Purr...fect Fence Testimonials - North Region

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Joanne Dalton – Albuquerque, NM

The fence is WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!! This has really been the answer to my dilemma... I put cat door out of glass sunroom and they are free to come and go. It’s Great!!!

Tom and Shari – Wisconsin

I'm sure you have probably seen enough kitty pictures to last you a lifetime, but I just wanted to show you how happy "the boys" are with their new backyard. You've heard the expression "as happy as a pig in mud"; well, this is as happy as a cat in dirt!

Feeling safe enough to tuck the paws - that says a lot!

Oh joy! ANOTHER table for me to raid! Dad made salmon on the grill just for me!

Outdoor baths are the BEST!

(I don't fill the bird feeders any more, by the way - it turns out Dudley here is a pretty good hunter despite having been front declawed before we got him)

I know you hear it all the time, but this fence is just FANTASTIC. The summers here in Wisconsin are so short; it was killing me that my kitties could only enjoy the rare good weather while plastered up against the screens, meowing from inside the house. My husband and I are actually using the backyard more now that the boys can enjoy it too. I'm more inspired to improve the landscaping and gardening so that they will have something nicer than dirt to play in out there. (I have researched which plants are toxic to cats and amazingly, had none of them growing in my yard. Going forward, I will only plant varieties that are cat-safe.) The kitties are discovering skills they didn't know they had, mostly the ability to catch something besides glitter balls. Within the first hour of being out, my chubby 4 year old Sammy (the orange one) had caught TWO voles in the backyard! Who knew? Dudley, who is 10 years young and in great shape, spent the most time pacing in front of the fence trying to jump out, but after half a day he gave up. (While we were finishing the fence the first day, we forgot about a gap in the wooden fence near the patio, and he wasted no time sneaking out, going over to the neighbor's yard, and catching himself a baby bunny! I was stunned, since he's been an indoor kitty all his life and has no front claws.) Now that he can't get out, I feel so much better knowing that they won't be able to hurt any other animals. I think the voles caught on that there are wild jungle animals in the yard now, because we haven't seen any since that first incident, and I have not seen any of the usual chipmunks, so the word is out on the street, so to speak. I put a cat door in a window facing the patio, so they can come and go as they please, and they do! I saw them out this morning at 5:30, in the dewy grass, looking as contented as kitties can be.

I would like potential customers to know that this was surprisingly easy to install. My husband and I are in our late 40's, NOT particularly handy, and I'm a short, chubby little thing with arthritic knees, but we had the whole thing done over a 3-day weekend. It was a pretty straightforward installation of 200 feet with both a 3 and 5 foot access gate, except for a very tricky side of the yard behind the large stand of arbor vitaes. Half of the shrubs hung over the lot line so far that when we tried to lay the fence out straight, it looked like the shrubs were trapped in a hair net. I didn't want to cut perfectly good branches and liked the privacy they provide, so we did some creative snipping and cable tie-ing to allow those longer branches to go through the fence which I took to calling "Frankenfence". You sure couldn't do that with any other fencing material, which is another reason to LOVE the Purr…fect Fence. Our 5 foot gate turned out to be on a bit of a slope, but we made it work by adjusting the bottom threshold, and straying from the installation instructions by cutting separate pieces of fence material to put on the doors, so that the material wouldn't be on a slant. We found that pinning a bag of cable ties to the front of our shirts like a "quiver" made attaching the hundreds of cable ties MUCH faster, and we also pinned the empty bags on as a place to put all the "tails" we cut off. The cost of the zip tie puller would be WELL worth it; I didn't need to order one because my husband works with wiring and was able to borrow one from his employer.

Thanks again for a WONDERFUL product!

Keith & Elaine Rahn – Sullivan, Wisconsin

The Purr…fect fencing for cats has been the product that does what it advertises. We were looking for two things for our cats. Give them an area outside to play in and keep them safe. Being out in the country, speed limits are 45-55mph. Cats many times are simply too inquisitive for their own good. We wanted an area where we could feel comfortable in leaving them outside without the worry of them escaping into danger. The Purr…fect fencing system has met that need in a way that goes to the next level. It is aesthetically pleasing as well.

The installation took work but was much easier than I had anticipated. We put in 4 kits (400 feet). The posts are the foundation of any fencing system and this install was easy to set the posts and easy to plumb the posts. The fencing material itself went up well and the arched tops were great. Our cats look but never test the fence. We have a horse pasture directly behind the cat enclose and we can still enjoy the view of the horses.

Hollida Wakefield Underwager, Northfield, Minnesota

For nearly 30 years my cats lived happily as indoor-outdoor cats on my place five miles out of town in the country. It was an ideal existence for them. My land borders a river and a wilderness area and they were far from a major road and cars. But one week in the fall of 2003 two of the cats suddenly disappeared. I looked for them and called them until my neighbor told me that a pack of coyotes had moved into our area. I confined the remaining cats to the house while I tried to find a solution other than making them indoor-only cats. The cats continually tried to get outside during this time. Click here for complete story...

Jean Wynieski

I rescued a mother cat & her three babies about 4 yrs. ago. Since we already had six cats in the house, I decided to have a shed built for these four, and to use a KittyWalk so they could go outside. Well, the KittyWalk worked alright, even though the cats were very limited in where they could go outside because the KittyWalk wasn't very large. But it served its purpose until this year, when the cotton netting started to unravel, and Max got out twice, and Scratch (his little sister) got out once. We live on a four-lane state route which gets busy for parts of the day, and I was afraid if they got out again, they might go in the road and get hit. So I started checking in my Cat Fancy magazines for something else, and found Purr…fect Fence. I ordered it and a gate, and my brother-in-law and I installed it a few weeks ago.

In the few weeks the Purr…fect Fence has been up, my four kitties really enjoy it. They can eat grass, lounge on the chair, or just lie on the grass. I've always gone out & visited with them everyday for about two hours. Now, I spend part of the time in the Purr…fect Fence and part in the shed. They hardly come inside anymore. I feel better knowing they're protected by this fence because we have raccoons, stray cats, and other animals around there. I think they're more relaxed having a larger area to play outside. Scratch used to go out and pace back and forth like we've all seen images of caged animals doing, and I was concerned she was starting to be bored, so I had to do something.

My cats and I thank you for this great product.

Lisa Johnson-Wilburn, Steve Wilburn, Colfax, IL 61728

Since installing Benner's Purr...Fect Fence, we have peace of mind knowing our cats are safe being outside. Safe in their own yard; safe from getting hit by a car or Grain Truck, safe from ornery neighborhood kids, safe from other stray cats, and safe from Animal Control. Many of our cats are rescues and former feral cats who prefer to be outside. And as our home filled up with more rescues and ferals, the more we needed to provide them a safe outdoor environment to escape to for their peace of mind as much as ours! We ran into several "site specific challenges" Matt mentioned in the installation video, but we worked them out and couldn't be happier with the finished product! THANK YOU!

Sally and Jeff Hutchins, Ashley ,Ohio

"We really do like the fence. It gives our cat the freedom to be outside although we still do not let her out when one of us is not home. While we are home, she is out all the time.

We had an invisible fence before we saw your fence in the Cat Fancy Magazine. The invisible fence worked but she was confined to an area and had to wear a collar which would shock her if she got too close to the area outside the fence.

With your fence, she does not have to wear the collar and we do not have to worry about her being zapped by the invisible fence . This is GREAT ! We have told several people about your fence and how it has worked for us and for Sassy.

Thanks again! "

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