Catnipped's new cat tree

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!)

"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!

No, I'd say that Jessie is about average - she's 7.5 to 8.0 pounds. I think
the boys might be big - if they grown into their ears and tails - but the
are very, very lean cats, almost like Abyssinians , like this
http://tinyurl.com/2fsb59


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!)

Aw Karen, that sucks! Did you see if you could get a refund on it - or did
you at least give the seller a bad review on eBay?

The one we got at PetsMart cost $190 + tax, which was way more than we
wanted to pay, but it's made out of very heavy wood - even with the boys
flinging themselves around on it (and I have more video of that) it doesn't
rock or tip.

Hugs,

CatNipped

CatNipped wrote:
"Karen AKA Kajikit" wrote in message
...

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!


No, I'd say that Jessie is about average - she's 7.5 to 8.0 pounds. I think
the boys might be big - if they grown into their ears and tails - but the
are very, very lean cats, almost like Abyssinians , like this
http://tinyurl.com/2fsb59

I get the impression that "average" size for UK cats is
somewhat smaller than in the U.S. The only cat I ever had
who weighed less than ten pounds was Paraclete (born to a
mother who was an FLV carrier).(1) I think most of us here
regard ten to twelve pounds as "average", although Melisande
(who doesn't seem particularly large) weights closer to
fourteen. Patches was about eighteen short-hair pounds of
pure muscle, and I've known non-obese cats who weighed as
much as twenty.

(1) They didn't test for such things, back then, but that's
what her grandmother died of, and my vet had told me the
daughter "might be a carrier". ....Told me AFTER Paraclete
was born, of course - I had assumed an indoor cat couldn't
get pregnant, so didn't need to be spayed. (I hadn't
reckoned on the determination of a female cat in heat, so
mama-to-be got out and returned with incipient kittens.)

On 12 Aug, 10:15, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:


I get the impression that "average" size for UK cats is
somewhat smaller than in the U.S.

This has come up before and seems to be true- I'll adit the Fabulous
Furballs are a little on the small side even by UK standards but Saris
weighs in at about 6.5lbs (and Dave last night said he thought she
looked a bit chubby) and Dunzi is just under 6 even Fugazi (whom many
fellow slaves reckoned was "HUGE") was about 12.5

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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CatNipped wrote:
"Karen AKA Kajikit" wrote in message
...

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!


No, I'd say that Jessie is about average - she's 7.5 to 8.0 pounds. I
think the boys might be big - if they grown into their ears and tails -
but the are very, very lean cats, almost like Abyssinians , like this
http://tinyurl.com/2fsb59

I get the impression that "average" size for UK cats is somewhat smaller
than in the U.S. The only cat I ever had who weighed less than ten pounds
was Paraclete (born to a mother who was an FLV carrier).(1) I think most
of us here regard ten to twelve pounds as "average", although Melisande
(who doesn't seem particularly large) weights closer to fourteen. Patches
was about eighteen short-hair pounds of pure muscle, and I've known
non-obese cats who weighed as much as twenty.

I don't know, Jessie and Demi are both about 7.5 - 8 pounds. Bandit was
around 9.5 most of her life, but she had a lot of Maine Coon in her
background. Other cats I've seen in shelters and roaming seem to be about
Jessie and Demi's size, so I think even in the US, 9 pounds and over, while
it could be normal for individual cats, is probably higher than the
"average" weight of a cat.

Hugs,

CatNipped


(1) They didn't test for such things, back then, but that's what her
grandmother died of, and my vet had told me the daughter "might be a
carrier". ....Told me AFTER Paraclete was born, of course - I had assumed
an indoor cat couldn't get pregnant, so didn't need to be spayed. (I
hadn't reckoned on the determination of a female cat in heat, so
mama-to-be got out and returned with incipient kittens.)

No, I'd say that Jessie is about average - she's 7.5 to 8.0 pounds.

Yikes! Louie is our smallest cat, and weighs in at 12 pounds. Hope
I'm not over-feeding them. All they get is dry food and fresh water,
but it's available to them all day and through the night. I'm a
little concerned now. Feedback please.

-bonbon

I think the boys might be big - if they grown into their ears and tails - but the
are very, very lean cats, almost like Abyssinians , like this
http://tinyurl.com/2fsb59

bonbon wrote:

No, I'd say that Jessie is about average - she's 7.5 to 8.0 pounds.


Yikes! Louie is our smallest cat, and weighs in at 12 pounds. Hope
I'm not over-feeding them. All they get is dry food and fresh water,
but it's available to them all day and through the night. I'm a
little concerned now. Feedback please.

I wouldn't worry, so long as you can feel their ribs and
backbone through a reasonable pad of flesh. (Melisande's
back-bone is really quite pronounced - you can detect every
vertebrae - and her ribs are easily discernable, too,
although sufficiently padded so I don't feel cause for alarm.)


-bonbon


I think the boys might be big - if they grown into their ears and tails - but the
are very, very lean cats, almost like Abyssinians , like this
http://tinyurl.com/2fsb59

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:50:28 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



bonbon wrote:

No, I'd say that Jessie is about average - she's 7.5 to 8.0 pounds.


Yikes! Louie is our smallest cat, and weighs in at 12 pounds. Hope
I'm not over-feeding them. All they get is dry food and fresh water,
but it's available to them all day and through the night. I'm a
little concerned now. Feedback please.

I wouldn't worry, so long as you can feel their ribs and
backbone through a reasonable pad of flesh. (Melisande's
back-bone is really quite pronounced - you can detect every
vertebrae - and her ribs are easily discernable, too,
although sufficiently padded so I don't feel cause for alarm.)


-bonbon


I think the boys might be big - if they grown into their ears and tails - but the
are very, very lean cats, almost like Abyssinians , like this
http://tinyurl.com/2fsb59


Thank you for the feedback EvelynVogtGamble. I'm a little more at
ease now.

-bonbon

On Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 2:05:07 AM UTC+7, bonbon wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:50:28 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:



bonbon wrote:

No, I'd say that Jessie is about average - she's 7.5 to 8.0 pounds.


Yikes! Louie is our smallest cat, and weighs in at 12 pounds. Hope
I'm not over-feeding them. All they get is dry food and fresh water,
but it's available to them all day and through the night. I'm a
little concerned now. Feedback please.

I wouldn't worry, so long as you can feel their ribs and
backbone through a reasonable pad of flesh. (Melisande's
back-bone is really quite pronounced - you can detect every
vertebrae - and her ribs are easily discernable, too,
although sufficiently padded so I don't feel cause for alarm.)


-bonbon


I think the boys might be big - if they grown into their ears and tails - but the
are very, very lean cats, almost like Abyssinians , like this
http://tinyurl.com/2fsb59


Thank you for the feedback EvelynVogtGamble. I'm a little more at
ease now.

-bonbon

Please check out http://cattree.uk we have some fabulous Cat Trees for sale!

Regards,

Jon

"Karen AKA Kajikit" wrote in message
...
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!)

Karen, I got to thinking about this... would it be possible for you to buy
a large square piece of plywood and screw that into the bottom of your cat
tree - that would give it a larger base and make it less likely to tip
(you'd have to get some rather thick plywood so it's heavy enough to
stabilize it)? Other than that, all I can think of is to make sure you
anchor it into a wall or ceiling stud.

Hugs,

CatNipped