Blimey! That took me back to the days before my boys arrived....oh I was young and innocent of Bengal ways then
We ended up getting a puppy crate (partly because we were having some work done on the house) and it worked very well. The boys had free run of a bedroom in the daytime and were put in the crate at night. After a week or two we gradually let them have the run of the hallway as well but it was a while before we could let them into other rooms without then having to detach them from curtains, furniture etc soon after......
My two are now about 19 months old and are happy and purry guys who definitely rule the roost!
(PS...meant to sell the puppy crate when they didn't need it any more but you never know, one day I might want to expand my pack of furry monsters...
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Teresa