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Home Forums Champions’ chat Defeating the local cat Reply To: Defeating the local cat

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I had issues with cats for the first couple of months after setting up my feeding stations, they have such flexible spines it is almost impossible to stop every cat getting in especially if they are young/small/thin etc.

You’re definitely on the right track trying to make them turn a corner with bricks etc but I would also try and persevere with an entrance tunnel as I’m sure the hogs will work out how to get in if the food is always there.

Cats can ‘snake’ around corners if the gap is wide enough and they can curve their spine but find it more difficult to navigate a pronounced right angle which is what an entrance tunnel combined with restricting the entrance does.

In the following video you can see I didn’t close the gap enough at the entrance to the tunnel…

https://youtu.be/ps-7JClxhqk

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