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Who has stairs and cats (baby gate question)?

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We have a house with stairs and so need baby gates. The complication is we have cats that need to travel freely from level to level. I know there are no baby gates made with pet doors (due to obvious liability issue with kids potentially being able to get through the pet door). However, we need to go this route for the cats. We bought one of these types of pet gates from Amazon, and I just don't like it - the opening is too small and the door doesn't open enough to make going through easy. This seems to be the only gate I can find online! Any leads on other options?
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    manalouisemanalouise member

    Unfortunately we're in the same boat. The cat just meows at it and we have to lift her over it and then back again when she's done in the basement. I wish I had better advice!

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    lilsquirt75lilsquirt75 member
    What we did is raise the gate up so the cats can crawl under to get where they need to go.  Even the fatest of cats don't need much space and your baby can't get through it.
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    shaunah816shaunah816 member
    Have you tried seeing if your cats will jump over them? Long before I had babies, we used baby gates around the house to keep the puppy/dog out of places we didn't want him (the cat litter, for example), and the cats always hopped over the gates with no t
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    elamplelampl member
    My sister would keep the baby gates just enough off the floor so that the cats could squeak through at the bottom (it's amazing how small of an area cats can get through).  It was small enough that her baby(ies) couldn't get through. 

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    steverstever member

    Our old place had stairs and we had a gate with a cat shaped hole in it.

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    My sister would keep the baby gates just enough off the floor so that the cats could squeak through at the bottom (it'
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    Our old place had stairs and we had a gate with a cat shaped hole in it.

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    bigbootyjudibigbootyjudi member

    Cats can jump over baby gates. They'll be fine.

    We have one gate and both of my cats took a whole five minutes of examining it before they figured out how to get over it.

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    imagebigbootyjudi:

    Cats can jump over baby gates. They'll be fine.

    We have one gate and both of my cats took a whole five min

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    Emmy323Emmy323
    imagebigbootyjudi:

    Cats can jump over baby gates. They'll be fine.

    We have one gate and both of my cats took a whole five min

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    opaque1997opaque1997 member
    We have this issue and we are hoping the cats just learn to figure it out - but we also are putting a cat box on each floor just in case.  I'd be VERY careful in putting the gate above the floor if its top of the stiars.. I remember reading something
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    DollEriDollEri
    we bought a fence and are fencing off a play area for DD instead of gating. Our basement stairs have a door on them with a cat door cut out of it, so that's fine, and she won't be playing upstairs (it's just our bedroom up there), so until she can climb t
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    pixiqueen79pixiqueen79 member
    W got the kinds of baby gates the you press into the doorway.. the cheap kind with the plastice mesh and then cut some of the mesh out for the cat to fit thru but it isn't big enough for baby to squeeze thru.
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