Is There Such A Thing As A Cat Proof Blind?

[kimlovescats]

I have the faux wood, 2 inch wide ones. The blinds themselves are indestructible ... just be sure you don't have a cord chewer like my Smokey used to be!

[TopCat3]

I agree with Jenn, verticals seem to be the go, if they try to scratch them they'll just slide down them - "can't seem to get a grip, Mom!"
My house came with them, don't particularly like them, but stuck with them really, they're functional and easy to keep clean - not dust traps like Venetians. You can get some nice colours. You can always put curtains either side for a decorator touch or extra warmth in winter.
What? They climb the curtains? oh well...
You might have to take off the beaded string at the bottom so kitty can climb on the sill and look out without getting her little pawsies caught and tangled. Colette likes to sneak between the blind and the window and sit in the sunny spot on the sill on Neighbourhood Watch She also knows I can't see her and run around the house looking and calling for her, which of course she ignores...

All in all I think they'll like them

[Freedom]

Oh Topcat3, I wasn't going to post this until I read your response, he he.

My home had vertical blinds when I bought it, but we hated them. You can't close out the sun and still see, as the top of the window is "open" unless you draw them allt he way across. So switched to shades. Those I can pull down part way, 3/4, and still see out.

When the kitties get antsy, they chew on the shades, so I have holes in the edges on one or two. Thank goodness those are in the rooms where I put the cheap ones. I have room darkening in my bedroom and fancier shades in the living room, and those haven't been touched in 4 years.

I do NOT have curtains, just valances at the top. This was fine until . . . last evening. I brought in one of the female TNR cats, thinking I may keep her. She FLEW from the floor to the valance in a second! The whole thing came down on her, which didn't go over to well with either her or Dad. The nails pulled right out of the wall. So now we all know what my Dad will be working on today.

We still have curtains up, at Dad's house. When we go up there and stay a week the cats come with us. And those curtains are in shreds, I keep trying to find time to remove them. Maybe next trip.

Blinds inside the windows, yeah, I think those may be kitty proof. Good luck!!!

[Taz_Zoee]

We have vertical blinds on the sliding glass doors and the faux wood blinds on the windows. Taz has not destroyed any of them. However, the vertical blinds always seem to have slats falling out. AND Taz knows he can wake me up by going behind the blinds and moving them so they make an irritating noise. Surprisingly he has not learned that when he does this he gets kicked out of the bedroom.

[Medusa]

My problem hasn't been so much w/the blinds as w/the cords, etc. Too much temptation there. My RB Peeka couldn't resist and, if her claws would get too long, she'd always get caught and she'd scream and I'd come running to find her hanging by a claw. Then my imagination ran away w/me and I was worried about them hanging themselves. I no longer have blinds but I still have to get something for my kitchen windows. Until I paint next week, they'll stay bare. But I always worry about that.

[KitCat]

I have verticals that are a thick plastic. I think they are cat proof, but sometimes they make a lot of noise when my cat goes behind them and I am trying to sleep.

[lvpets2002]

Well I am lucky is that my girls dont mess with the blinds or drapes.. In two of the bedrooms I have real wood shutters.. In the living room & my bed room is thick drapes.. Now all stay open during the day time.. And at night all are asleep..