catsworking posted: " By Roc Remember that fantastic gray kitty perch Karen put together for us as an early Christmas present during the pandemic… Tony sleeps up top evenings, and we've kept it looking nice. I can count on one paw the times Max has ever touched it. " Cats Working
Remember that fantastic gray kitty perch Karen put together for us as an early Christmas present during the pandemic…
Tony sleeps up top evenings, and we've kept it looking nice. I can count on one paw the times Max has ever touched it.
Tony and I found one sisal post PERFECT for wonderful claw-grabbing s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s and we've been giving it daily workouts — until this happened…
I can't blame Tony. I'm the only kitty with the size and strength to commit vandalism of this magnitude. I even look get a criminal look in my eyes when I'm pondering my next big caper…
Around these parts, they call me "KMD" (Kitty of Massive Destruction).
This development upset Karen because 1) Lost of a popular scratching place put us one step closer to digging in to the furniture, and 2) It looked bad, not that the living room is what you'd call a showplace even on a good day.
The sisal was flimsy, and the post underneath turns out to be crappy cardboard. Which explains how Karen got the thing dirt-cheap. What did she expect for less than three figures? Mahogany?
Out of respect (and aversion to Karen's screaming), Tony and I have steered clear of that post since the destruction.
After determining it might be fixable, Karen turned to the trusty internet and discovered a cottage industry for restoring sisal kitty scratchers.
She bought 164 ft. of MEEXPAWS 1/4" sisal rope from Amazon, which came nicely coiled, and with a roll of double-stick tape…
Photo: Amazon
But Karen didn't want to use tape or glue because they might not withstand our assaults, and they'd ruin the cardboard if the post needed fixing again. What to do, what to do?
We don't own a big staple gun, and Karen was considering nailing it when she found this perfectly brilliant man with a YouTube video, "My cat tree repair without tools or glue"…
We tackled the project this past weekend. I supervised nearby, of course. Karen first removed the original sisal, which had been stapled.
Immediately upon untying the new bale of sisal, all 164 feet unraveled at our feet into a tangled mess, which Karen then had to fling around the post with every row she wrapped.
Sorry, no photos of that because I have no thumbs for the iPhone and if Karen had let go for a second in mid-wrapping, it would have all come undone.
As she used up rope, it got a little easier. Finally, she made it to the bottom and tied it off. Voila!...
The color's a bit off, but it's heavier rope, so even BETTER than before.
I say that even though Tony and I have so far refused to be the guinea pigs to test it, even though Karen gave us an hilarious demonstration to refresh our memories on how to scratch a post.
Karen was so pleased with the result, she's gotten ideas about our other perches. But first, she needed to salvage the remaining sisal, a job not made any easier by Tony romping all over it, biting at it like she was playing. We've got this much left…
Karen thinks there's enough left to give Tony's favorite blue perch at the top of the stairs a refurb…
We'll need to get more sisal for the short perch by the living room window that screams for attention…
And then there's that tall perch next to the couch…
The lower level there where Mickey and the Teds hang out could also use some love…
I'm glad Adele isn't here to see this because she believed "Every Cat's an Artist" and called all these perches "art installations." She'd be spitting mad and fluff-tailed to have her creative endeavors sisaled over.
Speaking of outrage, Karen has been wondering why we all suddenly stopped fighting over Max's favorite kitty bed near the sliding glass door. She found her answer while taking these photos...
There was a hairball on Max's favorite cuddle toy, Cattey. By the color, it could belong to anybody, but she'll never find out who because we're cats, not rats...
(PS: You'll be relieved to know that Cattey is fine. The hairball had dried out and came off without leaving a stain. I hope you weren't eating dinner while you read this.)
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