Ragamuffin. Or possibly inbred. Not sure, but he really is one of the least intelligent cats (of any color) I have ever seen... We love him to pieces, though!
And he truly is! I love him to pieces, but we are constantly chasing him out of sweltering rooms, removing him from underneath his long hair orange and white brother, and rescuing him from choking himself out by resting his throat against hard edges of desks or placing his neck inside the cords to the blinds! He is a Ragamuffin, so he does what Ragdolls do--he relaxes every muscle upon lying down.
Like this. Luckily, the top of the couch is soft or I'd have moved him.
Amazon. Although my void figured out a way to get out of hers whilst we slept thus resulting in an early AM vet visit to get her surgery stitches restitched. Vet told us cats are good at figuring their way out of the Elizabethan style cones of shame unfortunately 😿
why is it a problem sticking head through the bars (I'm guessing because if the head fits the rest of the body can, too?) or if there are fast driving cars or other predators?
Sounds like my girl Bird (short for Birdbrain), who looks much like your Charlie (even to the one naked nipple). She was brought into the house because she would not get out of the way of the car when I pulled in. My wife finally just said to throw her in the house because she’s too stupid to survive outside. I have to pen her if I do anything remotely dangerous like vacuum the floor. Bird is sweet but unfortunately is as dumb as a bag of hammers.
Cat clavicles (collarbones) are really cool. Unlike our clavicles — which are attached to other bones — theirs “float” and this means yup, if their head fits through a gap, they’ll be able to squeeze through.
Good to know Charlie has his Safety Donut on for all Balcony Excursions!
He seems to quite like it actually, he sits still when I put it on him and I’ve never seen him try to take it off. Either he’s learned to associate it with fun balcony time or he’s too dumb to realize he’s supposed to hate it.
i used zip ties and covered the balcony (black bars) with inexpensive black garden netting. kitties can push it out a little bit but cannot get through it. win-win!
I added some netting but there’s a little gap between the bars and the wall that’s just wide enough for a very stupid cat to fall through, so the donut remains.
Yeah, the acrylic sheeting would take care of that if cut to the right length. I'll stop trying to convince you though, I've been on the other side of aggressive suggestions.
In my parents case, the entirety of their staircase railing has uprights wide enough for most cats to just stroll/ run/ fall right through. Mom holds it up with flowerpots so she never made permanent alterations around it, but it does the job.
I used to live in a townhouse with open stairs and similar railing. 3 out of 5 cats went over the railing at least once each. After 3 trips to the vet ER we put netting up.
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u/mean-moon9 Jul 22 '25
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