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The higher, the better : vertical space and cats

Hello ! Here am I ! Can you see me ? Above, on the left, in the tree !

We, cats, occupy all the space available on our territory, and it includes the vertical space.

Indoor cats must have the opportunity to climb and to reach high positions : a chair, a top of cupboard, the kitchen counter, an edge of window, a cat tree, shelves fixed to the wall just for us, no matter. The access to a high position allows us to observe our environment, to see unnoticed, to feel safe, to have a roundabout way to avoid meeting another cat, and satisfying our natural need to climb.
cats and vertical space, in the tree 1
cats and vertical space, in the tree 2
cats and vertical space, in the tree 3
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I am lucky enough to have a catified indoor, and outside, a garden with trees on which I climb, I play, and I hunt : could it be better than that ?

Respect Your Cat Day

Today is Respect Your Cat Day. We asked our humans, what this meant for them.
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Respect your cat is….

  • treating him like a cat
  • taking good care of his health
  • meeting his specific needs
  • giving him good quality food
  • providing him a clean litter box (several in multicat houses), enough toys, and enough room to live
  • catifying your house
  • taking time to play with him
  • petting him every day
  • trying to think like a cat to make him happy

Pixie playing with feather toy
Do you have other ideas ? What are your top 3 items on that list ?

Our friends from Pawesome Cats asked the same question to several people, click here to read the answers !

How to convert a outdoor cat to an indoors life

Zorro arbreWhen Claire and Momo got back me after four days of disappearance, they put under house arrest me: no way that I put back a whisker outside as long as there would be no fence in the garden !

To avoid that I become mad and that I defuse everything To make my stay the most pleasant possible, my domesticated woman had in mind a small sentence fired by an article that had been shared by Stunning Keisha on Facebook : “the secret to encouraging the neighborhood globetrotters to choose indoors over the outdoors is to make the inside more interesting and appealing than the outside ».

Zorro116They made room in the lounge to be able to install a new cat tree which goes up to the ceiling (they kept the one who is old and quite used all the same because it’s ugly but still functional). There is another cat tree in the small room, less high, which was already there.

I also received a small circuit of game ; Claire goes to see if I play with, and if that pleases me, she will buy other pieces to enlarge it. Oh, and I have just discovered that Claire hid treats for me in various places : I adore that kind of surprise !

I benefit from at least three sessions of game per day: what I prefer, it’s to pursue a simple thread !

Zorro120Finally, I have the right to go on or to the bed during the night as I have clean paws.

Of course, I demand little to go outside, but altogether, I adapt myself rather well to my new life.

I am all the same very impatient to see the enclosure of the garden ended to be able to take advantage of it a little again !