Welcome to my Cat World! I have four adult Siamese cats and we all the time have kittens. My husband Leo and I made a decision in the future, we have been going to exit and exchange the scratching post that my husband made many years ago. Boy, have been we in for sticker shock; we went to our native pet store and the prices were just outrageous. For a fundamental scratching publish, we have been looking at a minimal of about $60.00 and it was even ugly to look at. In looking at their restricted selection, we decided that possibly the internet would give us a greater deal. Effectively not solely was the delivery ridiculous but my hubby, being the resourceful man that he's, mentioned we'd be higher off building it ourselves. Before I begin, if this plan seems a little too complicated then make sure to go to the bottom where you will be able to find the simple cat tree plans we used when we made our first one.
When he built our last scratching post, he used carpet and it was laborious, to say the least, to get it to wrap across the post. So we regarded for alternatives to carpet and plans to construct one on the internet. Well, there was not any plans that we could discover that we appreciated so we decided to design our own. We found that a lot of the producers have been utilizing pretend fur now as a substitute of carpet, to our reduction, so we used that as an alternative of carpet. Hey, and whereas we're at it, why not spoil our infants with something greater than only a scratching post. My husband checked out lots of the designs of pre-made cat bushes and this is his version for the "Frick Kitties."
My husband's model could probably be made smaller or larger depending on what your needs are. In fact smaller would imply less cash spent on materials. Try to Freecycle as a lot of the supplies as you presumably can, A quantity of folks have sheets of plywood left over from a project in their garage that they might love to eliminate and old faux fur coats can be used to cover the little houses and perches. A smaller version of this may very well be made by a novice woodworker, just a little more ability is required for a larger one.
Supplies
* One carpet tube: This may be gotten free of charge from most of your carpet warehouses as they often find yourself in the garbage bin.
* One sheet of plywood or particle board: I used particle board as some one was giving sheets of the stuff away on freecycle. You also should examine the cut off bin at your local hardware. Residence Depot has one and I have discovered half sheets of wood for as little as $4.
* 2 yards of faux fur: I used what they name the lamb's wool as it's also utilized in pads for wheel chairs and I wished my one outdated boy to really feel comfortable. I purchased this at Walmart for $6.95 a yard.
* 1 long toothed flooring or door mat: I purchased this as a end result of, whereas on the pet store, I saw that they offered a unit that could be mounted on the wall for the kitties to rub against to mainly comb themselves and I thought it was neat. I purchased this on the Home Depot, it was to get ice and snow off of boots. I paid $10 for it but it made two scratchers.
* 2 one hundred ft. lengths of jute rope: I bought this at Harbor Freight for about $8 a roll. They have a web page the place you can buy this online.
* Staples, Nails and Wooden Glue
* Kitty toys to hang from perches
Instruments
* Round Noticed to cut tubes and plywood or particle board
* End nailer to nail boards together or screw gun and screws
* Staple gun to staple material and rope and door mat
* 4 inch gap saw to chop spherical items of wooden to fit in tubes to nail or screw into
Cutting Guide
* My husband's base was 24 by 24 inches
* 8 posts out of the carpet tube at 14 inches
* Two boxes, 14 by 15 inches
* Two perches, 14 by 14 with a two inch rim around three sides
* One L formed board, 24 by 28 inches
* One platform, 14 by 24 inches
My husband recommend that every one perches and boxes be made and covered with faux fur beforehand. Connect the rounds contained in the tubes with wooden glue. Nail or screw tubes onto the bottom with nails or screws at an angle. Cover the tubes with rope or door mat reduce to size. You too can cowl among the tubes with pretend fur. Next connect the L formed piece of wood, screwing or nailing into the round piece of wood at the top of the tube. Nail or screw on your houses and perches.
Attach your kitty toys where you want them and cover the total thing in catnip. We minimize the black mat with a pair of shears. As soon as you bought right down to the base, it was not very thick and fairly straightforward to cut. For assembly, please confer with the picture. We discovered that we could cowl a lot of the items with fabric beforehand and that helped greatly. It will take to individuals two wrap the jute around the posts as one person needs to have the power to staple whereas the opposite individual holds the jute tight.
I imagine that my husband and I saved a terrific deal on making our personal cat tree and we had a ball making it. The kitties love their new place to play and so they use the scratcher created from the black mat a lot. I hope this offers everybody some nice ideas. Depending on size, this could take a weekend to complete.
Author Resource:
Do you want some simpler Cat Tree Plans to use? I understand these are a little bit bit sophisticated so that you would possibly wish to strive the ones that we used once we constructed our first one. You may find them by going to the web site we went to that may train you the manner to Build a Cat Tree .
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