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Well, last night it finally happened. The Amarkat cat tree that I bought off eBay for Ginger when she was a little kitten has finally broken.
Here is a picture of the exact same tree.
The top perch got more and more wobbly over time from 8-pound Ginger leaping onto and off of it, and last night we found out why: the REALLY cheap pressboard that it is made from couldn't handle the stress, and literally broke in a complete (and neat) circle around the post it supported.
It finally crashed over sideways last night when Ginger took a flying leap onto it, and boy, was she ever surprised!
Poor baby girl - she walked around for the rest of the evening looking concerned and confused.
I paid $70 for it and it lasted less than a year and a half. However, as I started to take it apart, I realized that by turning the two perches upside down, they make excellent scratching posts, and if I save the rest of the sisal wrapped poles, I can keep those as replacements for when the posts get too chewed up, so in death, this cat tree will actually will give me MORE than my original investment back in long term use.
However, that leaves me with the need for a new cat tree for my living room.
I was talking to Ginger, as she was walking around the back of the couch, telling her that it wasn't her fault, that it was ok, and that I'm not mad at her, and she kept stopping, sitting, and looking up into the air, toward the ceiling over where the perch had been.
I asked her what she was looking at, and my roomie piped up and said: "She must be looking for the Cat Tree Fairy to stop by and bring her a new one."
I laughed until I cried - the Cat Tree Fairy!
Oh wait - I think that's ME!
Here is a picture of the exact same tree.
The top perch got more and more wobbly over time from 8-pound Ginger leaping onto and off of it, and last night we found out why: the REALLY cheap pressboard that it is made from couldn't handle the stress, and literally broke in a complete (and neat) circle around the post it supported.
It finally crashed over sideways last night when Ginger took a flying leap onto it, and boy, was she ever surprised!
I paid $70 for it and it lasted less than a year and a half. However, as I started to take it apart, I realized that by turning the two perches upside down, they make excellent scratching posts, and if I save the rest of the sisal wrapped poles, I can keep those as replacements for when the posts get too chewed up, so in death, this cat tree will actually will give me MORE than my original investment back in long term use.
However, that leaves me with the need for a new cat tree for my living room.
I was talking to Ginger, as she was walking around the back of the couch, telling her that it wasn't her fault, that it was ok, and that I'm not mad at her, and she kept stopping, sitting, and looking up into the air, toward the ceiling over where the perch had been.
I asked her what she was looking at, and my roomie piped up and said: "She must be looking for the Cat Tree Fairy to stop by and bring her a new one."
I laughed until I cried - the Cat Tree Fairy!
Oh wait - I think that's ME!