Most cats seem to enjoy heights. When the rescue-group of which I am part adopts out cats, we always make sure, or at least recommend, that the new home will have a number of heights the cat or cats can scale, usually in the form of a cat-tree.
My crowd, for the most part, enjoys altitude. The top of the tallest cat-tree, a custom-made seven-footer, is a popular venue from which to watch the outside, the inside, or just to snooze. Valkyrie, Moxy, Brazil and even Neville have enjoyed its prospects, though Imogen likes the second-highest level; I believe the highest actually is a little restricted in what one can view from there, due to it being as high as the top edge of the front window. Then again, a cat doesn’t need a cat-tree to enjoy horizontal distance.
In the bedroom, meanwhile, Indigo is starting to discover the advantages of the cat-tree. I think she uses it mainly to put some space between her and her fellow felines.
But her use of height is a work in progress. Most of the time, she is the odd cat out.
I love the pictures. It seems the cats not only enjoy the heights, the cat trees enable the cats to look out the windows and watch some Bird TV.
ReplyDeleteOdd fact: I have NEVER had a cat who took to the cat-trees, and I've tried a variety of different ones. I guess I somehow wound up with a series of acrophobics.
ReplyDeleteGround-cats!
DeleteSometimes your just too tuckered out to climb.
ReplyDeleteindy...hay...for thirtee yeerz noe one used de hidee hole on de cat tree eye haz...til ...ME !! :) if ya wanna bee diff runt...that total lee rox ♥♥♥
ReplyDeleteThose are huge cat trees, definitely enough height for the fur family! Derry was not overly fond of very high perches, especially as he got older and pudgier. But Nicki was all about getting to the top of anything. 😆
ReplyDeleteIt is good to have a choice of levels. The boys cat trees were only about four feet high, but they liked to lie on them and look out of the window. If they wanted to go higher they would climb the big old oak tree. Flynn would go to the smallest branches as high as it was possible to go, and scare me in case he fell. Luckily Eric didn't like to be as high, and being as awkward as a camel I often had to help him down.
ReplyDeleteTop cats are always very special!
ReplyDeleteI did not know that about the climbing, just not something I have ever thought about but then I don't have a cat
ReplyDeleteEveryone is so HAPPY there! I enjoy seeing and knowing that.
ReplyDeleteIndigo likes to change her mind, that's all.
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