negotiate with them? You do spray and mothballs and they get claws
clipped and unfixed males fixed.