All about catios
Enclosed cat patios can be part of the solution for communities struggling with cat issues. Learn more about catios and how you can use them to benefit your community.
Many communities struggle with cat issues—implementing effective TNR, preventing abandonment, keeping cats and families together, and mitigating conflicts that arise between outdoor cats and less cat-tolerant neighbors. Did you know that catios can help us address these challenges?
Enclosed cat patios are increasing in popularity, and home-and-garden-style catio tours have launched in several cities to further encourage and inspire residents to build their own catios. Catios can help keep cats safe at home, address behavior problems and protect wildlife.
They can also bridge the divide between cat and wildlife people and be a seed for a larger collaborative discussion about effective, long-term solutions to outdoor cat populations.
Learn more about catios and how you can use them to benefit your community.
- What’s the deal with catios?: This blog reviews exactly what catios are—and what makes them so cool.
- Sharing Spaces: A collaboration between cat and bird advocates demos spaces that keep both species safe. Read about the wildly popular annual catio tour organized by the Bird Alliance of Oregon and the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon.
- How to: Build catio culture in your community: Find tips for organizing a catio tour and other ways for creating catio buzz in your community. Get inspired by Portland, Oregon, which launched the first catio tour in 2012. Check out the Seattle, Washington catio tour too!
- Catios: The benefits of outdoor enclosures for cats: Share these catio building tips with your community.
- Catios: They’re the cat’s meow! brochure: A great resources for animal shelters and rescues, animal control officers, veterinary clinics and wildlife centers to introduce people to catios. You can download the PDF or order packs from our store.
