To provide a safe space for their felines to explore the outdoors, many cat owners are turning to outdoor enclosures for cats, otherwise known as catios. A catio does not necessarily have to be big ...

If you have indoor cats, they probably spend a lot of time staring out the window at the outside world. Many people with indoor cats have jumped on the trend of purchasing - or building - an enclosure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catios, or outdoor cat enclosures, offer a safe space for your curious feline friend to explore the wonders of the outdoors ...

The catio trend, introduced in The New York Times, is sure to explode in New York because we’re all suckers for a good neologism. The same people who live in Nolita, Soho, or Tribeca, wear jeggings, ...

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 ...

A catio can be as simple as a wire-mesh box attached outside a window. But it also can be a screened-in apartment balcony, or a custom-designed, room-sized deck fenced in and outfitted for felines.

Micha and Grace Sinclair welcomed two rescue cats into their Portland home and their life expanded. Grace trained cats Xalia and Mot to wear a harness as they wander through the couple’s attractive ...

Maybe you have checked out a tricked-out cat patio before and you think you've seen enough. Stop! Have you toured Chateau De Chat, a custom "catio" on a back deck where felines lounge on a bench and ...

Jim Hutzelman was returning from his morning run when he saw Cheddar, his now-4-year-old, one-eyed orange cat, running up from the canyon, a coyote on his tail. Hutzelman ran at the coyote, giving ...