Everything you need to keep your cat safe and happy indoors: securing balconies and windows, health, behaviour, feeding and feline wellbeing.
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In autumn the balcony stops being the pleasant spot it was in summer and starts collecting things: stored furniture, plants coming indoors, plastic sheeting that moves in the wind. Every one of those changes alters what the cat can reach.
Read the Guide →Clumping, crystal, plant-based, non-clumping or wood. None wins on everything, and the one you prefer is not always the one your cat would pick.
Read the Guide →Forty years of research on cats falling from balconies fits into three numbers: 77% of falls happen between April and September, survival with treatment is around 90%, and injuries are documented from the second floor up. What the veterinary literature says, study by study, fully sourced.
Read the Guide →The short answer is yes, and not because your cat is clumsy. Even the most sure-footed cat miscalculates when a fly goes past or a bang startles it.
Read the Guide →In summer the balcony concentrates three risks at once: heat, toxic plants within reach, and falls when a bird switches on the hunting drive. All three are fixable without building work.
Read the Guide →A net is not something you fit and then forget. It withstands sun, wind and claws, and a worn net gives exactly the feeling of safety that is dangerous.
Read the Guide →A light well connects several floors, so the drop is deep even on the ground floor. In return, courtyards offer what a cantilevered balcony does not: solid walls to anchor into.
Read the Guide →On a roof terrace your cat has more metres available to find the weakest point. That is where most installations fail, not on the material.
Read the Guide →The hard decision only arrives once you have decided to fit a net at all: synthetic mesh or metal. Both work, but not in the same home and not with the same cat.
Read the Guide →Between 4 x 3 m and 8 x 3 m there is no matter of taste, there is a five-minute measurement. Skip it and you order short, then improvise at the exact corner that counts.
Read the Guide →A normal balcony is built for people, not for an animal that climbs, jumps and squeezes through impossible gaps. Seven things to check before you open the door.
Read the Guide →In summer the airing hours go up, the insect screen holds less than you think, and your cat spends more time on the windowsill. Three things that change at once.
Read the Guide →Veterinary medicine has a name for the injuries that follow a fall from height. That cats can twist in mid-air is true. That this leaves them unhurt is not.
Read the Guide →Most falls do not happen in dramatic scenes. They happen in ordinary moments: a tilted window, a wide gap between bars, a second spent chasing a pigeon.
Read the Guide →You air the room for five minutes, the doorbell rings, and when you come back the cat is on the windowsill. The answer is not watching around the clock, it is removing the opportunity.
Read the Guide →Some cats just look at the balcony, others declare the net their new favourite toy. For the second kind a thin standard net is not enough, and you usually find out too late.
Read the Guide →After the first summer comes the question nobody answers before you buy: will it still hold in two years, or will it go brittle and yellow? The honest answer hangs on one detail.
Read the Guide →You lift it down, five minutes later it is back up there. It is not ignoring you and it is not reckless: its brain is built for exactly this. Which is why telling it off does not work.
Read the Guide →The tilt-and-turn window, the lily in the bouquet and the dog's flea pipette are the three almost nobody knows about. Here are all twelve, with what to do about each.
Read the Guide →It sits in the same spot, at the same time, and doesn’t move. What your cat is actually doing when it stares out of the window, and the point where that stare stops being curiosity and turns into frustration.
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