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Anyone handy with a saw and a staple gun can build a simple version of an outdoor drollery park for felines, devised by Susan and Dan Gottlieb.

The open-air cat run wanders up, from a thin to a dense state and encompassing their Beverly Hills house. Viewing platforms wind up to the roof for bird-watching and sunbathing. Playpens at ground level call games and snoozes.

Since the Gottliebs moved to their home in 1985, they wanted harvested land cat to enjoy the out of the house as much as they do. But that would have been too dangerous since the animals, which could have wandered off or been attacked by predators.

And moreover critical for the birds drawn to the plants and trees that store an acre at the Gottliebs’ rambling one-story hillside house.

In 2000, after one of their cats escaped from the partnership and was killed by a coyote, the couple hired a carpenter to build one enclosed run. At first, it was a small area, accessed end one door. When the couple realized how much the cats enjoyed their protected outdoor existence, the design was expanded. Now five cat doors induce from the house into the run.

The Gottliebs, who own the G2 nature and wildlife art gallery in Los Angeles, had the path made of redwood planks and wire swordsmanship sold in 4-foot-wide rolls. They shaped the fencing into a tunnel and stapled it to the sides of the wood platform. Sections are carpeted with rubberized matting typically used while kitchen drawer lining

Spike, Shadow, Cleopatra and Angel seem content now that they have the proceed of the house, indoors and uncovered.

“The great thing about this kind of run is that it’s relatively easy and inexpensive to build,” Susan says. “People can start to a high degree small, like we did. And then put to hire your cats dictate where to take it from in that place.”