How many times have I noticed how cats strive to find a secluded corner in an apartment, an impromptu cozy mink in a box from newly purchased equipment or shoes, in a closet on a shelf, etc. The instinctive need of a domestic animal in its own shelter is very large, so build your pet a “cat house”, where she feels safe, where it is very cozy, soft and warm.
Making a house for a cat with your own hands is quite simple and quick, and for its manufacture you do not need any special materials and tools. The simplest structure is a small house with a roof and a round entrance hole. More complex designs consist of a mink house, an observation deck in the form of a shelf on a round pedestal, which also serves as a claw point. Such a multifunctional structure is especially popular with pets, since it takes into account all their most urgent needs. How to make a house for a cat with your own hands with a platform and a scratching post?
For work you will need: sheets of multilayer plywood with a thickness of 0.5 - 0.8 mm; a piece of a plastic pipe 1 m long (you can buy it at a plumbing store), instead of a plastic pipe, a round glued cardboard tube is suitable for wrapping linoleum rolls (usually they throw it in construction stores), thick natural linen or jute rope, faux fur or carpet for upholstery, odorless glue (PVA), fixing furniture corners, thin foam rubber.
Do it yourself home for a cat with a sketch. Our will look as follows. The bottom of the structure is the four-wall house itself with a round side entrance and an even straight roof, on which a round pedestal covered with a rope will be installed, with a platform-shelf at its very top.
1. Prepare details for the house. Four lateral - 40 cm in height and 60 - in width, two square parts for the floor and ceiling - 60x60 cm. You also need a part for the viewing platform, the dimensions of which are determined by the size of the animal, usually 50x50 cm. We cut all the details from plywood and We connect using self-tapping screws and flat metal corners. We cut a round hole in one of the side walls in advance with a diameter of at least 15 cm. It is important to ensure that the entire structure is sufficiently heavy and stable.
2. Now we install a round pipe on a flat roof and fix it with the help of 4 furniture corners. Now we glue the outer walls of the house with fur or carpet, using environmentally friendly glue. Do not use upholstery nails, about them the cat can damage the claws. We carefully remove all metal fasteners under the fabric. Inside, a foam mat should be put in the house, hidden in a removable fabric cover.
3. We continue to make a house for the cat with our own hands and attach the top shelf to the round pedestal using 4 corners. We put foam on it and also cover it with upholstery material. You can make a cover in the form of a removable cover, then it will be easy to remove and wash. To do this, we cut out a part from the material with a large allowance, hem the edge, making a drawstring into which we hang a thick elastic band.
4. After the entire structure is assembled, we twist the pedestal with a twisted natural rope. To do this, glue the end of the rope from below, make several turns around the pipe, smearing it with glue, ironing the rope well, make a few more turns and so on to the very top. We carefully remove all metal corners and fasteners under the rope. A gentle and affectionate creature, the cat, nevertheless, has sufficient strength, especially when practicing clawing. Therefore, you need to draw a clawhole and glue all the upholstery to the house especially carefully.
5. Make a house for a cat not only strong and safe for the animal itself, but also so that it does not damage the flooring in the room or hallway. Therefore, glue pieces of thick felt from the four corners of the building. This will avoid scratching the floor and easily move a fairly heavy structure if necessary.