Before buying a kitten, it is necessary to get several things, for example a tray even if you are going to accustom the favourite to a toilet bowl, and a claw sharpener that your cat did not tear up sofas and door jambs. Trays cost not much, and here a claw sharpener it will be expedient to make with own hands, the benefit is not such difficult process. And money you will save the decent sum. There are claw sharpeners of different types, however vertical it is considered one of the most popular.
It is required to you
- - two wooden plates,
- - plastic tube with a diameter of 10-15 cm,
- - piece of a dense thick rope,
- - furniture corners,
- - carpet or other similar covering,
- - hammer and nails (or the construction stapler with brackets),
- - screw-driver and screws,
- - non-toxic glue.
Instruction
1. Wrap up plates in the sizes of 40х40 cm a carpet and attach it to them by means of nails or brackets for the construction stapler. One of plates will be the basis for a claw sharpener, and the second – to crown your creation. The sizes of plates can be also others, depending on the sizes of your pet.
2. Take a pipe and wrap up in its dense wide rope a round behind a round, for fidelity using glue. Try that the rope densely adjoined a round to a round and to the pipe.
3. Choosing glue, you remember that it should not be toxic and have a pungent smell. The sense of smell at cats is much stronger developed, than at people therefore even the claw sharpener very attractive in your opinion can not be pleasant to the pet because of a glue smell.
4. It is possible to attach a pipe to the basis and a top of future claw sharpener by means of screws and furniture corners. It is necessary to establish a ready claw sharpener near that place where your favourite likes to sharpen the claws. If the animal does not want to be retrained and does not touch a claw sharpener, try to resort to cunning – slightly grease it with tincture of a valerian or rub with leaves of cat's mint.
5. When your pet gets used to a claw sharpener, having forgotten about a back of a sofa or a door jamb, it will be possible to rearrange it to other place.