DIY CATIO - STEP BY STEP BUILDING CASTLE FOR TAZZ (NOT A HOW TO)
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Update...
For everyone who has enjoyed watching all of TAZZs videos....thank you....I love sharing his adventures and love hearing all the positive things from so many many people! ❤️❤️❤️
For all the negative comments/questions...
Motion lights....
1. They help me know where he is at all times.
2. When they turn on and Tazz is NOT out there, then I know something else is! Then I lock his door so he doesn’t go out there.
3. It may intimidate or scare a predator.
4. They are only on the walkways. I have night vision cameras in the cat house.
5. Sometimes they attack flying insects that he can chase.
6. He has lots of places to hide in the dark and stalk his prey. I know this, because he has caught a few and brought them in the house fir me to enjoy!
Jail?
Ummm NO not really, if so, then you could say that keeping your cats locked inside a house would be the same. What IS freedom?
It’s called safety! I spend lots of time in the cat house with him along with other friends it’s definitely not jail. If it weren’t for the cat house he wouldn’t get to enjoy being outside whenever he wants.
In Arizona, there are coyotes and other scary creatures that lurk in the dark waiting for a snack. Also, lots of cactus that hurt when you go chasing a mouse into one. Tazz is an Alpha cat and FEARLESS, which makes him an easier target, because instead of running away or hiding he thinks he’s a bad ass and stands his ground. That would certainly be a mistake if confronted with a coyote or bobcat!
I built this castle for his safety and freedom and do not regret any of it. It may not be perfect and does have limitations, but he is safe and happy. That’s all that matters to me.
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I’m so excited to show you guys the Castle my Mom built for me outside!!! 🐱
But first, I want to tell you how life changing it has been since I am able to go outside safely to watch the birds and mice and rabbits that come to visit me everyday.
If you actually read this long post, you will understand....
Before my castle was built, I had to go outside on a leash. Mom felt bad that I had to be tied up and couldn’t be free to roam. She said there was coyotes and other scary monsters that would have me for a snack!!
She went outside with me everyday to make sure I was safe. We both hated it when I’d get stuck cuz my leash got wrapped around things.
Every morning I would try to wake her up about 4am so she would get up to take me out 😩
I tried EVERYTHING to wake her up!
I walked on her, yelled at her face, knocked things off the nightstand, and run as fast as I could thru the house making sure the bed was the finish line!
After about 4 hours of my tireless efforts, she would finally get up and take me outside. She always had to help me when my leash got tangled around stuff. I was a pain I her a** !
But she loves me and would do anything for me to be her happy fur baby.
So, she decided to build me a safe place to go outside whenever I wanted.
She started on my Castle on September 30th. The mosquitoes wouldn’t stop biting, she had bruises and scratches on her arms and legs, her fingertips were sore and tore up until she could no longer be identified by fingerprinting!!!
She built it all by herself, so she had to be creative and come up with ways to pick up tools with her toes and hold them between her knees.
It was kinda funny tho 😂😂 She told me she had been developing that skill since she was little. Her mom Mary Cairns used to laugh at her when she picked up things with her toes! 😂😂
It was hard work. But she called it a “labor of love”
After she finished each section, I got to go out and explore 🐱 It was awesome!
November 26th she finally finished it!
I got to go outside whenever I wanted. I didn’t have to try to wake her up to take me out anymore.
Now, I wake her up everyday about 8am when I come back inside to snuggle next to her and purr loudly in her ear to let her know how happy I am. We are both very happy about that 😊
Here is a link to the video of my Castle. I will post another one later so you can see how much fun it is to run thru it and sit for hours watching all the wild friends in the backyard.
Thanks for reading this long story.
AND
A BIG THANK YOU goes out to Bob Livingston for
funding this project and letting mom build it in our beautiful backyard! ❤️💋❤️
Now you can see my castle...
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That is soooo cool. What a spoiled cat 😸 And I love how you gave him access to each new section, so he was comfortable exploring the next. Great job!! Very inspiring.
Love the 🎶 music!
Very nice I wish my cats could come over and play.😊😊😊😃😃
Pretty boy! What a lucky kitty!
Amazing!! You're cat is so blessed😻😻😻
This is FANTASTC!!! Great job!!!!
Beautiful! Thanks for the idea, I rescued an abused stray cat 🐈⬛ and I’m looking for ideas so she can still enjoy the outdoors.
This is really amazing! I can’t wait to build my catio. Building it in stages like this is a great idea! Thanks for sharing!
