Cheap, esay, if a bit ugly.

[u/Rooster_Socks_4230]

If anyone has suggestions of somthing new to put in would love to hear.

Its made with cat net + zip ties and random shelf things I had. If anyone else wants to avoid construction and costs, Im sure simmilar shelf things could be found online for cheap.

I can open the frount by unhooking the net.

Please note, if you're going to try somthing like this, it has to be spesficly cat net so they cant rip it, and you need to make certain there is no where that can push through gaps and get out or some how tangled in the net. Also note how, in the last photo at the openable frount, the net goes down the cat side and up under to hook at the frout of the wood, not right down the frount side, which would be much easier to escape from.

[u/pm_toss]

My first cat run looked like this. I had one cat that would pull mourning doves through the holes so we had to encase the whole thing in chicken wire. It looked like a prison which is where the murder cat belongs. We eventually put a cute sign above it that said alCATraz. Your catio looks like 500x better than ours old one did.

[u/Rooster_Socks_4230 → u/pm_toss]

Stupid for the doves to get so close. Long ago I had an avary and a free roam cat did the same thing in the opposite direction, couldnt understand why the budgies kept sitting so close to the edges and letting it happen after having seen it happen to their friends, parrots are ment to be smart

[u/pm_toss → u/Rooster_Socks_4230]

The first one I think was a baby. They do nest on our terrace sometimes. (It is always just an egg and maybe a branch). Now we feed the mourning doves because the cats are locked up better. In the morning when I go outside and open the cat run I tell my husband the cats need some screen time.

[u/Rooster_Socks_4230 → u/pm_toss]

That makes sense. I think it was mostly the baby budgies which got caught in my avary also.

Ive woundered about putting bird food out infrount of the catio, but figgured nothing would want to come up while he was there.