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Hi! We moved in November to a new house, and it has a banister and a ledge at the top of the stairs, with very wide rungs.
The floor underneath is tile (so very hard), it is our front entrance. When we moved in the cat was obsessed with sitting on the edge of the ledge, and it made us nervous, so we ordered custom measured tempered glass that my fiancé was going to fit to the outside of the stair rungs so that she couldn’t fall. Well, turns out she wanted to up her game, because the DAY we were going to do the glass, she started jumping up onto the top of the banister (I will insert a picture of what it looks like so it makes sense), so obviously a glass wall would not work now. One night she jumped up there and I was so nervous that I instinctively yelled to get off and she actually fell off and then was able to use one of her lives to grip onto the edge of the ledge with her claws quickly and jump on the stairs right next to it, and was seemingly unfazed. Thought that might have deterred the bannister, but she jumped on it again the other night. This time I didn’t react and she just moved along.
My question is, does anyone have this situation and have an idea how to block it off or deter it from happening? I know about double sided tape but I don’t want her to jump up on it and freak out. She is definitely a “tree cat” and will climb up on the highest thing anywhere, so I know her instinct will always be to go towards it. I just don’t want to have anxiety anymore about it, it is also right outside our bedroom and bathroom upstairs, so a very common area. We are also considering getting a kitten soon so that adds a little more to it. I will put a picture of it below, obviously not of her on it but the top bannister is where she likes to jump. Obviously discipline doesn’t work with cats in general and especially in this situation so I am sort of at a loss.
Thank you for any feedback!
The floor underneath is tile (so very hard), it is our front entrance. When we moved in the cat was obsessed with sitting on the edge of the ledge, and it made us nervous, so we ordered custom measured tempered glass that my fiancé was going to fit to the outside of the stair rungs so that she couldn’t fall. Well, turns out she wanted to up her game, because the DAY we were going to do the glass, she started jumping up onto the top of the banister (I will insert a picture of what it looks like so it makes sense), so obviously a glass wall would not work now. One night she jumped up there and I was so nervous that I instinctively yelled to get off and she actually fell off and then was able to use one of her lives to grip onto the edge of the ledge with her claws quickly and jump on the stairs right next to it, and was seemingly unfazed. Thought that might have deterred the bannister, but she jumped on it again the other night. This time I didn’t react and she just moved along.
My question is, does anyone have this situation and have an idea how to block it off or deter it from happening? I know about double sided tape but I don’t want her to jump up on it and freak out. She is definitely a “tree cat” and will climb up on the highest thing anywhere, so I know her instinct will always be to go towards it. I just don’t want to have anxiety anymore about it, it is also right outside our bedroom and bathroom upstairs, so a very common area. We are also considering getting a kitten soon so that adds a little more to it. I will put a picture of it below, obviously not of her on it but the top bannister is where she likes to jump. Obviously discipline doesn’t work with cats in general and especially in this situation so I am sort of at a loss.
Thank you for any feedback!