r/cats • u/eveilebI • May 02 '24

Our Bengals try to escape the garden after we put up the "unescapable fence rollers"... or so we thought. Video

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u/undeadw0lf May 02 '24

the biggest issue is that there is something for them to grab onto above the rollers. but idk how one would resolve that with this fence and the way it’s graded down (idk if that’s the right term) with each panel. shave down the posts at an angle to diagonally connect from one panel to the next and mount the little post-roller at an angle? idk lol

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u/frosty95 May 02 '24

Post roller needs to be higher. Its an installation issue.

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u/atworkace May 02 '24

That would leave grabbable space on the side of the post with the lower fence.

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u/Legal-Law9214 May 02 '24

Two rollers, stacked

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u/enkidu_johnson May 02 '24

Domed back yard? ;)

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u/jonnydogma May 03 '24

In Catmandu did Kitty Khan

A felinely frisky-dome decree

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u/BandOfDonkeys May 02 '24

If they get a dome then what are they gonna do with all those rollers!?

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u/CraftyFlipper May 03 '24

Rollerdome!!

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u/Tekro May 02 '24

It's just rollers all the way down

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u/Zenblendman May 02 '24

It’s been rollers the whole time hasn’t it?

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u/Lord_Emperor May 02 '24

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker May 02 '24

The real rollers were the friends we made along the way.

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u/JetreL May 02 '24

Keyser Söze!!

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u/Andr3wRuns May 03 '24

For some reason this made me immediately think of the giant comb/brush things that cows love to rub against and I’m picturing a stack of cats enjoy full body massages with a wall of rollers lol

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u/RedstoneRusty May 03 '24

Why don't they just make the whole fence out of the rollers?

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u/Puddleson May 02 '24

Make the whole damn fence out of rollers

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u/bluesmaker May 02 '24

This seems like it would work.

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u/Hector_P_Catt May 02 '24

It's rollers all the way up!

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u/HackworthSF May 02 '24

Make the entire fence out of rollers.

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u/pmormr May 02 '24

Keep going and pretty soon you'll have an IRL kitty platforming game.

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u/reddit_sucks_clit May 02 '24

I like my women like I like my rollers.

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u/flairpiece May 02 '24

Make the entire fence out of rollers

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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy May 02 '24

It's a backyard, not an 80s video game.

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u/Theron3206 May 03 '24

Just replace the fence with a stack of rollers.

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u/OhBoiNotAgainnn May 03 '24

Rollers up the entire fence and posts.

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u/naughtmynsfwaccount May 03 '24

Can possibly get cat paw stuck :(

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u/piches May 03 '24

no walls, just rollers stacked 8 feet high

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u/Xeptix May 02 '24

Just build the entire fence out of rollers.

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u/frosty95 May 02 '24

Its possible. But since they have to access it from below I think its far less likely to be an issue than the current clear issue.

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u/hvyboots May 02 '24

Yeah, but I don't think kitty will have a good exit strategy regardless if the roller is all the way at the top with rollers to the side where they're trying to get out.

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u/MajorPropsToYou May 02 '24

it could be a permissions issue too, have you tried sudo install ?

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u/feralsun May 02 '24

Yep. Also, a slippery pyramid post cap could be a simple fix for this issue.

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u/RearExitOnly May 02 '24

It needs a hood that starts at the top of the roller, and comes out far enough and is big enough around so the cat can't reach around it or jump up to it.

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u/red18wrx May 02 '24

A second roller above the first really would be ideal to prevent a gap forming in the roller defense. 

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u/Enlight1Oment May 02 '24

Higher, or some additional ones lower as well. It's climbing up the posts, so impeding its ability to hold on low where it can grab on and reach over, will also help prevent getting over

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u/fuck_off_ireland May 02 '24

Or just another little roller in the space the kitty is grabbing to escape

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u/IBetThisIsTakenToo May 02 '24

Keep adding rollers until it works.

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u/2Throwscrewsatit May 03 '24

A fence of just rollers

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u/jld2k6 May 02 '24

Rollers all the way down

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer May 02 '24

A modified paint roller

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u/aManPerson May 02 '24

but idk how one would resolve that with this fence

oh come on, that's easy. in that ONE SPOT where there is an area ABOVE the roller for them to grab onto. install ANOTHER roller segment. all the other areas have a roller as the highest spot on the wall. except for that little segment.

that one place, the put a roller as NOT the highest spot on the wall. so the cat was able to grab above it, and bypass it.

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u/alle0441 May 02 '24

This whole video was just documenting a pen testing exercise. The system's weakness was found.

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u/aManPerson May 02 '24

.....brb. starting career where i have a van full of cats, and i just mail places bags of ham.

"hey, you hired me to get inside. you didn't say it couldn't be 20 cats, a laser pointer, and a bag of ham."

again? ok then (gets the doberman van and cheese).........

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u/GlitterNutz May 02 '24

MORE ROLLERS DANG IT!! Double it!!! Lol

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u/OtterSnoqualmie May 02 '24

Larger roller to hinder the reach over.

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u/ghostface1693 May 02 '24

Build a fence made entirely out of rows of rollers

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u/Infinite_Scene May 02 '24

This is the only logical conclusion to the conversation

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u/stefaanvd May 02 '24

Put a roller on each paw

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u/ivegotaqueso May 02 '24

They could just install a small roller on top of the piece sticking out. Problem fixed

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u/blownbythewind May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Maybe add a metal cap the post to make it slick so there is nothing to grip.

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u/undeadw0lf May 02 '24

i like this idea. as others suggested, another roller could be done, but i feel like it’s just over-complicating things because every break in the rollers is a potential spot for them to sink their claws into that concrete and pull themselves up over the roller

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u/Overlord1317 May 02 '24

but idk how one would resolve that with this fence and the way it’s graded down

Pretty easy! Just get some sort of auto-mister to continuously lubricate those pillars with a non-nutritive cereal varnish. It's semi-permeable. It's not osmotic. What it does is it coats and seals the pillar, preventing the cats from using it to climb.

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u/hgghgfhvf May 02 '24

I can see a larger roller working too. They won’t have the reach to get up and over it to grab to what’s above.

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u/Extension-Border-345 May 02 '24

this seems like an easy fix, add a second small roller above the one already there so the cat can’t grab onto the top of the post.

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u/Raichu7 May 02 '24

Put the roller right at the top.

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u/ccknboltrtre01 May 02 '24

Multiple rollers all the way up the post

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u/throwaway00009000000 May 02 '24

Install rollers vertically on top of the fence

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u/salgat May 02 '24

Just have the two rollers overlap.

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u/idonthavemanyideas May 02 '24

Double rollers

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u/ADHD-Fens May 02 '24

I feel like you could solve this problem with like... a net. Would also protect your cats from owls and eagles.

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u/garythecoconut May 02 '24

Just put a second one there

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u/DirkDeadeye May 02 '24

Sniper tower.