Catio & Foundation Shrubs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2021
- In this video we take you on a tour of our huge backyard catio, located in North Texas, Horticulture Zone 8A. We also go over some great shade shrubs for the north side of the foundation. Hope you enjoy the content.
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Plant List
Gold Dust Aucuba
'Spider's Web' Fatsia
Wheeler's Dwarf Pittosporum
Narihira Mahonia
Cast Iron Plant
Chocolate Chip' Bugleweed (Ajuga)
Carex Evergold
Catnip
Tangerine Crossvine
Snow-N-Summer Asiatic Jasmine Shrubs
Hosta
Autumn Sunburst Encore Azalea
The best catio, as it can be used not only by cats, but also by humans, kids, dogs! Good job!
Thank you‼️ I’ve been lucky to find so many great videos but yours is EXACTLY what I want & need. U did a beautiful job.❤️🐈😻
Love your huge catio, a great cat and people place.
This is an awesome catio. I loved seeing the cats in it. Able to really relax outdoors safely. Its a great setup!
I love your catio, it's very spacious and very well made. Your cats look very carefree and happy. I love cats. I also like your shrubs. 🥰💞🐈🐈⬛🐾
Awesome great job protecting your precious kitties and wild life! Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺😻😻
I agree Shari! It does my heart good when they are protected! ❤ Wonderful job on the catio and having the cat door and everything they need! 🥰
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Wonderful, nice size
Thanks for sharing 👍
Such lucky cats brilliant cation they're spoilt rottenx
Very nice looking catio. I'm sure your kitties love it.
Great job!!! We love the large scale and design of your new catio. Your sweet cats are beautiful! All the best. 😻
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Love your Catio
Awesome catio👍
Really great sized enclosure. Many are too small and few think that with shade cloth up, they will start wishing they had a table and comfy chairs they could fit in.
I had thought it was the front of your house and was really dubious about how visitors would cope. And even if you have a sign, there are always morons that don't shut, let alone make sure the gate is latched.
I would have preferred steel and put a line of pavers around outside to prevent anything digging in.
Now that I know it is inside backyard, I am not so worried about the netting you used. If a dog the size of a labrador grabbed the mesh and pulled at it, repeatedly, they could get in, but it isn't so bad in a securely fenced backyard.
Many people in country build enclosure that keeps cats in, but in open country or facing public walkways, you have to build to keep the enemies OUT - so in America, foxes, coyotes, passing german shepherds, wolves, maybe even BEARS, need to be thought about.
You did a great job. Though once your little fences come down, you will probably find the cats also poo and wee under or near the plants.
Yes, I'm not sure it's predator proof. Coyotes are probably a thing there, and hawks. Still my favorite catio on TH-cam so far.
@@nineteenfortyeight6762 There is a magnificent one in Australia, on a country property, with a huge area roofed with a lot of plastic sheets to let in light. It looks about a quarter acre. I am quite sure the owner is a builder. It has magnificent feature brick as walls and has a HUGE brick bbq and wood storage AND a brick built lined pond, (with huge koi and lots of plants), which had a bridge over the water. It had a table to seat about 16 that was dwarfed in the photo. For years I used to revisit it, but now I cannot find it. Big mesh openings, plants... and there is an American video on yt that I think claims to be the biggest cat enclosure in the world, but I have seen several much bigger, but they don't seem to have any interest in yt. I assume they are older people - like myself :-)
Looks like some neutring is the order of the day. They might take to spraying inside the house. I like the amount of space you gave them.
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Cool..Thy just need some dry trees, jungle cat furniture, etc
Please more info about how to build! I want to copy you.
can you go over more of the design of the catio? I am going to be doing something very similar coming off a porch. 11' wide by 32' long. Did you dig post holes and put those posts in the ground?
Also more detail on what you did for the roof support. looks like 2x6x12s then perpendicular braces between them?
@@matticus6339 I dug post holes every 8 feet, with horizontal supports in between that were not dug into the ground. I used 2X4 for the roof, 2X6 would of been better for preventing sagging and warping. I nailed supports perpendicular to the joist to support the wire fencing on top.
how about a few small climb-able trees?
How about more climbing trees, more high resting perches, more stimulating environment for cats’ natural curiosity. More imagination needed to update from a napping area.
What would something like this cost ?
Depends on how much work you do yourself, how many steel posts you can scrounge cheaply. Depends on strength of mesh you want. How much concrete you use.
You can save a lot if you look out for people selling 2nd hand tennis court mesh and sometimes, posts.
You might get the gates in the tennis court, or buy at another yard sale or off gumtree.
If you have time to wait and can do your own work, you would mainly pay for full price concrete.
You can also look for 2nd hand corrogated iron, for a partial roof. If you carefully double up the tin, so holes don't line up, which still won't cost as much as new, you will have a roof that is much stronger, to take most people walking on it, to repair. Some new tin is now so cheap, it can only be used for walls. If you use as roof, it will distort if a medium man walks on it.
I had a lady who adopted one of my rescues and she had a 2 storey high enclosure that was built at the back of her 2 storey house. There were small mature trees within the enclosure. It was about 20' 6 metres deep and ran the length of the house. They had about 8 cats. They had an outside dining area, the western side and roof were shade clothed, as well as meshed.
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Do y’all watch Jim Puttmans video
Absolutely. He is our biggest inspiration in the garden. I learned so much from his content. His channel is amazing.
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