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Unable to Live Without Chocolate or Coffee
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| I got three kittens - about 4 months old to help with mice and now they are jumping up on my saddles and pads and knocking the pads off onto the floor and knocking stuff over. I am not happy about that! my good five star is not going to get ruined by these little ogars! lol any tips for keeping them off this stuff? I can't lock them out :/ the saddles that have the slick nylon covers they are leaving alone. |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | Maybe get some more of the nylon covers to put over the pads? Other than that I have no idea. Never had cats. Sorry. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I would get some more nylon covers, and maybe they are trying to find a place to sleep? Maybe some cat beds.. |
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Unable to Live Without Chocolate or Coffee
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| yeah i'm going to order more nylon covers. I have cat beds for them, i think they are playing because they are reaching up and scratching the leathers of the pads on the ones that are hanging lower. I was thinking about using foil over the pads LOL that might fix them from jumping on them. I can just imagine them jumping from the stairs to the big saddle racks like little monkeys! omg those darn cats! lol!! they even kicked out my old cat of the barn - they like took over the place roflol!  |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Are you keeping them lock up in your tack room or can they come and go as they please? |
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Unable to Live Without Chocolate or Coffee
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| my tack room is open so I cant lock them out :( |
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 Hog Tie My Mojo
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Location: Opelousas, LA | I used to gripe about all the stuff the cats knocked down, then hubby got lots of chickens and turned them loose in the barn, sooooo much worse than cats! I don't even like eggs all that much, lol. The cats should get better once they get older and less rowdy, mine are pretty lazy now. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | camocowgirl - 2017-08-08 12:22 PM my tack room is open so I cant lock them out :( Oh thats bad, my cats love going in my tack room so they can climb all over my saddles and claw/sharping on my leather and wool pads, so they dont get to go in there at all, something about the leather and the feel of the wool pad they love I think its the smell. Yep, I would be getting the saddle covers for all your saddles and maybe get a saddle pad bag you can put all your pads in, are a large plastic tub with a lid you can store things in for your pads so you can lock the pads away from the kittys/cats.
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2017-08-08 12:48 PM
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 Ms. Marine
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Location: Texas | Get rid of the kittens and get a dog.
ETA: Not trying to get a smarta$$. My aussie catches and kills mice almost every day.
Edited by BarrelRacing4Christ 2017-08-08 12:50 PM
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Unable to Live Without Chocolate or Coffee
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| yeah good idea i'll grab a big plastic tub for stuff.
haha I have 4 dogs! I actually don't like cats but I wanted them to help kill mice. I have poison out but I don't like to bc I have dogs and a toddler running around. |
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Location: Kansas | I have learned that even know kitties are the cutiest things you ever see, and my heart melts when I see them.....they are little a-holes lol.
Try the nylon covers, and I was told to try aluminum foil as well because apparently cats don't like it. |
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 Born not Made
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Location: North Dakota | Just cover everything. Growing up on my parents farm, the farm cats were in and out of the barn. Of course, one the best places to lay was on a saddle pad on top of a saddle. So we just learned to put things on top of them to keep the cats off, whether it be another old blanket, or a sled (yes, the plastic snow kind), or cut open an empty feed bag and lay that on top, or whatever we could find. Just cover your stuff.
Better that you are fighting to keep cats off your stuff and not mice from EATING your tack ...... I'd take the cats!
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Location: Where I need to be | I had 7 barn cats. They were awesome hunters and really kept the mice down. One of the kittens scratched me. The kitten began acting strange and having trouble breathing. Kitten had rabies and I had to take rabies shots and then put all my cats down. My dog had been vaccinated, but I still had to confine her for 45 days. If you have not vaccinated them please do so. |
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | They don't like tin foil. Put some foil over your stuff that you don't want them on. Might have to cover it with an old towel and double face tape the foil to the towel. |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | gidget - 2017-08-08 7:52 PM
I had 7 barn cats. They were awesome hunters and really kept the mice down. One of the kittens scratched me. The kitten began acting strange and having trouble breathing. Kitten had rabies and I had to take rabies shots and then put all my cats down. My dog had been vaccinated, but I still had to confine her for 45 days. If you have not vaccinated them please do so.
You are the only other person I've personally heard of taking rabies shots--I was bitten by a cat (black of course!!) when I was around 7 years old, and the owners wouldn't put the cat up, so I had to take the shots. Lord they were terrible. . . . |
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Expert
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Location: west of East Texas | I have several old shower curtains covering my saddles that stay in the tack room. They are cheap and they are easy to slide back and forth on the saddle rack when I get the saddles out. They also cover more than just the saddle so that may help keep the kitties away from the saddle pads. |
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