Reply #63: My neighbor's fence manage to keep my cats out.

[eilen]

It is about 5 - 6 foot high chain link fence. Even when they put their birds outside in their cages. Especially when their rott is wandering the yard. It keeps out all the other neighborhood cats too.

If I enclosed my yard similarly, I believe my cats would remain in the yard. It is safer. My white cat got lost once and almost died and we hardly ever let her out, she's finally putting on some weight. Every now and again, we let her out on the deck but she is definitely a within the property limits cat. The other one does not wander far either, particularly as there are a few more local cats wandering about. She likes to keep an eye on her territory. The rescue we got them from kept them inside and asked that we do the same and they were fine for a while but eventually wanted to lie in the sun on the warm deck.

We live in the suburbs.