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We wanted to keep things as simple as possible, the carabiners came in handy in a couple of places.
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This contraption, made with flexible intubation guides (from my old life as an OR nurse), were supposed to hold the gate shut.
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We stuck pieces of trash in the chicken wire because we both kept running into it, as we worked.
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We dismantled an old cyclone fence gate that wasn't being used and appropriated it for our Catio.
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This is a cruddy but cute picture of Curley Jo (ever the adventurer) crawling through a chicken wire tunnel.
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Mary is stapling the chicken wire to our cross rib, as we try to toughen up this semi-horizontal wall.
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The cats couldn't WAIT to use the included dirt patch as a toilet, so we had to quickly insert a cat box.
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Super Secret Back Up Support Agent had the brilliant idea of putting these hollow cement squares inside the catio. They provided strength to the edges, as well as fun for the testing team.
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Here's a close up of the sewing job. We tried to match up the various layers of chicken wire shapes, then wire them together.
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These 2x4 tamers were really great for attaching and stabilizing the boards between the ceiling beams and the cement blocks, or 2x4 bottom boards.
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This 2x4 was easy to attach to the post with this metal guide. The other end went into one of those cement blocks with a metal bracket for 2x4s.
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This stray that we named Fluffy is the sweetest tempered cat. She's not real young or real old, Just Right!
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This is one of our strays. We think that Fluffy is a Maine Coon cat who was someone's baby at some point.
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This was opening #2, the 'In Case of Emergency' hole should we need another, away from our official gate.
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We overlapped chicken wire of 2 and 4 feet to cover the area from ceiling to bottom 2x4, we ran it horizontally and "sewed" it together with wire.
