Thread: complete noob building an outdoor cat enclosure

I didn't take it that way. Was trying to point out the same myself. Good quality may be ok. I don't get a lot of choice generally due to location. I understand what you mean about the points although in my situation these are only an advantage LOL. Cows seem to have the nack of wrecking anything. Only things that will stop them is massive fences, electric zaps and sharp points and sometimes these wont work either. I get a real laugh reading about gripples which if you don't know are used to join wires quickly. Problem is our bull can unjoin them even faster and he is a so called minature breed. Not a good name that. He can push a tight fence 3ft without seeming to try. The grass is greener etc. You are lucky you are only dealing with cats.

Dean

hey guys. Thanks again for all your useful suggestions, and thanks aaron for offering to help out. Those are some nice looking cat enclosures Jim! I like how you made tunnels for them. We're planning on making a cat run next, to connect the cat enclosure to a window - i'll use that kind of mesh for that.

I ended up building my cat enclosure over the weekend - I'm almost done, i've just got to put the roof on now. I'll post some pics tonight or tomorrow once i'm done

I ended up using 25 x 25 x 2 galv tubing to make a frame which is bolted to a wooden fence on one side and the posts are cemented into the ground at the front. I used a black mesh which is fixed to the frame using black cable ties. The mesh came from a previous cat enclosure that we bought on the internet once - the instructions were to cable tie it, and it seemed to do the job for about a year, until we moved house a couple of weeks ago (which is why i'm building this one).

Thanks again guys for helping a noob out

hey guys, here's a pic of the Cat Master 2000. It can all be yours for only 2 easy payments of $49.95 now to make a tunnel so the cats can go in/out of the house

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cheers,
mike

Good job
I was at somebody elses house just the other day looking at their home-made cat run.
The builder had come up with a very simple way of making an arial tunnel.

It was a second hand piece of timber about 250mm wide and he then tacked some old chicken with a curve over it. Very simple. Very inexpensive and it worked.

Looks pretty good, are you going to have a shady spot for summer?, that little house may get cooking hot in the summer sun, so maybe a sheet of iron arranged to cast a shadow over the little house and the cats get to climb up on it for sunlight if they feel like it.

You know when I first saw your original posting title, I'd just watched an episode of the Japanese anime cartoon:"Cat Planet Cuties" and the combination of the two caused a brief mental short circuit .

Good on you for doing the right thing. It should be law for anyone who keeps cats to keep them restrained in an enclosure.

A plank of wood with a light gauge wire forming a curve sounds like a pretty good idea.

How did your welds go? Didn't blow too many holes??

Thanks guys Yep, i'll make them some nice shade and climbing structures to put in there as well, and a tunnel to the window using chicken wire.

These 2 are my girlfriends cats - they're too woosey to roam the streets by themselves, i think this is the first time they've set foot on grass lol

The welding went pretty well, I only blew one or two holes but managed to fill them in. I'm now gearing up for my next project - a cordless drill powered sliding gate opener (i'm too cheap to spend $500+ for a proper one)

Lol, yeah them girlfriends and their bloody cats!

I guess you've heard the saying . . . A dog looks at it's owner and thinks you feed me and look after me you must be a god . . . A cat looks at it's owner and thinks you feed me and look after me I must be a god!

lol yep i've heard that one before. I'm more of a dog person myself, but i've got a pet rat, so we're always juggling cat time vs rat time in the house. I do like cats though, despite their 'holier than thou' attitudes they're cheeky little buggers