Thread: "Cat Proof" my decking

Wow, that’s a pretty big garden... I wish ours was like that.

If you plan to let them outside while you’re at work, I think you need something very secure and entirely covered. More like a big cage. If you leave the roofing open, you have to keep an eye on your guys in case there’s escape attempts, or other cats getting trapped inside. (Although I noticed none of the neighbourhood cats come near our garden anymore… I guess they got the message that this territory is taken.)

Your garden does have some tricky spots, like the gate at the side and the staircase. If it was my garden I wouldn’t include that section in the catproofed bit. Perhaps you can put up a fence across the deck, running from the pole next to the staircase to the corner of the house.

We used such a fence with a door in it to divide our tiny plot in two. The garden gate is behind the fence in the non-catproofed part. Hubby has started fitting supports that bend inward. There will be wire mesh panels on top of the supports. Unfortunately he stopped working on them when the weather turned bad, but now that it’s getting better I can start nagging him again to finish it.