10 Best Indoor Cat Cages
Buy the best 10 best indoor cat cages selected and recommended by interior designers. By Peyton Robinson.
Owning a cat is great, but sometimes those "cat traits", like sharpening claws on furniture or knocking over items on shelves, can make you question your decision. We give you the indoor cat cage enclosure as a solution to this dilemma. Now your cat can play, scratch up the carpeted features within, and even eat or use the litter box. A brilliant fix to those typical "cat problems."
10 Best Indoor Cat Cages
Buying Guide
Peyton Robinson
Interior Design Expert
From fancy feeding stations to designer crate furniture, Peyton knows how to ensure comfort to your furry companion without compromising on the aesthetics of your home.
Your cat is a tiny predator – and a very efficient one, too. Encouraged by many generations for their ability to catch mice and rats, cats have been human companions for many centuries – perhaps as many as 53,000 years. Cats are independent and do not love cages, but there are times when restraint is to the benefit of the cat as well as to you. Therefore, indoor cat cages and enclosures are sometimes a necessity.
An attached cat enclosure can give your indoor cat a place to take the sun, chatter at the birds and get a glimpse of open sky while ensuring your pet's safety. These can range from a firmly screened bow window to a patio-sized enclosure equipped with litter box, water, and cat toys. An indoor kitty who has no access to outside is a bored kitty, but Indoor/outdoor cats are at risk. On farms, there are wild animals – coyotes, raccoons, opossum and skunks that don’t mind at all killing a cat. Some of those predators can be found in cities as well, with roaming dogs, feral cats and mean humans added on as a bonus, right along with vehicles.
Sometimes you need to restrain your cat inside. There can be many reasons for doing this, such as introducing a new cat to an established household, protecting an elderly cat from young ones who want to move up the pecking order, being able to lay hands on a kitty that needs medicine but like to hide in the most inaccessible places, and (of course) a safe napping spot for venturesome kittens. Cages can also be used to restrain feral cats so that they can become habituated to living with humans.
Indoor enclosures need to have plenty of room for the cat. You don’t want to put a main coon cat in a cage intended for kittens, for example. Some of the space can be vertical. In fact, that can be ideal because the litter box can be placed on the lowest level, and the food and water dish on the highest shelf. A sick cat might need everything to be on one level, however, and kittens might need climbing ladders to get from one level to another.
One example of an attractive indoor cat enclosure is a climbing wall with floating box shelves where a venturesome feline could take a nap, or lie in wait for a housemate. Another charming idea is a cage run that goes around the ceiling of a room, giving the cat space and freedom to observe, but creating an area to which kitty can be restrained if the need arises. Getting new furniture is one instance for restraining your cat. Cats tend to be alarmed by new people and new things in their home, and a door opened for a furniture mover is the ideal time (from a cat’s point of view) to make a bolt for the outdoors.
Indoor cat cages can be for the cat’s pleasure, for the cat’s safety or sometimes for the pet owner’s sanity.