Lumizone Extra Tall Pet Gate 61.02" High Pressure Mounted 30.12"-34.05" Extra Wide (9 Sizes) 1.37" Gap for Cat Dog Children Stairs Doorway Hallway No Drilling Auto-Close (30.12"-34.05", Black)

So we now have two cats. Last year they were a menace with our tree to the point we resorted to disassembling it and moving it out of the living room and into a room with a door. This dampened our holiday cheer as it was a little used room and quite small with the tree added and it really damped our enthusiasm. Cue this year. We didn't have the funds to go through the expense of having a door to the room we typically put the tree in installed with the features we wanted. It's a strange wide doorway that enters at an angle so a typical door won't work and it would also need a doorjamb installed. After a lot of research, I found this baby gate. Hopeful but skeptical we plunked down the not inconsiderable price and waited for it to arrive. Well...this thing is a friggin beast! We got the 61 inch height in hopes it would be too tall for the cats to jump. It arrived and we installed it. This was a bear to install. First off, the "don't remove before installing" zip tie had snapped in the box and it was a b---h to wrestle closed enough to install our own temporary zip tie so we could do the install. One side of the support is installed at a slight V away from the door to cause the pressure so we had to squeeze these very heavy, very sturdy metal bars together and zip tie them so we could install. Installation actually wasn't too hard, but if you order the big gate like we did, it's a 2-person job for sure. As we plan to use this every year now, we will be installing a replacement zip tie BEFORE removing the door to prep for next year. I am happy to report that this year our tree has been cat free. It's been two weeks and they have not found a way over the gate and the bars are too close for them to squeeze through. We pulled out all the decorating stops for the room and they are MAD they can't get in to eat them. The tall door is somewhat difficult to get open. It's for sure a two-handed job and you have to lift. As it is heavy and an inch taller than me, I find it more difficult to open than the taller men of the house, but it's doable. It does have an auto-close feature up to a certain angle, past that point it will stay open, which is nice. Overall, I very much recommend it. Just know it's heavy and be prepared to have help installing it. Oh, and watch out for the bar at the bottom, we've all kicked it multiple times walking in the room and so far the gate is holding firm. Updating: We made it all the way through Christmas without incident. The cats would stare at us forlornly through the bars whenever we were in the room, but they were unable to get inside to destroy/eat our decorations and tree. We considered leaving it up all year but decided against it as it does make the room feel more closed off. Taking it down was easy and we have stored it in our basement propped against a wall. I do recommend getting those wall protector things to keep it from making indents in the wall at the pressure points, we used those and had zero marks. Still incredibly happy with this purchase. Updated 12/24: The holidays are back around and we just put this back up. It installed super easily, the 10 zip ties we used before taking it down last year held up and the tree is once more safe from curious kitties.

Cat gates are just inherently flimsy unless attached to the door jamb - so that is my only gripe, but compared to other ones i have and have used, this is the most sturdy. Well built and easy to assemble. The autoclose works well. Looks like a pet gate, but more solid and therefore a bit nicer than most. If its the right size for your door (I think this is a narrow one - I had to search for one for a narrow door) then I would absolutely get it.

