You may remember that I did the catzebo project for the garage based cats so they could have an outdoor run. They loved it so much that I knew I had to do some type of enclosure for Callie, Patch, Jade, and Mocha that live in the downstairs section of the house. Their windows looked out onto a small cement patio, but the outside components of the heating/AC units were also at the far end of the patio and could not be blocked off. We did a three wall enclosure attached to the house by screw anchors so it can be detached and slid out of the way if needed to allow access to the heating/AC units.

Ron:

The enclosure is pretty amazing. What are you going to call it?

I do have a tech question. How do you keep bugs and other small critters from coming into the house? Do you lock the entrance and only let the little ones out at certain times?

Also, do you find the enclosures causing any greater flea problem with your little ones?

I would like to do something like what you have done. However, that will be a few years down the road. In another 5-6 years I’m planning on building a new house, and one of my “design requirements” is to have a screened in porch. My cats will have access to the porch.

Mark

That's awesome!

Mark asked some good questions, I'm actually curious to hear about how you deal with bugs and fleas as well.

Great catzebo Ron. Really nice. How did you attach it to the stone on the wall and where did you find a cat door for a screen???? I would think screening would not support a cat door......The cats look great, by the way.

That's wonderful, Ron! More happy cats! My cats love sunbathing out in our enclosure, chasing (and sometimes eating) bugs, but most of all, eating grass (the "ugly" fat grass that people don't like for their lawns. Cats don't want to eat that "pretty", skinny "perfect lawn" kind of grass.)

For the curious, here is my cats' enclosure:

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Mark wrote:

Also, do you find the enclosures causing any greater flea problem with your little ones?

We've had outdoor enclosures for about 7 years. It does result in some more fleas than if the cats never went outside, but remember, people wind up bringing fleas into the house when fleas hitch a ride on shoes or pants.

So we do treat our cats for fleas, but since we live where there is a winter with several freezing days, we can skip January and February.

Except not this time since when we brought in Snookums and Calista in December, they had fleas, and then homeless cat Frankie we had for a short while had fleas.