Strange you should comment on that..... Our first time out with the new MH about 2 days into the trip I noticed the indicator on the black tank getting ... Well,,, Full. so we closed up and moved to the dump-a-torium... Upon our return my wife put the slides out w/o checking for cat... Suddenly one of our cats was gone. could not find him..... Eventually I had to return home for a few minutes, but then it was back to the campground, While I'm at home my wife called to ask where the compartment keys were (Basement storage bays) and I told her they were unlocked,,, She had heard a MEOW... Well , after I got back from my meeting and went to bed we again heard MEOW, and my ears, tinnatitus and all, being sharper than hers ever were, I nailed the altitude, cat was under the bed.... caught in the slide (Seems there was enough room for him there w/o damage) I had wife bring me the key for the power switch, brought the slides in and the cat made a sudden appearance... Under the OTHER bed (We had a guest that night) the one that folds up into a couch.
Now.. Remember the wife is the one who trapped the cat.... I'm the one who figured it out and rescued the cat, So who does the cat run to... You guessed it,, the wife.
Now we have a new plan... Double plan in fact.
Part 1 is CLOSE THE STUPID DOOR and put a baby gate in front of it as well... This keeps the cat out of the bedroom (though it won't stop the other cat when we are putting out the slides, but she is not an under-bed cat)
Part two is a "Cat House" Now, 1: This thing set me back over 200 dollars (way more expensive than I anticipated) 2 It's nice
I made it out of plastic "Tuff Built" lattice fence from Home Depot, The smaller lattace (the larger one I suspected the cats can get through) and hinges and one 1x1 board (Center support rib for the lid) there are five sides
The assembled cage is 4'high, 3'deep and about 5'long, fits over the dining table and chairs (We choose table, not booth) This is, itself, a slide out, but the cats are contained entierly on top of the floor of the slide so there is no chance of them getting caught
Each mating edge has 2 2" hinges, removable pins, and I replaced the hinge pins with clutch pins (easier to remove, these are smaller versions of the pins which lock the big pin in the towing receiver/hitch combination) the top also has four angle brackets for additional support, The unit is all plastic save for the wood rib along the top which adds stability.
To take it down you start pulling pins, six of them and the front can be put under the MH, 2 more and the lid (upside down) goes on top of it, 2 more for one, and 2 more for the other, side and then the back on top of everything, under the MH out of the way
Future plans call for a pet door in the MH leading to an elclosed ramp leading to a matching pet door in this cage so the cats can go outside w/o going outside.
Part of this is the neighborhood where I currently live... There are two kinds of cats here, Indoor and "soon to be dead" A couple of very nasty cat diseases are present in the neighborhood and if your cat wanders outside unsupervised, gets in a fight with an infected cat, they quickly sicken and die... Indoors 15-20 years outdoors 15 to 20 months Thus I am paraniod about letting them run free