How to make a house for a cat

The house will save the cat from the cold and heat, in it she can quietly retire, if she has such a desire. This is especially true if the house has small children. Sometimes a house for a cat is a whole sports complex with posts and shelves. On the pillars of a cat can sharpen claws, and onshelves - languidly close, looking at others with mild contempt. Perhaps with the help of a house you will be able to wean the cat to sharpen claws on furniture, roll on your bed and climb on cabinets.

Cat lodges can be made from almost any improvised materials that meet several important requirements. First, they must be strong enough. Secondly, you need to use natural materials that should not unpleasantly smell, otherwise the cat may refuse even to approach the house you built. The house itself should be spacious enough that the cat in it was comfortable. It should not be tight, narrow and shaky.

We will tell you how to make a house for a cat with your own hands from plywood or chipboard. The role of the pipe, along which the cat will climb on the shelf and which can be sharpened by claws, will be a polyethylene sewage pipe. You will also need furniture fittings (corners), screws or screws, a rope made of natural fibers, a strong odorless adhesive and an upholstery material.

You need to start with the manufacture of the house itself. From the plywood or chipboard thickness of 8-10 mm, cut out the walls of the future house. The size of the house may be different, but the cat should be comfortable in it to sit, stand, lie, turn around its axis, stretch. In the front wall will need to make a hole-entrance diameter of about 15 cm.

From the plywood sheets, assemble the box-house andfasten with screws or screws, starting from the front wall. Outside and inside, you need to paste the house with any available material for upholstery. It is best to use a thin carpet. Upholstery needs to be glued, do not use a construction stapler or wallpaper carnations: the staples or cloves of a cat can damage the claws. At the bottom of the coating can not be glued - better bed, so that it can be at any time to get and wash.

Then you can start making a "trunk". To do this, take a plastic pipe with a diameterabout 10 cm and a length of 1 m. At one end, attach four corners to connect to the plywood base. To the other end are also attached the corners on which the shelf-bench will be kept.

Also it will be necessary make a stable box itself and attach it to the plastic pipe using corners. To do this, two corners must be attached to the height of the house above each other at a distance of 30-40 cm.

Finally, we make a plywood shelf. Its size depends on the size of your cat (shelvessize 50x60 cm will be enough for most cats, unless you have Maine Coon). On the shelf you need to glue the foam for softness, and then tighten or glue it with a cloth.

When all the details are ready, you can start assembling the house for the cat. But first The pipe needs to be wrapped with a rope made of natural fibers. This is done as follows: After making a few turns, carefully fix the rope with glue and allow it to dry out. Then again make a few turns, fix it, wait until it dries. Gradually, you wrap the entire tube in this way.

Finally, attach the box and shelf to the post, and fix the column itself and fix it well on the plywood slab. Inside the house put your favorite cat toy or any other thing that she considers "her", so that the cat quickly accustomed to his house.

Of course, make a house for a cat it is possible and from any other materials: wreath from a wool cozy "nest", use a wicker basket as a base, sew a soft house shaped like a tent out of foam rubber and fabric ... Fantasize, but remember: the house must firstly be convenient for your cat and like it.