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So I need suggestions. It is hard to explain without a picture, but tomorrow I will take a picture and post it.
We are having a really hard time keeping Nelson off the steps. Andy never learned to go up the steps and we never taught him. When we got Andy my cat moved upstairs. Which worked out well because the cat got the upstairs (though after a few years he eventually moved downstairs again haha) and Andy was downstairs. The cat litter and food was upstairs...good, no problems!
Well Nelson on the other hand is adament about going upstairs. We have a different cat now, but all the cat stuff is still up here, and Spencer needs his peace up here. So Nelson we want to stay downstairs. The problem however is Spencer wants to go up and down freely. So we can't put a high gate, Spencer can't get over it. I've put a carboard barrier near the bottom of the steps, Nelson eats it. I put a baby gate propped up on the bottom step with a gap for the cat to get around, Nelson gets around it and we are all tripping over it. I'm waiting for someone to go flying through the front door one of these days...
What does everyone else do about steps? And/or people with cats?? He was going straight for the litter box the one day he managed to get all the way up the steps. So I don't know what else to do for a barrier, the current situation isn't working out. Baby gates are TOO high. My own makeshift cardboard gates he eats. What else can I do??? :huh:
We are having a really hard time keeping Nelson off the steps. Andy never learned to go up the steps and we never taught him. When we got Andy my cat moved upstairs. Which worked out well because the cat got the upstairs (though after a few years he eventually moved downstairs again haha) and Andy was downstairs. The cat litter and food was upstairs...good, no problems!
Well Nelson on the other hand is adament about going upstairs. We have a different cat now, but all the cat stuff is still up here, and Spencer needs his peace up here. So Nelson we want to stay downstairs. The problem however is Spencer wants to go up and down freely. So we can't put a high gate, Spencer can't get over it. I've put a carboard barrier near the bottom of the steps, Nelson eats it. I put a baby gate propped up on the bottom step with a gap for the cat to get around, Nelson gets around it and we are all tripping over it. I'm waiting for someone to go flying through the front door one of these days...
What does everyone else do about steps? And/or people with cats?? He was going straight for the litter box the one day he managed to get all the way up the steps. So I don't know what else to do for a barrier, the current situation isn't working out. Baby gates are TOO high. My own makeshift cardboard gates he eats. What else can I do??? :huh: