Thread: Determined kitty gives me heart attack!

We built a deck and pergola so that we could sit out with the cats - they used to have a single storey "run", but they wailed every time we sat out on the patio because they wanted to be with us. At that time, they were "mature" MCs - all over ten years old and far too grown-up to climb the mesh to the top, so we put bird-netting on the top of the pergola rafters, basically to discourage suicidal blue tits etc from coming in to pinch the loose cat fluff.
When Hobbes joined the family and then Alice, we checked the whole area over for kitten-sized escape routes and meshed in some more places.
In January, we had that massive amount of snow and it brought down the bird netting in places. Kevin was in hospital, so I did my best to make repairs; thought I'd done a pretty good job but hadn't counted on the "Hobbescapologist"!
Kevin was working from home that morning; around 10:30 I got a frantic phone call to come home. Hobbes had got up on top of the pergola, made his way on to the roof of the shed and was swearing at the pigeons! It took the two of us and two slices of Spam to get him back in. Our heart-rates returned to normal - eventually!!!

We have now put galvanised mesh right over the top and although Hobbes has clambered up the "walls", he cannot get any further.