If the owner of the cat does not want to watch day after day, as his new furniture and wallpaper in the house spoils, it is worthwhile to think about buying a scratching stick. If for some reason you are not satisfied with store clippings for cats, then you can try to make it yourself, and we will help you.
Let's start with the simplest. Even an ordinary piece of a trunk of a tree with a bark will quite go off for a cat as a scratch, if it is difficult for you to make a design more difficult. You can get a piece of dry wood with bark in the nearest park, armed with a hacksaw. A cat, by virtue of its instincts, will not be able to calmly pass by such a nail, without stabbing it with claws. Still, as a variant of a scratching cat for a cat made by own hands, a pillow cushion filled with foam rubber in a pillowcase made of strong fabric is suitable. As the wear and tear the pillowcase can be replaced. There is a good option for the lazy how to do a scratching on the wall. To do this, you need to take a board, wrap it with felt or carpet and firmly fix it in a convenient place on the wall. Variations on this subject are great, but I would like to offer a practical and stylish version of the cat's scratching kit for a cat "made by myself", it will cost inexpensively, making it relatively easy.
We need:
- plywood (thickness 1 cm, 1 m²);
- rope (1 cm thick, 60 m);
- self-tapping screws for wood (length 50 mm, 25 pcs.);
- Self-tapping screws for wood (length 20 mm, 25 pcs.);
- two even branches of a tree (diameter 8 cm, length 1.5 m, and 1.3 m);
- plastic panel (width 100 mm, thickness 10 mm, 1 pc.);
- plush plaid;
- a furniture stapler and staples;
- electric jig saw;
- Phillips screwdriver;
- stationery knife;
- scissors;
- sandpaper;
- roulette;
- a hammer and small nails.
Procedure:
- First, we make the layout of the plywood sheet and cut it in such a way that 3 parts are made: 1 - 100 cmx50 cm and 2 parts of 50 cmx50 cm. We use engineering savvy in order to draw circles on small parts of plywood.
- This is how the final result of the reprisal against the plywood sheet should look.
- From the circles we cut out two such figured elements.
- On one side of the branch we make a notch with an electric jigsaw in the form of a wedge, we fill the end of the rope there, fasten it with a self-tapping screw and begin winding, trying to make a turn to the loop as close as possible. It is worth every ten turns to drive a nail, directly through the rope, this will make the winding many times stronger.
- In the end, we should get two such splendid columns, which look no worse than store ones.
- We fasten the columns to the previously plaited oval stand.
- The plastic panel is cut in half and we make transverse cuts of one of the surfaces every 2 - 3 cm. With the flexible panel obtained, we wrap the plaited preforms of plywood pre-cut with plush and carefully fasten it with a stapler. Angles on both sides are smoothed and reinforced with furniture corners, should be approximately the same.
- We fix the workpieces to the posts using self-tapping screws as follows.
- Re-tighten the plush impromptu cat lodge.
- A self-made cat scratch for a cat will cause a wave of gratitude, both from your pet and from family members.
Make your pet a present by hanging some of his favorite toys on the string. He will often be able to amuse you with his pirouettes near the scratching point. Having seen this miracle of engineering thought, your acquaintances will demand from you a master class, how to make a cat scratch for cats, with such skillfully roped columns and for their pets. To hear this request, if you have such a work of cat architecture at home - a regularity.