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So, does that mean that you're kind of a 'Jungle Book' type person, Theresa?
Raised by animals, suckiled on canine mother's milk?  Brought back to
civilization later in life, like Lord Greystoke?  ;-)

Such a cool cat enclosure wouldn't bee too expensive in
s. FL,*if*, as some noted, one had the room & funds.
Since moving here where coyotes abound, and having
heard a lotta sad stories from the natives re their predatory nature, I
don't think this chick is right on in her
belief that screens will keep coyotes from eating her cats.
I'm hardly the expert, however. I saw one coyote, once,
face-to-face on a trail in Yosemite park. It looked just
like a medium-sized d-pet except for the feral-looking
eyes. It looked me up and down, turned tail, and slunk
off into the bushes. OTOH I ran yelling back to my
companions.....

You mean that he won't allow you to make any big modifications?
That's too bad.  All your ideas sound like a lot of work though!  We
aren't all as lucky as Marina with her enclosed balcony.

This reminds me of an interesting room we had in the house I lived in
when I was little.  The room was a breezeway that connected the house
and the garage.  It had doors on all four sides.  One door went to the
kitchen, the opposite door went to the garage, the front door went to
the driveway, and the back door went to the back yard.  That would
have been a good room for a cat, although the screen was only on two
sides.  During summer, we treated that room as though it were an
indoor room.  During the winter, since the walls were just screens, it
was treated like it was the outside.

*Blush* Thank you! I only wish we had a door going out of the house into
the enclosure, so we could easily go out and seat with the kitties. Oh,
they would *love* that!