Secure outdoor cat house

Shivi111

Our eldest cat, Mori, loves to be outside as much as possible. At the moment he is allowed out when we are home, but stays inside when we are working. He is always in at nighttime & this will stay the case.

When the summer comes (if it ever does!) I'd love to be able to let him out in the morning as I leave for work (he sits looking wistfully out the window...) but I can't install a cat flap in rented house. I don't want him outside with nowhere to go nap if he wants to.

I would love to put an outdoor house in the garden for him but don't want the ferals and foxes in it, I've been looking around in hopes of finding a house with a door that will only open for a cat with a microchip... Anyone ever come across such a thing?

He's an escape artist when it comes to collars so a chip on a collar won't work for him...

SillyMangoX

I've seen cat kennels with just a plain cat flap on them but never with a microchip one (at least in shops anyway!) but I'd imagine it wouldn't be too big a job if you were putting together a kennel to buy a microchip flap separate and just replace the one with it. Or else if there's a carpenter or shed maker around you, I'm sure they'd be able to put something together too!

Speedwell

Is your garden fenced? I know a cat shelter that uses a fence-top apparatus similar to this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/3c/64/8d/3c648d663480fa73b07d5157f3dcccd0.jpg and the owner says it works well. I live in rented property and I would imagine this enclosure style would be easy to remove when you have to leave. We're considering it for our escape artists.

Shivi111

Hi, no not fenced at all, low walls... This would keep ferals & foxes out I imagine but our garden is huge so I imagine the cost of this would be high... Good thought though!