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I need some suggestions. Mike and I are both pretty anal people, lol. We want to build Leiki something that she can crawl around on, play on and get pretty high up, but that looks like a piece of furniture rather than something specifically for the animals.
We've done pretty good with the dogs' stuff, their beds match our furniture well and are strategically placed in areas that the dogs like to lay but that are also not in the way (one is shoved in the bottom part of our entertainment stand, the other is right beside the couch on top of a stack of blankets - guests have actually used it as a pillow before, lol). Their crates in the living room are also hidden as rather large end tables. Their crate in the bedroom is a larger table that we have a TV on.
Anyways, while I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with having a traditional cat tree, Mike is completely opposed. Any suggestions on how we can make some sort of cat climbing/lounging device that would not necessarily look like animal furniture?
I saw a post where there were shelves on the walls for the cats, I like that idea and Mike likes it too, but we don't have the wall space here for that at the moment (we're hoping to move within the next few months). The only problem we foresee with that is her jumping up onto shelves that she isn't supposed to be on - right now she doesn't do that. I also don't know that I could stand having shelves that don't have something on them. I was thinking about getting some heavy duty velcro and putting some of our non breakable trinkets on the shelves with that, but I'm not sure yet.
We've done pretty good with the dogs' stuff, their beds match our furniture well and are strategically placed in areas that the dogs like to lay but that are also not in the way (one is shoved in the bottom part of our entertainment stand, the other is right beside the couch on top of a stack of blankets - guests have actually used it as a pillow before, lol). Their crates in the living room are also hidden as rather large end tables. Their crate in the bedroom is a larger table that we have a TV on.
Anyways, while I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with having a traditional cat tree, Mike is completely opposed. Any suggestions on how we can make some sort of cat climbing/lounging device that would not necessarily look like animal furniture?
I saw a post where there were shelves on the walls for the cats, I like that idea and Mike likes it too, but we don't have the wall space here for that at the moment (we're hoping to move within the next few months). The only problem we foresee with that is her jumping up onto shelves that she isn't supposed to be on - right now she doesn't do that. I also don't know that I could stand having shelves that don't have something on them. I was thinking about getting some heavy duty velcro and putting some of our non breakable trinkets on the shelves with that, but I'm not sure yet.