New cat pole in place

CMYKjill · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:38 pm **Posts:** 1838

I had to hire someone to install this, but it's finally up. They are a little freaked out by the installation noise and a stranger in the house. I'll wait and see if they get curious...

spitspot · **Joined:** Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:26 pm **Posts:** 734

Wow! Lucky kitties!!

misty · **Joined:** Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:05 pm **Posts:** 148

looks great! :razz:

brianj12 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:27 am

Wow, very very nice! I'd love to see how your cats like it.

CMYKjill · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:38 pm **Posts:** 1838

brianj12 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:40 pm

Sherry · **Joined:** Thu May 23, 2013 2:21 pm **Posts:** 9217

Putting a cat bed up on the ledge might entice them. What a beautiful gym for them. Raiden loves to climb up his scratching posts, but I've never seen him climb back down. It looks like another shelf up there could help them out a little bit. This really looks amazing!

CMYKjill · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:38 pm **Posts:** 1838

Sherry · **Joined:** Thu May 23, 2013 2:21 pm **Posts:** 9217

Those are some pretty expensive shelves/cat beds. It appears you're going to have to put a couple of shelves to step out of and away from the top platform of the cat tree, and then back up and over toward the ledge. Can't tell exactly how much room there is between the scratching post and the wall -- enough for a cat to get through? Well, I can tell by the shelf at the top of the post that there would be enough room if the cat didn't want to jump up on the top shelf. This is pretty ingenious! I'd love to get Raiden some shelves to go around the wall from his cat tree. He keeps looking, but there is nothing there and then that would put him over our heads when watching TV. He can sometimes almost fall from walking on the back of the couch, which is 5" wide.

CMYKjill · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:38 pm **Posts:** 1838

brianj12 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 26, 2015 6:50 pm

I think you could put a shelf right above the top of that pole, that they could step up onto, then a couple other shelves leading town to the cat tree. Or maybe even better would be having shelves leading down from the other side of that platform. A true "super highway".

Your layout there is actually very similar to what I have with my hi-cat, with the same challenges. I've bought my shelves now (from the same place you are looking at), so just need to hire somebody to put them up.

CMYKjill · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:38 pm **Posts:** 1838

Sherry · **Joined:** Thu May 23, 2013 2:21 pm **Posts:** 9217

I'm not sure if you're in the US or UK, but wouldn't Amazon in the US or UK have something just as nice, but cheaper? Thankfully, my hubby is quite handy at creating things -- but I have to push and push him to get anything done!

CMYKjill · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:38 pm **Posts:** 1838

brianj12 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:55 pm

New cat pole in place

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