Catios
If you’d like to provide your indoor cats with outside time, or if you’re trying to transition your outdoor cats into an indoor-only lifestyle (good luck!), you need to check out the new Catio Showcase website.
Never heard of a “catio”? It’s an enclosed patio designed especially for cats. A catio provides a fully protected outdoor environment for otherwise indoor cats, and Catio Showcase shares the many fabulous catios that people have created for their feline friends.
Our friends at 40 paws are already on their second enclosure. They purchased their newest enclosure from C & D Pet Products. Their enclosure was partially pre-assembled, then disassembled for shipping. All the holes were pre-drilled with screws in place, so all you need to do screw everything tight and you’re good to go. You can read more about Forty Paws’ enclosure here.
Catio Showcase will be featuring cat enclosures from around the world, and you should bookmark it if this is a project you’ve been considering tackling (or rather, if it’s something you’ve decided your husband should tackle under your helpful supervision).
The concept has been on our radar for several years, but alas, I’m not married to Norm Abram, and there are a few projects ahead of it in the queue. If you’ve completed a catio project, let me know and send pictures — I’d like to feature it! (And consider submitting it to Catio Showcase, too!)
ooohh….i want wun……MOMMIE!!!!
Oh wow. This might be something for me. I’m a little scared about my upcoming move to SF from the Sveedish forest, so maybe I gotta get my dude to build me a catio!
thanks for highlighting this!
Oh and don’t forget the original site- Modern Cat! I have a special thing for Kate because she likes my frootbat ears
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Wow, that looks pretty slick. Too bad we live in Pennsylvania, where it would only be fine during the warm months. It was 32 degrees outside this morning with frost! Bosc says he’ll stick with living inside where it’s cozy in the winter and cool in the summer. Keep up the interesting articles. Bosco the indoor big boy.
That’s just the thing my backyard needs!
Want that! But… Dad’s no carpenter. MOOOOOOM!
Concatulations, Karen & Skeezix! We read you’d be doing this in the Catster mewsletter. Purrs!
We want one of these so much!!!!!!!!! Sadly, we live in an apartment complex and Meowm says they would boot us out if we tried to upt one of those up. So we will just gaze longingly at the website!
Junior and Orion
Junior we have the same problem living in an apartment. We do have a nice big porch. I wonder if they would enclose it? Going to check out the website. Those catio’s are way too kool!!!
We need one of those! Somekitty that will remain nameless would be a lot less crabilated if she got to go outside to play in a catio.