Messages By: speakgoodthing

I have 9 cats and I went to the CFA web site and followed the rules for building a cattery building for my private cats.  My husband spent $3000.00 to build the building for my cats.  The front room is a supply room.  The second room is an 8ft by 8ft play room with a solid wall and one long wall all wire to the outside.  The play room has 1 ft wide shelves at different levels.  The last room is a litter room with a fan that draws the air to the outside.  The cats love it!

Here is our cat building from the outside.  We truly enjoy it and it was well worth the work!

Maybe some one can build something like this for the lady that loves her cats!

Thanks!

I want you to know that I understand your pain.  Some of our neighbors gave us an

awful time over our cats.  I have 9 cats now.  I couldn’t even sleep at night the stress was so bad.  I haven’t heard a word from them since we built the cat building. That was after the Neighborhood Homeowners Association fined us a $100.00 for building it. So, if you decide to build a building for your animals check the laws where you live first.

The animals do benefit.  They are safe at night and I don’t have to worry about neighbors sending them to the shelter or having them risk being hit by cars etc.  You will need to exercise the cats though.  It depends on how big your building can be.  Ours is 8ft by 15 ft. all together and broken down into 3 rooms.  Front supply room, exercise room, and litter room that has a fan to exhaust air out.  I also put heat lamps in there in the winter.  One whole side of the play room is mostly wire and plenty of fresh air comes in.  The exercise room has bright colorful shelves and the cats love to leap from shelf to shelf.

I realized that the stress with the neighbors really isn’t worth the trouble.  They had a right to have my animals stay in my yard and I had a right to ensure the safety of my animals.  The animals give so much back and they deserve to feel secure and safe.  A happy neighbor wouldn’t think of harming your cats.  A good neighbor may even start helping you, when they see you are making an effort to meet them half way.

Neighbors could help by donating building supplies like wood, wire, nails, roofing materials etc.  They also could give you scraps of old carpet they don’t need anymore.  It would be wonderful if other cat lovers could chip in a start a fund for your cats to have their own building and space.  If you are in need.  Maybe people could even send you cat food, cat litter, or toys, front-line flea spray, etc. if they can’t send money.

Remember there are still families out there that would love to have a cat to spoil.  Maybe you could share some of that love with them and get homes for just a few cats to start.  Believe it or not there are still some wonderful loving families out there just waiting for the right cat to come there way.

I wish you the very best of luck and hope you will let us all know how things turn out!