With the chicken wire, you can make a tent out of it. It'll keep the fricking cat and birds from getting in the strawberries. And after you harvest the berries, the plants should be big enough to discourage the fricking cat.
Will
p.s. worse comes to worse, the local animal shelter might take the fricking cats in.
p.p.s. Roses love good cats.

AI-AI-AI I hadn't gotten as far as thinking about birds. You're right; a tent of chicken wire it shall be. Thanks ever so much!!!