"Charlie" wrote in message
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The only way you could keep a cat in a garden would be by building a roof
over the garden and by dropping the fence a few feet into the ground!

I once encountered a woman who kept lots of cats (double figures), and they
were not allowed to roam free - she had built extensive wire enclosures in
her back garden, linked to the back door of the house by a wire 'tunnel'. Of
course, she was a little eccentric ...