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Sunnydayz · 11-10-2013, 08:38 PM

Funny you ask this question right at this time hahaha. Gizmo just learned how to get over what I had blocking the kitchen off as well as my staircase for upstairs eeeek. Thankfully I had found some amazing used commercial fishing net on eBay and had been putting off attaching to my staircase, so he can't go through or under the railing (I have an open staircase that my cats find convenient to take a short cut through about half way down, very scared he would follow and kill himself) I live at the beach so it totally goes with the nautical theme my home is decorated with :-) well to say the least, that netting went up tonight......FAST LOL.

I also put an extra potty pad in my guest room as well as the upstairs hallway, because he's only been on hard floors so far and the stairs and whole upstairs area s carpeted, which he is not used to carpet. He has been wanting to chase my other 2 cats that are afraid of his barking at them it seems like forever. It actually went better than I thought :-) I let him explore for about 1 1/2 ours up there, and lets just say it was pretty anticlimactic for little Gizmo :-) My huge cat Sadie, who is a rag doll and weighs about 25 lbs. just sat there as he barked at her over and over, and they were totally face to face hehe.

I think for Gizmo it was like he was like a kid always seeing that shiny new toy he wanted, and then when he got it, well it just wasn't as great as he thought it would be. Neither of the 2 other cats that were afraid of his bark ran from him at all, no matter how hard he tried :-) I think it's even going to get easier from here. The only thing I'm worried about
Is the carpet at this point, as I hurried and got all the little toys from the cats from under the beds and all, although i did chase him all over to get a big hairball he found under one of the beds, that came from my rag-doll :-)I thought all heck was going to break loose once he got up there, that the cats would be running all over and he would be barking forever, but I'm pretty certain at this point it definitely did not measure up, to how much fun Gizmo thought it was going to be lol.

So yea I would say it all depends on the pup :-) Gizmo showed he was completely done with being confined and worked extremely hard to get around us blocking him any further.

11-10-2013, 08:38 PM	#5
Sunnydayz YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Redondo beach Posts: 675	Funny you ask this question right at this time hahaha. Gizmo just learned how to get over what I had blocking the kitchen off as well as my staircase for upstairs eeeek. Thankfully I had found some amazing used commercial fishing net on eBay and had been putting off attaching to my staircase, so he can't go through or under the railing (I have an open staircase that my cats find convenient to take a short cut through about half way down, very scared he would follow and kill himself) I live at the beach so it totally goes with the nautical theme my home is decorated with :-) well to say the least, that netting went up tonight......FAST LOL. I also put an extra potty pad in my guest room as well as the upstairs hallway, because he's only been on hard floors so far and the stairs and whole upstairs area s carpeted, which he is not used to carpet. He has been wanting to chase my other 2 cats that are afraid of his barking at them it seems like forever. It actually went better than I thought :-) I let him explore for about 1 1/2 ours up there, and lets just say it was pretty anticlimactic for little Gizmo :-) My huge cat Sadie, who is a rag doll and weighs about 25 lbs. just sat there as he barked at her over and over, and they were totally face to face hehe. I think for Gizmo it was like he was like a kid always seeing that shiny new toy he wanted, and then when he got it, well it just wasn't as great as he thought it would be. Neither of the 2 other cats that were afraid of his bark ran from him at all, no matter how hard he tried :-) I think it's even going to get easier from here. The only thing I'm worried about Is the carpet at this point, as I hurried and got all the little toys from the cats from under the beds and all, although i did chase him all over to get a big hairball he found under one of the beds, that came from my rag-doll :-)I thought all heck was going to break loose once he got up there, that the cats would be running all over and he would be barking forever, but I'm pretty certain at this point it definitely did not measure up, to how much fun Gizmo thought it was going to be lol. So yea I would say it all depends on the pup :-) Gizmo showed he was completely done with being confined and worked extremely hard to get around us blocking him any further.