Cat Cages

You've heard of man cave, right?  Well we are building cat caves!  The goal is to get our 5 cats out of the garage / shop and our 5 cats out of the house and into an enclosed outside area for too many reasons to list here!  At the top of the list are damage to birds and other wildlife, constant de-worming we have to do because of the things they eat, and expense of litter and medicine, and the constant clean-up required.  Not to mention that we have some feral cats that we cannot take care of because some of our homebodies run them off before they can get any food.

We are building 3 pens.  The first is for the “garage cats”.  Today we were outside by 8 a.m., and we finished putting the last tall post in by 5 p.m.  The enclosed area will run the width of garage plus an 8 section so that they can lay in the sun – it will be 73’ long, about 10.5 feet tall, and about 20 feet wide.  They will have a cat door we cut in the side of the garage where they can go in and out.  Their enclosure will include bamboo, many Leyland cypresses and one oak.  We will cover this with farm fencing, up to the 10.5 foot height of the posts.

Attached is a picture of Gordon after we had put in the 3^rd post.  This post will be for a very tall gate, but only about 4 foot wide.  

This is looking down the same end …

This is the other end.  Fencing will run from the far left post to the post at the garage building.  You can see the bamboo in the foreground.   The two right posts are for the other very tall gate, which is 6 foot wide so that I can get the mower in it.

This is a picture of the THIRD of the three cat caves.  This one is just for Rucky, who you can see sitting in the window if you look closely.

The little stakes mark where our next big posts will go, although we are missing the gate post.  He will have a cat door cut into this side of the shop that lets him go in and out.  His cage will be only 8 feet tall, and about 24 feet long.  He has bamboo down at the end. 

The SECOND cage is for the house cats.  It will be a dandy, but we will not start on that one until the first is finished.  The house cats will include the area under the deck which is always a favorite place in the hot summer, and it will be very big.