sasvermont
05-19-2005, 07:29 AM
Just a little update. I am sorry I have no photos.
Last weekend I noticed that JuniRose aka Juni-get-down, was trying her best to undo a section of screening on my 40' X 10' front porch. I re-screened it last spring, so it hadn't had that many months of wear and tear - until now.
Monday morning as I was leaving for work I looked up (I live on the second floor) and what did I see but Ms. Juni sitting on the OUTSIDE ledge of the porch, just as proud as could be.....happy as a lark and a portion of the screen was torn - but at the very top. I immediately went back inside to get her in and she promptly crawled up the outside of the screen, over the top portion and back down the inside....like she did it every day....maybe she had been doing for days on end and I just never caught her.
She did this three times after I repaired the screen - and then once I had discouraged her from that spot by putting plexiglass over the area, she moved on to a new section but didn't have quite the easy time of it. She ended up getting stranded at the top, half in and half out, hanging there...... quite the acrobat that Juni-get-down. I finally gave up. No more porch time until I figure things out.
So, to make a long story short, I must re-visit the screening and approach it from an entirely different standpoint. I have put out some feelers for industrial strength screening......might go with aluminum since it is less expensive. Now that Juni has figured out that digging at the screening will make it give way, she will force me to buy expensive material. She has spring fever I am afraid, and now that she has discovered her power of digging and getting free............it won't end for her.
No cats have been on the porch now for days......they are driving each other crazy! And I will be admitted with them, if I don't do something soon!
Anyone want to buy a cat? She is for sale. $20.00. She loves to climb on high things....up curtains....sits on top of clothes trees.....scales the clothes in my closets to reach the very top.....she sits on tops of all my doors....even tries when the doors are closed. Go figure. She also bites noses and slobbers on you at the same time. Quite the deal.
PM if you want her.
Last weekend I noticed that JuniRose aka Juni-get-down, was trying her best to undo a section of screening on my 40' X 10' front porch. I re-screened it last spring, so it hadn't had that many months of wear and tear - until now.
Monday morning as I was leaving for work I looked up (I live on the second floor) and what did I see but Ms. Juni sitting on the OUTSIDE ledge of the porch, just as proud as could be.....happy as a lark and a portion of the screen was torn - but at the very top. I immediately went back inside to get her in and she promptly crawled up the outside of the screen, over the top portion and back down the inside....like she did it every day....maybe she had been doing for days on end and I just never caught her.
She did this three times after I repaired the screen - and then once I had discouraged her from that spot by putting plexiglass over the area, she moved on to a new section but didn't have quite the easy time of it. She ended up getting stranded at the top, half in and half out, hanging there...... quite the acrobat that Juni-get-down. I finally gave up. No more porch time until I figure things out.
So, to make a long story short, I must re-visit the screening and approach it from an entirely different standpoint. I have put out some feelers for industrial strength screening......might go with aluminum since it is less expensive. Now that Juni has figured out that digging at the screening will make it give way, she will force me to buy expensive material. She has spring fever I am afraid, and now that she has discovered her power of digging and getting free............it won't end for her.
No cats have been on the porch now for days......they are driving each other crazy! And I will be admitted with them, if I don't do something soon!
Anyone want to buy a cat? She is for sale. $20.00. She loves to climb on high things....up curtains....sits on top of clothes trees.....scales the clothes in my closets to reach the very top.....she sits on tops of all my doors....even tries when the doors are closed. Go figure. She also bites noses and slobbers on you at the same time. Quite the deal.
PM if you want her.