The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1901-11-27
TO KEEP OUT CATS.
A New York Hardware Man Has q Special
Coutrivancs.

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contrivancs.
f"There are various kinds of cat
guards" said dealer in hardware and
kindred supplies to reporter for the
New York Sun, "but this is what we
sell most Of" and the sample he
showed was section of guard that
is made in yard-long lengths and con-
sists of a board strip three inches wide,
surmounted by top of zinc bent in
the form of an inverted trough and
with its lower edges nailed to the
sides of the board strip. The zinc has
at regular intervals of an inch or two
along its ridge holes through which
project foot-long spikes. This guard
is nailed on top of fence.
cit is not necessary" the hardware
man went on, Ssto put the catguard
along the whole top of fence, but
only at the points of approach; that
is to say, at places where the cat can
get at the top. Even the spryest cat
cannot go right up the sheer face Of
high fence, and so along such Sec
ton you don't want to guard; but you
do want it, for instance, at the cor
ners where cat could approach your
fence along some other; and here you
want it for little distance along each
angle.
''This discovery was made for him
self by a customer of ours who put
section of the guard across the end
Of his back fence where the end of
the next yard fence joined. This sec
ton of guard projected out a foot and
half on either side clear of the top
of his fence, and it seemed impossi-
BILE for any cat to get around that.
Nor could any cat get around it, but
the day this guard was put up a cat
came along the top of neighbours
fence, halted at that formidable new
barrier and looked ii over carefully
for moment, and then softly jumped
over it.
''That's why at fence angles we put
up strip along the top of each of
the fences running from the corner;
the cat could jump over strip placed
simply across its path, but it can't
jump over three feet of it placed
lengthwise on top of fence.
''Then people put it up on fence
tops away from corners wherever
there is an approach to any particular
spot from the other side, other than
along fence; as, for example, along
bars running from fence top to fence
top across the eighboring yard. such
as clotheslines are attached to. Or
there may be in the next yard against
the fence at some point flower stand
or some other object that would af-
ford the cat means of approach; if
so, you place section of the guard
there.
'In fact, the cat may reach the top
of your fence in various and unex-
pected ways. And our customer who
told me Of his experience with the
cat that had easily jumped his first
erected guard said that he had found
it an interesting study to observe the
several ways by which the cats had
reached the top of his fence, some of
these being quite unlocked for, and
he had found then further and far
greater pleasure in planning such ar
engagements of the catguard as would
serve effectually to keep them out,
which he had finally succeeded in
doing.
"There is, indeed, no doubt that
with this guard properly placed you
can keep the caterwauling cat off the
premises, and there is demand enough
for such things to make catguards in
one form and another regular articles
of sale in city hardware stores"
RICHARD MANSFIELD.