That is one lucky cat! Look how happy he is . I am envious
This is pretty amazing to see. You truly have so much love for your lil one. 🥰
Your catio is fantastic. My step-daughter and her girlfriend built one for my two cats two weeks ago. Hubby put in the shelves and I've been decorating it.
What an amazing outdoor playground/freedom area Tazz gets! I just finished building a fence for my 12 year old dog to finally run free (got a house!) and the next step is to finish the back room (cat room) and extend a catio as well. You gave me some great ideas. Thank you for sharing. You’re a great cat mom!
Absolutely brilliant! :-) Thank you for sharing and the inspiration for my cat's Catio. Love the Cat Bridge, great idea.
I am inspired! Not as creative as you are, not as capable of building as you are, but still, inspired.😁
Great Catio. I'm building a big one myself and your tower ideas I really enjoyed with bridges.
Fabulous catio, beautiful cat. I love your garden too
Its so wonderful to see Tazz and his mom happy and the Catio is awesome!👍😻
You love and care for your cat as you should.Thank you for that.Wish every cat owner behaved as you do.
This is by far the best Catio that I have seen. You built this by yourself? Did you find plans for this or just made it up as you went. Lucky Tazz. I have two little girls that would love something like that, thanks so much for sharing & taking us along❣️
Wow! This is incredible! If my cats had this set up they wouldn't ever come back inside! Thank you for the inspiration!
Annie Murray thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
Thank you so much for subscribing to TAZZs channel! He deserves to have an audience! He’s such a cool cat! 😻
I love how some of us catlovers go all out and provide a safe and fun environment for our pets! Your am A+ owner :D
Thank you! 😻 This is why my human built me a safe place to play...
czcams.com/video/0lsotWnS134/video.html
Excellent job! I had this idea too, but I did not know how to start and what more, to do it. Now that you have shown the way, hopefully I could do it for my 8 cats. My most sincere thank for uploading this video! 👍👍👍👍
Great work, great inspiration! Have to do all that is good to protect our lovely buddies they are special... hope one day I see Tazz with another cat friend for company in his new catio and maybe have some family of his own to run around with... that would be so cool too! 😀
Now Tazz needs some friends to share his new place!!!
David S thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
Quedó hermoso el lugar!!! Tazz se ve muy activo y feliz 🥰🤩❤️
Lucky Tazz 😍😍❤😍❤
Nice work, you love him a lot.
You did a beautiful thing here! Your cat is so lucky to have you. (and probably your friends and neighbors are too.)
B30pt87 thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
@@savannahtazz Just curios as to why you keep repeating the same thing over an over.. almost like a bot would do. It's kind of weird. I agree your cat is really sweet though.
Very nice!!!! Great job!!♥️
love it! I keep adding onto what i want to make for my Nanu and Mork! Just bought a house so now I can things like this. Cant wait for spring!
Love it
Great job!
I have decided, after watching your video, that your process is very much the one I want to try to duplicate with my own space. I love what you have done here.
I use to have an enclosure but it felt small and confined after a few years so I ended up netting my entire yard with the Catnets its was way cheaper too only 700 dollars! my cat now have the entire yard and I made the arbor their jungle gym.
I love Tazz and such a caring Mummy , I am cat lover myself and have 3 cats . I would love to make one for them ♥️♥️♥️
this is great
That is one happy cat! Nice job!
Tiffany M thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
I love that! I wish I could have that for my 5 kitties 🙂
Lucy Adler thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
More video of him enjoying it!!
🥰 This so dang awesome 😢 I wish you could build me one.
That's an amazing set up for your gut baby. WOW!! Now he needs a buddy to share it with. 😊
lol Tazz is Alpha and will not get along with others. Trust me...I’ve tried. 😩
OMG Tazz is soo cute! Great cat walk!! Wow! Making one for my 3 babies.
Erin Mahoney Thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
@@savannahtazz yes he does!! And he knows it. Such a ham! So happy and adorable.
Looks awesome!!! enjoyed watching!!
That is So Wonderful What You Have Done For Your Cat...!!! :)
We love you Tazz
Dan Bailey Thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
But beautiful and functional job, well done
Brenda Bennett Thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
Thank you so much for subscribing to TAZZs channel! He deserves to have an audience! He’s such a cool cat! 😻
Amazing!!
Looks amazing! Definitely a new project for me and my babies.
three legged cat Dog with two sacks thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
Amazing job, well done 😻
Tazz needs some friends in there, don't you think?😻
Abigail Aldea yep! He has lots of visitors 😁czcams.com/video/r7HapcJceIw/video.html
@@savannahtazz amazing a dog visitor.🐕 You are not planning giving Tazz a new housemate?
