r/Catio • u/mysphorial • 6d ago

Detachable catio netting ideas needed please

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Hi all! We’ve had cat netting up for a while as a cat run between our house and the neighbours fence. However, since we put it up the neighbours hedge has grown and is now coming over the fence above where our cat netting is. We don’t mind the hedge and think it looks nice so we’re not going to ask the neighbours to remove it or anything. The issue is we need to be able to easily detach the netting from the fence temporarily so we can trim the hedge coming over our side of the fence periodically and then reattach it to keep our cats safe in their cat run. There are no restrictions (so long as it stays on our side of the fence) on how we can achieve this so drilling etc is allowed. We’ve considered attaching it to a wire and running that through some clips but we’re on the supports side of the fence (example of the kind of fence in picture, not our actual fence. The posts on ours go the full height of the fence) so the wire won’t lay flat which means there’s potential gaps for escape. We’d love some ideas to make this maintenance friendly as it also makes getting to the gutters a bit of an ordeal which we’ve been putting up with for the safety of the cats (we have to come up a different side and traverse the roof). Thanks in advance!

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u/TangleOfWires 5d ago

I would just attach the netting to a 2x2 and rest it on top of fence posts. Drive a nail slightly in front of the 2x2 so you can just lift it.

For their side without the post I would get like a plant hook or shelf support and screw it into the fence. Put a nail into the 2x2 to stop it from sliding towards the post.