Keeping cats away from fragile items
Owners worry about cats reaching high shelves containing valuable items and fragile collectibles.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Moving delicate items to closed curios or china cabinets with glass doors.
- 2Securing items to shelves using Museum Putty.
- 3Placing cheap, clean upside-down fish tanks over the miniatures to act as an acrylic showcase.
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I just got this new little blessing a couple weeks ago and in her explorations has discovered she really likes the top of the kitchen cabinets. Unfortunately this is where my gf keeps her (expensive)prized dragon minis and I dont want our little bundle of joy knocking them off(on purpose or)accidentally.”source ↗
“I don't want to put foil up there cause she's not gonna see it til she jumps up and likely obliterate one or more minis”source ↗
“Yeah I’ve used it on a book shelf for some little trinkets cause he slinks among those and it’s worked out great”source ↗
“you will find your expensive dolls on the floor really soon”source ↗
Where this came up
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