al fresco chickens

[PaulaSB12]

The local fur and feather market is tomorrow, but my chicken coop isn't coming until Wednesday. Would it be ok to put the chickens in the catio for one night? The weather is mild and not wet, the catio is covered and on concrete so no fox can get in (we don't get the wildlife you do boring foxes only no bears or anything interesting the steps on the cat ladders are suitable for perching on so apart from offending 3 moggies I can't see any problem or am I missing something?

 

[scratch'n'peck]

As long as the chickens you get cant flap and squeeze through some opening, then it sounds like a good option.

Are you from the UK? I have tried to get term of endearment, "moggie" to catch on here in the States, but people still insist on calling them kitties.

 

[devora]

TIL what a catio is.
A moggie is a kitten or a cat or both?

 

[Imp]

TIL what a catio is.
A moggie is a kitten or a cat or both?

I know catio, I've seen pics of PaulaSB12's, very nice.

Now I had to google Moggie:


From Arthur Middleton: In the British TV series Are You Being Served a cat is often referred to as a moggy (I’m not sure of the spelling). Can you explain the derivation of this?
A Though I have to tell you that Are You Being Served has hardly been shown on British televisions for the better part of twenty years, that word is still common, often spelled moggie and sometimes shortened to mog. The latter often refers to a feline of undistinguished type and manners, the cat equivalent of a mongrel dog, but in general usage the former is just a pet name for any domesticated cat. It seems to be fromMaggie, the affectionate short form of Margaret. In the eighteenth century, this was applied as a name for a cow or calf. In the nineteenth century it could refer to an untidily dressed woman or slattern. It was only in the twentieth century that it became a pet name for a cat. How or why the sense shifted in this way is not understood. Eric Partridge, in his Dictionary of Historical Slang implies that the cat sense may be Cockney rhyming slang, but I can find no evidence for that origin.

Imp- How cool- I've been a fan of "Are you being served for years" It's still on tv here.

 

[PaulaSB12]

The catio is the safe place for the bossy dictators known as my moggies (moggie is cat) moggies are non bread cats unlike the pure breed ones.

 

[peepmommy]

That just made my day!

 

[devora]

These must be bread cats. )

 

[PaulaSB12]

Didn't notice the spelling there. They are monsters though I was night shift monday and tuesday. I woke up on wednesday after a nap and fell off the bed they literally had me on the edge so as soon as a moved off I fell.

 

[galanie]

These must be bread cats. )