Mystre Bengals Cattery

This is the pictorial of our cattery construction progress in our home. Our cats have a cage free enviorment and we try to provide as good of a life for our cats as possible. Whole males do have to be contained in some way in order to keep them from spraying all over the place. We have elected to create a space in our home that allows them to have a room of their own. There will be a seperation between the two sides of the garage addition in order to keep the boys seperated from one another and therefore safe. They are very loving and easy going cats, but as they say, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

View from the front of the garage looking in. As you can see we have not yet moved all of our stuff out of the garage into the new house. Cats take priority as you can see, they get their rooms handled first. The door in the back is the entrance to the newly enclosed part of the garage. That part was the third garage, until we framed it in and added a door.

 

On the left is the door we installed that goes from the garage into the Studs room, below right is the view inside before we added the flooring. The wood floor would have been a very bad idea due to how a whole male will not always use his litterbox. He sprays in order to attract those pretty little Bengal girls.

 

Above is the view from inside the Stud room looking out into our over stuffed garage.

 

This is the 4th bedroom of our new home... right after we tore out the carpet, who needs carpet in a Queens room? We wanted to add tile so that it would make it much easier to keep clean as well as able to disinfect more effectively. This is important to reduce the possiblity of illness in the cattery and is very important, however, the biggest benefit for us is that its easier to clean up after our furry loved ones.

 

A mess of materials and equipment in order to get started

 

On of the things we wanted to do was run the vinyl in the Studs room up the walls about 3 feet. That way if they sprayed it wouldnt get into the wood / drywall. The way we chose to do it was to not cut the vinyl on the floor on both wide (long) sides of the room but bent it right at the floor and just continued it up the sides. On the front and back sides where we were unable to do that we used a water proof caulking to seal all seams. This was to prevent liquid from leaking out of the room but also to prevent any critters, like ants, from getting into the room. The door is fully weather sealed as well.

 

This is the view of the garage stud room from the garage side looking in after the vinyl was installed.

 

This is the stud room from the inside looking out. The vinyl runs up the walls three feet all the way around. I know it looks more like a mens room, but if you have been around a whole male cat then you know you need to build it like a mens room. *laugh*

 

This is our 4th bedroom after the carpet was all removed and the tile was put down. The grout is a commercial grade and is an epoxy based grout. This makes it about as water proof as we can make it and still have it look nice. The cats will have shelving and hopefully a big tree inside. They have a great view of our side yard where we will install hummingbird feeders for their TV system. The girls still always have free roam of our home unless they are breeding with a boy or they need to be quarantined. This is again why we went with a tile, it is not only easy to clean but allows for a more complete disinfecting in order to maintain a healthy cattery.

 

Stay tuned as we add the furniture and enviorment for our cats. We will continue to add our improvements here for those interested in seeing our progress. Thank you for your interest in Mystre Bengals. Also please send suggestions for any improvements to us anytime, we are always interested in great ideas from everyone. *CLICK HERE TO EMAIL US *