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So I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, but I figure it's honestly the best place for it. So I have a very sweet, very lovable tortoiseshell named Venus. She's a big ball of love, but she is also incredibly mischievous. This cat can open ANYTHING. She knows how to open all manners of cupboards, closets, drawers, and even some containers. I have a window unit in my HIGH RISE apartment, and she even managed to the get little accordion screens that seal the gap in the window open and was trying to climb onto the outside of the window unit, this darn cat!
I've gotten most things to the point where they are "cat proofed" except my two hallway closets. All doors in my apartment are a little weird - essentially, they have a door handle, but they do not have a hole in the doorframe for the little latch of the doorknob to latch into essentially making it so you can just push the door open whenever you want with extreme ease. The issue is, I have no idea how to cat proof these things - the most anyone has been able to suggest is door stops, but since door stops sit on the floor on the outside of the door, I am almost certain Venus would be able to pry those out and be able to open the door as she does already. I REALLY don't want her to be able to open those closets because A. it's just annoying that when she does, she grabs all my blankets and things and throws them on the ground, and B. One of these closets does have heavy stuff in it, and I would hate for it to fall on her and hurt her while I'm away.
Does anyone know any no damage (or at least little damage) ways of being able to make it so these closets stay shut? There has to be some child proof thing out there for instances like this, where you have doors that can be easily opened. I can't drill large holes sadly, though small ones are fine. My apartment has also already explained to me they do not want to put a hole in the door frame for the latch to latch into, so that's out of the question.
Heeelllppp!!!
So I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, but I figure it's honestly the best place for it. So I have a very sweet, very lovable tortoiseshell named Venus. She's a big ball of love, but she is also incredibly mischievous. This cat can open ANYTHING. She knows how to open all manners of cupboards, closets, drawers, and even some containers. I have a window unit in my HIGH RISE apartment, and she even managed to the get little accordion screens that seal the gap in the window open and was trying to climb onto the outside of the window unit, this darn cat!
I've gotten most things to the point where they are "cat proofed" except my two hallway closets. All doors in my apartment are a little weird - essentially, they have a door handle, but they do not have a hole in the doorframe for the little latch of the doorknob to latch into essentially making it so you can just push the door open whenever you want with extreme ease. The issue is, I have no idea how to cat proof these things - the most anyone has been able to suggest is door stops, but since door stops sit on the floor on the outside of the door, I am almost certain Venus would be able to pry those out and be able to open the door as she does already. I REALLY don't want her to be able to open those closets because A. it's just annoying that when she does, she grabs all my blankets and things and throws them on the ground, and B. One of these closets does have heavy stuff in it, and I would hate for it to fall on her and hurt her while I'm away.
Does anyone know any no damage (or at least little damage) ways of being able to make it so these closets stay shut? There has to be some child proof thing out there for instances like this, where you have doors that can be easily opened. I can't drill large holes sadly, though small ones are fine. My apartment has also already explained to me they do not want to put a hole in the door frame for the latch to latch into, so that's out of the question.
Heeelllppp!!!