Post # 1
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Busy Beekeeper
So we are renovating our basement so we can move in before the wedding and we have 3 cats and a dog. Diesel (dog) is going to have his little area and so we thought it would be fair to have an area for the cats as well. We wanted a nice tower for them and the ones we kept seeing at the pet stores just didn’t do it for us, soooo…. we made our own! Now keep in mind it still needs to be finished but we got more carpet today to finish it off tomorrow. For now I give you what we have done and will update once it’s complete. I totally love it.
Here’s Shade and Grizzly testing it out:
And Grizzly checking out the middle bed:
Our other cat Felix doesnt want to check it out yet lol I guess he’s waiting for it to be all done hehe
Post # 4
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Helper bee
awww that’s so awesome you built your own! I have a large cat tower for my two cats and they absolutely love it (have had it for over 2 years). I always tell other people to get cat towers because cats really do seem to love them! =)
Post # 5
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Buzzing Beekeeper
You did a great job! So cute!
Post # 6
Bee
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Buzzing bee
- Wedding: June 2012 - Franklin Plaza
So awesome!! Our little Luna would be in love with that! We bought her a tower and she hangs out on it allllll day.
PS. Your kitties are too stinkin’ cute!
Post # 7
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Busy Beekeeper
@Lyndzo: & @missashley884: Thanks!
@cerulean713: I’ve always loved them and Grizzly was our guiny pig for testing everything for it lol
@coyote: Grizzly went nuts with the top scratching post, he didn’t want to leave that spot and was all contorted and stuff lol check it out:
Post # 8
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Bee Keeper
aww I love this! Darling Husband and I have been wanting to do this too!!! Any advice?
Post # 9
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Busy bee
That’s awesome! I’ve been wanting to make one for our cat, but with limited apartment space and only one cat who doesn’t have claws, I’m not sure how much it would be used. She’ll just have to be happy with the window seats for now haha.I did a lot of research on making one though, and yours has turned out great so far!
Post # 10
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Honey Beekeeper
It’s so cool! I might have to make one for ours sometime!
Post # 11
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Busy Beekeeper
@bestbuddies: Make sure you have some kind of design in mind. We drew it (although it didn’t really look like much lol). We used a staple gun for the carpet to stay on the wood boards and glue for the carpet to stay on the tube itself. Fiance put some wood for support around the tube as well – here’s a pic to show you what I mean. Those gave better support and it also helps to staple the carpet when you cover the tube to the wood pieces, we only glue in between to make sure it’s not going no where. Hope this helps a bit
Post # 12
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Bumble Beekeeper
So cute, you guys are awesome! Nice work. 🙂
Post # 13
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Busy Beekeeper
@Lacelibs: Thank you, you could always do a smaller version on the bottom floor like mine, it will give your cat a little house, a toy to play with a scratch post 😀
@MrsSaltWaterTaffy: Thanks, I def recommend it 😀
Post # 14
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Busy Beekeeper
@Juliepants: Thanks “Pants”. I love doing this with Fiance, he’s such a handy guy and I’m the crafty one, who knew together we can do this hehe
Post # 15
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Honey bee
LoL, they love it! great job!
Post # 16
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Busy bee
Awesome job! This has been on our list of projects for a long, long time. I’ll have to show my husband your pics and hopefully he’ll be “inspired” 🙂 Can’t wait to see the finished project!
