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Kinda DIY, Kinda Pets (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Vodulas@beehaw.org to c/diy@beehaw.org
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My partner and I have been talking about making some cat paths in our house since long before we owned our house. We recently got 2 new dogs, so now it is a high priority project. The first step was putting up some shelves in the hallway and making a portal from the hallway to the bedroom closet (you can see it just above the tent). The surround for the portal is this 3D printed tunnel

https://www.printables.com/model/3068-cat-door

The next project is going to be putting a portal from the spare bedroom into the stairwell so they can go up and down floors without the dogs being in the way

https://i.imgur.com/rxI55E4.jpg

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[–] Devi@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can get some premade pieces to add to this, I have one of these which they use to climb up and as a scratching post, and this bed which acts as a resting point along with my standard shelves. Neither were very expensive.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I dig that scratching post! The bed looks nice too, but I think I could make something like that. We don't want to put anything quite that wide in the hallway though

[–] Devi@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You definitely could. Theres also these hammocky type beds. They look too small for my cats but don't stick out from the wall very far and if you're DIYing it then you could make them bigger.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

We were thinking about doing a hammock in some other spots in the house. One of our cats loves the one on their big scratching post