ha! ha! That made me laugh :) Yep, they are still having a ball in their own personal park every day :)

You're totally welcome! Happy you found it useful.

Hi from Florida! Glad to hear you're getting a ProtectaPet system - I did a quick Google and, yep, they look wonderful! Glad my vid gave you some ideas as well!

Aw, thank you! Yep, I am a bit rough around the edges but truly love my crazy crew. They are my reason for being :)

Hi! Great suggestion on painting the fence and wood the same color - and olive would be wonderful. Thank you for the tip - am totally gonna do it! Yeah, I would rather live where things are patched together than in a cookie-cutter new home in a bland subdivision where everything looks exactly the same. So far none of my 7 have escaped. I try, ever couple of weeks or so, to go around and identify the weakest section and remediate it (kind of like looking for a weak point in a prison and fixing it before anyone figures out how to exploit it, eh?). All the best! Cheers!

Glad your younger cat enjoys looking at the neighbor's yards and your older cat is enjoying retirement and snoozing! Thank you - yes, it gives me great relief. I couldn't imagine them roaming the neighborhood freely - way too dangerous in suburbia such as mine.

Thank you! Glad you found it useful!

You are totally welcome and I'm glad you found them useful!

Thank you! 8 months since the video and no cats have escaped or even tried to. Also, the wood is fading and losing its 'new' look which is good as it blends in and is much less noticeable now. All the best, Richard :)

Hi. Thank you - yes, indeed, they *love* having their own 'private park' to play around in :)

Thanks, mi amigo! I'll always keep on keeping on - no other option! ha! ha! I just adopted another senior, special needs cat who, in a couple of weeks, experience the backyard. I'm sure he'll love it! Give Mamash LOTS of love from her Uncle Richard and have a great time in El Salvador!

You are totally welcome!

You're welcome!

Hi. Am in Florida. I suppose I'll make another video when I stumble across a topic that I think might help people. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Yep, my cats are doing well despite a humane euthanasia for one of my ailing seniors a month or so ago. Thank you.

Let me know if you do figure something out like fence extenders and/or coyote rollers - it would be interesting to see how this problem could be solved.

Hi Nita. You're totally welcome! Let me know how it goes!

Hi Veronica. I've only been through Melbourne a couple of times (mostly to escape Tassie decades ago - ha! ha!). I miss the amazing food in Melbourne. All the Vietnamese, Greek and Italian food. My mouth is watering at the memory of it! Yep, in hindsight, I agree with you about not changing it to 90 degrees. Good tip on not using plastic coated wire - I hadn't thought about how it disintegrates over time in the sun and drops bits of plastic. Thank you!

I know, right?! Such a sweetheart!

@@richardbarber5911 so cute, and cheeky! we're thinking of DIY-ing it in our garden, cos the professional kits are so expensive to have installed. Considering an option like what you have done, or buying a Protectapet mesh/bracket kit and attempting it ourselves. Just got no idea if it will keep our cats in, it's a worry. The only other option is a stand-alone enclosure, but I know they'd prefer independent access in and out of the house, as they've never had that - they're all indoor rescues, or only get out if supervised, which (as you know) is very time-consuming! Is your system still keeping your cats safe in the garden?

@@amabla975Wow! And I thought I'd seen all the kits available - I was wrong. I hadn't heard of Protectapet. Googled it. Looks good. Does the same job my home-made hack does. So, yep, my system is, indeed, keeping everyone safe in the garden. My escape artist - Luna - went up the fence a couple of times and encountered the netting. Couldn't get over it - not even close to being able to. Since then she has never tried again.

@@richardbarber5911 it's so reassuring to hear of real people's stories. i'm not sure i trust us to do the job ourselves, but it's definitely worth considering as it can be really expensive otherwise. Can you get Protectapet in the US? i'm in the UK and believe it originates here..?

@@amabla975 Hi. Not sure if Protectapet is in the US or not - sorry!

Hi. I'd love to see a photo!! My email is support@catifymyhome.com Thanks!

I had the same problem a couple of times. A neighborhood cat would jump in, not be able to get out and I would wake up at 3 in the morning to a meowing stand-off between my cats and the neighborhood cat. I scooped up all my cats, locked them inside, opened up the side gate and walked after the neighborhood cat until it found the open gate and ran off. This happened twice. Now, months later, I see the same cat walking along my fence, but never again jumping in. Not sure of a more elegant solution, but if you have any ideas, let us all know. Thanks!

A local neighborhood cat used to find a way in and then get trapped. And it took a whole rigamarole to get my cats inside and her outside. Then, I found the entry point - a tiny fold in the netting at a corner near a telegraph pole. I stapled up the corner and wrapped the telegraph pole in sheet metal and since then (6 months ago) I have had no cats come in.

Hi. Thanks for your questions. No, I didn't move the posts to the flat angle - I decided to leave them as they are. Twice a year I walk around with a staple gun and put in a few extra staples here and there, just to stay on top of keeping the netting secure. The cats have not been able to get over it. Yay! They don't even try. They are living the life having 24/7 access to the yard whenever they want it :)

Agreed. Am looking into vines, shrubs, bamboo etc to actually hide as much of it as possible.

ha! ha! Thanks!

Yes it has been working very well. Nobody has gotten out. I have 7 cats and they both can't escape and loooooooove the backyard 24/7.

Great job! A stray Cat has adopted us and scales our very high wall to live in my car park.. Recently however he started breaking into the house using very inventive ways.. Tried all kinds of blocking but he squeezes through the smallest gap.. I worry for his safety as I have 7 dogs and 2 cats who want to beat him up!

Yes. It happened twice. A roaming neighborhood cat (who is a friendly little chap who doesn't bother anyone and I'm trying to gently educate my neighbors that they shouldn't get their knickers in a knot about him) jumped from the fence into my backyard. My crew woke me up around 3am with some growling, moaning, hissing and all the usual. The poor little bugger couldn't get out, despite running frantically around the fence line trying to get up and over. So, I herded up my crew. Put them inside. Blocked the cat doors so they couldn't access the back yard. Wrote all their names on a piece of paper and put a check mark next to each name as I walked around and got a head count (yes, it pays to be that anal when you have many cats and you're sleepy at 3am). Then....I went outside and opened up the side gate and walked behind the visitor until he got to that gate and he shot out at 100mph, safe to roam the neighborhood again. (He's not a candidate for acclimating to a home. Fairly feral and very wary of people. He's also car and street savvy so I'm not too worried about him).

@@richardbarber5911 Wow great story haha. My neighborhood has tons of feral cats and coyotes and whatnot, so probably wouldn't be a good idea for me. There's a bunch of tall trees and they all climb and hop around from yard to yard freely

@@richardbarber5911 I was going to ask if your cats had test drive on the fence, but I guess the neighbours cat tested it well :) I had same looking chicken net on catio ... It hold my previous normal 3 cats for 5 years before 1 had made hole... Now I have thou stubborn 9kg cat... with drama for anything closed. He has demolished cat door with previous owner. Bend window frame enough that he escaped and walked true new chicken net on catio... in a blink. 3 normal cat harnesses destroyed, lol... Everything must be reinforced.

Hi. So far so good. It's been finished for about a week now and my escape artist - Luna - has not been able to get out. 5 of my 6 cats go outside and hang around chasing flies, each other and lounging in the sun almost every day. And, Luna spends all night out there and snoozes inside during the day. They are all very happy with the set up.

@@richardbarber5911 thanks Richard

@@mnj640 You're very welcome!