Our friend John, the track master out at the little railroad, is staying with us this week while he and Tom oversee some work being done replacing ties. Yesterday the weather didn't cooperate, so they devoted some of their time and energy to converting one of the support poles down in the basement to a scratching post for the cats. Now that the basement is somewhat finished, the two-by-fours that used to serve the cats for filing their claws have disappeared behind drywall. So Tom went online and found how to wrap a support pole with rope to give the cats a new place to claw. It took 200 feet of rope to wrap the entire almost-seven-foot pole. And that's tall enough for us to rub up against and scratch our own backs.I am not sure if the cats have tried it out yet. We may have to rub it with catnip to get them interested.
Tom was also determined to build some cat perches for them. They seem particularly upset -- whine, whine, whine -- that the remodeling has displaced a lot of places where they used to climb and survey their domain. He still may construct something needlessly elaborate, but it turns out that the cats are perfectly happy sitting on the deck chairs that Tom and John brought downstairs to get them out of the bad weather. Since the chairs had already been serving as feline furniture on the deck, they made for familiar sitting for Sundance and Cassidy. And cats do like the familiar.
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LOL- I has to bring our cats over and scratch their paws on their scratching post before the would use it. Every time I'd walk past it with them in the room I'd lean over and run my fingernails across it and they finally started doing it too.
Also- if the perches dont seem to be interesting them, put a cardboard box the same sise as the perch on it. They LOVE boxes, as I'm sure you already know!!!!
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