Tearing up Blinds

My Stinkpot does the same thing...weaves through the blinds if they are closed and then I find him sitting in the window completely on the otherside of them. But it's only natural that they want to look outside, so now we keep the blinds open on a couple of the window almost all the time during the daytime.  If you are really opposed to people looking in, can you get some window tinting that makes your windows look like mirrors from the outside but doesn't really change the appearance from the inside?  It can also help keep the heat and cold out, so depending on where you live, can save you some electricity!

 

 

This is something cats do, part of living wiith kitties. I just buy cheap blinds and replace them often.

 

Both of our kitties LOVE open windows. I tend to open the dining room or bedroom window in the morning -- but when we are up, we open the living room windows for them. Most times, it is very hard to see inside someones house with the blinds open, unless of course it is evening and the lights are on.

A few years ago, the 3 cats I had would constantly peak through the slats on the mini blinds. This would break parts off. The funny thing was I kept them completely open during the day. It was only at night that I shut them. They still wanted to look out.

 

Mia ( my kitten now, 6 months old) loves looking out the window. I keep the mini blinds up during the day just for her. At night I close them and thankfully (so far) she doesnt bother them them or even try to get behind them. This is a first for me. I figure no one can see in during the day. The reason I open them up ALL the way is it is easier for her to see birds, insects, etc.

 

Cats, gotta love them!!!  :)

Find one window that they like and park a bird feeder outside it.  Only leave those blinds up and see if that helps.  Perhaps the entertainment outside the window will keep them occupied and away from the blinds in the other windows.  I leave all my blinds up about 3" or so and one set of blinds in one room up about 12" for my kitties.  That way they can duck under the others without going through the blinds.

I keep curtains on most of mine. That way they can just part them and get behind them. The windows that have to have blinds- we keep the bottom away from the window. Like a triangle if that makes sense. My cats see the opening and walk around them instead of through them. So they get to sit on the other side of blinds. And you still get great privacy.

Put up cat shelves, and "tsst" them when you catch them getting behind the blinds instead, up to squirting their butts with water or clapping loudly behind them, but praise them while using their appropriate perches to see.   Worked for Buttercup, who kept getting behind the blinds.   Worst case scenario, its also relatively simple to apply privacy "tint" to a lower part of a window so they can't see out of it anyway.   You just clean the window, use a misting squirt bottle with a tiny bit of dawn soap mixed in, thoroughly spray the tint sheet as well as the window, apply it and float it into place, and then use a credit card or other squeegee device to remove excess water and bubbles.  

I have floor to ceiling windows and all my cats LOVE to watch the going's on outside. I don't even use blinds although we back up to woods so I don't worry about people looking in. I just do not use blinds at all. My cat's have access to view the outdoors day or night. What ever makes my cat's happy, makes me happy and if that means living without blinds, then so be it

Wood blinds are much more durable. Yes, the upfront costs are more but you will replace them less often.

And, we also open the blinds high enough that they can sit up in the window.

I think those basic thin plastic mini blinds are the scorn of all cat owners, especially those who have kittens or cats that like to cause trouble (get into things.)  My parents have a sliding glass door at the house they're moving from with those long ceiling to floor vertical blinds made out of a hard "durable" plastic. They switched over from vertical blinds that were made from cloth because trying to keep them clean of cat hair was impossible. We thought that the hard plastic would last longer....we thought...we hoped.   The blinds themselves lasted...however they could not withstand Yoda pulling down on them with all of his strength from the top of the cat tree so they would always fall down.  Yoda of course as strength in his upper body the equilvent of Mr.Universe Strong Man competitor because when he was younger he had broken both of his hips (with in a week and a half from each other) so he pulled himself around using just his front legs which in turn gave him some serious upper body strength. Even now, if he wants to move a foot or two he prefers to pull himself with his front legs and when he scratches on the cat tree he just hangs from it.  So that being said, I don't think much could survive Yoda if he had his mind set on destroying it.  Luckily he's lazy...and not the brightest crayon in the box so most destruction is unintended and few and far between.

 

Chacho gets into our plastic mini blinds if we don't have them pulled up enough that he can sit and have uninterrupted veiw of outside. We close them at night and he tends to leave them alone...however sometimes in the morning when I come home from work I'll see a bent blind in the window but from Matt has told me, Chacho tends to wait for me when its about time for me to come home, so that bent blind is probably from him looking out the window for me. I think the previous tenent of our unit had a cat too that also got into the blinds because all the blinds had signs of being bent even before we got Chacho. The blinds in the secon bedroom especially, someone had to reinforce a blind with clear tape.

LOL that is my smokie & bandit- I have replaced sooo many sets of mini blinds in 2 years!

 

Only solution I have found is to cater. They are my babies, and as I have stated in previous posts... I cater and I make sacrifices.

 

Baby needs the blinds open-- Mommy opens them and makes sure not to do anything private in front of the window.

 

baby needs the window open when its cold outside-- mommy obliges and covers with blankets :)

Ahh I'm not the only one Lol! my 2yo cat Oscar is a blind destroyer. I live in an apartment with the cheap plastic horizontal blinds. I hate them really. He has chewed t them to some extent in all rooms except my bird room as he in only allowed in there when I'm in there. My bedroom blinds are the worst. I've actually taken the spares from the bottom and ran them through where he has really damaged the middle ones. During the day I keep the kitchen and bedroom blinds up half way, it is at night and early morning that he is most destructive. I've actually put cans and containers on the ledge of the kitchen window so he can't get up there or else the stuff will fall and scare him. I eventually will have to replace the blinds. I kinda want to get vertical as then he could just part them when looking outside. I also want curtains which I think I'm going to get next payday.

We forgo blinds and use curtains - sheers during the day for privacy, and draw drapes for evenings/nights in the room where we don't make a habit of closing the shutters.