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Catnipped's new cat tree
"jofirey" wrote in message ... "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!) 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 That is what I did for theirs. I went to a construction site asked if I could raid the lumber waste bin. Found some very nice and heavy pieces. Went up to the local carpet store and with their permission raided the waste bin. I already had a heavy duty staple gun. For the base I went and got hemp rope and wrapped it around. Total all together was about $20 and about 3 hours of labor taking my time. I made it look like a open box the end pieces have the rope wrapped around it and on top and bottom are sheet wood so it has a base and a top. I used the carpet along the exposed pieces of wood. They love it the can scratch it all up. It is heavy enough and wide enough not to be able to tip over. |
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Catnipped's new cat tree
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
... 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.) |
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Catnipped's new cat tree
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 |
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Catnipped's new cat tree
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 |
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Catnipped's new cat tree
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 |
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Catnipped's new cat tree
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 |
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