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Dan
If George is a baby Maine Coon, you’re going to have to consider other kitten-proofing when he’s only a little bit older than now.
Linden is a fairly big cat too which male Balinese of the traditional style can be (though, next to Poe he looks like 6’ Dean to 6’5" Sam on Supernatural), and by the time they were 5 or 6 months old I had to start doing things to protect things on tables that I hadn’t anticipated…for example, to end the cycle of them dumping the lazy Susan type holders for pens and remotes when they impulsively leapt onto the side tables, I applied the velcro command strips meant to hold picture frames to walls.
The dining room chairs cannot be near the sliding glass doors because they jump on them so heavily/violently they’re in danger of being crashed into the glass. Likewise there’s a nice sturdy cat tree that is apparently just the right height to endanger a living room window, so I stapled webbing across the window to keep it from rocking into the panes…
They are getting somewhat calmer/less impulsive, but they do still enjoy the hell out of occasional huge leaps to show off.
I have finally stopped laughing hard enough at the great pics in my mind long enough to post. Thank you so much for the young big cat advice (your Linden is also very smooshy looking and I get the comparison, one is never too old for eye candy.) Our home is fairly well cat proofed when it comes to adult moggies, this is our first kitten.
I have already told hubs that we need nanny-cams all over the house. I’m not sure why this pic isn’t in that album, but that was the first pic I took after George came home. He used to be able to leap between the large “hole” on the back of the chair and through the same hole onto a different chair. I was afraid to use a teaser toy around the big hole because those are tall bar chairs and I didn’t want him to get hurt by falling so far.
Today he tried to jump through the back of a chair and got stuck. Really stuck. He had his claws in the chair seat and couldn’t pull himself through, but wedged himself so badly he couldn’t use his back feet to wiggle/pull himself backwards.
We really, seriously do need nanny-cams.
Instead of putting something on the cords to prevent chewing, how about install cordless blinds? No cords, no chewing.
Thank you, all of our blinds are cordless, its the electrical cords that are the problem.
I ordered the wire loom and covered all the cords George messed with. It gave our home the industrial accent it was sorely missing.
heh maybe the lovable lil monster will calm down a tad when he gets fixed …unless he already is …which if so may the feline higher power have mercy on your soul…
When that inevitably fails, you can lay some of these out in your living room:
It’s been nearly 20 years since I had a cat that would chew through cords, and the only solution I found back then that worked was to wrap all of my cords in duct tape.
In the meantime, I learned how to splice the chewed-through cables back together.
If the split loom doesn’t work, how about trying some decoy cords?
Yes, of course, just what we need!!!
Our table chairs have wood bars kinda criss-crossing the backs. When George came home, he could jump through the larger opening. Yesterday, he tried to jump onto a chair from the back and got stuck. He couldn’t pull himself through to the seat and he was wedged so he couldn’t kick himself free from the back. Of course I yelled for hubs to come and look before rescuing the silly boy.
The split loom is big enough that its hard for George to bite, so he has given up on them and is now fascinated with our shoelaces. Its good that kittens bounce well, George gets foot shoved (can’t call it a kick because kicks involve sudden impact) all the time.