Choosing A Catio Location

PetCareRx lists a few important factors to consider when choosing a catio location: Ease Of Access. The best location for catios is near doors or exterior windows that make it easy for your cat to enter directly into her catio. Cat doors are available in a variety of colors, sizes, styles,…

5 Reasons Why So Many Cat Owners Are Investing in Catios

The Purrington Post recently published an informative article titled, "5 Reason Why So Many Cat Owners Are Investing in Catios. From the piece: Despite the fact that cats have been kept as pets for nearly 10,000 years now, they’ve still maintained many of the wild instincts they had pre-domestication. They long…

Beautiful DIY Catio

Eileen Stark of Real Gardens Grow (Facebook) recently wrote about a do-it-yourself (DIY) catio she and her husband Rick built in Portland. It is easily one of the most beautiful catios I have come across. The attention to detail -- tile floor, corner tree, scratcher, clear roof (similar to our Palisades…

It Takes a Village To Build a Custom Catio

We previously posted that building a Custom Catio was a labor intensive process. To reiterate that point, we started building a new cat enclosure in North Hills today and brought 5 guys -- including me the picture taker. In the photo, you see our team reviewing the plans before getting…

Catios Allow Cats to Roam Safely Outside

From the Santa Cruz Sentinel: "Cats are hard-wired to hunt prey — and despite the fact that we’ve been domesticating them over the past few thousand years, pet owners have not yet succeeded in eliminating the feline drive to catch and kill small creatures. And that’s led to an unfortunate…