Catio Home Away From Home Style 1

Home Away from Home -1 Comparison Chart

Experience Spacious Fun

The Home Away From Home Style 1 by Habitat Haven redefines feline enjoyment, offering three trim options in a design that includes two 4-Sided enclosures connected with two tunnels. This version brings spaciousness, flexibility, and fun to a new level. Please see the “What’s Included” tab for an exact list of everything that is included with each package! 

Basic – Simple Serenity

Choose the “Basic” trim package as your starting point, featuring the essential catio “shell” designed with human entry doors for easy access to each catio enclosure for interaction with your cat(s) or for cleaning when needed. The Basic Home Away From Home Style 1 creates a calm and safe outdoor space for your cat, allowing you the freedom to add or build your own accessories!

Plus – Comfort and Play Combined

Select the “Plus” trim package to get simple but essential accessories including a cedar plank floor and adjustable cedar shelves. This option serves as a perfect starting point if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by the array of extra accessories available!

Luxury – Ultimate Feline Retreat

Upgrade your catio to the ultimate feline sanctuary with the “Luxury” trim package! In addition to cedar floor and shelving, this option packs in all of our best accessories like scratching posts, hammocks, ramps, and awnings. Turn The Home Away From Home Style 1 into a cat palace with these enticing additions.

Spacious, Flexible, and Fun Design

The Home Away From Home Style 1 provides a spacious, flexible, and fun outdoor space for your cats. This style does not require attachment to a structure, offering freedom in placement and arrangement. However, if you would like either or both of the cat enclosures to be 3-Sided, please reach out to our design team for assistance!

Create Amazing Spaces for Your Kitties

Both enclosures are 4-Sided, allowing them to stand alone or connect to your home, garage, or building through tunnels, stairs, bridges, and more. You have the flexibility to connect it to a structure or cut a small hole in the enclosure for a window or kitty door entrance. With two full enclosures and two tunnels, the possibilities are endless for creating amazing spaces for your kitties.

Home Away from Home -1 BASIC

Home Away from Home -1 PLUS

Home Away from Home -1 LUXURY

* All enclosures with shelves come with secure surface clips and wood screws for exceptional shelf stability for climbing and jumping!

Please review the important information below about this item.

Our enclosures are made from durable galvanized steel mesh panels that are then powder coated black to ensure a long-lasting weatherproof finish.

Floor and Shelves

Our shelves and floor are cut to size and made from cedar which is naturally resistant to water, bugs, rot, and mold. It the ideal material choice for outdoor catio shelving and flooring.

Human Entry Doors

The access doors are 2 feet wide and 5 feet tall. This purposely small door is designed small for a reason. It is installed 4 inches off the ground as well. The door has been tested since 2003 as the most effective way to force the person entering to be mindful of their surroundings. When you enter a door like this, you will naturally be careful of where you step, what is above you and to the side. All of this awareness has proven time and time again to minimize any would-be kitty escapes during entry. The swing of the door (left or right hand swing) is adjustable and can be set to either option during assembly.

Holes for Tunnels, Towers, Stairs, etc.

Component holes are not cut where the tunnels, bridges, stairs, and other components meet the enclosures. Since the mesh is relatively easy to cut on-site during assembly, we leave the choice on where these holes are located up to you so you can position them as you see fit. This also avoids costly mistakes being made and/or accommodates site issues discovered during assembly.

If you purchase a catio that includes tunnels, bridges, stairs, or other components, or if you purchase a catio and component separately, we will automatically include the hand tools needed for cutting an opening.

Enclosures will arrive partially assembled and flat packed on a pallet. Assembly is straightforward for anyone who would consider themselves “handy.” Paper instructions will be provided. It is recommended that at least two reasonably healthy people are present to install the enclosures. Knowledge of basic carpentry and assembly is helpful.

Clips will be provided that secure the enclosure together. In addition, a special tool for snugly fitting/closing the clips is also provided with each enclosure order.

Once unpacked, you will arrange your enclosure near or on the assembly site. Using provided 3 prong clips and specialty pliers, you will connect the edges of your enclosure by setting the edges until you have a fully enclosed and free-standing enclosure. 

At that point, you can then attached to structure/buildings as necessary. Then you can create any needed holes in the enclosure to accept tunnels, stairs, or other accessory components as needed (holes are not made by Habitat Haven – they are made during assembly installation to offer maximum flexibility and minimize the chance for errors.

If required or desired, you can then secure your catio to the home or another structure as needed.

This item is made to order. This means the item is fabricated by hand just for you. It goes through an array of steps before it becomes ready to ship. The estimated delivery date shown on this page is primarily accounting for this fabrication time. In some cases, it may be ready in a shorter amount (in very rare cases a bit longer) of time and we will do our best to get it to you as fast as we can without compromising quality! You will be notified via email when your order is ready to ship!