Thread: Anyone mc proofed their garden?

Originally Posted by Howlinbob

Yes that's right, we did our garden using several metres of garden netting attached to the existing wall, and 6ft metal garden poles attached to the wall. We have a lot of trees around the perimeter of the garden so we used them as verticals as well to attach netting. Then we made a canopy about 2ft wide by attaching more netting to tree branches higher up. So the cats can still climb the trees, but only up to about 8ft high, which I think is high enough!

As Leta says, they don't climb the netting as it's too flimsy to take their weight. However, we have had a couple of breakouts where the netting has come away from the vertical, and where Herbie managed to chew a hole. Then there was the time when Monty managed to climb up the trellis and bash his way through a broken piece, in fact he probably broke it himself. That was before the trellis was fully netted - it is now! So with hindsight we should have used a more heavy duty netting, metal or plastic-coated wire. Still, it's been quite good for a year and a half, and it's easy to do patch repairs - with an extra piece of netting cut to size, string and my big sewing needle, I can weave a patch into position.

Hi,

Where did you get the metal posts from I'm struggling to find some!!!!