And scratching posts for cats gaming towns with their own hands

Today, there is rarely a house in which there is no favorite pets. Dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs, parrots, rabbits and mice - who just does not live in our apartments! And cats, purebred and mongrels, different colors and sizes, have long conquered not only the Internet, but the whole world. Idyll violates a bad habit of cat sharpening its claws on upholstered furniture, ripping wallpaper. This natural need to spoil the mood of the interior and kotovladeltsev.
Stores offer special fabrics "antikogot" and repellent sprays, double sided tape, but cats are finding new ways and time for a manicure. That accounts for the owners to repair the upholstery, for example, to mask embroidery, buttons, sew protective covers and tinkering fence made of particleboard.
To our pet did not spoil things, offer an alternative - a scratching post made by your hands. The most simple design composed of cut cardboard. Take unnecessary box, expand, cut into strips of equal length and width, put into a free box with low sides. Dimensions of parts determine experimentally.
If there is time and abilities to build the architecture for a cat tower. For the "skyscraper" will need a flat and rather heavy base with a vertical stand in the middle. Nanizhite it previously harvested cardboard boxes. The tower will look fantastic if every next square rotate by a few degrees with respect to the previous one.
An interesting model circular horizontal scratching posts glued strips of a width of 7 - 10 centimeters. Begin to roll the cardboard cutting, connecting parts wide tape. Sufficient to circle diameter of about 50 centimeters. Call for fitting a cat, ask them to test the new facility.
The side of the can decorate with colored paper, paint with acrylic paints. The pockets (strips of cardboard, bent in an arc), stuck on the outside, put the balls and shurshalki.
For advanced craftsmen will not be difficult to make a wooden inclined scratching. Lock on an inclined panel rope wrap it around the board attach each turn of the synthetic adhesive.
If you find unnecessary bucket, make a scratching post with upholstered seat top. The bucket may be circular and square shapes. Glue the rope, making the turns of the container perimeter. Make a pattern in size top, suitable for a base board.
Of dense tissue is necessary to cut a circle with a diameter of 25 centimeters in diameter larger than the basics. On the cardboard base to be glued filler: it can be a strip of foam or other soft packaging material. Wrap the cloth that you have turned out, fix the furniture stapler or glue fabric hem. Set on top of a soft seat design. Now your security furniture and pet very pleased.

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