I'm afraid my girls cannot sleep in my bedroom tonight :(

[Kirsten]

Lucky you!!

A couple of minutes ago, it also looked like a storm was coming up. Locked the girls in their room (Luna is scratching the door already and wants to get out) and opened all the windows, but the storm is already slowing down...

Kirsten

[Karen]

Are your windows ones that you could open from the top, instead of the bottom, so you and the girls could be safe and cool?

[Kirsten]

Karen, I have these bottom-hung windows (very typical for Germany), they look like this:




This is how I usually have them during the night, and even that is dangerous for kitties because they can get stuck.

You can also open these windows completely, which I have to do at nights during heatwaves, because when they are just tilted like in the picture, there's barely fresh air getting inside.

Kirsten

[lvpets2002]

WoW how I would take your temps in a minute.. You should be in Texas.. The A/C has run non-stop at the house for me & the babies.. Now You all do not have A/C right??

[Medusa]

There's no way to put screens in the windows so that you get the fresh air flow and your girls could still sleep w/you?

[Kirsten]

Now You all do not have A/C right??

Some public buildings have a/c, but most of our houses don't.

There's no way to put screens in the windows so that you get the fresh air flow and your girls could still sleep w/you?

Last year, I was about to build a netting that was safe for my girls, but then I remembered how Lily is always walking on the top of open doors. She would do that with an open window as well, and that could cause severe damage.

Kirsten

[Barbara]

There are things which you can mount close to the windows so that they are secure when they are open on top (Katzenschutz für Kippfenster). I have them here.
http://www.zooplus.de/shop/katzen/ba...terschutz/7381
But if it's really hot (and I am sleeping under the roof as well)- the last thing you need is a furrpurrson sleeping close to you