Garage Kitties

Cats and garage doors do not mix well.......

The cats are cute, they need a dry place to stay, but what can they do to your garage?

Cats are naturally climbers, they can and will climb up into your rafters in your garage. The garage door opener is hanging from those rafters in the garage, so what do you think a cat can do to your opener? Mark has found instances of the cats peeing on openers, shorting the wires, and wreaking havoc on a garage door opener. The insides of the garage door opener doesn't consist of much but the motor, the power board, and the light bulbs. There are also wires running from the opener to the safety sensors, and wall buttons if your wall button is not wireless. Cats will sometimes chew on those wires. So your garage door could stop working or work intermittently.

What happens to a cat if the safety sensor are not aligned right or you have an opener made before 1998?

There is a good chance the cat will get crushed under the garage door if your safety sensor are not aligned correctly, are too high off of the ground, or if you have an old garage door opener. The older garage door openers did not have safety sensor on them, and this is one reason why safety sensor were invented. Small animals and children can be harmed by a garage door opener without safety sensors. I don't want to see any small animals or children get hurt from a garage door opener, so I suggest keeping your small animals indoors, having your old garage door opener replaced, and making sure your safety sensors are aligned correctly! Keep those garage kitties safe!