Our cats climb up in our closet.
They pull themselves up with the clothes on hangers which results in claw snags in clothes or clothes all on the floor in a crumpled mess.
They like to sleep in the folded clothes on a shelf above the hanging clothes... that equals more clothes pulled down and layers upon layers of cat hair all over everything.
It's been this way for years. We try to keep the closet doors closed and the cats dig and dig and dig until they open the sliding door enough to wedge themselves back in.
And then one night channel surfing, I saw this show on Animal Planet called My Cat From Hell.... the solution to many of the cat issues was to build them high spots. And so I did. Furry Husband was skeptical when I told him about my grand plan since he didn't see the show and wasn't sure just what in the hell I was talking about...
One night when he was at a wine tasting event I built this:
He got home and he helped me finish it... I bought a 1x12 at Home Depot and had them cut a 4' length for above our window and two 1' lengths to use as stepping stones....I covered them with soft, on sale, fleece material from a fabric store.
We ended up only using one step. A dog kennel is next to the dresser... step 1.
The shadow box on the dresser is screwed into the wall for stability... cat step 2.
There is a step mounted to the wall... cat step 3.
From there, they have their choice of the box filled with the left over fleece material or the fleece covered ledge with a kitty cup.
I sprinkled a little catnip on the ledge and the cat step number 3.
They are using it vs. our closet!
Score 1 for the hoo-mans.
2 comments:
I am so grateful that our cats have not discovered the wonderful shelf full of cat beds (aka sweaters) at the top of our closet.
My husband wants to build a cat runway system throughout the whole house. Shelves in all the rooms, way up high. I have convinced him that we need a house with 9' ceilings before we attempt his glorious plan.
So so smart....
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