![]() I am very lucky and need to have a new sturdy window screen made, especially if I am to continue fostering with no air conditioning. When I hit the steps she ran out from underneath, but she stopped, recognized me and came right back to me. She wasn’t on the deck roof, so I ran downstairs and started calling for her as soon as I stepped out the back door. But in early evening when I went in to feed them dinner and she wasn’t in the sink or the tub or the cubby by the tub or under the cabinet-the only possible places to hide-I looked at the screen and could see it was just a little buckled at the top. Charm hasn’t shown much of an interest in the window aside from a few peeks and she’d been comfortable ensconced in the sink for a while. ![]() I had been closing the window most of the way when I wasn’t in the bathroom with Charm and the kittens, but yesterday was hot and I was in the studio all day and stepped over to the bathroom to visit the kittens about every half hour when I took little breaks from my art. Over the years it had bent and it wasn’t meeting the window at the top. I placed it under the upper window and keep the lower window partway down to make it difficult to get a paw up to the top, and have a binder clip holding it in at the bottom and keeping the two leaves pushed against the window frame. I rescreened it and tried to reinforce the frame and screen itself but that didn’t make it durable enough so I got the expanding one. The window itself is a good window but the original screen from that window was thin, and poorly made and came apart at the bottom from Kelly sleeping on the windowsill in 2012 (more on that great escape below). The bathroom window has an expanding screen, sturdy but several years old and well-used. But with experience I don’t put anything past an unspayed female cat, even if she is in a closed room on the second floor of the house. She is also not spayed yet and recently lived entirely outdoors dangerous as that might have been she handled it well and likely enjoyed it. ![]() She is a good mom but a little tired of being cooped up with the kittens. I’ve been keeping an eye on Charm in the bathroom, concerned about her being able to push out the window screen in the bathroom. NOTE: If your cat has escaped your home please read Your Indoor-only Cat Got Out the Door! I had a near miss with Charm and the bathroom window screen yesterday so I’m sharing my article on keeping cats safe by open, screened windows with this and my experience with nearly my entire household escaping from a damaged window screen years ago-which may have significantly changed the story of my life with cats had I not rounded them all up and gotten them back inside. ![]()
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