Why should you build a cat tower? You have a cat? Silly question, but if you have a cat, you need a cat tower! Why should you build one instead of buying one? For fun! Also to save some money, the pre-made ones are very expensive, and to be able to design it in the way that your kitty likes best. If you have some simple handyman skills, pieces of plywood and carpeting, a cat with a good imagination you can build a cat tower for your own kitty.
Why do you need a cat tower?
Cats need exercise. A cat without exercise is a fat cat. A fat cat is a boring cat. A bored cat is a destructive cat. A destructive cat will use your newly hung living room curtains as its own climbing tower and then wonder why you’re yelling. She doesn’t really care why you’re yelling, but she’ll wonder why you think climbing is such a bad thing. Cats need exercise, climbing is great exercise…
build a cat tower
WELL WELL! Kitty is looking at my new curtains and I need a cat tower! Build one? Buy one? Store bought cat towers are expensive and you being the adventurous type want to build your own cat tower to keep kitty away from the curtains. Let’s take a look at what you’ll need.
you need a plan
A big part of the fun of building your own cat tower is in the design. Before you get too carried away, take a look at what you have to work with. How big is it going to be? How many levels? How are you going to make it stable? No crashing kittens please. How are you going to make it all fit? With all these ideas going around in your head, you need to get out a pen and paper and draw what you want. There are also plenty of plans available online if you don’t want to reinvent your cat tree.
Many of these plans will give you a head start on the nitty-gritty parts of how to build a cat tree, so you won’t need to start from scratch and learn how to keep the mat attached to the cat tree the hard way!
