tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post7521027243560855150..comments2024-03-17T23:08:28.960-07:00Comments on Raybeard: My 'PUSSY GALORE' Drop-In Centre is being gatecrashed!Raybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-63106945491143380462011-07-02T07:55:24.466-07:002011-07-02T07:55:24.466-07:00Craig (thanks for visiting) - cat flap no can do. ...Craig (thanks for visiting) - cat flap no can do. I'm on the first floor - (what Americans call the second floor!) I don't know if they make cat flaps for open windows. Maybe worth investigating.<br />Just when I think the gull has finally given up I find it there, sitting again on the window sill, peeking in jerkily - though I have managed to keep it from actually getting inside for several days now. However, the cost is to the ease of the cats getting in and out, which they can do, but it's an awful struggle for them.<br />In a couple of days I'm going away for a short while, putting the cats in a cattery. Hope that when I get back the gull will have got tired of trying, but I'm not pinning hopes on it.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-54563307009599707632011-07-02T06:25:31.137-07:002011-07-02T06:25:31.137-07:00He's a clever one alright! Is it time to chang...He's a clever one alright! Is it time to change the open window access to a cat flap? Or would that be too traumatic for your own cats as they aren't used to that type of access?Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14034726832462755283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-60313541567041661322011-06-29T01:23:16.333-07:002011-06-29T01:23:16.333-07:00Thought I'd cracked it Kyle. Found a metal tel...Thought I'd cracked it Kyle. Found a metal telescopic bar I had (just can't remember what it was from) which fits tightly across the window width, and placed correctly makes it impossible (I thought until yesterday) for the gull to squeeze under or over it if the window also remains insufficiently open, yet can allow the cats to squeeze through. Then this morning I heard that familiar commotion. Yes, there it was in again! Hell's bells! Now I'll try a combo of the plastic AND the bar. But this is getting just too absurd for words.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-51341252246520697212011-06-28T10:37:38.256-07:002011-06-28T10:37:38.256-07:00Be careful Ray, they can be very mean and they don...Be careful Ray, they can be very mean and they don't back down easily. I like your plastic sheathing idea. I might have suggested something similar.Kyle Leachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13369076904327452139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-19702097576922566212011-06-26T08:52:50.764-07:002011-06-26T08:52:50.764-07:00Because the bird is as big as my two cats put toge...Because the bird is as big as my two cats put together, Cubby. They must find its intrusion even more daunting than I do.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-42308553845612129892011-06-26T06:24:34.539-07:002011-06-26T06:24:34.539-07:00Why are the cats not hunting and killing the bird?...Why are the cats not hunting and killing the bird?Cubbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12659801291785890663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-76493029504396671702011-06-26T04:03:56.028-07:002011-06-26T04:03:56.028-07:00Yes, Dr Spo, this particular gull (just the one? C...Yes, Dr Spo, this particular gull (just the one? Can't be sure.) has a wingspan of at least a yard, and last night in got in yet again. They can be quite scary when very close. I've rigged up a plastic 'curtain' with vertical cuts, out of rubbish bags to hang from the lower window frame, so the cats can come and go but the birds might be deterred. Too early to say if it's working but trouble is, as it's translucent, not transparent, the cats can't now sit at the open window to watch the world going by, as they like to do. My hope is that the gull will get fed up and stop trying, and enable me to take it down after a little while.<br />Thanks for visiting, though.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-51587519787390023372011-06-25T17:16:18.667-07:002011-06-25T17:16:18.667-07:00seagulls can be agressive birds, so beware
Think H...seagulls can be agressive birds, so beware<br />Think Hitchcock !Ur-spohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237644452200889946noreply@blogger.com