It was the incessant clacking all night that spelled the true end of the verticals. They weren’t installed properly and the end slats could be pinned and scratched.
There is no way of explaining the difference between the scratching surface and cardboard in general. Once they get the approval to scratch one type of cardboard, the right is automatically applied to all types of cardboard.
Dot and Sox have voices, but the rest are generally mute. That makes it easy to tell who is causing trouble in the next room.
]]>isn’t that the truth! it’s why the cats here are shut off in their own part of the house and the dog and i have the rest of the house.
ok, the other reason they’re all relegated to the florida room is that they all have all their claws and destroy everything. cardboard, whether as the commercially-produced scratching pads or just plain boxes from the liquor store is a huge favorite, possibly also for the noise factor.
the vertical blinds were too attractive as noisemakers and not so much as scratching posts i guess, because they escaped damage. and yes, you’re right about white being a concept and not a color there. 🙂
most of mine have very tiny voices and nearly inaudible purrs, so maybe they feel the need to make up for that.
]]>I had to secure things before the boys were ‘tutored’, as they were always looking to ‘claim new territory’.
Everything is a cat toy.
]]>The only scratching surfaces that I regret the kitties’ use of are the legs and sometimes backs of Stella’s dining room chairs, which are fabric-upholstered. Oh well… her chairs, her cats, not my problem.
]]>Every cat has their preferred scratching surface, and Excise actually uses a carpeted traffic cone thing that was sold a scratching post, except he knocks on its side to use it.
His mother prefers oak trees, which is why she likes the outside.
Sox has the back corner of a bureau, while Dot makes do with the carpet.
The only thing that they all seemed to agree on was the vertical blind slats, and they can wear them down.
]]>Regarding slat color, two words, Bryan: Krylon Fusion ;).
— Badtux the Cat-owned Penguin
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My cats have claws and use them.
Most people down here site Florida rooms on the North side of the house, and under shade trees. They were originally just screened back porches.
]]>in my previous abode, my cats thought of the vertical blinds as cat toys, and the miniblinds as, i dunno, stairways to heaven maybe. miniblinds are way cheaper than vertical in unit price, but you have to factor in the volume of destruction of each kind too.
]]>Florida Room — what I can’t figure out is why anybody ever thought that it’d be a great idea to have a room of full-height windows receiving direct sunlight… in Florida. Great recipe for a sauna. Just make sure it has a stone floor that you can pour water onto when you want steam for your sauna :twisted:.
Weather here has been beautiful. It did heat up a bit yesterday, to the mid 80’s, but cooled down nicely in the evening. I even gave my Jeep a bath. Actually it needs a lot more than a bath… its paint is starting to show the wear and tear of pushing through too much dense underbrush. But that’s another story.
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