A bit of advice needed.

Our alarm system was installed prior to getting our cats so are ordinary ones. With the alarm system in place the cats have access to the kitchen, the bathroom, the hallway and my son's bedroom. They do tend to sleep most of the day (observed when we are home), after their morning's play.

I want to put an additional pet sensor in the hallway and turn the front room one off when the cats are in the flat. This will then give them the front room as additional space. However, the lady I spoke to said that they may set the alarm off anyway if they jump higher than 1m. Now, they do tend to chase each other and run randomly, but usually only in the hallway when the front room is out of bounds. Otherwise they reserve their jumping to the cat tree/sofa/chairs etc.

So my questions are;

1. As things currently stand, do you think the space is really limited for them? i.e. access to 3 rooms+hallway

2. For those with Pet sensors, do your cats set them off a lot?

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Can it not just be set up with contact sensors on all the windows and doors?

Before Abby came along, Oscar & Merson had access to a hallway that included stairs, the kitchen, bathroom and the dining room. The latter because of the layout of the house. They are both full-grown big cats and this was plenty of space for them. Their cat tree is also in the dining room.

Since Abby has come along, I now allow them all to access the front & back bedrooms so that they can all get 'space' away from each other as the boys are still wary of Abby being around.

So I don't think your two will feel claustraphobic anytime soon especially as they are still little and everything to them is still massive!

Unfortunately, I can't offer any advice or info on your security system.

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We have those as well but we need at least two motion sensors as well. This system was set up as a policy condition by our insurance company after we were burgled by the nutters next door.

If it makes sense, I feel claustrophobic and restricted that it is not my choice but being enforced on us through no fault of our own. Maybe I just think the kittens will feel the same way.

MB - the cat tree is too big to be moved elsewhere, so I feel bad they have no access to it when we are not there.

Oh, tis a day of feeling bad....

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Can't offer advice on Alarm but when left my cats have hallway kitchen and bedroom but they tend to just sleep and I don't feel that it restricts them at all and if they are going to wreak havoc and damage anything then they will do it in the sitting room which is another reason to keep it off limits to them, so I would imagine that your kitties are fine with what they have got.

I dont know anything about internal security systems but re a clause in your insurance policy how will motion detectors be of any benefit if all doors/windows are monitored by your alarm system.Surely if the doors/windows are not triggered internal motion sensors will not be triggered by an intruder.As for the space that they have ,I dont think this sounds restrictive ,I'm sure there are many not given full freedom when their slaves are not around.

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I have no idea what goes on in the minds of the underwriters, but I had to send them a full spec before installing the original system where they specified what they wanted.

When I asked before getting the kittens if I could simply disable the one in the front room, this was denied, as they said they required at least two motion sensors inside the property, so I opted for a pet sensor one which again had to be sent to them for approval.

It seems as if the space the kittens are getting is in line with what others have provided to their indoor cats, so maybe the 3 rooms+hallways they have is enough. They also have the kitchen and bedroom windows to look out of so maybe that is enough for now and I can review it again in the future when they grow bigger.

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Our alarm was designed so that my three are limited to the kitchen (very large by modern standards), pantry and a sort of lobby area, where their litter tray is. They are quite happy and tend to sleep when we aren't in. They also get put in there at night, because, lovely as it sounds to have them sleep on the bed with us, we tried it for a few weeks and they start bouncing about, chase each other and we never get any sleep. My husband is retired, so there is someone at home most of the time now.

I didn't realise you could get pet sensors, its about 15 years since this alarm was installed and no one suggested it then. However, with two Burmese who spend much of their time jumping around on the tops of the kitchen cabinets, 1 metre wouldn't be of much use!! By tops, I don't mean worktops either, I mean the very tops of the cupboards, which in this house (a Victorian one with high ceilings) is about 13 ft high.

Hmmm nutty neighbours! Cant really say anything more on that one but our alarm in our old house also used to be door and window sensored and also each room which you could de-program so to allow wandering by cats in specific areas - but then we never had nutty neighbours only curtain twitchers

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One day i'll learn where the spellcheck is on my phone, so sorry for any mistakes

we've got pet sensors and occasionally the alarm had gone off due to no apparent reason and we'd assumed it was the cats [was happening more when the wegies came, rather than when we just had persians]. What we've found though is make sure that there is a door stop underneath the door in the kitchen [the sensor is above the door]. Since we've done this its not gone off at all. Think they were were playing and moving the door.