Thread: From an outdoor to an indoor Maine Coon

if you dont have your own area then off course there is no choice but If you have an area even if it is open it is perfectly possible to build a cat run area
I have built one which is around 7 by 4 metres . I used fish netting that was from a noth sea trawler (off ebay ) and some 3 metre metal posts . The netting is amzingly strong with holes that are about half an inch .
I did have a fence and garage to attatch the posts on two sides but one was open - I just had to set the posts soild in the ground. This works just as well so it could be done all round.
Idf you can put a fence up even better just bolt the posts to the fence posts and you will need less netting.
The main thing is to make the posts turn inwards at 90 degrees at the top for about 60cm and continue the netting with it.
MCs will climb up the netting but wont climb horizontally upside down.
I have not had one escape in 4 years apart from when Floyd dug under the fence and got into next door !
This has now been sorted.
This is the kind of thing I can do so it wasnt that expensive
For reference one of my MCs floyd is a serious climber and jumper and can jump onto things six feet high . It has kept him in and he can go round the area sideways half way up the netting .

It was also worth doing just for the hilarious two weeks after it was put up . Floyd spent hours traversing the net like an army obstacle course looking for a way out .
Now he is used to it and treats it as just there and actually uses it as his climbing frame.Yours

Yours may not like the netting but will surely like indoors for "ever" much less .
I say ever because he wont realise it is only for a year and it will give him something constructive to do.

Good luck