AndresWith three available perches on the #CatTower, I guess we have space for one more cat in the house..
Sometimes they climb the #CatTower from the inside (which is also covered in carpet). Other times, they climb on the outside.
Rachael L@Andres4NY Did you just wing this design yourself or build it from a plan or ?
@r343l Just winged it with some scrap wood that was left in the garage. The perches and inside dimensions were based on their former sizes (Erie was just a kitten, so I went with Clove's size; however, Clove has put on more weight AND Erie is now bigger than Clove). It's basically just a plywood tube with 2x2s in each corner for some place to drive the screws into, and the perches are just trapezoids with a triangle (plus shims because I didn't measure very well) holding them up.
@Andres4NY Might have to go on the project list. The cats like climbing up to the loft beds (there are cat size stairs) but a shape like that might fit in some corner pretty well without taking up too much space (unlike commercial cat tower designs).
@r343l Rather than doing a base to hold it upright (which I didn't really have a plan for), I made it just the right size to fit along the ceiling molding. So it kind of wedges in there and stays in place despite two cats flailing all over it.
@Andres4NY we have super tall ceilings so we’d probably have to have a base also likely drill into wall. But ideas!
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... And I still wonder how they climb down inside the tower ...
Head downwards ⬇️ tail up ⬆️ or
tail first ⬇️ head upwards ⬆️ and
then turn around 🔄 – inside of this small space???
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@cihi1970 The one on the top shelf just climbed down on the outside, tail first/head up. It's pretty funny to see. The other one climbed down on the inside, also tail first. But I don't think she knows how to escape that way (😂), so she climbed back up to the lowest shelf and exited that way.
I do wish I'd made it just a few inches wider so they have more space inside there.
@Andres4NY 😂 Yes, I thought so when I watched the tail on the floor as she went inside (in the video).
Cats cannot climb upside down (as e.g. squirrels), because of their claws. They cannot reverse the direction of the claws and can only hang on them (like on a grapple), but not put their weight on them from the other side (as on crampons).
There are only three species of wild cats that can climb face down: the margay, the clouded leopard and the marbled cat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_cat
