The first real Flat Cat cost me around £75 in materials alone and, as you would guess, I didnt have much use for all the surplus materials that I had been forced to purchase. Even when I had settled on the materials to use I discovered that buying small quantities was nearly as hard as finding the materials in the first place. It eventually took 3 years and many different prototypes to finally come up with Flat Cats. I managed to make some of these work but with UPVC windows the problem I kept coming back to was that in order to make any of these prototypes really effective I would have to drill holes in the window frames, and I really didn't want to do that. I tried everything from plastic garden mesh (simply because it was available off the roll at the garden centre) to pvc coated wire mesh, again available from the garden centre. The problem I had was that no matter what I thought of, getting hold of the materials to make it was a real problem. Over the next few months I tried a number of different things to achieve the result I needed. Eventually hot and frustrated I decided that there must be another way. I know cats have excellent balance but I was just terrified about them falling so rather than run the risk I only opened the windows a crack to try and let some air in and to keep the cats from getting out. Okay, I'm a little paranoid about the safety of my cats. The problem was that if I opened the windows, the Cats were in a straight line and threatened to take a walk along the edge of the window. Unfortunately, my desk met exactly with the window sill and the cats loved to lie down and sunbathe on the desk while I was working.
In the summer, the room warmed up a lot and, with my computers producing even more heat, I really needed to open the windows. When I was living in London, I used a bedroom for my office and the room was facing south. Getting hot and bothered in my home Office
For many years I worked from an office at home and my cats (Wilfred and Suzie) simply insisted on being in the same room as me, although they had the run of the whole house! Hi, I'm Dominic Parker, the inventor of Flat Cats.
I needed an effective way to keep the cats safe but allow me to open the windows and not to worry - so, I invented Flat Cats" - Dom Parker - Inventor of Flat Cats
"I have owned cats for many years - Call me a worrier but I was always terrified about opening windows upstairs in case the cats walked out onto the window sill.
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