My cats over the course of the past few weeks have decided that they want to play with the blinds on my living room window. As soon as it starts to get light outside, they get on the cabinet that my TV is on and begin pulling the blinds away from the window, allowing the bottom of the blinds to come off the window sill and extend the rest of the way to the floor. They've also pulled out some of the slats (not sure if that's the right word) at times from where they've been pulling on the blinds. I've been taking my motion alarm from the kitchen and setting it behind my TV and leaving it turned on to the door chime, which spooks them from getting up there and messing with the blinds, but that only works when I'm home since I always have the motion alarm set in the kitchen for security reasons. They're starting to learn not to get up there when the motion alarm is behind the TV. Removing/replacing the blinds isn't an option, and leaving the blinds up isn't an option for security reasons. Anybody have any suggestions?
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Messing with window blinds
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I suggest you raise them 6 or so inches from the bottom (whatever you are comfortable with for security reasons) so they can see out the window. I have found that to be the only way to stop my cat(s) from pulling at the blinds. I raise the blinds on the windows they are most interested in during the day and lower at night without them messing with them in the night...
Now I just have Pookey left with me and have a window at the foot of my bed I raise the window blind a few inches before work and lower after work. If I forget to raise it a little in the morning, it is obviously messed with when I get home at night.
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)
Even if you raise them a couple inches during the day so they can scoot underneath and get between the blind and window, it would likely help...
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)
Found a solution to the window blinds issue, at least for now. Discovered that I had some pennies and put them in an empty soda can, putting a piece of duct tape over the opening so they don't spill out. I then sat that on the window sill in front of the blinds so that if they pull the blinds, it knocks the can off, making a loud crash, which they know means that they are in trouble. After a couple times, they haven't knocked the can off. It's been moved some, but they've stopped before knocking it off.
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Chessie and Casey Jones relaxing together.
