An outdoor cat house is a novel idea to keep our feline friends entertained outside for lengthy periods of time. What I have pronounced an outdoor cat house to be anyway! I know many other cat people are actually referring to some thing akin to cat runs and cat enclosures when they say outdoor cat house. However for this dissertation you will receive my version of the outdoor cat house.
Bill's Outdoor Cat House
Something about closed, boxy areas have always appealed to cats, as most human staff will have noted at some time or other. As children, people will have been obsessed with cubby-houses, I know I was, and that wonderful feeling of safety, solitude and serenity that comes with having a special place all of your own to meditate in, often, the smaller the better. I don’t know if cats meditate for sure, but then again, I’m sure they do some form of moggie meditation that’s relevant to worldly matters. Knowledgeable creatures that they are!
If we are dealing with cat runs, there is nothing better than to furnish it with an outdoor cat house or two, depending on the size of the cat run, and the amount of cats sharing the run. Most cats find the need for a break from the daily humdrum of life and since cats spends an inordinately large part of their lives sleeping, should we be so lucky, the more cosy the better.
No One Can Come Near
If buying one or making one, and it has the desired effect of keeping our priceless pets happy and content, then you can pat yourself on the back for a job well done. A few cats have been known to pack up and leave, due to unpalatable surrounds and clumsily erected architecture. Make sure that your name isn’t paw printed on the ‘Staffs’ Wall of Shame’, when it comes to the quality and design of your future outdoor cat house. A bit of fore thought could be the making or breaking of a fine relationship with your pampered puss/pussies, and we won’t be having that case scenario, if at all avoidable, so make sure your imagination takes flight and your cats will be delighted with you. Who knows, you might be up for a pussy-pay rise.
Just Checking My Outdoor Cat House
I’m quite partial to the free-range, outdoor cat house, and since, not having cat runs or cat enclosures at the moment, this makes perfect sense to me. The free-range outdoor cat house, as the name suggests, is a movable structure, therefore not too heavy and manageable in transport mode. This item of pure ingenuity, replete with railed verandah and pitched roof, also has indoor lighting consisting of solar powered, miniature dragonflies, every cat’s dream insect! With a daily change of linen and a chocolate (coloured) mouse on the pussy pillow, the mobile Hilton is ready to welcome the most discerning royal of royal feline into the luxurious depths of opulence. The main benefit, being ease of relocation from one position to another, from sun to shade, or even indoors if you haven’t had the sense to provide adequate, sumptuous lounging facilities inside. The solar lights don’t work as well indoors, in fact, most of the time, they won’t work at all, truth be known.
A platform in a tree, or an outdoor table are fine, so long as they have the strength to support the weight of the outdoor cat house. We can’t be having the loves of our lives in the midst of ‘Mousey’ dream-time, and ending up, unceremoniously dumped on the ground, that’s a cause for instant dismissal with no holiday pay. Also cats like being high up, a superiority issue that I don’t dare argue with.
