You gotta get them once. I had one cat try to reach between the door of a closet. Didn’t see her, fortunately closed it slowly. She screamed bloody murder of course. Didn’t do damage, but you know what she hasn’t tried again since?
Never mind. I looked again and see it’s an orange. That’s a hopeless cause there.
This happened to one of the cats my husband had in the house when he was growing up. They had a screen door that would slam shut in the wind.
Guess what one of the cats loved to do? Sit in the doorway cause inside and outside! Best place for cat.
He heard the door slam and the cat SCREAMED
Cat was okay, just lost the fur in that spot for awhile apparently
Cat never did that again!
I’d put a flap on the outside, just like some siding or something…
I would have added a flap to the hinge side that blocks arms getting in. But you don’t want solutions, you just want me to listen empathetically to your ongoing failures. :p
When I was a kid, my brother stuck his finger into the hinge-side gap on the front door of the apartment, right before dad left for work. The door shut on his finger, breaking my brother’s finger and giving me a serious case of the willies when I see something like OP’s picture.
Ouch, I’m sorry about your brother’s finger. Did he fully recover?
He doesn’t even remember it, lol. He was a baby, only recently able to walk. He’s in his 40’s now.
I’m glad he was ok!
“cat arm”
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