New house

Sponge_Cake

I’m really upset, we have just bought a house in a new area. It’s about 20 mins from our old area. My cat is an outdoor cat most of the time.
When we came to look around the house, it was very quiet and the road seemed fine. A few cars, but nothing major. Since being here, I’ve spoken to the neighbours and apparently no one has cats on this road because they get killed. At least 4 have been killed from these houses so far. If I’d have known that previously, I wouldn’t have bought the house. As it is, we have just bought it.
The traffic comes along in groups and at quite a speed, especially at the corners.
We have a nice back yard with lots of hills surrounding us. I’m hoping she’ll stay out the back and not go round the front to the road.
Any ideas what I can do about this situation?
I don’t want to keep her indoors and the back yard is too small to build a catio area - one of those big cage things you keep cats in outside.
She’s very street wise as we got her from a rescue centre and she was originally found as a stray. She’s got good sense.

SensibleSarah

Have you thought about cat-proofing the garden/yard you do have?
There are a couple of different options:
https://www.katzecure.com/
http://www.secur-a-cat.com/contact
Or if you're quite handy, you can definitely DIY it.

Good luck!

SeaVixen

Bit of an old thread, but would be interested to know how you got on if you're still around OP?