I’m jealous. On Amazon Prime Day I bought three big fuzzy cat beds for Linden, Poe, and my best friend’s cat Shelby. Shelby loves her bed. Linden and Poe will not step foot on theirs.
However, I did make them this Maine Coon-sized 2 story playhouse that they adore.
It’s been 7 weeks since it was completed, so far it’s holding up nicely.
Materials:
2 medium heavy duty moving boxes - each box has a door cut out, I didn’t cut into the bottom/top of the boxes like some directions suggest to, because I worried about stability
2 20"x10" canvases for the roof, which I had left over from a different project
4 nuts and bolts, I think 1.25" to bolt the boxes to each other
8 1" washers
2 or 3 1" L braces to fasten the canvases to each other
white and orange permanent vinyl
2 9"x18" scratchers from Chewy for the bottom floor
1 self-heating crate mat from 5 Below for the top floor
1" hinges for the door
5 to 6 ounces of peacock blue paint
a couple of hot glue sticks to glue down the roof
a repurposed fishy wand toy that’d been ripped off its wand by a vacuum is suspended in the middle of the canvases, looped around a L brace, to dangle down and be whacked at
Five minutes after amazon delivery, Tikva immediately jumps into box. Fits perfectly!
Two minutes later, EC kicks her out and finds a better way to occupy. She’s wearing her “Birds Be Safe” collar. Since I started putting those on her a couple of years ago, no more live (or dead) birds in the house. Yeah, the other cats in the neighborhood tell her “your mama dresses you funny,” but she kinda likes being different. Besides I can instantly distinguish her half a block away from the two other black cats in the neighborhood.
Yep! She tolerates it just fine. It took only about half an hour to get her to walk to the end of the street and back without hesitation. We stopped taking her for walks too often, though, since it makes her want to go out at times that are inconvenient to us, and she gets very vocal about it.
A beautiful kitty and you’re a beautiful person for adopting her!
I just want to say that I highly approve of Tikva’s tri-colour motif. There’s nothing classier than black, brown, and white (or so my mother always told me when I was just a pup)!
She was born only last spring. (In any case, many regions of Ukraine are pretty warm—even subtropical—so it wouldn’t be unusual for a young Ukrainian cat never to have seen snow before.)
And what a good doggie! We’ve recently been walking our pups on leashes instead of just letting them go crazy in the yard. I think it’s been good for all of us, but hope we can keep it up as the bugs and weather get worse.