Leos With Other Pets?

[fallen_angel]

That's what I have. I just don't put a lock in it. A paperclip would probably work though if it's bent. Keeping the cat out of the room is a lot less stressful. I don't have to worry about her breaking the screen with her glutenous mass if she sits on top of it.

that's hilarious, we have three gluttenous masses ourselves, more love to go around!

 

[fallen_angel]

You also have to be careful of how smart a cat is. Mine has learned how to open the lids that slide to lock into place. I just keep my cat out of the room where the geckos are. What I've noticed with her is she cares more about the crickets in the tank than the geckos themselves. She once came in the room when i had one of the floor. She tapped it with her paw (didn't use claws thank god) out of curiosity before I could shoo her away. The gecko hissed at her and she ran off. Ever since then she's been afraid of that gecko and that gecko only.

A similar story happened to us. We had just bought a set of plastic drawers for our hatchlings, and had placed our one and only hatchling at the time into his new home. I realized that there was enough space for him to possibly climb out of the drawer, but as I was trying to solve the problem, I went to take care of something else, thinking he wouldn't get too curious (he had just hatched). A few minutes later, my husband was yelling from the reptile room. The hatchling had already climbed out, fell to the floor, and one of our cats already had a paw on him (without claws, thank god). We shooed her away and put him into the biggest drawer we had, but it was the scariest thing ever! Poor little guy made it out just fine, though, with his tail, thank goodness. We have a totally different set of drawers now.

 

[acpart]

The only problem with those cages where the lid slides out is that if you keep it against a wall and can only access it from the front (not the sides), you have to reach over the slid out top to get into the cage. I'm too short to do that easily. When I got my beardie, she was in a 55 gallon with a slide-out top and I had to replace it so I could get to her.

Aliza

 

[BettaDragon]

The only problem with those cages where the lid slides out is that if you keep it against a wall and can only access it from the front (not the sides), you have to reach over the slid out top to get into the cage. I'm too short to do that easily. When I got my beardie, she was in a 55 gallon with a slide-out top and I had to replace it so I could get to her.

Aliza

Yeah that's true. I get a horrible back ache if I mess around in that tank for too long.

 

[david13]

I was getting my leos some water and left the top off of my 40. gal ( the top is prolly 2.5-3ft in the air) and when i came back the cat was inside the tank, luckily he was only in there for like 15-30 secs and my leos were all in there hides

 

[MagPie]

I've had a problem only with a room mate's cat breaking into a tank which held a snake. I actually use that tank for a gecko. But the room mate's cat had gotten on top of the screen and caved it in. Luckily the snake was ok ... he was cruising around my closet. Good thing he was bright orange. Anyway my cat was a kitten at the time and still has no interests in getting on the tanks. The room mate cat tho, I hated that cat, did not learn a thing.

Its been a long time since I've lived with that room mate tho. I have two cats, a siamese (the kitten I mentioned) who is 5 and a tabby who is 2. The siamese will leave them alone when they are in the tank but stares at them when they are out. Did bat one, without claws, but I don't think the gecko even noticed. The tabby I think is scared of them. But he's also a little dumb.

 

[LadyGecko]

I have made homemade tops out of pegboard for some of my aquariums-I use a 1 x 3 to make a rail under the piece of pegboard to keep it securely on the tank
That way I don't have to worry about cats opening the lid or pushing through the screen tops when laying on the top of them

I have also found that cats DO NOT like to walk on the flat egg crates-the type that people use for insects
I get some of those and place them on the top of my screen tops and the cats rarely try and sit on them
You HAVE to be creative when dealing with cats and reptiles
:main_yes:

There is NO Way that I can walk away from a tank with my small lizards and leave the top open-even for a minute
My tubs all have lids snapped firmly on them in the rack with ventilation holes in the front/sides

It's a pain to re-open the tanks when you are going feed and to fill water dishes etc.-I try and have everything ready and open the lids once and just be done with it-lol
Doubles of water dishes etc. really help with that

Sandy