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Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/12/2009 10:46:27 PM   
bikerchic

 

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Status: offline 		Hey! I'm new to collecting but I love it already. I'm not sure if this has been talked about somewhere else but I'm looking for suggetions on how to keep our cat from knocking the bottlles off of the top of my kitchen cabinets. Dang cat!
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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 4:59:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		WELCOME TO THE FORUM ANGIE! "THE TROUBLE WITH CATS"! KNOW A GUY THAT HAD SOME VERY RARE GA. SODAS AND HIS CAT KNOCKED THEM OFF AND THEY WERE SHATTERED! CATS ARE SO GOOD AT CLIMBING ETC. IT IS HARD TO KNOW WHAT TO DO ,BESIDES KEEPING THE CAT OUTSIDE AND I AM GUESSING YOU LOVE YOUR CAT AND THAT IS OUT OF THE QUESTION!

WELL JUST SOME IDEAS: PUT THE BOTTLES UP IN A BOX SOME WHERE[BET YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT!] PUT THEM HIGH ENOUGH WHERE THE CAT CAN'T GET TO THEM.[EMPIRE STATEBUILDING? THE PERSON I TOLD YOU ABOUT HAD HIS BOTTLES UP HIGH SOME WAY,WHERE,CAN'T REMEMBER.
MAYBE SOME KIND OF ADHESIVE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE. [DON'T KNOW WHAT,BUT THIS HAS BEEN DISCUSED A FEW TIMES ON HERE], WHEN I USED TO KEEP MINE IN THE WINDOW[TILL ONE CRACKED CAUSE OF HEAT!] I USED FISHING LINE. PUT TWO STRANDS CLOSE TO THE BOTTLES,SO THEY COULD NOT GET PAST THE FISHING LINE.
DID IT BY PUTTING SMALL NAILS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BOTTLES AND TIED THE FISHING LINE FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER.
WORKED GREAT ,BUT I DID NOT REALISE HOW HOT IT GOT ON THE WINDOW SEAL!
HOPE I HAVE HELPED SOME!
MAYBE OTHERS CAN TELL YOU MORE AS I HAVE A DOG AND THANKFULLY SHE CAN'T CLIMB! THE TROUBLE I HAVE HAD IS BIRDS COMING DOWN THE CHIMNEY EACH SPRING AND GOING RIGHT AT MY BOTTLES TURNING AT THE LAST SECOND MISSING THEM![BARELY] COURSE ALL I HAD TO DO WAS BLOCK UP THE OLD CHIMNEY. JAMIE

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 8:34:46 AM   
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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 10:43:28 AM   
bikerchic

 

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Status: offline 		Ya, I do have a hutch like cyberdigger. We recently painted our kitchen, made a few changes which left me looking for something to put in the space above my kitchen cabinets. This is how my new obsession was born.
I'm putting rope lighting up there and the bottles will be displayed there also, if I can figure out how to keep them safe. That stinkin' cat didn't care anything about getting up there till I put the bottles up there!

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 11:06:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		You could try something like this Chic. Stick one on the base of the bottle and it's mate on the top of the cabinet and push them together. I just hung a semi large frame with two of them and so far it hasn't come crashing to the floor in the middle of the night.




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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 11:24:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Bikerchic,
You cat must love the sparkle of glass to want to climb up there so much  now that you have bottles on display. You should be very proud of it because it has a lot in common with many forum members.

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 11:49:31 AM   
bikerchic

 

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Status: offline 		Wow! I was just considering the command strips right before I read your post lobeycat. Also maybe that white gummy stuff? My daughter hung glow in the dark stars on her ceiling with it. I'll have to go to Home Depot and check out my options.

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 11:53:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		My cat and I have alot in common I guess. ;)
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Hey Bikerchic,
You cat must love the sparkle of glass to want to climb up there so much  now that you have bottles on display. You should be very proud of it because it has a lot in common with many forum members.


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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 12:16:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have had the same problem.  I had to put all of my bottles away because of my kitten.  I also keep a lot of doors closed.  I hope you find a solution.

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 7:19:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		i had the same thing with the cat and the top of my cabinets.asked a vet and he told me what works, a water gun. everytime the cat tried to get up there i hit her with a squrt from the water gun and she went running it took some time but after maybe two weeks just me picking up the water gun had her second guessing. now she likes the ground just fine.~matt

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 7:23:01 PM   
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looking good charlie!!

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/13/2009 10:25:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		We've tried the sqiurt bottle for other things. He just figured out he needs to misbehave while no one is watching. ;D Also, I'm afraid I would squirt and he would jump off bringing bottles with him.

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/14/2009 12:08:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's a great idea, sweetrelease.  I should try that with my little terror.  Bikerchic, try squirting him if you can catch him in the act of jumping or climbing up to the bottles, or if he just gets in the area.

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/14/2009 12:09:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		One more thing, there is a spray you can buy on Drs. Foster and Smith's website to prevent cats from clawing at furniture.  I haven't tried it, but it may also repel them is applied to the area where the bottles are. 

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/14/2009 12:57:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		All of my good bottles are in cabinets behind glass. I also use the woodwork around my interior doorways and windows as bottle shelves. Eight feet high is safe, my kitties couldn't get to those bottles with a pound of catnip and custom-made, spring-loaded paw boots . I love cats, but their natural curiosity and sense of adventure makes them unwilling "bottle predators". I have never lost a bottle to a cat collision. It's not good luck, I simply made it impossible for them to reach them. As much as I would like to display some bottles out in the open at eye level, I don't even think about it!  ~Jim

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/14/2009 1:03:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		im allergic to cats, cant have em. i feel lucky. im not a cat person anyway. a 2 year old and a one year old is enough for me to keep my bottles away from.

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/14/2009 3:21:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		We picked this up (not for this place tho) as everything was cramped on 1 shelf in the china hutch.  Filled that up and still have bottles in the china hutch.  If you have the room, they do come bigger.  We didn't.  We have a cat too but he only like to get on the table at night when we aren't looking.  Shelving beyond cat reach is also good, but open shelves still make me nervous about falling glass.

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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/14/2009 9:27:42 PM   
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RE: Keeping bottles from falling over - 10/14/2009 9:52:48 PM   
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Status: online 		I have 2 cats, a well behaved senior and a devilishly rambunkshus little furry spazzmatician. Sometimes, the young'n will pull a small med off the shelf and bat it around the floor, until it gets lodged somewhere only rediscoverable by a major furniture shift, but so far no breakage.. and I only wish I had video footage of my little kitty navigating her way through a tabletop-full of bottles, without so much as teetering one.. cats are amazing creatures.. 

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