Andres4NY, 1 year ago

Oh, I forgot it's #Caturday!

Here's Erie using the unfinished cat tower in "train" mode (lying flat).

Same tower, looking at the other end. This time there's a hole 2-3ft from the end, but the hole is on top rather than on the side. There's a black cat w/ white neck looking at the camera, her head popping out of the hole. A single white paw is also coming out of the hole, but is blurry because it's moving.
Zoomed in on the same hole as in the 1st pic, which is on the side of the tower. This time the black cat is almost completely hidden, except for her yellow eyes, white whiskers, and nose which are still in the tower but visible through the hole.

Andres4NY, 1 year ago

We added shelves to the #CatTower yesterday. Next up, we need carpet or sisal or something.

I still need to find a good source for inexpensive/free carpet in Queens or inexpensive sisal online, but tbh I haven't really been looking to hard.

Same cat tower, this time upright. It reaches the ceiling. There are 3 platforms/shelves on the tower, all on different sides.
Close-up of one of the shelves, showing the underside. There's a triangle support, with blocks of wood (a 1x4) on other side of the support. The blocks of wood are what the screws dig into, since screws perpendicular to the plywood face would just fall out.

Andres4NY, 4 months ago

I don't think I ever followed up on this. I waited for a bit, hoping to find some free/used cheap carpet to use for the cat tower. It's NYC right? But after like 9 months of waiting, I gave up and bought some clearance carpet remnants from a local store. I also bought a sisal mat for the base. Then I opened it back up and stapled the carpet inside. I also put some carpet on the outside, but for Reasons (mostly I wanted to see what the cats actually preferred) I didn't quite finish it up.

Andres4NY, 4 months ago

#Erie (#MurderCat) loves it and would run across the room, jump up on it, and then legs splayed out climb to the top ledge like some kind of wild squirrel going up a tree. #Clove mostly ignored it. Neither really liked the sisal at the bottom, which I'd installed too low.

Now I've uninstalled the sisal and am putting it in a better spot. Both cats are having a blast with the tower down on the ground. #CatsOfMastodon.

The cat tower, now mostly covered in carpet (minus visible ledges), lying on the floor. A tuxedo cat walks nearby. A black cat emerges seemingly out of nowhere and bounces on the tux cat. Then the black cat turns around and jumps into a hole in the tower. Except rather than going fully inside, her butt hangs out while a kid laughs in the background.

Andres4NY, 4 months ago

Here's more of it. Now that I have a permanent location for the sisal mat, I'm both gluing and stapling it. The cats were very useful helpers, especially when I had to rotate the tower with both inside..

The black cat walks next to the cat tower. The bottom 1/3rd of it is bare plywood, the top 1/3rd is carpeted. The black cat pokes her paw into the hole, swatting at something. Then the camera pans down, showing another hole in the tower with the tuxedo cat staring out (and also the only carpeted platform). The black cat descends to the next hole/platform lower on the tower, and as she approaches the hole a white paw emerges from the hole and swats at her. At the end there you can see the sisal mat lying on the tower (unattached), too.