Each aelurophile dreams to please the favourite cat with a new claw sharpener or a cozy cat's lodge, probably. But the cost of these simple constructions in pet-shops sometimes brings into despondency. Really nothing can be done? You should not despair, the house for your moustached-striped can be built the hands.
It is required to you
- Plywood, furniture corners, self-tapping screws, carpet, foam rubber, fabric for an upholstery, tools for woodwork, a drill, glue, a plastic pipe of large diameter, a natural thick rope, scissors.
Instruction
1. For a start think over design of future cat's bungalow. Most often lodges for cats consist of the lodge shelter, a pipe claw sharpener on which the animal can get upward or just use for daily manicure, and the small viewing shelf above. If desired the design can be complicated additional lodges and regiments, to supply with the attached toys and to decorate to your taste. After the drawing and the model are ready, it is possible to start directly assembly.
2. The top shelf has to be by the size of a cat. Make the rectangular basis of plywood and paste to it foam rubber that to an animal it was soft and comfortable. Outside such shelf can be upholstered with dense fabric or a carpet. Remember that on a lodge the cat will not only sleep and sit, inspecting vicinities, but also can quite use it for sharpening of claws. All details have to be practical and functional.
3. Make a lodge of the same plywood, having connected sheets corners and having fixed by means of self-tapping screws. An internal part of such lodge has to be upholstered with soft material that to a cat it was warm and comfortable to sleep inside. Outside upholster with the same carpet which was used for an upholstery of the top shelf. Constructing a lodge shelter, surely consider the sizes of your cat. To an animal it should not be close inside, but also too spacious it should not be. Adhere to golden mean. Do not forget that the opening for an entrance to the house also has to be upholstered with soft material and not to be very spacious.
4. Make a claw sharpener of a plastic pipe of large diameter. From above and from below fix self-tapping screws. Lower will connect a claw sharpener to the basis from plywood, and top will fasten to a viewing shelf for a cat. The basis needs also to be upholstered with a carpet that it was pleasant to animal to step on it. Your cat, of course, will not begin to sharpen claws about a naked pipe. Therefore it is necessary to paste on all diameter a rough rope from natural fiber. The first layer can be put on PVA, and the others are simply strong to be reeled up on the basis, having fixed the ends from above and from below. Now, when all details of a lodge are ready, it is possible to attach them to the general basis as by you it was conceived originally.