This does not keep water out you have to place in a covered area. It would have been nice at about the $35 range but for this price I expected more. I am going to keep in and use it on my front porch. So far the cats have not shown any interest in it and it has been in the 30"s. the doors are large compared to the size of the house. this may be a little bit of a wind block but I can not see it being anymore than that. This is NOT the the heated version and that would have been better.