Thread: Window guards?

Hiya
have not posted in a while but ronnie and reggie are doing really well we have just built a 8ft by 4ft by 6ft high cat run for them to safely enjoy some fresh air when we are in garden
question now is for those of you that have there maines as house cats like me how do you tackle the windows bein open???
with summer coming up obviously we need windows open but i dont want the boys getting out either do you put anything on your windows if so what and were can i buy
thx

awwww your babies are soooo cuuuuuute! love the pics!
I actually have the same question - I'm hesitating to put up some chickenwire up...
however also, I worry about bees and hornets getting in (which would mean the Pirate would HAVE to give chase... it's not that she wants to, it's just something she has to do, keeps order in the house...) so it would have to be rather slim stuff, sturdy enough to resist the pirate's hooks (the ones at the end of her paws... you know... see what I did there? ;-))

We just had all new windows installed in our house last year. They all have screen in them. Ginger does not mess with the window screens yet but she does want to scratch the patio door screen. I am guessing that your homes do not have screens on the windows? With as hot as it gets here in the summer 35 Celsius, we have to let air in. The bugs here would eat us and carry our bodies away hahaha no really just annoy us ;)

nah no point having screens in the UK generally, it's not really a "done" thing... I know, in America it's pretty much a requirement, from the look of all the films I see picturing countryside houses there, but here, it's quite an "exotic" thing :-D
bit like shutters in France - you don't really see houses without them, there... French people are very private people, and it shocked me when I arrived in the UK to see people not even closing their curtains at night and anyone passing in the streets could see what they were doing... (now I've been here a while, so it doesn't shock me so much any more) It's so much so, in France, that it is now a requirement for home insurance: funny thing there, if you are burgled while you're out and about and your shutters are opened, insurance company is entitled to refuse to pay up, it's in most policies!

The shutter info in France is really interesting. Thanks for sharing. Do you have screen material available in the UK? It can be found here at Home Depot and in hardware stores. If so, maybe you could make a couple of screens for your windows by attaching the screening to a frame the size of the window and then securing the frame to the inside or outside of the house. When we lived in Colorado, we would remove the screens in the winter and put them back on for spring and summer. We leave our screens on year round in Phoenix... great for keeping cats in and bugs out!

I don't think I've ever seen screen material in the UK hardware stores, but then again I haven't really been looking for it. I'd like to see how sturdy it is first - I can see my Neevie already stretching casually against it with claws out and rip it like it's paper... She likes a good stetch... preferably followed by a good scratching of whatever it is she was stretching on....