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Cat Tree Question
Have any of you (or your s/o) made a cat tree for your cat?
H is thinking about making one from Rosco. He needs some vertical action.
Anyway - if you have, was it super expensive - less than buy a pre-made cat tree? On a scale of 1 to 10, what was the difficulty (10 being super difficult)? Would your recommend buying or making the tree?
And Lastly, do you have the plans/blueprint you might be willing to share - or a website perhaps?
TIA!
Re: Cat Tree Question
We'll be doing the same thing eventually. I would expect it would be cheaper than buying one, probably (I'm guessing) under $100.
http://feline-furniture.tripod.com/
5 cats. 1 baby.
We made one - we went to Lowes, had them cut the pieces of wood we'd need. We put carpet on them, and screwed them together.
It easily cost under $100 for something that would have cost well over $400 retail. We couldn't take it with us when we moved the last time, so we're currently working on trying to make a new one soon!
FF
I cut down a small ceder tree ( about 4 inches in diameter at the larges part, around 5 - 5.5 ft tall) and peeled the bark off (really easy with ceder and it leaves a smooth trunk). We trimmed the branches, but left some various lengths to hang things on and maybe someday build a seat using the branches as support.
Then we screwed a piece of semi circle plywood to the bottom for a base and wrapped the tree in sisal rope that is held on by it's own friction at the bottom and by a twist tie on a branch at the top.
There are two bricks on the base to hold it down.
I love this tree idea! It's so organic, and I love the way these tree trunk type things look (I also love log cabins and the log furniture, yet I have neither of those things...hmmm...)
I wonder if there is a way we can incorporate this into the plan we're looking at!