"Karen AKA Kajikit" wrote in message
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I can't find the thread again, so I'll have to post seperately... I
just watched the video of your furry friends exploring their new cat
tree. How cute! It looks like the boys are going to grow up to be VERY
big cats (either that or Jesse is remarkably small...) Looks like they
love that new tree!

We just bought the girls a new cat tree of their own, but it's not
nearly as nice as yours... really we got ripped off. Never ever
EVER buy a super-cheap cattree on Ebay! I thought it would be big
enough for Silver to climb on it comfortably and the perches are TINY
so she only just fits... Not to mention it's unstable as heck because
the base is far too small for it and our ceiling isn't even enough to
make the screw-in-top sit firmly - Silly and Tessie were exploring it
and Tessie tried to bound up it like she did the old one, and she
shook it right loose from the ceiling! Fortunately it rocked and went
back into place without actually falling over, but they both got the
fright of their lives (and so did I because I was watching at the
time!)

I accidentally found the perfect untipable "cat tree" this weekend. We
don't have a cat tree right now. The ones I like are just way too much
money. I've been looking for sales, etc since I really want them to have
something inside by winter.

We had company coming yesterday and I'd had my eye on an inexpensive rug for
the family room. I went ahead and got it, and did feel bad getting that
when I wasn't willing to shell out the money for a proper cat tree. Still
the rug was only 1/3 the cost of a nice cat tree.

We put the rug down Friday night after we'd finished cleaning the house.
The guests are relatives who know my mother was a wonderful housekeeper,
and mom would expect me to have things looking good when they arrived.

Charlie came to bed an hour or so later. He said that Jake approves of the
new rug wholeheartedly. He has clawed it from every position he can get his
body into. I don't think he could be any happier it it had been woven from
catnip plant fibers. It looked good for the guests, but at the rate Jake is
going it will only be fit to cover a cat tree in a few months. I guess the
mothership wants us to build our own.

Jo