Cats make a fantastic pet. If you want to buy a cat and I strongly urge you to get on and do it. There’s hundreds of different pets, but in my view a cat is the best of all.
But unfortunately cats do have their problems, and that’s what I wanted to talk about today. One of the problems of keeping cats.
It’s the fact that cats love to climb things, and because of this you may well find out that your cat is climbing your curtains. That happened to me and I’ve solved the problem with a simple cat tree.
I suppose it’s instinctive, after all if you think about lions in the wild they climb things all the time. How many pictures have you seen of a lion sitting in a tree.
And cats are just the same. My cat, when he is outside, spends half his time up and down trees. I don’t let him out at night because he climbs trees so well that he’s been known to kill some of the local tree dwelling animals which come out at night.
But either way I suppose cats climb things because that’s what they’ve done for millions of years. And not only do they climb things but they also love to scratch as well. I believe it is to keep their claws sharp so that they can climb better.
And once you’ve had your cat climb the curtains in the lounge room, and tear holes into them, chances are you will need to find an answer.
So I got on the Internet and did a little searching and found that you can find these things called a cat tree. A cat tree is just a simple device that cats can climb, that you keep in a house, so that when your cat feels like climbing things he has his own tree to climb. And you don’t mind a bit, in fact you encourage it.
You can get all sorts of cat trees, from very simple to extremely complex, and of course the price varies accordingly. I bought quite a complicated one and my cat absolutely loves it.
Of course you have to train him to use it. A cat doesn’t automatically know that this strange looking device is there for him. But once you show him how to use it he loves it. (more…)