>From:    Heather <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Please help my couch...
>
>I am curious if anyone has any advice on how to keep the fuzzbuts from
>getting inside and destroying my couch.  My last one sat directly on the
>floor and we didn't have any trouble...this one does not.  The boys are
>well on their way tearing out the bottom.  This concerns me because of
>the foam and staples that are inside.
 
Sounds to me like you are ready to make a trip to Lowe's or Home Depot.
My couch has short little legs about 2.5 inches long.  I got some half
inch wood, 1.75 inches wide, and cut it and screwed it to the legs so it
makes a sort of box under the couch and keeps the furkids out.  If your
legs are too long for that to work, get some window screen and staple it
to the bottom of the couch.
 
>Also... I have a gas heater that sits on a brick semi-circle in the corner
>of my living room.  Right now we use a large piece of cardboard to keep
>them from getting up to the brick.  This works fine when it is warm
>outside because we can leave it up all the time.  It is fixing to get
>cold and I would really like to find something that I can leave up in the
>winter when we are using the heat.  Right now I don't have any other rooms
>that I can let them play in (we live with in-laws) So any ideas would be
>greatly appreciated.
 
My gas heater sits in a cubbyhole.  I got some hardware cloth (in case
you don't know, that is a screen wire with holes 1/2 inch square in it)
and covered the entrance to the cubby.  In your case, it sounds like you'd
do better forming the hardware cloth into a cylendar around your heater.
You and they can see the heater and the heat can get out, but the fuzzys
can't get in.
 
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[Posted in FML issue 3582]