How to keep cats off the window screens

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Riverhound777
Cayenne pepper. I had a problem with a cat jumping on my car in the work parking garage. Put a circle of pepper around my car, and the problem went away Put a bit on the screen and they will stop.

I'm considering this. Maybe some cayenne and a little water sprayed on the screen.

 

[BatmanNate]

My kitten has taken to climbing the door screens and clawing the edges of the window screens. I've considering replacing them with pet screen, but he actually frees the mesh from the spline on the windows. Did anyone have success deterring this behavior?

 

[surfsatwerk]

Replace the screen with heavy duty pet screen material.

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk
Replace the screen with heavy duty pet screen material.

But how will this stop them from tearing the spline out?

 

[surfsatwerk]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk
Replace the screen with heavy duty pet screen material.

But how will this stop them from tearing the spline out?

I've got a fairly big dog who runs into my screen all the time. And I have 4 cats that love to hang on it chasing bugs in the evening. I've yet to replace my screen after 4 years of abuse.

 

[Wheezer]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
I have sliding glass doors in my living room, with a screen on the outside.
I have 3 cats that are outdoor cats. They like to climb on the screen. Especially if they are not happy with what I gave them for dinner.

They are just out of the kitten stage so they are playful and will chase each other up the screen. If I yell at them or tap on the glass they get down, but that isn't the best solution because they are slowly ruining the screen.


Mug shot of the offenders .
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/6164/kittehmi9.jpg

suggestions ?

awesome cats...that gray one in the center looks particularly sinister.

 

[z1ggy]

Some of the advice about the screens and stuff is good but the best free and non pain the balls trick is just to get a squirt bottle and give them squirts while you make it clear to them you are pissed. After a few times they will get it. Cats + water= not happy cat.

 

[alevasseur14]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

Originally posted by: Blieb
Nice trio of colors!

Yeah, they really surprised me. I was expecting them to look like their mother, but instead they picked a color each off the mother.
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/2334/mkittehyb0.jpg

Cool! The female I got last fall looks just like that. It's really neat and I'd never seen anything like it. It's funny because she's the runt of the litter and her brother is a perfectly stripped orange like one of your kittens but he's ENORMOUS!

They don't seem to play with our screens so I can't offer any help there. Good luck!

 

[ViviTheMage]

gun!

 

[alevasseur14]

Originally posted by: z1ggy
Some of the advice about the screens and stuff is good but the best free and non pain the balls trick is just to get a squirt bottle and give them squirts while you make it clear to them you are pissed. After a few times they will get it. Cats + water= not happy cat.

That reminds me. When we disciplined the cat I had growing up, we'd put just a little bit of lemon juice in a spray bottle. Not only do they hate having to clean the spray off of themselves, it's just a little bit sour too! That might work.

 

[hanoverphist]

get a window tint made in the pattern of a screen and take off the real screen. set up a camera and film them trying to climb the not-screen.

 

[adairusmc]

Paintball gun + frozen paintballs.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Triumph
There's nothing you can do. Cats do whatever they want, and you'd do well to keep your place in the human-feline hierarchy. Heed my words!

This has been my experience. I've all but given up. I still yell at them when they get on the screen, but it's just a game. I yell at them(mostly the girl), and she gets down until there's another fun looking moth on the screen. I've resigned myself to the reality that I'll just have to replace the screen when necessary :^D

 

[CoinOperatedBoy]

Looks like they also tore down OP's satellite dish (?). These are monsters.

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: Cerpin Taxt
Cut their feet off.

Bonus is fuzzy new lucky cat's foot keychains.

I like the way you think.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Try this

hahaha. those videos are hilarious!

 

[Modelworks]

Well its been 7 months since I posted this, and eventually what worked was the stare. Every time they climbed the screen I would walk up to the door and lock eyes with them, until they turned their head away and jumped down. They haven't tried to climb the screen now in months.

Suggested by someone because cats and eye contact is a big deal with them.

 

[CoinOperatedBoy]

Maybe you're just the Beastmaster and you didn't realize you could control them with your thoughts.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
My kitten has taken to climbing the door screens and clawing the edges of the window screens. I've considering replacing them with pet screen, but he actually frees the mesh from the spline on the windows. Did anyone have success deterring this behavior?

I thought our cat was unique. She did that to our bedroom window. Took a while for us to figure it out - we'd put her outside, an hour later she'd scratch on the bedroom door for someone to let her out of the bedroom. For the longest time, we just assumed she got back into the house when one of the kids came in the door and she managed to get into the bedroom when someone had the door open.

 

[Wag]

Tape balloons to the screen- if that doesn't work, squirt em.