Abigail Aldea i wish I could, but he is such an alpha male! I’ve tried to introduce him to other cats and he is just a bully lol
Abigail Aldea thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
@@savannahtazz He sure it. He is having the run of your 🏠😽
Very nice enclosure. See ours at Karin and Larry at Home. Take care, Larry
I would love to build something like this for my cat but I have no idea how.
Nice! Very nice!
I'm without words! this is one way to tell the cat GET LOST! I'm sure the cat would haply look at you as if to say OK.
That's awesome! I love it! I wish I could have that for my 5 kitties 🙂
Lucy Adler Thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
Look how happy he is!
B30pt87 Thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
@@savannahtazz, I agree. Plus, your catio is so well done & the video was fun to watch. My cat watched it with me. Then he turned to me and meowed, like "I want one!" I told him "you have a cat door and acres to roam on. Be satisfied with that!"
Wonderful!
John Smith Thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
High quality video
Nicely done! What did you use for screening? It looks more pliable than metal wire hardware cloth.
I am replacing all the nylon hardware cloth with wire now. It’s stronger and will last longer in the Heat if Arizona. 🤞🏻
Tazz is a luck cat!
If those plants in the last part of cat castle are Oliander, I believe they are poisonous for cats
Brenda Bennett are you talking about the trees that are growing into the catio? They bloom yellow flowers. If they are poisonous to animals, then my chuckwalla would be sick or dead, he’s a lizard and eats those flowers everyday. Tazz doesn’t eat them. I have added some barely wheat and rye grass in there, he eats that. Let me know if it’s something else.
Brenda Bennett Thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
Brenda Bennett, you are correct,Oleander is poisonous to cats...as are Lilies, Sago Palm and many other plants.
How did you attach the wood to the wall of the house? I am trying to see but its hard.
Excuse me where can he go?? It's. Really small like a. Cage is that just a walkway to some place for him to move? Is there an open catio for him? Kinda keeps him in. Might as well be in the house. All he can do is walk around so you can feel better.
Lol apparently you haven’t seen the video of it completed czcams.com/video/REaTy71sfu4/video.html
You must not have watched this whole video either or you’d seen the rest of it. It still was not done. He loves it! NOT EVEN CLOSE TO JUST BEING IN THE HOUSE!
I see Catios are really popular in the states, almost unheard of here in the UK. Are there lots of predators in the states? ( none in th UK). I’m watching loads of vids as I have adopted a feral cat... and he needs a nice home :)
Great work! Love it! I have a question... have you found the faux grass easy to manage if it rains?
It doesn’t rain much in Arizona, but when it has it drys fast cause there’s no humidity out here lol
Amazing! Lovely work. Where did you get your fence material?
Rob Lund the Hime Depot down the street. I live there! Lol
That looks so great! Very inspiring! Can I ask why you put the motion light?
Please read the description
@@savannahtazz Ah sorry, thank you! There are no real predators where I'm from, so guess I'm not used to thinking about that
I'm thinking of somethin similar for my ferrit what meshing did you use please x
It’s a roll of nylon hardware cloth. Ferrits would chew thru it. Try the wire, that would be better. You can also use PVC pipes. They love that! I used to have 2 ferrits. Love watching them play! You can also use dryer vent hose. Another fun thing is a plastic storage tub full of packing peanuts!! That was hilarious to watch!!
I think you forgot the "step by step building" part.
I was actually just showing the progress as I finished each section. I’m not one to enjoy being in camera myself and recording the building part would have taken a lot of time and memory on my phone. Sorry I didn’t get that part. I hope it was enough to get some ideas out there for others.
@@savannahtazz That's cool!!
A Castle....lol. While slightly interesting, I find it not real accommodating and spacious for the Cat. I rate this one a C-
You're going to have to give him flea medication every month bc he's outside all the time. I noticed him scratching.
Yep got that covered. No fleas out here. The bug guys get out here monthly so we don’t have scorpions either. 😁
happykt Thank you so much for subscribing! My Tazz deserves to have an audience! He’s so amazing! 😻
A nocturnal cat doesn’t need motion lights. I’d find them irritating frankly.
Nope can’t do with the lights. I want to know where he is at all times. We live in Arizona and the critters are crazy out here. The lights aren’t very bright anyways. And the fairy lights? Ummmm I like’em. I sit outside in the cat house with him a lot it’s our happy place 😍
Yo get to the point. I get it cute cat, but common!!