Take the one shown here, for example, complete with a screen, several perches, and even a bench for a human visitor. For a green garden? Lined with pet-safe flowerbeds, it becomes the perfect oasis.

When people want a safe place for cats to play outdoors, they can create a screened cat patio, called a catio, buy a pre-made cat home or call a custom builder like Michael Jaeger of Vancouver, ...

The feral tabby cats Mary Ann Bors rescued sure lucked out. They now romp around a specially designed room inside Bors' Lake Oswego house, and they can take an elevated, screened walkway to a ...

Had our existing deck rescreened and updated. The door was removed and replaced with sliding screens, which left a 3.5” high threshold which did not meet building code. The local building inspector ...

Alan Breslauer launched Custom Catios in 2017 after building his first cat enclosure in the early 2000s. Most catios cost Breslauer's clients between $5,000 and $15,000, but a few cost over $70,000.

Cat-lovers and bird-lovers aren’t natural allies, with feline bird predation historically a source of considerable tension but in recent years more formal catios, designed and built to the specs of ...

Enclosures are a way to keep pet cats contained while still letting them have time outside, and a business providing the enclosures says demand for their work is booming. Bass Coast Council, ...

Carolyn Somers has spent a year and a half bringing back to life a grand, yet aging 1893 center-hall Victorian just off Esplanade Avenue. Working in Sweet Home, a free 3-D Internet design program, she ...

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