A month ago today, we found a beautiful black cat hiding under a neighbor's old, broken-down clunker of a pick-up truck in our shared back lot. Our backyard has parking for us and our 5 neighbors, and beyond that are woodlands leading to a creek. On our road, we drive over a bridge with the creek beneath it. I mention this because we found a cat, a 4-month-old Russian Blue, hiding under a different neighbor's shed, in the dead of the winter of '14. There was lots of snow but the creek hadn't iced. That cat, whom we named Lord Beerus (Beerus), was fully blind in one eye, partially blind in the other, hairless on his ears and tail, malnourished, and suffering from an upper respiratory infection. Luckily, with a few trips to the vet, he slowly healed up. With medical eye drops, he even regained full sight in his partially blind eye. The vet said that Beerus was likely tossed off the bridge and into the water below. Likely in a bag with other kittens. Apparently, this happens on rare occasions. I've walked the creek from my house to the bridge, which is only a 1-minute drive, and it took nearly an hour due to all the twists and turns. It takes another 8 minutes of walking up a steep hill through the woods to get to our yard. And that's for a healthy and athletic human. For a cat to make that trek, in the cold snowy winter, is amazing. Beerus is truly a G for survivng. The vet also said that he was taken from his mother too soon. He should've nursed a few weeks longer. When we returned from the vet and brought him into the house, he hid. He hid under a recliner in my reading room for months. I had to place his food and water under that recliner, lift it and hold him to administer his medicines and eye drops, and lay on the floor for hours talking and hanging out with him to try and get him warmed up to me. It took months. Also, we had 8 other cats at the time. Luckily, one of them, my fuzzy orange Bastian, spent lots of time patiently lying next to the recliner purring away. Here we are 10 years later, and Beerus is an outgoing, loving cat. However, because of his tumultuous early years, he is, kind of different from other cats. He's kind of autistic. He doesn't quite meow, but he does talk, often. He talks to the other cats, constantly, which tends to put them off. He loves playing with the cats, but because he's different, they think he's being aggressive. Mostly because of the way he vocalizes, not because he's forceful or aggressive or heavy-handed (heavy-pawed). Now, back to the cat we found a month ago. She's a black cat who we named Nyx. She's approximately 9 months old, and she's about 31-40 days pregnant. She is an absolute sweetheart. I have to imagine she belonged to someone or was being fed by someone nearby. We only have 4 cats now, including Nyx. The other two are Ebliss (Bliss), my eldest at 14, and Lucindique (Lucy), who was born in my bed between my legs when I was awoken by my cat giving birth on 5/18/15. Beerus wants to play with Nyx, but she isn't accustomed to him yet so runs away. Bliss is the default alpha, and the only indoor-outdoor cat we have (she spends every night indoors and most of the day, but likes to go out for a couple of hours a day until it gets too cold), and she has, once, gone after Nyx. I wasn't home at the time but my fiance was. She was able to stop it before it got too bad, but it was enough to make Nyx leery of Bliss. Lucy, the curmudgeon, tends to chase Nyx. The moment we brought Nyx into our home, she claimed the top of our washer and dryer. I have them side-by-side with a counter slab atop them (they're front loaders). On that slab is a giant, fluffy cat bed. It was mostly used by Bliss, but it belongs to Nyx now. Behind the dryer is a window with a large sill that she also likes to sit on. Next to the washer are our kitchen cabinets, so she often sits in the sink or lays on the oven or countertops. To the right of the dryer is a 5-tier bookshelf used to house some of my larger books and action figures. Nyx likes to walk on the lower shelves, so I cleared off the bottom 3 for her. I placed a litter box in front of the bookshelf since she doesn't really leave the area she's comfortable with. Between the dryer and the bookshelf is a wooden dual laundry basket with a lid that she likes to lay on. In front of that is a 2-tier cat's house. It's there so our cats can jump onto it then onto the laundry basket, and then onto the dryer. Anyway, this is pretty much where she stays at all times. When Bliss is out and Lucy and Beerus are in another room, she will explore the living room/kitchen (it's one large room) and occasionally lay on my lap. All this to say that we need a way to separate Nyx from the other 3 cats, especially so she can comfortably give birth. I did some research and a pet door seemed like the best option. I read hundreds of comments on dozens of products and decided on this one. I was tempted to get the kind that is made of mesh and retracts, but a couple of comments said cats can slide underneath it. I ordered the 30"-32" version and it is incredible. The 61" height is too high for even our most agile cat to jump. The bars are too close together to allow them to squeeze through. It's perfect. It took me a total of 10 minutes to put together. It really is as simple as 1) slide the bottom part on, 2) add the bolts to all 4 corners, 3) place it into the designated spot (for me, it was a doorway) ensuring it fits, if it doesn't fit, change the top 2 bolts for the 2 smaller bolts, 4) peel the sticky circles, place them onto the back of the wall mounts, mount them so the bolts go into the concave circle, and 5) tighten the bolts with the given tool. EASY!!! I love this gate, and I give it my highest possible recommendation!

Installs easily, works well, keeps the cats separated even if one of them if a high jump champion. Two notes: 1) The latch mechanism could use work, as it's not very smooth once the gate is securely in place - I had to file the edges of the plastic a bit - and it might bite your fingers if you're not careful. 2) Don't remove the ziptie that holds the frame and door together until you're good and ready. It says it in the instructions, which were at the bottom of the box, and if you're like me, you take the thing out of the box, unwrap/unbundle the thing, then look for directions. Removing that tie makes everything unstable and harder to install.

Wow! Worth the money! Extremely sturdy gate and easy to install. This gate has a smaller door size option than most which I needed. I love the wall protectors so they don't get scratched. I have a cat that loves to chew cords and needed something strong, tall, and safe. This gate seems expensive compared to some but it is far better. Cats can't climb or slip through and I am sure a child would be safer. The one con is gate latch. The latch is a little difficult to open because it is like a slide type. But for safety I still love it