Catio owners: Does your cat not accept being confinded to one?

I understand some cats just do not like to be confined to a catio. So... did/does your cat:

1) love it right away?

2) accept it begrudging in time?

3) still show anxiety and wish to get out?

4) never wanted to use it?

My cats love ours but we have a very large one with a huge climbing structure in it. It looks like this.  Not sure how they would react to being put into a small one though.

I just googled Catio. Looks kinda cool, but I don't think I would ever forcibly put my cat in one.

My catio (it's not a real catio, but a cat enclosure built by my husband) is right outside of the side door, so it allows me to keep the side door open & my cats can go from the house to the catio to house to catio at their leisure. They aren't 'confined' so maybe that's why they love it so much. Plus I put catnip on the ground and they can roll around in it...something I never do inside the house. We also have a bird feeder that they can see from the "catio". Not sure if that is entertainment or torture, but they sure are interested in watching the birds....

@Rotobay That looks like a nice enclosure with the many perches.

@Misty8723 Do you keep your cat indoors all the time, let it roam free, or take it on supervised walks?

If I build one it would be large, and my cat would be able to go from house to enclosure/catio through a cat door. I think that's important for a cat so that it does not feel too confined.

Good point; I'm restricting query to catios. Enclosures relevant too. Thinking now that these things are rare.

Btw we have 5 cats (right now) and some spend more time on the catio than others. We planted cat grass out there and some of them love it and others are indifferent. Same with catnip--some love it, some not so much. They are all different!

My cats have got a huge enclosure full of trees. Most of them are happy to just hang out, but one or two of them spend every waking moment trying to find a way out.

Can't please them all.

I have an indoor/outdoor cat that adopted us ten years ago.  He was born and raised in the alley, so we never considered turning him into an indoor cat. Last January we nearly lost him to bacterial anemia, an infection cats can usually shrug off.  Turns out my kitty has FIV.  We managed to save him, but he will only remain in good health if he no longer fights with other cats (which he did on a daily basis) and no longer hunts (he used to catch and eat rats on the regular).

Seeing as it was winter, keeping him indoors in the beginning wasn't that big of an issue. But when warmer weather rolled around, he became impossible. At first he would whine constantly to be let out, especially when we opened the windows to let in a bit of fresh air. So we built a 10' X 5' catio just off our back porch, thinking that would solve all of our problems.  It hasn't. My oldest black kitty spends entire days out there.  My other girl is a regular visitor.  Not so the Mojo.  He'll go out in the morning, come back in the house and whine for a few hours, then go sleep on the bed for a few hours before beginning this cycle again. I'd like to say that he's calmed down some, but he hasn't.  At least, not much. In fact, I'm wondering whether the catio isn't some kind of torture chamber for him - a perch from where he can survey everything that he's lost.

Remind me in a few months to give you an update on the situation.  Who knows - maybe this tiger can change his spots, but I'm not counting on it. 

We have a catio for a cat we took in three years ago.  She'd always been an indoor cat before so having a catio is a treat for her, she's out there all the time.  She does want to get out, too, though, so we also take her on walks with a leash and harness.

Don't give up @Denise Ferron  My avatar cat used to be feral. It took over a year for him to stay in the house for longer than it took him to wolf down a bowl of food. I finally managed to shut him in for three whole days when a blizzard struck, but I think he only agreed to that because the snow was so deep it blocked the windows.

Now he's happy as an indoor/enclosure only cat, but it has taken more than 4 years to get to this point.

Thanks, Norachan. In the end, I think there are about as many reactions to a catio as there are cats to put them in. But four years sounds doable ;-) I'll just have to arm myself with patience.