i just today installed three new pieces of cat wall furniture for snick and jasper. it's their shared big birthday gift -- snick's birthday is august 1st and she'll be 15 years old, jasper's birthday is june 14th and he'll be 3 years old. i like to give them their big birthday and christmas gifts early, as i see no need to make them wait. they're given smaller gifts on their birth dates and on christmas day.
today i installed a Vertical Cat window walkway, and two CatastrophiCreations floating sisal posts. the window walkway is huge and quite heavy, a real bear to put up (by myself) but installation went surprisingly smoothly for me. i have a rule for cat wall furniture, that i like to attach to a minimum of one wall stud and preferably two studs. i attached to two wall studs with the window walkway, and the other three screws on each side went into wall anchors. the floating sisal posts were mostly for snick, because she's older and has some arthritis so i like to make it easier for her to use all the wall furniture. the sisal posts easily attached to one stud using three screws, again a surprisingly easy installation.
so, here are the pics of snick and jasper's living room wall furniture --
it was very bright and sunny today, so i had to close the drape behind the window walkway to get a decent photo. see one of the floating sisal posts to the lower right-ish, just above one end of the shelf below the window? i added that sisal post for snick because she's been wanting to jump down from the shelf just above it to the shelf under the window, but it's too far for her to jump. snick used that sisal post today as a stepper to get down to the shelf below the window -- that made my day! she also will use the sisal post for scratching soon enough, i'm sure. that's snick on the platform of the cat tree, napping.
here, you can see the whole window walkway. it joins two areas of cat wall furniture in our living room. see how there's plenty of space for the drape behind the walkway, so i can easily open or close the drape. and there's the second floating sisal post, to the left of the window walkway. that sisal post will again be a stepper for snick and also be used for scratching.
i didn't have time today to install the last stepper shelf for snick. there's a wall shelf behind the cubby house of the cat tree snick is on, and i want to add a stepper shelf so snick will easily be able to get from that wall shelf to the window to the left of it. snick loves laying in the window sills, and so does jasper. once i install the last stepper shelf there, snick will be able to lay in either window sill while jasper enjoys the other one.
and this final photo completes the right to left view of our living room kitty jungle gym. you'll see that i had added some foam child corner guards to the bottom corners of the wall mounted tv, so the cats are protected from the hard corners while they're climbing and jumping on their wall furniture.
jasper came downstairs a little later, and has been enjoying exploring the slightly changed wall furniture set up since then.
today i installed a Vertical Cat window walkway, and two CatastrophiCreations floating sisal posts. the window walkway is huge and quite heavy, a real bear to put up (by myself) but installation went surprisingly smoothly for me. i have a rule for cat wall furniture, that i like to attach to a minimum of one wall stud and preferably two studs. i attached to two wall studs with the window walkway, and the other three screws on each side went into wall anchors. the floating sisal posts were mostly for snick, because she's older and has some arthritis so i like to make it easier for her to use all the wall furniture. the sisal posts easily attached to one stud using three screws, again a surprisingly easy installation.
so, here are the pics of snick and jasper's living room wall furniture --
it was very bright and sunny today, so i had to close the drape behind the window walkway to get a decent photo. see one of the floating sisal posts to the lower right-ish, just above one end of the shelf below the window? i added that sisal post for snick because she's been wanting to jump down from the shelf just above it to the shelf under the window, but it's too far for her to jump. snick used that sisal post today as a stepper to get down to the shelf below the window -- that made my day! she also will use the sisal post for scratching soon enough, i'm sure. that's snick on the platform of the cat tree, napping.
here, you can see the whole window walkway. it joins two areas of cat wall furniture in our living room. see how there's plenty of space for the drape behind the walkway, so i can easily open or close the drape. and there's the second floating sisal post, to the left of the window walkway. that sisal post will again be a stepper for snick and also be used for scratching.
i didn't have time today to install the last stepper shelf for snick. there's a wall shelf behind the cubby house of the cat tree snick is on, and i want to add a stepper shelf so snick will easily be able to get from that wall shelf to the window to the left of it. snick loves laying in the window sills, and so does jasper. once i install the last stepper shelf there, snick will be able to lay in either window sill while jasper enjoys the other one.
and this final photo completes the right to left view of our living room kitty jungle gym. you'll see that i had added some foam child corner guards to the bottom corners of the wall mounted tv, so the cats are protected from the hard corners while they're climbing and jumping on their wall furniture.
jasper came downstairs a little later, and has been enjoying exploring the slightly changed wall furniture set up since then.
