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So something like a 3 sided fence with a roof like a chicken coupe.
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10 x 12 FEET? Are there plans for open floor plan kitchen/dining room? 
Occasionally I will build feral cat houses, insulated with 2" xps and double walls, roof and floor, Two offset means of egress. Pretty, no. Functional, you bet
Occasionally I will build feral cat houses, insulated with 2" xps and double walls, roof and floor, Two offset means of egress. Pretty, no. Functional, you bet
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Hmm.
Ok. I'm originally from Ohio, and it's cold and damp and metal rusts and wood rots there and Long Island is the same, more or less. I think your construction will be okay, just check regularly and repair.
If you have coyotes in your 'hood, you might want stouter wire. I say that because I've lost many kitties to coyotes and they can be aggressively clever about getting to them sometimes.
Here's Conan (right) und Der Baron von Komfy (left), in a moment of détente.
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Keep in mind, you want it big enough for people to get in there, and, er, clean up the [bleep] once in a while. :vs_cool:10 x 12 FEET? Are there plans for open floor plan kitchen/dining room?
Occasionally I will build feral cat houses, insulated with 2" xps and double walls, roof and floor, Two offset means of egress. Pretty, no. Functional, you bet
Yours looks more like a kitty isolation ward . . . . :biggrin2:
I spent $200 having a chicken-wire shelf put up on the wooden fence around a large yard. My 12 yr-old "baby cougar" jumped the gate, right away. It did keep neighborhood cats out.
They don't make cats like they used to. There's more wildcat & exotic cat in them & in outside cats. An enclosure would have to not be easily busted. Every night, I say "don't break the window!" as my cats wrestle near the window. I can hear the "Boom" and have already been planning for when it breaks.
If the cat will be in the enclosure at night, you will have to make sure predators can't break in, as DoomsDave alluded.
It would be nice if designers would create more attractive catios. Cats are the most common pet, next to fish, in the US. ( Yes, dog people, they are. :smile
They don't make cats like they used to. There's more wildcat & exotic cat in them & in outside cats. An enclosure would have to not be easily busted. Every night, I say "don't break the window!" as my cats wrestle near the window. I can hear the "Boom" and have already been planning for when it breaks.
If the cat will be in the enclosure at night, you will have to make sure predators can't break in, as DoomsDave alluded.
It would be nice if designers would create more attractive catios. Cats are the most common pet, next to fish, in the US. ( Yes, dog people, they are. :smile
That might very well be worth it rather than the hassle of unrolling and flattening that much chicken wire and dealing with wood rot. Check Wayfare and Amzn too because they have some purpose-built catios in that price range.
If you go chain link, you could get sign brackets to mount to link or poles:
You could use threaded rod and nuts to hang platforms. Maybe even metal junction box covers could act as big washers with the chain link. If local to TSC, then you must have Menardz, where you can cut outdoor carpet for $0.47/sf to wrap the platform material.
Thanks Moily for opening my eyes to catios, I used to think they were way overboard, but after delving down this rabbit hole, I might consider one in the future. Or is it "geez, thanks!" (with sarcasm) :biggrin2:
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